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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 45 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 12 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.38% 0.23% 0.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.04% 0.95% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £199 - £261
25th Percentile £294 £406 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £413 £361
Median % change year-on-year +48.48% +14.19% -17.43%
75th Percentile £719 £419 £438
90th Percentile £746 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £350 £488
% change year-on-year +57.14% -28.21% +14.71%

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 92 105 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 25.92% 24.03% 24.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 63 83
10th Percentile £239 £303 £380
25th Percentile £331 £344 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% - -
75th Percentile £636 £556 £538
90th Percentile £700 £588 £574
East of England median daily rate £505 £423 £500
% change year-on-year +19.53% -15.50% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 18
10th Percentile £26.50 £46.25 £30.08
25th Percentile £30.54 £46.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £47.38 - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +21.05%

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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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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 20 September 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 20 September 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 - 9 £613 - 2
Peterborough +3 1 £225 -45.45%
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Security Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (8.33%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) CentOS
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Migration
1 7 (58.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 6 (50.00%) Case Management
2 6 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Data Enrichment
2 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 6 (50.00%) SIEM
2 6 (50.00%) SOAR
2 6 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 6 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 6 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (8.33%) MCTS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) BitLocker
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Google
2 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 4 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Clearswift
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) VMware