PowerShell Contracts in Wales

Windows PowerShell
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 42 45 63
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -17
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 5 18 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.25% 2.85% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.35% 11.61% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 12
10th Percentile - £406 £136
25th Percentile - £413 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £473 £404
Median % change year-on-year +46.03% +17.03% -12.94%
75th Percentile - £500 £500
90th Percentile - £575 £721
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +12.94%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 115 155 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 28.68% 24.56% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 124 232
10th Percentile £325 £334 £363
25th Percentile £381 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +21.39%
75th Percentile £543 £613 £625
90th Percentile £599 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £15.51 £17.18 £18.45
25th Percentile £16.98 £17.48 £19.91
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.19% -9.33% -17.00%
75th Percentile £24.96 £19.81 £22.88
90th Percentile £39.56 £19.91 £25.00
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 Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Wales

PowerShell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Wales 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
South Wales +2 2 £690 +46.03% 1
North Wales - 1 - - 2
PowerShell
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) AppScan
1 1 (20.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior SQL Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) FHIR
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Application Security
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (20.00%) OWASP
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) HL7
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Graylog
2 1 (20.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Nessus
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (20.00%) RedGate
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Veracode
2 1 (20.00%) VMware