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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 63 98
Rank change year-on-year -2 +35 -15
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 33 37 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.31% 3.25% 2.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.93% 8.31% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 33 26 52
10th Percentile £43,000 £34,000 £37,600
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,688 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,625 £75,000
90th Percentile - £86,250 £91,934
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -

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 302 445 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 11.97% 39.14% 39.73%
Number of salaries quoted 251 313 897
10th Percentile £28,750 £38,750 £38,100
25th Percentile £43,125 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +1.37%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.08%

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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 7 March 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 19 (57.58%) Azure
1 19 (57.58%) GitHub
1 19 (57.58%) GitHub Actions
2 16 (48.48%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) Datadog
4 6 (18.18%) GCP
5 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.12%) Serverless
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.09%) dbt
6 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 3 (9.09%) SaaS
6 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (9.09%) Power BI
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (60.61%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 18 (54.55%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Billing
5 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Local Government
5 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 6 (18.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Security Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Network Security Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) DevOps
2 16 (48.48%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (48.48%) Security Testing
3 13 (39.39%) Incident Response
4 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 11 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
5 10 (30.30%) Application Security
5 10 (30.30%) Cloud Security
5 10 (30.30%) Penetration Testing
5 10 (30.30%) SIEM
5 10 (30.30%) Strategic Roadmap
5 10 (30.30%) Technology Transformation
6 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (27.27%) Security Operations
7 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
7 7 (21.21%) Threat Detection
8 6 (18.18%) DevSecOps
8 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (84.85%) Python
2 21 (63.64%) Bash
3 4 (12.12%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) CISSP
1 10 (30.30%) CREST Certified
1 10 (30.30%) SANS
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
3 3 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (6.06%) CEH
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.03%) GIAC
5 1 (3.03%) GREM
5 1 (3.03%) OSCP
5 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) COBIT
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Terraform
2 7 (21.21%) Ansible
2 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.18%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) CASB
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 1 (3.03%) Puppet
4 1 (3.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) arcserve
2 3 (9.09%) Cisco
2 3 (9.09%) Databricks
2 3 (9.09%) Veeam
3 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) Sophos
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk
3 1 (3.03%) Tenable
3 1 (3.03%) VMware