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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 65 39
Rank change year-on-year -21 -26 +21
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 54 61 112
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.21% 3.37% 5.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.46% 8.45% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 45 89
10th Percentile £383 £305 £410
25th Percentile £511 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £656
90th Percentile £671 £733 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

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 638 722 783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.14% 39.85% 36.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 486 546
10th Percentile £357 £404 £406
25th Percentile £450 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £653 £699 £689
90th Percentile £763 £775 £806
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £26.32 £19.28 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £23.44 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -8.25% -26.79%
75th Percentile £56.11 £70.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 £81.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £40.26 £48.50
% change year-on-year +30.39% -17.00% -26.79%

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 4 July 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 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.85%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (24.07%) Entra ID
3 11 (20.37%) AWS
4 10 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.81%) Power Platform
6 7 (12.96%) GCP
7 6 (11.11%) GitHub
8 5 (9.26%) Azure AKS
8 5 (9.26%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (9.26%) OneDrive
9 4 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (7.41%) SaaS
10 3 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (5.56%) IaaS
10 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
10 3 (5.56%) PaaS
11 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.22%) DNS
2 11 (20.37%) Firewall
3 10 (18.52%) VPN
4 9 (16.67%) DHCP
5 6 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.41%) Network Security
6 4 (7.41%) WAN
7 3 (5.56%) LAN
7 3 (5.56%) SMTP
7 3 (5.56%) Unified Communications
8 2 (3.70%) Wireshark
9 1 (1.85%) DKIM
9 1 (1.85%) DMARC
9 1 (1.85%) IPsec
9 1 (1.85%) Multicast
9 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.85%) SSH
9 1 (1.85%) VLAN
9 1 (1.85%) VSAN
9 1 (1.85%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.26%) Power BI
3 4 (7.41%) Big Data
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) JMeter
2 4 (7.41%) Postman
3 3 (5.56%) Git
4 2 (3.70%) Fiddler
4 2 (3.70%) JIRA
4 2 (3.70%) MSI
4 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.85%) Subversion
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Finance
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Law
5 2 (3.70%) Back Office
5 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Front Office
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (12.96%) Consultant
1 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 5 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) Applications Support
4 4 (7.41%) Architect
4 4 (7.41%) Senior
4 4 (7.41%) Tester
5 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) JSON
2 4 (7.41%) Swagger
2 4 (7.41%) YAML
3 3 (5.56%) .NET
3 3 (5.56%) OAuth
4 2 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.70%) REST
4 2 (3.70%) SAML
4 2 (3.70%) XML
5 1 (1.85%) ADO
5 1 (1.85%) J2EE
5 1 (1.85%) Kafka
5 1 (1.85%) LDAP
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.85%) Middleware
5 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.85%) OpenID
5 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.85%) RESTful
5 1 (1.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.41%) Clustering
3 4 (7.41%) PKI
4 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.85%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.85%) CMDB
6 1 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.04%) Windows
2 8 (14.81%) Windows Server
3 6 (11.11%) Linux
4 3 (5.56%) VMS
5 2 (3.70%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.85%) SUSE
6 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) DevOps
2 15 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (18.52%) AI
5 10 (18.52%) Zero Trust
6 9 (16.67%) Migration
7 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
9 6 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 6 (11.11%) ITIL
9 6 (11.11%) Validation
10 5 (9.26%) Analytics
10 5 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (9.26%) Cloud Security
10 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (9.26%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (9.26%) Runbook
10 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) Python
2 11 (20.37%) Bash
3 6 (11.11%) SQL
4 5 (9.26%) Java
5 4 (7.41%) Bicep
5 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.56%) C#
6 3 (5.56%) C++
7 2 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.85%) Korn
8 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) Degree
3 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.41%) CISSP
5 3 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.70%) CISM
6 2 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.85%) CCNP
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) GDPR
1 2 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (12.96%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (9.26%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (7.41%) Docker
5 4 (7.41%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.56%) BitLocker
6 3 (5.56%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (5.56%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.85%) Firmware
7 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (27.78%) Terraform
2 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 11 (20.37%) Ansible
4 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (9.26%) vCenter Server
6 4 (7.41%) Grafana
6 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.41%) Puppet
6 4 (7.41%) SCCM
6 4 (7.41%) vRealize
7 3 (5.56%) Nagios
7 3 (5.56%) vMotion
8 2 (3.70%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.85%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.85%) PingFederate
9 1 (1.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (1.85%) VxRail
9 1 (1.85%) WSUS
9 1 (1.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 13 (24.07%) VMware
3 5 (9.26%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.41%) Citrix
4 4 (7.41%) Databricks
4 4 (7.41%) Google
4 4 (7.41%) Oracle
5 3 (5.56%) F5
5 3 (5.56%) HP
5 3 (5.56%) Symantec
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco
6 2 (3.70%) Dell
6 2 (3.70%) ION Trading
6 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.70%) Splunk
6 2 (3.70%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.85%) EMC
7 1 (1.85%) Isilon
7 1 (1.85%) Planview
7 1 (1.85%) SAP