PowerShell Contracts in Cardiff

Windows PowerShell
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 33 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 7 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.38% 0.94% 2.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.07% 2.47% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £184 - £375
25th Percentile £253 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £690 £438
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% +57.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £447 - £485
90th Percentile £456 - £675
South Wales median daily rate £425 £690 £473
% change year-on-year -38.41% +46.03% +54.29%

All Programming Languages
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 41 81 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 25.63% 38.21% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 69 80
10th Percentile £231 £361 £313
25th Percentile £319 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £456 £551 £578
90th Percentile £550 £603 £664
South Wales median daily rate £415 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -11.70% -1.05% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 -
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £23.00 £21.49 £18.82
% change year-on-year +7.05% +14.19% -9.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (14.29%) tSQLt
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Database Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) FHIR
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) High Availability
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (14.29%) BDD
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) SOLID
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) HL7
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Ivanti
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) RedGate