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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 29 40
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 21 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.40% 3.15% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.73% 13.73% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 9
10th Percentile £393 £448 £448
25th Percentile £401 £481 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% +2.49% +40.41%
75th Percentile £504 £563 £538
90th Percentile £560 £585 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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 165 51 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 18.86% 22.97% 25.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 35 88
10th Percentile £361 £312 £384
25th Percentile £403 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £463 £511
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -9.39% -0.29%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £553
90th Percentile £599 £608 £604
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £501
% change year-on-year -0.10% -0.10% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £22.61
25th Percentile - £51.25 £24.43
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - - £52.50
South East median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -2.27% -10.71% +12.00%

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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 28 May 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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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 28 May 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 -30 17 £411 -21.73% 11
High Wycombe - 1 £450 -
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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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) AWS
3 6 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
4 4 (19.05%) GitHub
4 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) DKIM
2 1 (4.76%) DMARC
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) MySQL
1 6 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Jaeger
General
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) DBA
1 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Senior
1 5 (23.81%) SQL DBA
2 3 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Compliance Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Monitoring Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared DBA
3 2 (9.52%) Server Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Identity Management Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) .NET
1 4 (19.05%) Loki
1 4 (19.05%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (19.05%) Security Posture
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 2 (9.52%) Clustering
4 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 2 (9.52%) PKI
4 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps
1 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (28.57%) Migration
3 5 (23.81%) Observability
3 5 (23.81%) Problem Management
3 5 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
4 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (19.05%) High Availability
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Task Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (14.29%) Patch Management
5 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Threat Detection
5 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Bash
2 10 (47.62%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) T-SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Go
5 1 (4.76%) Korn
5 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) MCSE
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
1 4 (19.05%) GRC
1 4 (19.05%) PCI DSS
2 3 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (19.05%) Grafana
3 4 (19.05%) Istio
3 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (14.29%) Rancher
5 2 (9.52%) Nessus
5 2 (9.52%) SCOM
6 1 (4.76%) SCCM
6 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Snow
2 2 (9.52%) Sophos
2 2 (9.52%) Tenable
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Dell
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Tanium