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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 19 32
Rank change year-on-year -24 +13 +22
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 33 21 16
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.72% 7.02% 3.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.86% 23.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 3 13
10th Percentile £394 £450 £457
25th Percentile £402 £488 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +7.32% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £538
90th Percentile £622 £590 £608
South East median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £22.36 - -
25th Percentile £29.65 - £35.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £36.17
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £50.02 - £58.49
% change year-on-year - - +19.98%

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 175 90 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 19.71% 30.10% 24.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 54 72
10th Percentile £363 £308 £400
25th Percentile £415 £325 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £396 £511
Median % change year-on-year +29.96% -22.53% -2.76%
75th Percentile £560 £548 £560
90th Percentile £610 £588 £625
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.65% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £22.36 - £36.65
25th Percentile £29.65 £51.25 £38.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £52.50 £41.83
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% +25.50% -1.57%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 £45.75
90th Percentile - - £47.55
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £51.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.95% -21.15% +18.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

PowerShell job vacancy trend 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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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Buckinghamshire

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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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in Buckinghamshire

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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 23 July 2026. 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 -17 30 £507 -7.82% 7
High Wycombe - 1 £450 -
PowerShell
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.09%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) AWS
2 11 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 9 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (12.12%) GitHub
5 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) DNS
2 10 (30.30%) Firewall
3 9 (27.27%) TCP/IP
4 6 (18.18%) DHCP
4 6 (18.18%) VPN
5 5 (15.15%) SSH
6 3 (9.09%) Network Security
6 3 (9.09%) VLAN
7 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
7 1 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (3.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) MySQL
1 6 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Jaeger
2 1 (3.03%) MSI
General
1 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 3 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Military
4 1 (3.03%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Senior
3 8 (24.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Automation Specialist
5 5 (15.15%) DBA
5 5 (15.15%) SQL DBA
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Compliance Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Monitoring Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared DBA
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Server Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) ARM Templates
2 4 (12.12%) .NET
2 4 (12.12%) Loki
2 4 (12.12%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.03%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 5 (15.15%) ARM Cortex
3 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
4 4 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (12.12%) PKI
4 4 (12.12%) Security Posture
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 3 (9.09%) Life Science
5 3 (9.09%) Operational Technology
5 3 (9.09%) SCADA
6 2 (6.06%) Clustering
6 2 (6.06%) Replication
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
7 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Windows
2 15 (45.45%) Linux
3 14 (42.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (33.33%) DevOps
3 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (27.27%) Observability
4 9 (27.27%) RBAC
4 9 (27.27%) Security Hardening
5 8 (24.24%) Analytics
5 8 (24.24%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (24.24%) ITIL
5 8 (24.24%) Log Analytics
5 8 (24.24%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (24.24%) Task Automation
5 8 (24.24%) Validation
6 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 6 (18.18%) Incident Response
7 6 (18.18%) Migration
7 6 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (15.15%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Bash
2 9 (27.27%) Python
3 7 (21.21%) Bicep
4 5 (15.15%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) T-SQL
5 4 (12.12%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) Korn
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 12 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
4 9 (27.27%) Degree
5 3 (9.09%) MCSA
5 3 (9.09%) MCSE
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
1 4 (12.12%) GRC
1 4 (12.12%) PCI DSS
2 3 (9.09%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 3 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (9.09%) GxP
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) Terraform
2 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (18.18%) SCCM
4 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
5 4 (12.12%) Ansible
5 4 (12.12%) Grafana
5 4 (12.12%) Istio
5 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
6 3 (9.09%) Rancher
7 2 (6.06%) Nessus
7 2 (6.06%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (75.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (15.15%) VMware
4 3 (9.09%) Rockwell
5 2 (6.06%) Snow
5 2 (6.06%) Sophos
5 2 (6.06%) Tenable
6 1 (3.03%) Dell
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.03%) Tanium