PowerShell Contracts in Chester

Windows PowerShell
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 10 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 13.70% - 5.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% - 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £256
25th Percentile - - £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £538
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £454 £408 £564
% change year-on-year +11.29% -27.75% +18.74%

All Programming Languages
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 20 6 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 27.40% 10.53% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 15
10th Percentile - - £355
25th Percentile £405 £275 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -29.41% -
75th Percentile £600 £325 £563
90th Percentile £621 - £625
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -15.37% -9.52% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +83.65%
Cheshire median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +73.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Chester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Chester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Chester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 9 (90.00%) Skype for Business
2 8 (80.00%) Mattermost
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Skype
1 9 (90.00%) WebEx
2 8 (80.00%) Softphone
2 8 (80.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (10.00%) DMZ
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) DWDM
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) L2TP
3 1 (10.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) Multicast
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) OSPF
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Support Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) Messaging Support
2 8 (80.00%) Messaging Support Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) Operations Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) Operations Support Engineer
3 7 (70.00%) Analyst
3 7 (70.00%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (70.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 7 (70.00%) Operational Support Analyst
3 7 (70.00%) Operations Analyst
3 7 (70.00%) Operations Support Analyst
3 7 (70.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) XMPP
2 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) B2B
2 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 8 (80.00%) Problem Management
2 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (80.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Product Management
3 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) Security Management
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCIE
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (90.00%) Splunk
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Arista
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee