PowerShell Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Windows PowerShell
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 48 57
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 57 79 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.09% 3.87% 3.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.45% 10.90% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 43 67
10th Percentile £340 £413 £394
25th Percentile £413 £469 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +9.72% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £653
90th Percentile £689 £725 £780
Central London median daily rate £525 £563 £540
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

All Programming Languages
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 603 725 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.65% 35.49% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 463 604
10th Percentile £356 £405 £400
25th Percentile £432 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £593
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £713
90th Percentile £775 £793 £831
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £26.00 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.31 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +135.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £55.63 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.30% -12.63% -17.39%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PowerShell

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (17.54%) SharePoint
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) Azure
2 22 (38.60%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (26.32%) Entra ID
4 10 (17.54%) Power Automate
4 10 (17.54%) Power Platform
4 10 (17.54%) PowerApps
5 6 (10.53%) AWS
6 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) ShareGate
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (5.26%) GCP
8 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (3.51%) OCI
9 2 (3.51%) PaaS
10 1 (1.75%) Azure WebJobs
10 1 (1.75%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.75%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) DHCP
1 5 (8.77%) DNS
1 5 (8.77%) Firewall
2 4 (7.02%) Network Security
2 4 (7.02%) VPN
3 3 (5.26%) Internet
4 1 (1.75%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (1.75%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.75%) SSH
4 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Power BI
2 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.75%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.75%) Impala
4 1 (1.75%) Metadata
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) MSTest
2 1 (1.75%) Postman
2 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.32%) Finance
3 8 (14.04%) Banking
4 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Front Office
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) International Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Military
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (12.28%) Consultant
2 6 (10.53%) Lead
3 5 (8.77%) Developer
4 4 (7.02%) Architect
4 4 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Senior
4 4 (7.02%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) CyberArk Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Lead Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) SharePoint Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.51%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) VMware Specialist
6 2 (3.51%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (8.77%) REST
3 4 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (7.02%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (5.26%) .NET
5 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.51%) JSON
5 2 (3.51%) Middleware
5 2 (3.51%) SPFx
6 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.75%) HTML
6 1 (1.75%) Node.js
6 1 (1.75%) OAuth
6 1 (1.75%) OpenID
6 1 (1.75%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.75%) SOAP
6 1 (1.75%) Swagger
6 1 (1.75%) Ultra Messaging
6 1 (1.75%) Web Services
6 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.51%) BYOD
2 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.51%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.51%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.75%) PKI
3 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.75%) STIX
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Windows
2 10 (17.54%) Linux
2 10 (17.54%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.75%) Solaris
4 1 (1.75%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) DevOps
2 9 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (15.79%) ITIL
2 9 (15.79%) Migration
3 8 (14.04%) CI/CD
4 7 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (12.28%) Data Loss Prevention
4 7 (12.28%) Observability
4 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (10.53%) Agile
5 6 (10.53%) Analytics
5 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (8.77%) Cloud Security
6 5 (8.77%) ITSM
6 5 (8.77%) RBAC
6 5 (8.77%) Service Delivery
6 5 (8.77%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) Python
2 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 6 (10.53%) SQL
3 5 (8.77%) Bash
4 4 (7.02%) C#
5 3 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.51%) Perl
7 1 (1.75%) C++
7 1 (1.75%) Java
7 1 (1.75%) Korn
7 1 (1.75%) R
7 1 (1.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) Degree
3 5 (8.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.51%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.51%) CISSP
5 2 (3.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.51%) MCSA
6 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.75%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.75%) CCNA
6 1 (1.75%) GCFA
6 1 (1.75%) GCIA
6 1 (1.75%) GCIH
6 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (7.02%) GDPR
3 3 (5.26%) NIST
4 2 (3.51%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (29.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.77%) Docker
3 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.75%) HDFS
5 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (14.04%) Terraform
3 7 (12.28%) Ansible
4 6 (10.53%) vRealize
5 4 (7.02%) Kibana
5 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
6 3 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (5.26%) logstash
6 3 (5.26%) SCCM
7 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.75%) Icinga
7 1 (1.75%) Packer
7 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.54%) VMware
3 4 (7.02%) CyberArk
3 4 (7.02%) Okta
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle
4 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.26%) Solace
4 3 (5.26%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.75%) Altiris
5 1 (1.75%) Apple
5 1 (1.75%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco
5 1 (1.75%) F5
5 1 (1.75%) Qualys
5 1 (1.75%) Reuters
5 1 (1.75%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.75%) Symantec
5 1 (1.75%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.75%) Veeam