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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 36 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 22 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.97% 3.44% 1.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.82% 13.51% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 9
10th Percentile £400 £180 £454
25th Percentile £414 £200 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £501 £465
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% +7.63% +28.28%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £610
90th Percentile £580 £570 £622
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.57% +1.93%

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 111 74 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 20.04% 25.43% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 58 126
10th Percentile £356 £207 £372
25th Percentile £402 £328 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.49% +2.20%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £571
90th Percentile £589 £656 £619
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £22.61
25th Percentile - £52.50 £29.89
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £51.56
90th Percentile - - £54.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.54% +7.27%

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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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -1 18 £453 -9.59% 7
High Wycombe - 1 £450 - 1
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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 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) GitHub
3 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) DKIM
2 1 (4.55%) DMARC
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jaeger
2 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) DBA
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) SQL DBA
4 2 (9.09%) Automation Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Compliance Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Server Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Identity Management Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) Loki
1 2 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) PKI
2 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.09%) Clustering
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.09%) Replication
3 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Windows
3 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
1 6 (27.27%) DevOps
1 6 (27.27%) Incident Response
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (18.18%) AI
3 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (18.18%) High Availability
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (18.18%) Migration
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) AI Transformation
4 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
4 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
4 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (13.64%) Threat Detection
4 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Korn
5 1 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) DV Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
4 4 (18.18%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) GRC
1 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (18.18%) SCCM
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) PaperCut
3 3 (13.64%) Podman
3 3 (13.64%) Proxmox
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Istio
4 2 (9.09%) Nessus
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.09%) Rancher
4 2 (9.09%) Terraform
5 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Autodesk
2 3 (13.64%) Citrix
2 3 (13.64%) Zscaler
3 2 (9.09%) Snow
3 2 (9.09%) Sophos
3 2 (9.09%) Tenable
4 1 (4.55%) Dell
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Tanium