PowerShell Contracts in Cambridge

Windows PowerShell
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 3.28% - 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.09% - 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £534 - £426
25th Percentile £540 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.02%
75th Percentile £638 - £522
90th Percentile £690 - £539
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +33.33% -2.94% -5.56%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 44 71 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 36.07% 36.60% 42.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 42 77
10th Percentile £250 £405 -
25th Percentile £379 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £499 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +2.31% -2.50%
75th Percentile £570 £572 £550
90th Percentile £643 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £499 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £27.24 £51.88 £35.49
25th Percentile £41.40 £54.06 £49.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -12.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Cambridge over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Cambridge.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) Case Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Enrichment
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) SOAR
2 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) VCAP
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (50.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk