PowerShell Job Trends in Bristol

Windows PowerShell
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 93 72
Rank change year-on-year +42 -21 +59
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 34 37 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.03% 1.51% 3.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% 5.22% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 32 20 55
10th Percentile £36,250 - £35,950
25th Percentile £36,750 £30,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £33,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.86% -46.80% +25.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £54,688 £79,375
90th Percentile £76,125 £62,500 £96,539
South West median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +12.90%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 238 709 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 21.19% 28.88% 41.51%
Number of salaries quoted 181 502 614
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £38,591
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% +5.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £87,500 £84,925
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Bristol

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Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (67.65%) IIS
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) AWS
4 4 (11.76%) GitHub
4 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.94%) Datadog
7 1 (2.94%) GCP
7 1 (2.94%) IaaS
7 1 (2.94%) PaaS
7 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (73.53%) Firewall
2 24 (70.59%) DNS
3 23 (67.65%) DHCP
4 18 (52.94%) WAN
5 17 (50.00%) Internet
5 17 (50.00%) Kerberos
5 17 (50.00%) LAN
6 7 (20.59%) VPN
7 6 (17.65%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (17.65%) IPsec
7 6 (17.65%) VLAN
7 6 (17.65%) VoIP
7 6 (17.65%) Wireless
8 1 (2.94%) SAN
8 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.94%) DB2
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 26 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 19 (55.88%) Law
3 9 (26.47%) Finance
4 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 5 (14.71%) Electronics
5 5 (14.71%) Manufacturing
5 5 (14.71%) Marketing
5 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Analyst
2 16 (47.06%) 3rd Line Support
2 16 (47.06%) Support Analyst
3 11 (32.35%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 10 (29.41%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (20.59%) Support Engineer
6 6 (17.65%) IT Engineer
6 6 (17.65%) IT Support
6 6 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (17.65%) Senior
6 6 (17.65%) Senior IT Engineer
6 6 (17.65%) Senior IT Support
6 6 (17.65%) Senior Support Engineer
7 5 (14.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (14.71%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 5 (14.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (14.71%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 5 (14.71%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (14.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) LDAP
2 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.94%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (50.00%) PKI
2 6 (17.65%) Clustering
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) NHS
4 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (76.47%) Windows
2 24 (70.59%) Windows Server
3 17 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 17 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (17.65%) Linux
4 6 (17.65%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) Continuous Improvement
1 18 (52.94%) Data Loss Prevention
2 12 (35.29%) Migration
3 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
4 8 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
5 7 (20.59%) Coaching
5 7 (20.59%) DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) ITIL
5 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
6 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (17.65%) IT Strategy
6 6 (17.65%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 6 (17.65%) Server Building
6 6 (17.65%) Server Management
7 5 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (14.71%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (14.71%) Programme Management
8 4 (11.76%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) VB
2 6 (17.65%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) Bash
3 4 (11.76%) Bicep
4 3 (8.82%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) ACMT
1 6 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (14.71%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
4 1 (2.94%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (50.00%) SLA
2 6 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 17 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (29.41%) Docker
3 6 (17.65%) Hyper-V
3 6 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (50.00%) WSUS
2 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (17.65%) Autotask
4 6 (17.65%) vCenter Server
5 5 (14.71%) Terraform
6 1 (2.94%) Ansible
6 1 (2.94%) Puppet
6 1 (2.94%) SCCM
6 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (79.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Oracle
3 6 (17.65%) Apple
3 6 (17.65%) Cisco
3 6 (17.65%) Datto
3 6 (17.65%) Sophos
3 6 (17.65%) Veeam
3 6 (17.65%) VMware
4 5 (14.71%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) Cognos
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) iManage
5 1 (2.94%) Meraki
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat