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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 68 116
Rank change year-on-year -5 +48 -27
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 32 24 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.15% 2.45% 1.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.03% 6.11% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 31 20 45
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,350 £36,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% -13.51%
75th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,972 £76,629
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%

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 319 393 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 11.49% 40.14% 38.07%
Number of salaries quoted 258 307 962
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £39,658
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

PowerShell job vacancy trend 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 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Bristol

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
1 18 (56.25%) GitHub
1 18 (56.25%) GitHub Actions
2 14 (43.75%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) Datadog
3 7 (21.88%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (9.38%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (9.38%) dbt
4 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.38%) SaaS
4 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 3 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) VPN
3 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (9.38%) Power BI
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (56.25%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.13%) Balsamiq
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 16 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Billing
5 2 (6.25%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Security Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior
4 6 (18.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Security Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Security Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) DevOps
2 16 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (43.75%) Security Testing
4 12 (37.50%) Incident Response
5 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
5 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (31.25%) Cloud Security
6 10 (31.25%) Roadmaps
6 10 (31.25%) SIEM
7 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (28.13%) Security Operations
7 9 (28.13%) Threat Modelling
8 8 (25.00%) Application Security
8 8 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
8 8 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
8 8 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
9 7 (21.88%) Agile
9 7 (21.88%) DevSecOps
9 7 (21.88%) Threat Detection
10 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) Python
2 20 (62.50%) Bash
3 3 (9.38%) SQL
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) CISSP
1 8 (25.00%) CREST Certified
1 8 (25.00%) SANS
2 4 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (9.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.25%) CEH
5 1 (3.13%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.13%) GIAC
5 1 (3.13%) GREM
5 1 (3.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) NIST
3 1 (3.13%) COBIT
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Terraform
2 7 (21.88%) Grafana
3 6 (18.75%) Ansible
3 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.13%) CASB
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 1 (3.13%) Packer
4 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) arcserve
2 3 (9.38%) Cisco
2 3 (9.38%) Databricks
2 3 (9.38%) Veeam
3 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.13%) Sophos
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk
3 1 (3.13%) Tenable