PowerShell Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows PowerShell
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 61 78
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -16
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 616 830 968
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.04% 3.59% 3.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.86% 12.51% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 628 679
10th Percentile £350 £287 £261
25th Percentile £425 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £511 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +7.63% +7.95%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £578
90th Percentile £688 £688 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 25
10th Percentile £39.29 £24.49 £19.21
25th Percentile £40.00 £30.92 £41.75
Median hourly rate £40.25 £57.33 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year -29.79% +18.77% +20.68%
75th Percentile £46.34 £68.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.44 £87.50 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £49.99
% change year-on-year -32.92% +20.04% +8.66%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,791 6,633 8,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.64% 28.68% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,228 4,683 6,147
10th Percentile £313 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.01% +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 329 332
10th Percentile £37.93 £23.08 £17.03
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £29.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +24.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.68
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East +24 245 £550 +1.29% 149
North of England -11 110 £475 -9.52% 107
South West -14 110 £600 +9.09% 49
Midlands -13 72 £395 -19.80% 55
Scotland +49 66 £575 +15.00% 18
North West -27 66 £463 -15.91% 55
West Midlands -9 52 £363 -30.95% 35
Yorkshire +13 36 £525 +16.67% 45
East Midlands +4 20 £463 +3.93% 20
East of England -37 13 £475 -5.00% 36
North East +18 8 £475 -32.14% 7
Wales +6 5 £690 +45.26% 3
Northern Ireland -6 1 - - 5
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UK

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 95 (15.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 64 (10.39%) SharePoint
3 59 (9.58%) Confluence
4 11 (1.79%) IIS
5 10 (1.62%) Apache
6 9 (1.46%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (1.30%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (0.32%) nginx
8 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.49%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.32%) Shopify
3 1 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 249 (40.42%) Azure
2 119 (19.32%) Microsoft 365
3 77 (12.50%) AWS
4 57 (9.25%) Entra ID
5 56 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (6.49%) Azure Monitor
7 31 (5.03%) Power Platform
8 26 (4.22%) OneDrive
9 25 (4.06%) GCP
9 25 (4.06%) GitHub
10 19 (3.08%) PaaS
11 17 (2.76%) Azure Storage
12 14 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (2.27%) OCI
12 14 (2.27%) Serverless
13 13 (2.11%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.95%) Azure Functions
14 12 (1.95%) IaaS
15 10 (1.62%) SaaS
16 9 (1.46%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 129 (20.94%) DNS
2 92 (14.94%) DHCP
3 89 (14.45%) Firewall
4 49 (7.95%) SAN
5 39 (6.33%) VPN
6 33 (5.36%) TCP/IP
7 25 (4.06%) LAN
7 25 (4.06%) WAN
8 17 (2.76%) VLAN
8 17 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.95%) Fibre Channel
10 11 (1.79%) HTTP
11 10 (1.62%) NetScaler
12 9 (1.46%) NAS
13 8 (1.30%) MPLS
14 7 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (1.14%) Skype
14 7 (1.14%) SMTP
14 7 (1.14%) Unified Communications
15 6 (0.97%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.69%) SQL Server
2 27 (4.38%) Power BI
3 16 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (2.11%) MySQL
5 12 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.46%) Metadata
6 9 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.14%) PowerPivot
9 6 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Power View
9 6 (0.97%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.81%) Tableau
11 4 (0.65%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.32%) EDRMS
14 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 75 (12.18%) Jenkins
2 68 (11.04%) JIRA
3 38 (6.17%) Git
4 35 (5.68%) Bitbucket
5 33 (5.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 31 (5.03%) GitLab
7 21 (3.41%) Robot Framework
8 19 (3.08%) Visual Studio
9 15 (2.44%) MSI
10 14 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (1.79%) Artifactory
11 11 (1.79%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.62%) Selenium
13 9 (1.46%) CircleCI
13 9 (1.46%) Travis CI
14 7 (1.14%) Hudson
15 6 (0.97%) TeamCity
16 5 (0.81%) AppScan
16 5 (0.81%) Burp Suite
16 5 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 181 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 84 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (7.63%) Public Sector
4 27 (4.38%) Finance
5 26 (4.22%) Aerospace
6 10 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.46%) Legal
8 6 (0.97%) Banking
8 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
8 6 (0.97%) Publishing
9 5 (0.81%) Marketing
9 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.65%) Local Government
10 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.49%) Electronics
11 3 (0.49%) French Language
11 3 (0.49%) Front Office
12 2 (0.32%) Military
12 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (13.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 61 (9.90%) Architect
3 54 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (8.12%) Senior
5 49 (7.95%) Developer
6 38 (6.17%) Security Engineer
7 36 (5.84%) Support Engineer
8 32 (5.19%) Administrator
9 29 (4.71%) Consultant
10 28 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
11 23 (3.73%) Analyst
12 18 (2.92%) Windows Engineer
13 17 (2.76%) Active Directory Support
14 16 (2.60%) Exchange Engineer
15 15 (2.44%) Azure Specialist
15 15 (2.44%) Lead
15 15 (2.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 14 (2.27%) Active Directory Specialist
16 14 (2.27%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (10.23%) .NET
2 29 (4.71%) ARM Templates
3 26 (4.22%) .NET Core
4 21 (3.41%) YAML
5 17 (2.76%) JSON
6 16 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (2.44%) CSS
7 15 (2.44%) HTML
7 15 (2.44%) REST
8 14 (2.27%) XML
9 13 (2.11%) ASP.NET
10 12 (1.95%) LDAP
11 9 (1.46%) .NET Framework
11 9 (1.46%) SAML
12 7 (1.14%) SOAP
12 7 (1.14%) Web Services
13 6 (0.97%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (0.97%) OAuth
13 6 (0.97%) OpenID
14 4 (0.65%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 91 (14.77%) PKI
2 37 (6.01%) Data Centre
3 28 (4.55%) Clustering
4 26 (4.22%) Client/Server
5 21 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.79%) CMDB
8 11 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.30%) Fat Client
10 8 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.30%) Thin Client
11 7 (1.14%) Replication
12 6 (0.97%) Digital Signage
12 6 (0.97%) Driving Licence
13 5 (0.81%) Device Driver
14 4 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 330 (53.57%) Windows
2 169 (27.44%) Windows Server
3 153 (24.84%) Linux
4 86 (13.96%) Windows 10
5 78 (12.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 55 (8.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 48 (7.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 37 (6.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 31 (5.03%) Unix
10 17 (2.76%) Windows XP
11 15 (2.44%) Mac OS
11 15 (2.44%) Windows 7
12 14 (2.27%) Ubuntu
13 10 (1.62%) VMS
13 10 (1.62%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (1.14%) CentOS
14 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.97%) Apple iOS
16 5 (0.81%) Solaris
17 4 (0.65%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (24.35%) DevOps
2 139 (22.56%) Agile
3 132 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 120 (19.48%) CI/CD
5 103 (16.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 92 (14.94%) ITIL
7 79 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 63 (10.23%) Migration
9 60 (9.74%) Task Automation
10 54 (8.77%) Test Automation
11 51 (8.28%) Continuous Integration
12 47 (7.63%) Deployment Automation
13 46 (7.47%) Configuration Management
14 40 (6.49%) Project Management
14 40 (6.49%) Service Management
15 38 (6.17%) Problem Management
16 37 (6.01%) Identity Management
17 36 (5.84%) Application Packaging
17 36 (5.84%) Disaster Recovery
18 35 (5.68%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 189 (30.68%) Python
2 73 (11.85%) Bash
3 61 (9.90%) SQL
4 49 (7.95%) VBScript
5 47 (7.63%) C#
6 26 (4.22%) Bicep
7 25 (4.06%) VB
8 21 (3.41%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.44%) Java
10 14 (2.27%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.79%) Perl
11 11 (1.79%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.62%) C
13 9 (1.46%) C++
14 7 (1.14%) Go
15 4 (0.65%) Ruby
16 3 (0.49%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.49%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.16%) Julia
Qualifications
1 301 (48.86%) Security Cleared
2 167 (27.11%) SC Cleared
3 146 (23.70%) DV Cleared
4 106 (17.21%) Degree
5 32 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 17 (2.76%) CCNA
7 17 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.44%) CCNP
10 14 (2.27%) MCSE
11 10 (1.62%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.65%) MCTS
14 3 (0.49%) CISSP
14 3 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
15 2 (0.32%) CISM
15 2 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.71%) QA
2 12 (1.95%) SLA
3 7 (1.14%) RMADS
4 6 (0.97%) GDPR
5 4 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.65%) NIST
6 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 223 (36.20%) Active Directory
2 133 (21.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (8.60%) Docker
4 47 (7.63%) Hyper-V
5 41 (6.66%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (6.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.90%) vSphere
8 23 (3.73%) XenApp
9 21 (3.41%) VMware NSX
10 14 (2.27%) BitLocker
11 12 (1.95%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (1.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (1.46%) XenDesktop
13 8 (1.30%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (1.30%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.81%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.65%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 150 (24.35%) Ansible
2 118 (19.16%) SCCM
3 116 (18.83%) Terraform
4 70 (11.36%) Kubernetes
5 58 (9.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 48 (7.79%) WSUS
7 45 (7.31%) SCOM
8 38 (6.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 33 (5.36%) Puppet
10 29 (4.71%) vCenter Server
11 27 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
12 26 (4.22%) PowerCLI
13 25 (4.06%) NetBackup
14 23 (3.73%) Progress Chef
15 20 (3.25%) Grafana
16 19 (3.08%) Prometheus
17 18 (2.92%) EMC NetWorker
18 16 (2.60%) WMI
19 14 (2.27%) Nagios
20 13 (2.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 241 (39.12%) Microsoft
2 162 (26.30%) VMware
3 53 (8.60%) Atlassian
4 42 (6.82%) HP
5 41 (6.66%) Dell
6 39 (6.33%) Citrix
7 36 (5.84%) Oracle
8 26 (4.22%) Cisco
9 25 (4.06%) EMC
9 25 (4.06%) Splunk
9 25 (4.06%) Veeam
10 24 (3.90%) Symantec
11 18 (2.92%) Red Hat
12 17 (2.76%) Juniper
12 17 (2.76%) NetApp
12 17 (2.76%) Palo Alto
13 15 (2.44%) Ivanti
14 14 (2.27%) 3PAR
14 14 (2.27%) Extreme Networks
15 12 (1.95%) ArcSight