PowerShell Engineer Contracts

PowerShell Engineer
UK

The median PowerShell Engineer daily rate in the UK is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 705 767
Rank change year-on-year +138 +62 -117
Contract jobs requiring a PowerShell Engineer 19 17 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.028% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.030% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 44
10th Percentile £444 £310 £375
25th Percentile £519 £333 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £438 £575
Median % change year-on-year +38.29% -23.91% +25.00%
75th Percentile £700 £500 £638
90th Percentile £768 £649 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +21.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £46.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

PowerShell Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured PowerShell Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell Engineer in the UK

PowerShell Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell Engineer in the UK

PowerShell Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell Engineer in the UK

PowerShell Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell Engineer in the UK

PowerShell Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +125 19 £605 +21.00%
Work from Home +132 12 £700 +60.00%
London +111 11 £625 +19.05%
UK excluding London +70 8 £605 +21.00%
North of England +37 5 £425 -
North West +20 5 £425 -
South East +12 3 £605 +80.60%

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, PowerShell Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring PowerShell Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (68.42%) Windows
3 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
3 12 (63.16%) Azure
4 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
4 8 (42.11%) SCCM
4 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
4 8 (42.11%) Windows 10
4 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
4 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
5 7 (36.84%) DevOps
6 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
7 5 (26.32%) Change Control
7 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (26.32%) Python
7 5 (26.32%) WAAS
8 4 (21.05%) Degree
8 4 (21.05%) Agile
8 4 (21.05%) Banking
8 4 (21.05%) ITIL
8 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
9 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (15.79%) Server Management
9 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
9 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (15.79%) Virtual Team
9 3 (15.79%) vCenter Server
9 3 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (15.79%) Azure AKS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.79%) OCI
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) WAAS
2 3 (15.79%) DHCP
2 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Subversion
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
1 3 (15.79%) YAML
2 2 (10.53%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (68.42%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows 10
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (15.79%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Change Control
3 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) ITIL
5 3 (15.79%) Break/Fix
5 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.79%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (15.79%) Kanban
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) Server Management
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
6 2 (10.53%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) C++
4 2 (10.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) CCNA
3 3 (15.79%) CCNP
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) SCCM
2 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.79%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (15.79%) NetBackup
3 3 (15.79%) SCOM
3 3 (15.79%) vCenter Server
3 3 (15.79%) WSUS
4 2 (10.53%) Ansible
4 2 (10.53%) BladeLogic
4 2 (10.53%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.26%) SCOrch
5 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) 3PAR
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco
2 3 (15.79%) Dell
2 3 (15.79%) EMC
2 3 (15.79%) Extreme Networks
2 3 (15.79%) HP
2 3 (15.79%) Juniper
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.79%) Symantec
2 3 (15.79%) Veeam
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Altiris
3 2 (10.53%) Citrix
3 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace