PowerShell Contracts in the South East

Windows PowerShell
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 45 58 59
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 -15
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 228 230 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.13% 3.95% 3.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.06% 14.24% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 187 207
10th Percentile £375 £271 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £501
Median % change year-on-year - +9.89% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £613
90th Percentile £638 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £55.20 £23.85
25th Percentile - £59.25 £43.88
Median hourly rate - £72.19 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.31% +140.00%
75th Percentile - £82.90 £72.50
90th Percentile - £85.66 £81.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.90 £49.24
% change year-on-year -33.22% +21.65% +20.10%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,196 1,615 2,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.65% 27.71% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 1,151 1,367
10th Percentile £325 £333 £339
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £684 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 90 87
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £75.00 £65.52
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the South East 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
Hampshire +7 110 £550 - 34
Thames Valley -4 82 £605 +16.35% 35
Berkshire +6 73 £605 +7.56% 22
Surrey +11 14 £613 +6.52% 12
West Sussex +15 13 £456 +14.06% 7
Buckinghamshire +1 7 £527 +48.59% 8
East Sussex +5 5 £475 -40.25% 7
Kent - 3 £400 - 7
Oxfordshire +3 2 £465 +69.09% 5
Middlesex +3 1 £425 +30.77% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 22 (9.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.44%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (35.09%) Azure
2 28 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 22 (9.65%) AWS
5 22 (9.65%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (7.02%) Azure Storage
7 13 (5.70%) OCI
8 8 (3.51%) IaaS
9 6 (2.63%) Azure API Management
9 6 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.63%) SaaS
10 5 (2.19%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.19%) PaaS
10 5 (2.19%) Serverless
11 3 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.32%) GitHub
11 3 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 59 (25.88%) DNS
2 53 (23.25%) DHCP
3 48 (21.05%) Firewall
4 22 (9.65%) SAN
5 5 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.19%) VPN
6 4 (1.75%) LAN
6 4 (1.75%) NAS
6 4 (1.75%) VSAN
6 4 (1.75%) WAN
7 3 (1.32%) SNA
8 2 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.88%) Wireless
9 1 (0.44%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.44%) HTTP
9 1 (0.44%) Internet
9 1 (0.44%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.44%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.19%) MySQL
3 5 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.88%) GIS
6 2 (0.88%) Metadata
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.44%) OLAP
7 1 (0.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.44%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (9.65%) Git
2 20 (8.77%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.77%) Robot Framework
3 18 (7.89%) Visual Studio
4 14 (6.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (5.70%) MSI
6 9 (3.95%) Selenium
7 3 (1.32%) GitLab
8 2 (0.88%) Appium
9 1 (0.44%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.44%) JIRA
9 1 (0.44%) MSTest
9 1 (0.44%) NUnit
9 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.44%) Subversion
9 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (3.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.32%) Finance
4 3 (1.32%) French Language
4 3 (1.32%) Front Office
5 1 (0.44%) Advertising
5 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.44%) Law
5 1 (0.44%) Legal
5 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (18.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (15.35%) Architect
3 21 (9.21%) Security Engineer
4 19 (8.33%) Developer
4 19 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 15 (6.58%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (6.58%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (6.14%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (6.14%) Support Engineer
6 14 (6.14%) Support Specialist
7 12 (5.26%) Security Architect
8 11 (4.82%) Senior
9 10 (4.39%) Consultant
9 10 (4.39%) Security Consultant
10 9 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (3.51%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (3.51%) ArcSight Consultant
11 8 (3.51%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.53%) .NET
2 23 (10.09%) ARM Templates
3 13 (5.70%) ASP.NET
4 6 (2.63%) YAML
5 5 (2.19%) REST
6 4 (1.75%) JSON
6 4 (1.75%) SOAP
7 3 (1.32%) CSS
7 3 (1.32%) OAuth
7 3 (1.32%) OpenID
7 3 (1.32%) XML
8 2 (0.88%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.88%) HTML
8 2 (0.88%) jQuery
8 2 (0.88%) Node.js
8 2 (0.88%) SPFx
9 1 (0.44%) Middleware
9 1 (0.44%) WCF
9 1 (0.44%) Web Services
9 1 (0.44%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 56 (24.56%) PKI
2 18 (7.89%) Client/Server
2 18 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 16 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.19%) Device Driver
5 4 (1.75%) Fat Client
5 4 (1.75%) Thin Client
6 3 (1.32%) Clustering
6 3 (1.32%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.88%) CMDB
7 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.88%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.44%) CCTV
8 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.44%) Replication
8 1 (0.44%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 149 (65.35%) Windows
2 91 (39.91%) Windows Server
3 73 (32.02%) Linux
4 51 (22.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 39 (17.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 37 (16.23%) Windows 10
7 32 (14.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (5.70%) Windows XP
10 10 (4.39%) Unix
11 8 (3.51%) Ubuntu
12 6 (2.63%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (2.19%) Windows 7
13 5 (2.19%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.44%) Android
15 1 (0.44%) Solaris
15 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (32.89%) Agile
2 51 (22.37%) DevOps
2 51 (22.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (18.42%) ITIL
5 32 (14.04%) Release Management
6 31 (13.60%) Test Automation
7 30 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (12.28%) CI/CD
9 25 (10.96%) Service Management
10 22 (9.65%) RBAC
11 20 (8.77%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (8.33%) Analytics
12 19 (8.33%) Application Packaging
12 19 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (8.33%) Identity Management
12 19 (8.33%) Server Management
13 18 (7.89%) Application Virtualisation
13 18 (7.89%) Break/Fix
13 18 (7.89%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 74 (32.46%) Python
2 47 (20.61%) VBScript
3 37 (16.23%) C#
4 23 (10.09%) VB
5 16 (7.02%) Bicep
6 13 (5.70%) Bash
7 11 (4.82%) SQL
8 8 (3.51%) C++
9 6 (2.63%) Java
10 5 (2.19%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.75%) Perl
12 3 (1.32%) C
12 3 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.32%) Ruby
12 3 (1.32%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.88%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.44%) Korn
14 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (67.11%) Security Cleared
2 92 (40.35%) DV Cleared
3 67 (29.39%) SC Cleared
4 45 (19.74%) Degree
5 16 (7.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (5.70%) CCNA
6 13 (5.70%) CCNP
6 13 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.75%) MCSE
9 4 (1.75%) MCTS
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.88%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.88%) VCAP
10 2 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.07%) RMADS
2 6 (2.63%) GDPR
3 5 (2.19%) SLA
4 3 (1.32%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.32%) QA
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (37.28%) Active Directory
2 73 (32.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (10.96%) VMware ESXi
4 21 (9.21%) Hyper-V
5 19 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (7.02%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (5.26%) XenApp
8 9 (3.95%) vSphere
9 8 (3.51%) VMware NSX
10 6 (2.63%) Docker
11 2 (0.88%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.44%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.44%) vCloud
12 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (27.19%) Ansible
2 57 (25.00%) SCCM
3 49 (21.49%) Terraform
4 42 (18.42%) WSUS
5 32 (14.04%) SCOM
6 24 (10.53%) Kubernetes
7 23 (10.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (9.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 21 (9.21%) vCenter Server
10 15 (6.58%) WMI
11 13 (5.70%) EMC NetWorker
11 13 (5.70%) NetBackup
12 8 (3.51%) Nessus
13 7 (3.07%) Progress Chef
13 7 (3.07%) Puppet
14 6 (2.63%) vRealize
15 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (1.75%) ZABBIX
16 3 (1.32%) Nagios
17 2 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 84 (36.84%) VMware
2 82 (35.96%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.21%) Oracle
4 19 (8.33%) Symantec
4 19 (8.33%) Veeam
5 17 (7.46%) Cisco
6 16 (7.02%) Dell
7 15 (6.58%) EMC
8 13 (5.70%) 3PAR
8 13 (5.70%) ArcSight
8 13 (5.70%) Extreme Networks
8 13 (5.70%) HP
8 13 (5.70%) Juniper
8 13 (5.70%) Palo Alto
9 12 (5.26%) Citrix
9 12 (5.26%) Ivanti
10 9 (3.95%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.19%) Google
12 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.32%) Qualys