PowerShell Contracts in the South West

Windows PowerShell
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 33 56
Rank change year-on-year -18 +23 -12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 107 210 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.37% 5.80% 4.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.17% 19.79% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 162 92
10th Percentile £425 £275 £313
25th Percentile £509 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% +5.82%
75th Percentile £700 £647 £575
90th Percentile - £711 £631
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 12
10th Percentile - £46.22 £43.60
25th Percentile - £53.58 £46.94
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.33 £53.11
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +7.95% +32.78%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.70 £69.05
90th Percentile £74.44 £92.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.90 £50.20
% change year-on-year -33.22% +19.32% +25.50%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 623 1,061 1,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.60% 29.29% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 764 778
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +7.53%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £631
England median daily rate £542 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.13% +2.69% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 96 69
10th Percentile £48.20 £49.08 £46.62
25th Percentile £55.81 £54.69 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +8.33% +31.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +14.94%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the South West

PowerShell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the South West

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the South West

PowerShell
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the South West

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in the South West

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Wiltshire -11 40 £700 +21.74% 8
Gloucestershire -14 31 £550 +37.50% 9
Bristol +4 22 £525 -4.55% 10
Somerset -1 9 - - 8
Dorset -4 2 £513 +13.89% 4
PowerShell
England

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 31 (28.97%) Confluence
2 19 (17.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (14.95%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.93%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.91%) Azure
2 21 (19.63%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (14.02%) AWS
4 8 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.61%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.67%) PaaS
6 5 (4.67%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.74%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.74%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.80%) GCP
8 3 (2.80%) IaaS
9 2 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.87%) GitHub
9 2 (1.87%) SaaS
10 1 (0.93%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.21%) DHCP
1 12 (11.21%) DNS
1 12 (11.21%) SAN
2 10 (9.35%) LAN
2 10 (9.35%) WAN
3 8 (7.48%) MPLS
3 8 (7.48%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (6.54%) Firewall
4 7 (6.54%) VPN
5 6 (5.61%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.67%) Skype
7 4 (3.74%) VLAN
8 3 (2.80%) IPv4
8 3 (2.80%) OSPF
9 2 (1.87%) NAS
9 2 (1.87%) SMTP
10 1 (0.93%) Intranet
10 1 (0.93%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.74%) Power BI
3 2 (1.87%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 38 (35.51%) JIRA
2 31 (28.97%) Bitbucket
3 30 (28.04%) Jenkins
4 24 (22.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (8.41%) Artifactory
6 8 (7.48%) GitLab
7 6 (5.61%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.87%) Selenium
9 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.93%) Git
9 1 (0.93%) JMeter
9 1 (0.93%) MSI
9 1 (0.93%) Robot Framework
General
1 44 (41.12%) Social Skills
2 30 (28.04%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (24.30%) Aerospace
4 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.61%) Legal
6 4 (3.74%) Finance
7 2 (1.87%) Electronics
7 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.87%) Marketing
7 2 (1.87%) Military
7 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (20.56%) Developer
2 19 (17.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (11.21%) Analyst
4 8 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (7.48%) IT Analyst
4 8 (7.48%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (7.48%) Senior
4 8 (7.48%) Support Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Desktop Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Desktop Support
5 7 (6.54%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Lead
6 6 (5.61%) Architect
7 5 (4.67%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Administrator
8 4 (3.74%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (26.17%) .NET
2 24 (22.43%) .NET Core
3 6 (5.61%) YAML
4 4 (3.74%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (3.74%) REST
5 3 (2.80%) ModSecurity
6 2 (1.87%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.87%) ADO
6 2 (1.87%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.93%) React
7 1 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.35%) Clustering
3 8 (7.48%) Client/Server
4 6 (5.61%) PKI
5 4 (3.74%) CMDB
5 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.74%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.80%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.87%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.87%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (42.06%) Linux
1 45 (42.06%) Windows
2 12 (11.21%) Unix
3 11 (10.28%) Windows 10
4 10 (9.35%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.61%) Windows 7
6 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.80%) VMS
7 3 (2.80%) Windows 2000
7 3 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.80%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (43.93%) CI/CD
2 28 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (25.23%) Configuration Management
3 27 (25.23%) Infrastructure Automation
3 27 (25.23%) Task Automation
4 26 (24.30%) DevOps
5 24 (22.43%) Deployment Automation
5 24 (22.43%) OO
6 23 (21.50%) OOP
7 22 (20.56%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (16.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (14.02%) Agile
10 14 (13.08%) Data Protection
11 12 (11.21%) Migration
12 11 (10.28%) Decision-Making
13 9 (8.41%) Application Packaging
13 9 (8.41%) Server Management
13 9 (8.41%) Software Engineering
14 8 (7.48%) Data Migration
14 8 (7.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (47.66%) Python
2 20 (18.69%) Bash
3 8 (7.48%) SQL
4 6 (5.61%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.74%) C
5 4 (3.74%) Java
6 3 (2.80%) Bicep
6 3 (2.80%) Go
6 3 (2.80%) Julia
6 3 (2.80%) Perl
7 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.93%) C#
Qualifications
1 78 (72.90%) Security Cleared
2 52 (48.60%) SC Cleared
3 31 (28.97%) DV Cleared
4 17 (15.89%) Degree
5 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) CCNA
7 1 (0.93%) CCNP
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.93%) GIAC
7 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.93%) MCSE
7 1 (0.93%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) QA
1 4 (3.74%) SLA
2 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 24 (22.43%) Active Directory
2 22 (20.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (14.95%) Docker
4 11 (10.28%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (8.41%) VMware NSX
6 8 (7.48%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (7.48%) vSphere
7 5 (4.67%) Hyper-V
7 5 (4.67%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (3.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.93%) XenApp
10 1 (0.93%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (45.79%) Ansible
2 31 (28.97%) Terraform
3 24 (22.43%) PowerCLI
4 19 (17.76%) SCCM
5 15 (14.02%) Kubernetes
6 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (7.48%) Nagios
7 8 (7.48%) NetBackup
8 7 (6.54%) Puppet
9 5 (4.67%) OPNET
10 3 (2.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.80%) Grafana
10 3 (2.80%) Prometheus
10 3 (2.80%) SCOM
11 2 (1.87%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.87%) SCOrch
12 1 (0.93%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (30.84%) Atlassian
2 30 (28.04%) Microsoft
3 25 (23.36%) VMware
4 22 (20.56%) Dell
4 22 (20.56%) HP
5 8 (7.48%) Hitachi
5 8 (7.48%) NetApp
6 5 (4.67%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.80%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.80%) Google
7 3 (2.80%) Juniper
7 3 (2.80%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.87%) Cisco
8 2 (1.87%) Citrix
8 2 (1.87%) Oracle
8 2 (1.87%) Remedy
8 2 (1.87%) SAP
8 2 (1.87%) Veeam
9 1 (0.93%) CA
9 1 (0.93%) Ivanti