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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 19 28
Rank change year-on-year -25 +9 +23
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 35 21 18
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.93% 6.84% 4.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.77% 24.14% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 2 15
10th Percentile £394 £438 £415
25th Percentile £402 £456 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -2.44% +18.84%
75th Percentile £589 £531 £538
90th Percentile £622 £543 £590
South East median daily rate £537 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.61% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £23.98 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 - £35.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £36.17
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - £58.49
% change year-on-year - - +17.62%

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 177 87 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 19.87% 28.34% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 50 60
10th Percentile £363 £299 £399
25th Percentile £415 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £378 £488
Median % change year-on-year +32.45% -22.56% -4.88%
75th Percentile £560 £522 £560
90th Percentile £610 £575 £639
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +3.00% -2.15% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £23.98 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 £51.25 £35.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 £52.50 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% +45.17% -14.91%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.48 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.91% -19.23% +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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -18 32 £514 +2.80% 9
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 4 (11.43%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 28 (80.00%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) Entra ID
3 11 (31.43%) AWS
4 10 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (11.43%) GitHub
7 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (8.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) DNS
2 11 (31.43%) Firewall
3 10 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 6 (17.14%) DHCP
4 6 (17.14%) VPN
5 5 (14.29%) SSH
6 4 (11.43%) VLAN
7 3 (8.57%) Network Security
8 1 (2.86%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) MySQL
1 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.86%) MSI
General
1 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
2 4 (11.43%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Military
5 1 (2.86%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Senior
3 8 (22.86%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Automation Specialist
5 5 (14.29%) DBA
5 5 (14.29%) SQL DBA
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Compliance Specialist
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Monitoring Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared DBA
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) ARM Templates
2 4 (11.43%) .NET
2 4 (11.43%) Loki
2 4 (11.43%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.86%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (31.43%) Onboarding
3 6 (17.14%) ARM Cortex
4 5 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 4 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (11.43%) Life Science
5 4 (11.43%) Operational Technology
5 4 (11.43%) PKI
5 4 (11.43%) SCADA
5 4 (11.43%) Security Posture
6 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
7 2 (5.71%) Clustering
7 2 (5.71%) Replication
7 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
8 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (51.43%) Windows
2 16 (45.71%) Linux
2 16 (45.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
2 11 (31.43%) DevOps
2 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (28.57%) Security Hardening
4 9 (25.71%) Analytics
4 9 (25.71%) Log Analytics
4 9 (25.71%) Observability
4 9 (25.71%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (25.71%) RBAC
4 9 (25.71%) Validation
5 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 8 (22.86%) ITIL
5 8 (22.86%) Task Automation
6 6 (17.14%) Incident Response
6 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (17.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Bash
2 9 (25.71%) Python
3 8 (22.86%) Bicep
4 5 (14.29%) SQL
4 5 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 4 (11.43%) Go
6 1 (2.86%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (51.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) DV Cleared
3 10 (28.57%) Degree
3 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) MCSA
4 3 (8.57%) MCSE
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
1 4 (11.43%) GRC
1 4 (11.43%) GxP
1 4 (11.43%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Terraform
2 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (20.00%) SCCM
4 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 4 (11.43%) Ansible
5 4 (11.43%) Grafana
5 4 (11.43%) Istio
5 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (8.57%) Rancher
7 2 (5.71%) Nessus
7 2 (5.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (74.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (17.14%) VMware
4 4 (11.43%) Rockwell
5 2 (5.71%) Snow
5 2 (5.71%) Sophos
5 2 (5.71%) Tenable
6 1 (2.86%) Dell
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) Tanium