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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 64 113
Rank change year-on-year -10 +49 -23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 40 20 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.48% 2.04% 1.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.53% 6.64% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25 18 37
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,938 £61,250
90th Percentile £88,000 £83,792 £63,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.26%

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 380 301 1,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 14.11% 30.71% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 306 231 892
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -2.56%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,886 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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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 30 June 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (62.50%) Azure
2 24 (60.00%) GitHub
3 17 (42.50%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (42.50%) IaaS
4 16 (40.00%) PaaS
5 14 (35.00%) Serverless
6 12 (30.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 12 (30.00%) Azure Functions
6 12 (30.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (15.00%) AWS
9 5 (12.50%) Datadog
9 5 (12.50%) GCP
10 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (7.50%) SaaS
11 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (5.00%) Power Automate
11 2 (5.00%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) VPN
2 6 (15.00%) Firewall
3 5 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.00%) DNS
4 2 (5.00%) SNMP
5 1 (2.50%) DHCP
5 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Git
2 10 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.50%) Balsamiq
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (35.00%) Law
3 5 (12.50%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Military
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Senior
2 12 (30.00%) Analyst
2 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (5.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.00%) Project Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Support Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Systems Support
8 1 (2.50%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Security Posture
2 13 (32.50%) Public Cloud
3 12 (30.00%) Podcast
4 6 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.00%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (50.00%) Windows
2 15 (37.50%) VMS
3 12 (30.00%) Linux
4 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.00%) Debian
5 2 (5.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) DevOps
2 21 (52.50%) CI/CD
2 21 (52.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (50.00%) Agile
4 19 (47.50%) Cloud Security
4 19 (47.50%) DevSecOps
5 17 (42.50%) Observability
6 14 (35.00%) AI
6 14 (35.00%) Generative AI
6 14 (35.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 13 (32.50%) Analytics
7 13 (32.50%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (32.50%) Task Automation
8 12 (30.00%) API Management
8 12 (30.00%) Computer Science
8 12 (30.00%) Log Analytics
8 12 (30.00%) Roadmaps
8 12 (30.00%) Scrum
9 10 (25.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) Bash
2 22 (55.00%) Python
3 13 (32.50%) SQL
4 12 (30.00%) Bicep
4 12 (30.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (7.50%) Go
6 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.00%) PHP
6 2 (5.00%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) Azure Certification
2 12 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (10.00%) CISSP
3 4 (10.00%) CREST Certified
3 4 (10.00%) SANS
3 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (42.50%) Active Directory
2 14 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (30.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (30.00%) vSphere
4 4 (10.00%) Docker
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (15.00%) Ansible
3 5 (12.50%) Grafana
4 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.00%) Nagios
6 2 (5.00%) Netcool
6 2 (5.00%) Tivoli
6 2 (5.00%) ZABBIX
7 1 (2.50%) Packer
7 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (35.00%) VMware
3 12 (30.00%) ScienceLogic
4 5 (12.50%) Cisco
5 3 (7.50%) Meraki
6 2 (5.00%) BMC
6 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.50%) Databricks
7 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.50%) Google
7 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.50%) Sophos