PowerShell Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Windows PowerShell
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 54 39
Rank change year-on-year +26 -15 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 12 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.88% 0.19% 2.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.48% 0.89% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile £392 - £286
25th Percentile £540 £406 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £305
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +35.25% -12.86%
75th Percentile £713 £419 £434
90th Percentile £742 - £438
East of England median daily rate £550 £400 £465
% change year-on-year +37.50% -13.98% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £200.00 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -44.44%

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 89 112 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 28.80% 21.46% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 62 104
10th Percentile £250 £328 £363
25th Percentile £395 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £552 £559 £525
90th Percentile £669 £587 £575
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £483
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% +1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 16
10th Percentile £20.78 £35.51 £24.63
25th Percentile £26.82 £48.00 £43.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £49.06 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £57.50
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Cambridgeshire

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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 3 July 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 - 8 £550 - 24
PowerShell
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) Network Security
2 4 (33.33%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) IT Support
5 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (8.33%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (41.67%) Case Management
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 5 (41.67%) Cyber Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) Data Enrichment
2 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Security Operations
2 5 (41.67%) SIEM
2 5 (41.67%) SOAR
2 5 (41.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 5 (41.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) VCAP
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 4 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 4 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 4 (33.33%) VxRail
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Dell
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Google
3 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (25.00%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) Clearswift
4 1 (8.33%) HP