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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 36 42
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 9 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.36% 0.31% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.00% 1.06% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £276 - £276
25th Percentile £372 - £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £388
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% +3.23% -22.50%
75th Percentile £641 - £466
90th Percentile £691 - £509
East of England median daily rate £525 £375 £525
% change year-on-year +40.00% -28.57% +5.00%

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 100 94 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 26.18% 29.10% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 60 48
10th Percentile £284 £313 £425
25th Percentile £400 £343 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £452 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% -13.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £624 £588 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 12
10th Percentile - £35.38 £27.79
25th Percentile £31.25 £46.25 £53.13
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.75 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -22.31% +39.44%
75th Percentile £43.75 £56.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £46.97 £61.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £66.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.52% +0.76% +0.77%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Cambridgeshire

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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

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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 25 December 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
Cambridge -5 8 £575 +43.75% 9
Peterborough - 1 £225 - 6
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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%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SAP HANA
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
1 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (55.56%) Migration
1 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (44.44%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (44.44%) Case Management
2 4 (44.44%) Cyber Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Data Enrichment
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
2 4 (44.44%) Security Operations
2 4 (44.44%) SIEM
2 4 (44.44%) SOAR
2 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (44.44%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) MCTS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) BitLocker
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Google
2 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
2 4 (44.44%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Virgin Media
3 1 (11.11%) VMware