PowerShell Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

PowerShell Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median PowerShell Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 460 582
Rank change year-on-year +135 +122 -113
Contract jobs requiring a PowerShell Engineer 12 7 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.079% 0.027% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.029% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 27
10th Percentile - £331 £358
25th Percentile £519 £375 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -20.45% +17.02%
75th Percentile £768 £553 £619
90th Percentile - £688 £675
UK median daily rate £605 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +27.37% -17.39% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

PowerShell Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured PowerShell Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PowerShell Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

PowerShell Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PowerShell Engineer.

PowerShell Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PowerShell Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PowerShell Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

PowerShell Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring PowerShell Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
3 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
4 6 (50.00%) Azure
5 5 (41.67%) Python
5 5 (41.67%) DevOps
5 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
6 4 (33.33%) WAAS
6 4 (33.33%) Change Control
6 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
6 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 4 (33.33%) SCCM
7 3 (25.00%) Kanban
7 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (25.00%) YAML
7 3 (25.00%) AWS
7 3 (25.00%) Confluence
7 3 (25.00%) Finance
7 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (25.00%) Agile
7 3 (25.00%) Banking
7 3 (25.00%) JIRA
7 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
7 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
7 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) YAML
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Change Control
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Kanban
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Server Monitoring
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) BladeLogic
3 2 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) Altiris
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace