PowerShell Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 57 75
Rank change year-on-year -13 +18 -6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 444 994 1,435
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.94% 3.96% 3.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.79% 10.62% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 717 1,039
10th Percentile £350 £381 £349
25th Percentile £433 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £600
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 14
10th Percentile - £51.30 £17.50
25th Percentile £37.63 £54.00 £35.63
Median hourly rate £40.28 £66.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.97% +18.39% -7.25%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £45.34 £87.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £50.20
% change year-on-year -32.92% +19.52% +9.13%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,049 9,363 16,804
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.45% 37.27% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,853 12,474
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 203 186
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PowerShell trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

PowerShell daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

PowerShell daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PowerShell hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 68 (15.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 35 (7.88%) Confluence
4 22 (4.95%) IIS
5 12 (2.70%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (2.70%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (2.48%) Skype for Business
7 10 (2.25%) Exchange Server 2003
7 10 (2.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 5 (1.13%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.90%) Apache
9 4 (0.90%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.68%) JBoss
10 3 (0.68%) nginx
10 3 (0.68%) SharePoint 2010
11 2 (0.45%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.45%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.23%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.23%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.68%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 256 (57.66%) Azure
2 109 (24.55%) Azure DevOps
3 97 (21.85%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (16.44%) Entra ID
5 57 (12.84%) AWS
6 32 (7.21%) Azure Monitor
6 32 (7.21%) Power Platform
7 22 (4.95%) Azure Storage
7 22 (4.95%) PaaS
8 21 (4.73%) GCP
9 18 (4.05%) GitHub
10 17 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 17 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (3.83%) IaaS
10 17 (3.83%) PowerApps
11 16 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (3.60%) SaaS
11 16 (3.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 70 (15.77%) DNS
2 60 (13.51%) Firewall
3 43 (9.68%) DHCP
4 20 (4.50%) SAN
5 18 (4.05%) TCP/IP
6 15 (3.38%) Network Security
7 11 (2.48%) Skype
7 11 (2.48%) VPN
8 10 (2.25%) VLAN
9 9 (2.03%) NAS
10 8 (1.80%) LAN
11 7 (1.58%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.58%) WAN
12 4 (0.90%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (0.90%) HTTP
12 4 (0.90%) SSL
12 4 (0.90%) WAAS
13 3 (0.68%) NetScaler
13 3 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (3.83%) Power BI
4 12 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.58%) MySQL
8 7 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.13%) Metadata
10 5 (1.13%) Redis
11 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.90%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.90%) OLTP
11 4 (0.90%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.68%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 47 (10.59%) JIRA
2 37 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 35 (7.88%) Git
4 16 (3.60%) TeamCity
5 14 (3.15%) SpecFlow
6 11 (2.48%) Visual Studio
7 10 (2.25%) GitLab
8 8 (1.80%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.58%) Selenium
10 5 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.90%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.90%) Subversion
11 4 (0.90%) Visual Studio Team System
11 4 (0.90%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.68%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.68%) MSI
12 3 (0.68%) Travis CI
13 2 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 105 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 73 (16.44%) Finance
3 69 (15.54%) Public Sector
4 21 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.05%) Banking
6 10 (2.25%) Marketing
7 9 (2.03%) Front Office
8 8 (1.80%) Electronics
8 8 (1.80%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.58%) Law
9 7 (1.58%) Local Government
10 5 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Back Office
11 4 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.68%) Publishing
12 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (16.89%) Senior
2 70 (15.77%) Developer
3 42 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
4 39 (8.78%) Senior Developer
5 32 (7.21%) Software Developer
6 29 (6.53%) Consultant
7 24 (5.41%) Senior Software Developer
8 23 (5.18%) Architect
8 23 (5.18%) Lead
9 22 (4.95%) Administrator
9 22 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (4.50%) Azure Developer
11 19 (4.28%) Support Engineer
12 18 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.05%) Azure Specialist
13 16 (3.60%) Active Directory Support
14 15 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (3.38%) Support Specialist
15 14 (3.15%) Active Directory Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (17.79%) .NET
2 56 (12.61%) ARM Templates
3 52 (11.71%) XML
4 25 (5.63%) .NET Framework
5 20 (4.50%) .NET Core
6 18 (4.05%) YAML
7 16 (3.60%) CSS
7 16 (3.60%) JSON
8 14 (3.15%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.15%) HTML
9 13 (2.93%) ASP.NET
10 10 (2.25%) REST
11 9 (2.03%) React
12 8 (1.80%) Middleware
13 7 (1.58%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (1.58%) LDAP
13 7 (1.58%) SOAP
13 7 (1.58%) Web Services
14 5 (1.13%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (1.13%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (4.95%) PKI
3 17 (3.83%) Clustering
4 15 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.48%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.48%) Replication
6 10 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.58%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.35%) Contactless
9 6 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.13%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.13%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.68%) NHS
12 3 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 172 (38.74%) Windows
2 91 (20.50%) Windows Server
3 66 (14.86%) Linux
4 29 (6.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 25 (5.63%) Windows 10
6 24 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (4.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (3.60%) Windows Server 2003
9 15 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (3.38%) Windows Server 2008
10 14 (3.15%) Unix
11 9 (2.03%) VMS
12 8 (1.80%) Oracle Linux
12 8 (1.80%) Solaris
13 4 (0.90%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.90%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.68%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.45%) Android
15 2 (0.45%) CentOS
15 2 (0.45%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (39.41%) DevOps
2 117 (26.35%) Agile
2 117 (26.35%) CI/CD
3 76 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (16.22%) Migration
5 55 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (11.71%) Scrum
7 49 (11.04%) ITIL
8 41 (9.23%) Test Automation
9 36 (8.11%) High Availability
10 35 (7.88%) Identity Management
11 33 (7.43%) Analytics
11 33 (7.43%) Release Management
12 31 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
12 31 (6.98%) RBAC
13 29 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (6.31%) Task Automation
15 26 (5.86%) B2C
15 26 (5.86%) Problem Management
16 25 (5.63%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (27.93%) Python
2 107 (24.10%) SQL
3 97 (21.85%) C#
4 52 (11.71%) Bash
5 45 (10.14%) Bicep
6 38 (8.56%) JavaScript
7 30 (6.76%) Java
8 25 (5.63%) VBScript
9 22 (4.95%) VB
10 13 (2.93%) C++
11 11 (2.48%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.80%) C
14 7 (1.58%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.35%) Go
15 6 (1.35%) Perl
15 6 (1.35%) Ruby
16 5 (1.13%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.90%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 96 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 87 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 56 (12.61%) Degree
4 25 (5.63%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (4.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 15 (3.38%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.25%) MCSE
10 6 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.13%) CCNA
12 4 (0.90%) CCNP
13 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.68%) MCSA
14 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.45%) CISSP
14 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.23%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.70%) QA
2 11 (2.48%) GDPR
3 10 (2.25%) PCI DSS
3 10 (2.25%) SLA
4 9 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.35%) NIST
7 4 (0.90%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.23%) GLBA
10 1 (0.23%) HL7
10 1 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 169 (38.06%) Active Directory
2 35 (7.88%) Docker
2 35 (7.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (6.53%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (4.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (3.38%) vSphere
6 12 (2.70%) Hyper-V
7 10 (2.25%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.35%) XenApp
9 4 (0.90%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.45%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.23%) vCloud
11 1 (0.23%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 82 (18.47%) Terraform
2 55 (12.39%) Kubernetes
3 54 (12.16%) Ansible
4 51 (11.49%) SCCM
5 41 (9.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (5.41%) SCOM
7 23 (5.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 23 (5.18%) WSUS
8 20 (4.50%) Puppet
9 17 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (3.60%) Progress Chef
11 8 (1.80%) EMC NetWorker
11 8 (1.80%) Grafana
11 8 (1.80%) Prometheus
12 7 (1.58%) Netcool
12 7 (1.58%) Tivoli
12 7 (1.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (1.35%) vCenter Server
14 5 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 201 (45.27%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.71%) VMware
3 22 (4.95%) Oracle
4 20 (4.50%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.28%) Atlassian
5 19 (4.28%) Citrix
6 16 (3.60%) SAP
6 16 (3.60%) Splunk
7 14 (3.15%) Cisco
7 14 (3.15%) Dell
7 14 (3.15%) HP
7 14 (3.15%) IBM
8 11 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 10 (2.25%) CyberArk
9 10 (2.25%) Qualys
10 9 (2.03%) EMC
11 7 (1.58%) Isilon
11 7 (1.58%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.58%) Serena
12 6 (1.35%) CrowdStrike