PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Windows PowerShell
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 30 46
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +16
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 23 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 7.26% 4.89% 3.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.73% 19.35% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 16
10th Percentile £430 £415 £325
25th Percentile £438 £457 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £494
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +3.80% +12.22%
75th Percentile £463 £538 £500
90th Percentile £470 £590 £556
South East median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.17 -
South East median hourly rate - £57.62 £65.13
% change year-on-year - -11.54% -29.59%

All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 93 93 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 29.34% 25.27% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 64 141
10th Percentile £313 £400 £325
25th Percentile £325 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £528 £568 £575
90th Percentile £565 £646 £625
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.58 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £36.17 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.17% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £36.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -21.43% +24.87% -6.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PowerShell

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Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +3 14 £450 -12.20% 13
Newport Pagnell - 8 - -
PowerShell
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (69.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (8.70%) IIS
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (69.57%) Cisco IOS
1 16 (69.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (69.57%) Games
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Developer
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) BizTalk Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) BizTalk Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
1 2 (8.70%) CSS
1 2 (8.70%) HTML
1 2 (8.70%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Windows
2 16 (69.57%) Android
2 16 (69.57%) Mac OS
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) E-Commerce
2 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (8.70%) Agile
4 2 (8.70%) Application Packaging
4 2 (8.70%) Change Control
4 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
4 2 (8.70%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
4 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
4 2 (8.70%) Migration
4 2 (8.70%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (8.70%) Patch Management
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (8.70%) Problem Management
4 2 (8.70%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) C#
1 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (82.61%) SCCM
2 17 (73.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (91.30%) Microsoft
2 16 (69.57%) Cisco
2 16 (69.57%) Meraki
2 16 (69.57%) Splunk
3 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.70%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) Tanium