PowerShell Contracts in England

Windows PowerShell
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 61 67
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,240 1,879 2,478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.35% 3.72% 3.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.46% 10.51% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 887 1,329 1,725
10th Percentile £350 £337 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 26 30
10th Percentile £27.90 £26.48 £20.00
25th Percentile £37.63 £52.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.90 £49.24
Median % change year-on-year -33.22% +21.65% +20.10%
75th Percentile £46.18 £68.81 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.22 £86.25 £70.02
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.90 £50.00
% change year-on-year -33.22% +19.80% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +15 672 £538 -10.42% 211
South East +13 228 £550 - 109
North of England -14 114 £475 -5.00% 78
South West -22 110 £600 +14.29% 37
North West -30 72 £425 -19.05% 38
Midlands -26 64 £395 -21.78% 53
West Midlands -10 49 £375 -28.57% 37
Yorkshire +6 32 £525 +20.00% 34
East of England -34 18 £450 -10.00% 32
East Midlands 0 15 £538 +27.22% 16
North East +27 10 £475 -32.14% 6
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UK

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 136 (10.97%) SharePoint
2 132 (10.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 65 (5.24%) Confluence
4 36 (2.90%) IIS
5 14 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2010
6 13 (1.05%) Apache
6 13 (1.05%) Skype for Business
7 12 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2007
7 12 (0.97%) nginx
8 11 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2013
8 11 (0.89%) Site Server
8 11 (0.89%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2003
10 8 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
11 7 (0.56%) SharePoint 2010
12 6 (0.48%) JBoss
13 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.24%) WordPress
14 2 (0.16%) IBM Notes
14 2 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 40 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.48%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.16%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.16%) Shopify
4 1 (0.081%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.081%) Endur
4 1 (0.081%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.081%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 663 (53.47%) Azure
2 254 (20.48%) Azure DevOps
3 244 (19.68%) Microsoft 365
4 172 (13.87%) AWS
5 167 (13.47%) Entra ID
6 89 (7.18%) Power Platform
7 63 (5.08%) GCP
8 58 (4.68%) Azure Monitor
9 57 (4.60%) GitHub
10 53 (4.27%) IaaS
10 53 (4.27%) PaaS
11 48 (3.87%) PowerApps
12 46 (3.71%) OneDrive
13 39 (3.15%) Serverless
14 38 (3.06%) Power Automate
15 36 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
15 36 (2.90%) SaaS
16 35 (2.82%) Azure Functions
17 32 (2.58%) Azure Key Vault
18 30 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 176 (14.19%) DNS
2 141 (11.37%) Firewall
3 111 (8.95%) DHCP
4 63 (5.08%) SAN
5 56 (4.52%) VPN
6 45 (3.63%) TCP/IP
7 37 (2.98%) LAN
7 37 (2.98%) WAN
8 24 (1.94%) NAS
9 23 (1.85%) VLAN
10 22 (1.77%) Network Security
11 21 (1.69%) HTTP
11 21 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (1.45%) Skype
13 15 (1.21%) Kerberos
14 13 (1.05%) Internet
14 13 (1.05%) NetScaler
14 13 (1.05%) VSAN
15 11 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
15 11 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (18.95%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.00%) Power BI
3 43 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 43 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (2.98%) Relational Database
5 28 (2.26%) MySQL
6 26 (2.10%) Data Lake
7 21 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 20 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (1.45%) Big Data
9 18 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (1.13%) Metadata
12 12 (0.97%) GIS
12 12 (0.97%) RDBMS
13 11 (0.89%) Tableau
14 10 (0.81%) MongoDB
14 10 (0.81%) Redis
15 7 (0.56%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 121 (9.76%) Jenkins
2 86 (6.94%) Git
3 85 (6.85%) JIRA
4 61 (4.92%) GitLab
5 41 (3.31%) Visual Studio
6 36 (2.90%) Bitbucket
7 30 (2.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 28 (2.26%) TeamCity
9 27 (2.18%) SpecFlow
10 26 (2.10%) Selenium
11 22 (1.77%) Artifactory
12 21 (1.69%) Robot Framework
13 19 (1.53%) MSI
14 15 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (1.05%) Subversion
16 12 (0.97%) SonarQube
16 12 (0.97%) WebDriver
17 8 (0.65%) Burp Suite
18 7 (0.56%) Hudson
18 7 (0.56%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 299 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 192 (15.48%) Finance
3 118 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 116 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (5.32%) Banking
6 44 (3.55%) Front Office
7 26 (2.10%) Aerospace
8 25 (2.02%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.02%) Legal
9 24 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
10 22 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.53%) Marketing
13 17 (1.37%) Electronics
13 17 (1.37%) Local Government
14 12 (0.97%) Back Office
14 12 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 12 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 189 (15.24%) Developer
2 170 (13.71%) Senior
3 107 (8.63%) Architect
4 103 (8.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 98 (7.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 96 (7.74%) Azure Engineer
7 80 (6.45%) Analyst
8 74 (5.97%) Senior Developer
9 70 (5.65%) Support Engineer
10 57 (4.60%) Software Developer
11 53 (4.27%) Consultant
12 47 (3.79%) Security Engineer
13 46 (3.71%) Senior Software Developer
14 42 (3.39%) Administrator
14 42 (3.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 40 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
16 39 (3.15%) Lead
17 36 (2.90%) Applications Support
18 33 (2.66%) Azure Developer
19 29 (2.34%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (17.34%) .NET
2 117 (9.44%) XML
3 70 (5.65%) ARM Templates
4 68 (5.48%) .NET Framework
5 59 (4.76%) .NET Core
6 49 (3.95%) JSON
7 46 (3.71%) YAML
8 45 (3.63%) REST
9 38 (3.06%) ASP.NET
10 37 (2.98%) AngularJS
11 32 (2.58%) CSS
12 29 (2.34%) LDAP
13 28 (2.26%) HTML
14 22 (1.77%) Middleware
15 21 (1.69%) React
16 20 (1.61%) SAML
17 19 (1.53%) Web Services
18 17 (1.37%) OAuth
19 16 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
20 15 (1.21%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.18%) PKI
2 59 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 44 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.23%) Clustering
5 39 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.26%) Client/Server
8 27 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 23 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.45%) Replication
11 17 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.21%) Cloud Native
13 15 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.13%) Hedge funds
15 11 (0.89%) CMDB
15 11 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 11 (0.89%) Fat Client
15 11 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.89%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 544 (43.87%) Windows
2 261 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 237 (19.11%) Linux
4 104 (8.39%) Windows 10
5 85 (6.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 67 (5.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 60 (4.84%) Unix
7 60 (4.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 54 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
10 19 (1.53%) Windows Server 2003
11 16 (1.29%) Windows 7
11 16 (1.29%) Windows XP
12 15 (1.21%) VMS
13 13 (1.05%) Mac OS
13 13 (1.05%) Solaris
13 13 (1.05%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
15 8 (0.65%) CentOS
16 7 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (35.48%) DevOps
2 337 (27.18%) Agile
3 296 (23.87%) CI/CD
4 190 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (13.31%) ITIL
6 160 (12.90%) Migration
7 154 (12.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 154 (12.42%) Scrum
8 132 (10.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 96 (7.74%) Task Automation
10 94 (7.58%) Configuration Management
11 93 (7.50%) Test Automation
12 77 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
13 76 (6.13%) Deployment Automation
14 75 (6.05%) Disaster Recovery
15 74 (5.97%) Business Intelligence
15 74 (5.97%) Software Engineering
16 71 (5.73%) Continuous Integration
17 65 (5.24%) Release Management
18 64 (5.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 396 (31.94%) Python
2 240 (19.35%) SQL
3 223 (17.98%) C#
4 131 (10.56%) Bash
5 80 (6.45%) Java
6 79 (6.37%) JavaScript
7 76 (6.13%) Bicep
8 64 (5.16%) VBScript
9 30 (2.42%) VB
10 26 (2.10%) Shell Script
11 24 (1.94%) C++
12 21 (1.69%) Perl
12 21 (1.69%) T-SQL
13 19 (1.53%) Go
14 17 (1.37%) C
15 13 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.97%) Korn
17 9 (0.73%) Ruby
18 8 (0.65%) VB.NET
19 7 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 333 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 206 (16.61%) SC Cleared
3 150 (12.10%) DV Cleared
4 147 (11.85%) Degree
5 45 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.74%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.69%) MCSE
10 20 (1.61%) CCNP
10 20 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
11 19 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.53%) CCNA
11 19 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 10 (0.81%) CISSP
13 5 (0.40%) A+ Certification
13 5 (0.40%) CISM
13 5 (0.40%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.15%) QA
2 32 (2.58%) SLA
3 22 (1.77%) PCI DSS
4 20 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.21%) GDPR
6 12 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.97%) NIST
7 9 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.56%) RMADS
9 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.081%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.081%) GLBA
12 1 (0.081%) GRC
12 1 (0.081%) ISAE 3402
12 1 (0.081%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 396 (31.94%) Active Directory
2 153 (12.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (7.58%) Docker
4 57 (4.60%) Hyper-V
5 48 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (3.87%) VMware ESXi
6 40 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (2.50%) vSphere
8 29 (2.34%) VMware NSX
9 24 (1.94%) XenApp
10 14 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.89%) XenDesktop
12 10 (0.81%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 9 (0.73%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.40%) NFS
15 3 (0.24%) Firmware
16 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 233 (18.79%) Terraform
2 212 (17.10%) Ansible
3 146 (11.77%) SCCM
4 123 (9.92%) Kubernetes
5 112 (9.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 57 (4.60%) Puppet
7 56 (4.52%) WSUS
8 50 (4.03%) SCOM
9 46 (3.71%) Single Sign-On
10 44 (3.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 36 (2.90%) Grafana
12 31 (2.50%) Progress Chef
12 31 (2.50%) vCenter Server
13 27 (2.18%) NetBackup
13 27 (2.18%) PowerCLI
14 25 (2.02%) EMC NetWorker
15 23 (1.85%) Prometheus
16 22 (1.77%) ITRS Geneos
17 17 (1.37%) Nagios
17 17 (1.37%) WMI
Vendors
1 523 (42.18%) Microsoft
2 202 (16.29%) VMware
3 89 (7.18%) Oracle
4 60 (4.84%) Citrix
5 54 (4.35%) Dell
5 54 (4.35%) HP
6 52 (4.19%) Cisco
7 44 (3.55%) Splunk
8 41 (3.31%) ServiceNow
9 39 (3.15%) Atlassian
10 37 (2.98%) Red Hat
11 36 (2.90%) EMC
12 29 (2.34%) IBM
13 28 (2.26%) Veeam
14 26 (2.10%) Symantec
15 25 (2.02%) Palo Alto
16 24 (1.94%) ArcSight
16 24 (1.94%) Dynatrace
17 23 (1.85%) SAP
18 22 (1.77%) SolarWinds