PowerShell Contracts in Berkshire

Windows PowerShell
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 57 82
Rank change year-on-year +6 +25 -19
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 76 53 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.97% 3.06% 2.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.05% 12.41% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 43 38
10th Percentile £444 £330 £376
25th Percentile £508 £511 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.35% +32.74%
75th Percentile £608 £624 £642
90th Percentile £619 £675 £708
South East median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £65.47 -
25th Percentile - £71.44 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £81.37 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.18% +62.50%
75th Percentile - £84.44 £67.50
90th Percentile - £86.27 -
South East median hourly rate - £81.37 £38.00
% change year-on-year - +114.13% +52.00%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 361 427 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.87% 24.65% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 312 367
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £619 £623 £575
90th Percentile £684 £693 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 3
10th Percentile £56.20 £22.55 £65.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £56.88 £70.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -12.50% +122.22%
75th Percentile £64.55 £79.19 £81.45
90th Percentile £68.25 £80.93 £82.08
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -14.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +5 62 £605 +3.86% 13
Bracknell -4 6 £400 - 2
Wokingham - 3 £480 -
Newbury +1 2 £525 +228.13% 1
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 18 (23.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 51 (67.11%) Azure
2 23 (30.26%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 17 (22.37%) Azure Storage
6 16 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (18.42%) OCI
8 6 (7.89%) Azure API Management
8 6 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (7.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (6.58%) Azure Functions
9 5 (6.58%) Serverless
10 3 (3.95%) AWS
11 2 (2.63%) OneDrive
11 2 (2.63%) PaaS
11 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.63%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.63%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 37 (48.68%) DNS
2 35 (46.05%) DHCP
3 33 (43.42%) Firewall
4 18 (23.68%) SAN
5 4 (5.26%) NAS
6 1 (1.32%) HTTP
6 1 (1.32%) Internet
6 1 (1.32%) RNC
6 1 (1.32%) SGSN
6 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.26%) MySQL
3 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.63%) Metadata
6 1 (1.32%) GIS
6 1 (1.32%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Visual Studio
2 11 (14.47%) Git
3 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.58%) Selenium
5 3 (3.95%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.32%) Appium
6 1 (1.32%) MSTest
6 1 (1.32%) NUnit
6 1 (1.32%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (51.32%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.32%) Law
3 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (22.37%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (18.42%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (18.42%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (18.42%) Support Specialist
4 10 (13.16%) Storage Engineer
4 10 (13.16%) Support Engineer
5 9 (11.84%) Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Administrator
7 4 (5.26%) Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Server Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Solutions Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (3.95%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Azure Developer
8 3 (3.95%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.89%) ARM Templates
2 12 (15.79%) .NET
3 7 (9.21%) ASP.NET
4 4 (5.26%) JSON
5 3 (3.95%) CSS
5 3 (3.95%) OAuth
5 3 (3.95%) OpenID
5 3 (3.95%) REST
5 3 (3.95%) SOAP
5 3 (3.95%) XML
5 3 (3.95%) YAML
6 2 (2.63%) HTML
6 2 (2.63%) jQuery
6 2 (2.63%) SPFx
7 1 (1.32%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.32%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.32%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.32%) LangChain
7 1 (1.32%) Middleware
7 1 (1.32%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.95%) PKI
2 17 (22.37%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (18.42%) Data Centre
4 7 (9.21%) Client/Server
5 4 (5.26%) Fat Client
5 4 (5.26%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.63%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.32%) CCTV
7 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (68.42%) Windows
2 50 (65.79%) Windows Server
3 42 (55.26%) Linux
4 37 (48.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 35 (46.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (18.42%) Windows 10
6 14 (18.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (18.42%) Windows XP
7 7 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (5.26%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) DevOps
2 34 (44.74%) ITIL
3 27 (35.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (34.21%) Agile
5 25 (32.89%) CI/CD
6 24 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (30.26%) Release Management
8 20 (26.32%) Identity Management
9 19 (25.00%) Break/Fix
9 19 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (23.68%) Analytics
10 18 (23.68%) Log Analytics
10 18 (23.68%) RBAC
10 18 (23.68%) Service Management
11 17 (22.37%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 17 (22.37%) Privileged Identity Management
12 16 (21.05%) Project Management
13 15 (19.74%) Server Management
14 14 (18.42%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (36.84%) C#
2 24 (31.58%) VBScript
3 18 (23.68%) Bicep
4 17 (22.37%) VB
5 13 (17.11%) Python
6 6 (7.89%) SQL
7 2 (2.63%) Bash
7 2 (2.63%) Java
8 1 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.32%) Perl
8 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 47 (61.84%) SC Cleared
3 40 (52.63%) DV Cleared
4 36 (47.37%) Degree
5 17 (22.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (18.42%) CCNA
6 14 (18.42%) CCNP
6 14 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.32%) CEH
8 1 (1.32%) CISSP
8 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) GDPR
1 2 (2.63%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (55.26%) Active Directory
2 26 (34.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (23.68%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (22.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (22.37%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (21.05%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (47.37%) WSUS
2 34 (44.74%) SCCM
2 34 (44.74%) SCOM
3 22 (28.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 19 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (23.68%) vCenter Server
6 14 (18.42%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (18.42%) NetBackup
7 13 (17.11%) Ansible
8 5 (6.58%) Terraform
9 4 (5.26%) Nessus
9 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (5.26%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (60.53%) Microsoft
2 28 (36.84%) VMware
3 19 (25.00%) Oracle
4 18 (23.68%) Veeam
5 15 (19.74%) Cisco
6 14 (18.42%) 3PAR
6 14 (18.42%) Dell
6 14 (18.42%) EMC
6 14 (18.42%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (18.42%) HP
6 14 (18.42%) Juniper
6 14 (18.42%) Palo Alto
6 14 (18.42%) Symantec
7 4 (5.26%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.32%) BMC
8 1 (1.32%) Ericsson
8 1 (1.32%) Google
8 1 (1.32%) Mapinfo
8 1 (1.32%) Nokia
8 1 (1.32%) Remedy