PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Windows PowerShell
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 30 44
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 +5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 9 12 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.39% 3.29% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 11.43% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £199 -
25th Percentile £413 £294 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £613 £413
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% +48.48% -2.94%
75th Percentile £438 £719 £419
90th Percentile - £746 -
East of England median daily rate £507 £550 £350
% change year-on-year -7.82% +57.14% -30.00%

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 72 105 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 19.15% 28.77% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 65
10th Percentile £404 £235 £305
25th Percentile £413 £350 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £488 £454
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +7.38% -4.42%
75th Percentile £597 £619 £550
90th Percentile £681 £695 £588
East of England median daily rate £507 £525 £420
% change year-on-year -3.43% +25.00% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 10
10th Percentile £37.25 £28.41 £44.08
25th Percentile £38.75 £31.25 £46.56
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -31.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £46.25 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £47.75 £44.75 £63.88
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -5.80%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Cambridge +4 5 - - 14
Peterborough +8 3 £425 +88.89% 4
PowerShell
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) MPLS
3 1 (11.11%) OSPF
3 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MSTest
1 2 (22.22%) Ranorex
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
1 2 (22.22%) Lead Test Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Operations Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Hardware Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Runbook
3 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Functional Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) CCIE
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) JNCIP
3 1 (11.11%) JNCIS
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Firmware
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP ALM
1 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) HP
2 2 (22.22%) Siemens
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds