PowerShell Contracts in Cheltenham

Windows PowerShell
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 33 31
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 -13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing PowerShell 4 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 5.19% 5.12% 2.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.05% 13.98% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 4
10th Percentile £566 £508 £468
25th Percentile £581 £525 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -8.33% +45.45%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £681
90th Percentile £669 £635 £693
Gloucestershire median daily rate £438 £538 £490
% change year-on-year -18.60% +9.69% +8.89%

All Programming Languages
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21 93 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 27.27% 36.61% 49.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 55 56
10th Percentile £525 £513 £453
25th Percentile £550 £525 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £678 £656 £713
90th Percentile £720 £700 £800
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.18
25th Percentile - - £24.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £58.25
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.26% +56.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Cheltenham

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing PowerShell

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Podman
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware