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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 46 50
Rank change year-on-year -28 +4 +26
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 55 77 92
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.95% 4.12% 3.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.39% 11.41% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 40 80
10th Percentile £333 £410 £424
25th Percentile £413 £484 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £571 £556
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +2.70% +1.23%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £676
90th Percentile £660 £675 £788
Central London median daily rate £521 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -5.10% -0.14% +1.20%
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 586 675 802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.42% 36.10% 33.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 424 591
10th Percentile £361 £408 £404
25th Percentile £425 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £792 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £26.33 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +135.79% -5.47%
75th Percentile £38.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £76.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -59.61% +61.58% -5.47%

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 21 January 2026.

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 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 29 (52.73%) Azure
2 21 (38.18%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (25.45%) Entra ID
4 9 (16.36%) Power Platform
4 9 (16.36%) PowerApps
5 8 (14.55%) Power Automate
6 5 (9.09%) AWS
6 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.64%) GCP
8 2 (3.64%) GitHub
8 2 (3.64%) OCI
8 2 (3.64%) PaaS
8 2 (3.64%) ShareGate
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) DHCP
1 5 (9.09%) DNS
1 5 (9.09%) VPN
2 4 (7.27%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) Network Security
3 3 (5.45%) Internet
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (1.82%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.82%) SSH
4 1 (1.82%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.82%) Impala
3 1 (1.82%) Metadata
3 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) MSTest
2 1 (1.82%) Postman
2 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.82%) Finance
3 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Banking
5 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.82%) Front Office
7 1 (1.82%) International Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Military
7 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Consultant
2 6 (10.91%) VMware Consultant
3 5 (9.09%) Senior
4 4 (7.27%) Architect
4 4 (7.27%) Developer
4 4 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Lead
4 4 (7.27%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) CyberArk Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Lead Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.64%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) REST
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (5.45%) .NET
4 2 (3.64%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.64%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (3.64%) JSON
4 2 (3.64%) Middleware
4 2 (3.64%) OAuth
4 2 (3.64%) SAML
5 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.82%) HTML
5 1 (1.82%) Node.js
5 1 (1.82%) OpenID
5 1 (1.82%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.82%) SOAP
5 1 (1.82%) Swagger
5 1 (1.82%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.82%) Web Services
5 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
1 3 (5.45%) Security Posture
2 2 (3.64%) BYOD
2 2 (3.64%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.82%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.82%) PKI
3 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.45%) Windows
2 9 (16.36%) Windows Server
3 7 (12.73%) Linux
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.82%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.82%) Solaris
5 1 (1.82%) Unix
5 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.82%) DevOps
2 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (16.36%) ITIL
4 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.55%) CI/CD
5 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (10.91%) Agile
7 6 (10.91%) Analytics
7 6 (10.91%) Cloud Security
7 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (10.91%) Migration
7 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
8 5 (9.09%) Change Management
8 5 (9.09%) Incident Response
8 5 (9.09%) ITSM
8 5 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 5 (9.09%) Observability
8 5 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) Python
2 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.91%) SQL
4 5 (9.09%) Bash
5 4 (7.27%) C#
6 3 (5.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (3.64%) Perl
8 1 (1.82%) C++
8 1 (1.82%) Java
8 1 (1.82%) Korn
8 1 (1.82%) R
8 1 (1.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (10.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (9.09%) Degree
6 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.64%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (3.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.82%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.82%) CCNA
8 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.82%) CISSP
8 1 (1.82%) MCSA
8 1 (1.82%) MCSE
8 1 (1.82%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (7.27%) GDPR
4 2 (3.64%) NIST
4 2 (3.64%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.45%) Docker
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.82%) HDFS
5 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (14.55%) Ansible
2 8 (14.55%) Terraform
2 8 (14.55%) vRealize
3 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.64%) Kibana
3 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.64%) SCCM
3 2 (3.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (1.82%) Icinga
4 1 (1.82%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.82%) logstash
4 1 (1.82%) Packer
4 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (49.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.00%) VMware
3 4 (7.27%) CyberArk
3 4 (7.27%) Okta
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.45%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.82%) Altiris
5 1 (1.82%) Apple
5 1 (1.82%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.82%) Bomgar
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco
5 1 (1.82%) F5
5 1 (1.82%) Qualys
5 1 (1.82%) Reuters
5 1 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.82%) Symantec
5 1 (1.82%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.82%) Veeam