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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 30 41
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 +24
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 29 22 20
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 8.19% 5.60% 3.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.62% 20.75% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 14
10th Percentile £425 £328 £366
25th Percentile £450 £415 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% +2.00% +35.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £502
90th Percentile £620 £573 £564
South East median daily rate £508 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -11.74% +2.57% +12.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.17 -
South East median hourly rate - £56.75 £71.90
% change year-on-year - -21.08% -2.51%

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 105 106 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 29.66% 26.97% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 72 146
10th Percentile £313 £240 £319
25th Percentile £361 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -5.85% -9.09%
75th Percentile £539 £578 £575
90th Percentile £575 £656 £640
South East median daily rate £488 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.83% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.17 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +21.85% -12.12%

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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 30 October 2025.

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 30 October 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 +5 20 £535 +4.65% 7
Newport Pagnell - 8 - -
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 19 (65.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (17.24%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.90%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (3.45%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (3.45%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
3 4 (13.79%) GitHub
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (10.34%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) AWS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (55.17%) Cisco IOS
1 16 (55.17%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 16 (55.17%) Games
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) BizTalk Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) CSS
1 2 (6.90%) HTML
1 2 (6.90%) SPFx
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) PKI
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (68.97%) Windows
2 16 (55.17%) Android
2 16 (55.17%) Mac OS
3 3 (10.34%) Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) E-Commerce
2 4 (13.79%) Agile
2 4 (13.79%) AI
2 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
2 4 (13.79%) DevOps
2 4 (13.79%) Incident Response
2 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.34%) AI Transformation
3 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
3 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (6.90%) Application Packaging
4 2 (6.90%) Change Control
4 2 (6.90%) Incident Management
4 2 (6.90%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (6.90%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) C#
2 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (58.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (65.52%) SCCM
2 17 (58.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (10.34%) Ansible
3 3 (10.34%) Podman
3 3 (10.34%) Proxmox
4 1 (3.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (79.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (58.62%) Splunk
3 16 (55.17%) Cisco
3 16 (55.17%) Meraki
4 3 (10.34%) Zscaler
5 2 (6.90%) Tanium
6 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.45%) IBM
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow