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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 50 50
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 +23
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 53 72 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.90% 3.82% 3.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.08% 10.76% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 36 77
10th Percentile £330 £408 £420
25th Percentile £413 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +7.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £675
90th Percentile £686 £675 £780
Central London median daily rate £523 £563 £540
% change year-on-year -7.11% +4.17% +0.47%
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 584 669 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.93% 35.47% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 419 583
10th Percentile £357 £406 £413
25th Percentile £427 £477 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £585
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% - -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £708
90th Percentile £788 £794 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
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% -17.39%
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% -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 14 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 (15.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (13.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 28 (52.83%) Azure
2 19 (35.85%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (24.53%) Entra ID
4 9 (16.98%) Power Platform
4 9 (16.98%) PowerApps
5 8 (15.09%) Power Automate
6 6 (11.32%) AWS
7 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (5.66%) GCP
8 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (3.77%) OCI
9 2 (3.77%) PaaS
9 2 (3.77%) ShareGate
10 1 (1.89%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.89%) GitHub
10 1 (1.89%) IaaS
10 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) DHCP
1 5 (9.43%) DNS
1 5 (9.43%) Firewall
1 5 (9.43%) VPN
2 4 (7.55%) Network Security
3 3 (5.66%) Internet
4 1 (1.89%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (1.89%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.89%) SSH
4 1 (1.89%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) Power BI
2 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.89%) Impala
3 1 (1.89%) Metadata
3 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) MSTest
2 1 (1.89%) Postman
2 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Front Office
7 1 (1.89%) International Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (15.09%) Consultant
2 5 (9.43%) Senior
2 5 (9.43%) VMware Consultant
3 4 (7.55%) Architect
3 4 (7.55%) Developer
3 4 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) Lead
3 4 (7.55%) Service Desk Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Security Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) CyberArk Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Lead Architect
5 2 (3.77%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Software Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.77%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) REST
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (5.66%) .NET
4 2 (3.77%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (3.77%) JSON
4 2 (3.77%) Middleware
5 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.89%) HTML
5 1 (1.89%) Node.js
5 1 (1.89%) OAuth
5 1 (1.89%) OpenID
5 1 (1.89%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.89%) SAML
5 1 (1.89%) SOAP
5 1 (1.89%) Swagger
5 1 (1.89%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.89%) Web Services
5 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.77%) BYOD
2 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.89%) PKI
3 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.89%) STIX
3 1 (1.89%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Windows
2 9 (16.98%) Windows Server
3 8 (15.09%) Linux
4 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.89%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.89%) Solaris
5 1 (1.89%) Unix
5 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.64%) DevOps
2 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (16.98%) ITIL
4 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
6 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (11.32%) Agile
7 6 (11.32%) Analytics
7 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (11.32%) Migration
7 6 (11.32%) Service Delivery
7 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (9.43%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (9.43%) Change Management
8 5 (9.43%) Cloud Security
8 5 (9.43%) Data Loss Prevention
8 5 (9.43%) Incident Response
8 5 (9.43%) ITSM
8 5 (9.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) Python
2 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
2 6 (11.32%) SQL
3 5 (9.43%) Bash
4 4 (7.55%) C#
5 3 (5.66%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.77%) Perl
7 1 (1.89%) C++
7 1 (1.89%) Java
7 1 (1.89%) Korn
7 1 (1.89%) R
7 1 (1.89%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (9.43%) Degree
4 5 (9.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.77%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.77%) CISSP
6 2 (3.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.77%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.89%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.89%) CCNA
7 1 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.89%) GCIA
7 1 (1.89%) MCSA
7 1 (1.89%) MCSE
7 1 (1.89%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (7.55%) GDPR
4 3 (5.66%) NIST
5 2 (3.77%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.66%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.89%) HDFS
4 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (15.09%) Ansible
2 8 (15.09%) Terraform
3 7 (13.21%) vRealize
4 2 (3.77%) Kibana
4 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.77%) SCCM
4 2 (3.77%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.89%) Icinga
5 1 (1.89%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.89%) logstash
5 1 (1.89%) Packer
5 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (49.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.87%) VMware
3 4 (7.55%) CyberArk
3 4 (7.55%) Okta
4 3 (5.66%) Oracle
4 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.66%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.89%) Altiris
5 1 (1.89%) Apple
5 1 (1.89%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.89%) Bomgar
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) F5
5 1 (1.89%) Qualys
5 1 (1.89%) Reuters
5 1 (1.89%) SAP
5 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.89%) Symantec
5 1 (1.89%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.89%) Veeam