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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 33 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.15% 0.43% 2.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.65% 1.39% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £290
25th Percentile £413 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £690 £325
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% +112.31% -23.53%
75th Percentile £438 - £400
90th Percentile - - £550
South Wales median daily rate £263 £690 £475
% change year-on-year -61.96% +45.26% +11.76%

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 43 72 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 24.71% 30.64% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 59 43
10th Percentile £259 £375 £313
25th Percentile £305 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £454 £550 £606
90th Percentile £549 £565 £650
South Wales median daily rate £400 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -19.19% -5.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.73
25th Percentile - - £22.44
Median hourly rate - - £24.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.72%
75th Percentile - - £25.44
90th Percentile - - £25.78
South Wales median hourly rate £45.00 £20.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year +122.39% -3.62% +10.76%

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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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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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Ivanti
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft