PowerShell Contracts in Berkshire

Windows PowerShell
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 54 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 73 60 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.68% 3.31% 2.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.47% 13.76% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 47 51
10th Percentile £466 £340 £381
25th Percentile £509 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% -6.25% +42.86%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £656
90th Percentile £619 £771 £730
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £55.20 £64.50
25th Percentile - £59.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate - £72.19 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.75% +87.50%
75th Percentile - £82.90 £82.50
90th Percentile - £85.66 £85.50
South East median hourly rate - £72.19 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +20.31% +140.00%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 375 436 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.91% 24.06% 22.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 321 395
10th Percentile £325 £363 £357
25th Percentile £413 £432 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 4
10th Percentile £56.20 £22.99 £63.18
25th Percentile £56.65 £53.59 £64.19
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.95
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -4.04% +88.26%
75th Percentile £64.55 £79.19 £82.18
90th Percentile £68.25 £80.72 £85.37
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £44.73
% change year-on-year +9.09% +22.97% +8.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Reading +3 60 £605 -0.82% 16
Bracknell -5 5 £388 - 3
Wokingham - 3 £480 -
Newbury -1 2 £525 +228.13%
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 16 (21.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (67.12%) Azure
2 22 (30.14%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (24.66%) Entra ID
3 18 (24.66%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (21.92%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (21.92%) Azure Storage
5 13 (17.81%) OCI
6 6 (8.22%) Azure API Management
6 6 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (8.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (8.22%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (6.85%) Azure Functions
7 5 (6.85%) Serverless
8 3 (4.11%) AWS
9 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.74%) PaaS
9 2 (2.74%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.74%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (47.95%) DNS
2 33 (45.21%) DHCP
3 31 (42.47%) Firewall
4 17 (23.29%) SAN
5 4 (5.48%) NAS
6 1 (1.37%) HTTP
6 1 (1.37%) Internet
6 1 (1.37%) RNC
6 1 (1.37%) SGSN
6 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.48%) MySQL
3 4 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.74%) Metadata
6 1 (1.37%) GIS
6 1 (1.37%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) Visual Studio
2 11 (15.07%) Git
3 8 (10.96%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.85%) Selenium
5 3 (4.11%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.37%) Appium
6 1 (1.37%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.37%) MSTest
6 1 (1.37%) NUnit
6 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (50.68%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.37%) Law
3 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (27.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (20.55%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (20.55%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (19.18%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (19.18%) Support Specialist
4 9 (12.33%) Developer
4 9 (12.33%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Administrator
7 4 (5.48%) Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Solutions Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Server Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.51%) ARM Templates
2 12 (16.44%) .NET
3 7 (9.59%) ASP.NET
4 4 (5.48%) JSON
5 3 (4.11%) CSS
5 3 (4.11%) OAuth
5 3 (4.11%) OpenID
5 3 (4.11%) REST
5 3 (4.11%) SOAP
5 3 (4.11%) XML
5 3 (4.11%) YAML
6 2 (2.74%) HTML
6 2 (2.74%) jQuery
6 2 (2.74%) SPFx
7 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.37%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.37%) LangChain
7 1 (1.37%) OpenLayers
7 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) PKI
2 16 (21.92%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (17.81%) Data Centre
4 7 (9.59%) Client/Server
5 4 (5.48%) Fat Client
5 4 (5.48%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.74%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.37%) CCTV
7 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 49 (67.12%) Windows
2 46 (63.01%) Windows Server
3 39 (53.42%) Linux
4 34 (46.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 32 (43.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (17.81%) Windows 10
6 13 (17.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (17.81%) Windows XP
7 7 (9.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (5.48%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.21%) DevOps
2 32 (43.84%) ITIL
3 25 (34.25%) Agile
3 25 (34.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (31.51%) CI/CD
4 23 (31.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (30.14%) Release Management
6 19 (26.03%) Identity Management
7 18 (24.66%) Break/Fix
7 18 (24.66%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (23.29%) Analytics
8 17 (23.29%) Log Analytics
8 17 (23.29%) RBAC
8 17 (23.29%) Service Management
9 16 (21.92%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 16 (21.92%) Privileged Identity Management
10 15 (20.55%) Project Management
11 14 (19.18%) Server Management
12 13 (17.81%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.99%) C#
2 23 (31.51%) VBScript
3 16 (21.92%) Bicep
3 16 (21.92%) VB
4 13 (17.81%) Python
5 6 (8.22%) SQL
6 2 (2.74%) Bash
6 2 (2.74%) Java
7 1 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.37%) Perl
7 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (73.97%) Security Cleared
2 44 (60.27%) SC Cleared
3 38 (52.05%) DV Cleared
4 33 (45.21%) Degree
5 16 (21.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (17.81%) CCNA
6 13 (17.81%) CCNP
6 13 (17.81%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.37%) CEH
8 1 (1.37%) CISSP
8 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) GDPR
1 2 (2.74%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (53.42%) Active Directory
2 24 (32.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (23.29%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (21.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (21.92%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (19.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (46.58%) WSUS
2 32 (43.84%) SCCM
2 32 (43.84%) SCOM
3 21 (28.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (24.66%) Kubernetes
4 18 (24.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (23.29%) vCenter Server
6 13 (17.81%) Ansible
6 13 (17.81%) EMC NetWorker
6 13 (17.81%) NetBackup
7 5 (6.85%) Terraform
8 4 (5.48%) Nessus
8 4 (5.48%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (5.48%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (58.90%) Microsoft
2 26 (35.62%) VMware
3 18 (24.66%) Oracle
4 17 (23.29%) Veeam
5 14 (19.18%) Cisco
6 13 (17.81%) 3PAR
6 13 (17.81%) Dell
6 13 (17.81%) EMC
6 13 (17.81%) Extreme Networks
6 13 (17.81%) HP
6 13 (17.81%) Juniper
6 13 (17.81%) Palo Alto
6 13 (17.81%) Symantec
7 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.37%) BMC
8 1 (1.37%) Ericsson
8 1 (1.37%) Google
8 1 (1.37%) Mapinfo
8 1 (1.37%) Nokia
8 1 (1.37%) Remedy