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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 71 71
Rank change year-on-year +22 0 +20
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 47 42 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 2.68% 2.33% 3.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.08% 7.62% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 46 24 59
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,125 £41,650
25th Percentile £37,563 £30,563 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +26.83%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,188 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,750 £96,539
South West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year - +0.48% +4.50%

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 260 551 719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 14.80% 30.56% 44.55%
Number of salaries quoted 208 350 641
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,875 £87,500 £88,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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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 2 December 2025.

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 23 (48.94%) IIS
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) Azure
2 11 (23.40%) GitHub
2 11 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (21.28%) AWS
4 8 (17.02%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.51%) Serverless
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.26%) Datadog
7 2 (4.26%) GCP
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.13%) PaaS
8 1 (2.13%) SaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (55.32%) Firewall
2 24 (51.06%) DNS
3 23 (48.94%) DHCP
4 17 (36.17%) Internet
4 17 (36.17%) Kerberos
4 17 (36.17%) LAN
4 17 (36.17%) WAN
5 6 (12.77%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (12.77%) IPsec
5 6 (12.77%) VLAN
5 6 (12.77%) VoIP
5 6 (12.77%) VPN
5 6 (12.77%) Wireless
6 1 (2.13%) SAN
6 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (17.02%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.13%) DB2
2 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.26%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 29 (61.70%) Social Skills
2 19 (40.43%) Law
3 18 (38.30%) Finance
4 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.64%) Electronics
5 5 (10.64%) Manufacturing
5 5 (10.64%) Marketing
5 5 (10.64%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Billing
8 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.13%) Legal
8 1 (2.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Analyst
2 16 (34.04%) 3rd Line Support
2 16 (34.04%) Support Analyst
3 11 (23.40%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 10 (21.28%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (17.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (17.02%) Support Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) Senior
7 6 (12.77%) IT Engineer
7 6 (12.77%) IT Support
7 6 (12.77%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (12.77%) Security Engineer
7 6 (12.77%) Senior IT Engineer
7 6 (12.77%) Senior IT Support
7 6 (12.77%) Senior Support Engineer
8 5 (10.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (10.64%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 5 (10.64%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.17%) LDAP
2 2 (4.26%) .NET
2 2 (4.26%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.13%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.17%) PKI
2 6 (12.77%) Clustering
3 3 (6.38%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.26%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (61.70%) Windows
2 26 (55.32%) Windows Server
3 17 (36.17%) Windows 10
3 17 (36.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (36.17%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (17.02%) Linux
5 7 (14.89%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (38.30%) Data Loss Prevention
3 12 (25.53%) DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) Migration
4 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
5 10 (21.28%) ITIL
5 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
6 8 (17.02%) Collaborative Culture
6 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (17.02%) Mentoring
6 8 (17.02%) Roadmaps
7 7 (14.89%) Coaching
7 7 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (14.89%) Security Testing
7 7 (14.89%) Threat Modelling
8 6 (12.77%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (12.77%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 6 (12.77%) Server Building
8 6 (12.77%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) VB
2 16 (34.04%) Python
3 12 (25.53%) Bash
4 4 (8.51%) Bicep
5 3 (6.38%) SQL
6 1 (2.13%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) ACMT
1 6 (12.77%) CISSP
1 6 (12.77%) CREST Certified
1 6 (12.77%) Degree
1 6 (12.77%) SANS
1 6 (12.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (10.64%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) CEH
4 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.13%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.13%) GIAC
5 1 (2.13%) GREM
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (38.30%) SLA
2 7 (14.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (12.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) COBIT
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
4 1 (2.13%) NIST
4 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.13%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (36.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (23.40%) Docker
3 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (12.77%) Hyper-V
4 6 (12.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (36.17%) WSUS
2 11 (23.40%) Kubernetes
3 8 (17.02%) Terraform
4 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (12.77%) Autotask
5 6 (12.77%) vCenter Server
6 2 (4.26%) Ansible
7 1 (2.13%) CASB
7 1 (2.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (2.13%) Grafana
7 1 (2.13%) Puppet
7 1 (2.13%) QRadar
7 1 (2.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (59.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) Cisco
2 9 (19.15%) Veeam
3 8 (17.02%) Oracle
4 7 (14.89%) VMware
5 6 (12.77%) Apple
5 6 (12.77%) Datto
5 6 (12.77%) Sophos
6 5 (10.64%) SAP
7 3 (6.38%) arcserve
8 1 (2.13%) Cognos
8 1 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.13%) iManage
8 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.13%) Splunk
8 1 (2.13%) Tenable