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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 70 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 -25 +19
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 60 56 96
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.51% 2.99% 4.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.16% 7.77% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 41 75
10th Percentile £425 £300 £400
25th Percentile £513 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £643
90th Percentile £701 £725 £740
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 655 721 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.38% 38.49% 35.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 492 510
10th Percentile £363 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £577 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -1.66% -6.20%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £711
90th Percentile £764 £786 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £26.32 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £65.83 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +30.39% -3.00% -37.36%

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 31 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 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (11.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (53.33%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) AWS
3 13 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (21.67%) Entra ID
4 10 (16.67%) GCP
5 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 6 (10.00%) GitHub
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (8.33%) OneDrive
8 5 (8.33%) OpenShift
8 5 (8.33%) SaaS
9 4 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (6.67%) PaaS
10 3 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (5.00%) IaaS
11 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.00%) DNS
2 14 (23.33%) Firewall
3 11 (18.33%) VPN
4 8 (13.33%) DHCP
5 7 (11.67%) TCP/IP
6 4 (6.67%) Network Security
6 4 (6.67%) WAN
7 3 (5.00%) LAN
7 3 (5.00%) SMTP
7 3 (5.00%) Unified Communications
8 2 (3.33%) SSL
8 2 (3.33%) VLAN
8 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
9 1 (1.67%) DKIM
9 1 (1.67%) DMARC
9 1 (1.67%) IPsec
9 1 (1.67%) Multicast
9 1 (1.67%) SSH
9 1 (1.67%) VSAN
9 1 (1.67%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.67%) Power BI
3 5 (8.33%) Big Data
3 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.33%) JIRA
3 4 (6.67%) Git
3 4 (6.67%) JMeter
3 4 (6.67%) Postman
4 3 (5.00%) GitLab
5 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.33%) Fiddler
5 2 (3.33%) MSI
5 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.67%) Subversion
6 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (25.00%) Finance
2 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Banking
4 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Law
5 2 (3.33%) Back Office
5 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) Front Office
6 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Senior
4 5 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 5 (8.33%) Architect
4 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Tester
6 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) .NET
1 5 (8.33%) JSON
2 4 (6.67%) Swagger
2 4 (6.67%) YAML
3 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.33%) OAuth
3 2 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (3.33%) XML
4 1 (1.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.67%) LDAP
4 1 (1.67%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.67%) OpenID
4 1 (1.67%) PCRE
4 1 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.67%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.67%) REST
4 1 (1.67%) RESTful
4 1 (1.67%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.67%) Clustering
2 7 (11.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.67%) PKI
4 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.33%) CMDB
5 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Replication
6 1 (1.67%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (45.00%) Windows
2 11 (18.33%) Windows Server
3 10 (16.67%) Linux
4 3 (5.00%) VMS
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) SUSE
5 1 (1.67%) Unix
5 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) DevOps
2 19 (31.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (21.67%) Migration
5 11 (18.33%) AI
6 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.00%) Zero Trust
8 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
9 7 (11.67%) Containerisation
9 7 (11.67%) High Availability
9 7 (11.67%) Observability
10 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (10.00%) ITIL
10 6 (10.00%) ITSM
10 6 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (10.00%) Validation
11 5 (8.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 26 (43.33%) Python
2 14 (23.33%) Bash
3 10 (16.67%) SQL
4 7 (11.67%) Java
5 5 (8.33%) C#
6 4 (6.67%) Bicep
6 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.00%) C++
7 3 (5.00%) Korn
8 1 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.67%) Perl
8 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) CISSP
3 5 (8.33%) Degree
3 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.00%) CISM
6 2 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.67%) CCNP
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.33%) GDPR
1 2 (3.33%) NIST
1 2 (3.33%) QA
1 2 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (11.67%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (10.00%) Docker
5 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
5 5 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (5.00%) BitLocker
6 3 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (5.00%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.67%) Firmware
7 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (33.33%) Terraform
2 17 (28.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (23.33%) Ansible
4 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (8.33%) Grafana
5 5 (8.33%) vCenter Server
6 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.67%) Puppet
6 4 (6.67%) SCCM
7 3 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (5.00%) Nagios
7 3 (5.00%) vMotion
8 2 (3.33%) SCOM
8 2 (3.33%) vRealize
9 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.67%) PingFederate
9 1 (1.67%) QRadar
9 1 (1.67%) WSUS
9 1 (1.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (23.33%) VMware
3 8 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 6 (10.00%) Google
5 5 (8.33%) Databricks
5 5 (8.33%) Oracle
6 4 (6.67%) Citrix
6 4 (6.67%) Dynatrace
6 4 (6.67%) Splunk
7 3 (5.00%) F5
7 3 (5.00%) HP
7 3 (5.00%) ION Trading
7 3 (5.00%) Symantec
8 2 (3.33%) BMC
8 2 (3.33%) Cisco
8 2 (3.33%) Commvault
8 2 (3.33%) Dell
8 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.33%) Remedy
8 2 (3.33%) Zscaler