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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 61 68
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 56 69 81
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.28% 3.30% 2.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.12% 9.48% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 43 58
10th Percentile £302 £405 £413
25th Percentile £413 £494 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £654 £675 £650
90th Percentile £689 £748 £791
Central London median daily rate £533 £593 £540
% change year-on-year -10.13% +9.72% -
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 614 728 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.97% 34.77% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 461 671
10th Percentile £385 £406 £400
25th Percentile £448 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £678 £704 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £831
Central London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £23.90 £51.80 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.25 £74.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +273.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £39.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £45.15
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.82% +38.33% -42.86%

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 November 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 (17.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 16 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 11 (19.64%) Power Automate
4 11 (19.64%) Power Platform
5 10 (17.86%) PowerApps
6 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.14%) AWS
7 4 (7.14%) ShareGate
8 3 (5.36%) GCP
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.57%) GitHub
9 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.57%) IaaS
9 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.57%) PaaS
9 2 (3.57%) SaaS
10 1 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Firewall
2 2 (3.57%) DHCP
2 2 (3.57%) DNS
2 2 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (1.79%) Internet
3 1 (1.79%) LAN
3 1 (1.79%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.79%) SAN
3 1 (1.79%) SSH
3 1 (1.79%) VLAN
3 1 (1.79%) WAN
3 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Power BI
2 7 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.79%) Impala
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) MSTest
2 1 (1.79%) Postman
2 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (35.71%) Finance
2 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 11 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.29%) Banking
5 6 (10.71%) Investment Banking
6 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.36%) Front Office
7 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.57%) Law
8 2 (3.57%) Military
9 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Legal
9 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (8.93%) Analyst
1 5 (8.93%) Consultant
1 5 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (7.14%) Developer
2 4 (7.14%) Lead
2 4 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 3 (5.36%) Architect
3 3 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (5.36%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (5.36%) Security Analyst
3 3 (5.36%) Security Operations Analyst
3 3 (5.36%) VMware Consultant
3 3 (5.36%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (3.57%) IT Analyst
4 2 (3.57%) SharePoint Developer
4 2 (3.57%) Software Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (5.36%) .NET
3 3 (5.36%) REST
4 2 (3.57%) JSON
4 2 (3.57%) Middleware
4 2 (3.57%) SPFx
5 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.79%) ADO
5 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.79%) HTML
5 1 (1.79%) LDAP
5 1 (1.79%) OpenID
5 1 (1.79%) SAML
5 1 (1.79%) Swing
5 1 (1.79%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.79%) Web Services
5 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.71%) Fixed Income
3 5 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.79%) BYOD
6 1 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.79%) STIX
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.79%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.14%) Windows
2 14 (25.00%) Linux
3 7 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.57%) Unix
4 2 (3.57%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.79%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) DevOps
2 12 (21.43%) Migration
3 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (16.07%) Observability
5 8 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 8 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 7 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
6 7 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
6 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (10.71%) ITIL
7 6 (10.71%) Low Latency
7 6 (10.71%) Machine Learning
7 6 (10.71%) RBAC
7 6 (10.71%) Time Management
8 5 (8.93%) Agile
8 5 (8.93%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (51.79%) Python
2 7 (12.50%) Bash
2 7 (12.50%) SQL
3 5 (8.93%) C#
3 5 (8.93%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.36%) Java
4 3 (5.36%) Perl
5 2 (3.57%) C++
6 1 (1.79%) Bicep
6 1 (1.79%) C
6 1 (1.79%) Korn
6 1 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.79%) R
6 1 (1.79%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.36%) CISSP
5 3 (5.36%) Degree
6 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.79%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CEH
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.79%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.79%) GCFA
6 1 (1.79%) GCIA
6 1 (1.79%) GCIH
6 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.79%) MCSA
6 1 (1.79%) OSCP
6 1 (1.79%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) GRC
1 1 (1.79%) NIST
1 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (14.29%) Docker
3 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.79%) HDFS
5 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
2 7 (12.50%) Kibana
3 6 (10.71%) logstash
3 6 (10.71%) SCCM
3 6 (10.71%) Terraform
4 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (8.93%) vRealize
5 4 (7.14%) Ansible
6 1 (1.79%) Grafana
6 1 (1.79%) Istio
6 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.79%) QRadar
6 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.43%) VMware
3 6 (10.71%) Solace
4 5 (8.93%) Splunk
5 4 (7.14%) CyberArk
5 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.57%) Okta
7 1 (1.79%) Altiris
7 1 (1.79%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.79%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.79%) Bomgar
7 1 (1.79%) Exabeam
7 1 (1.79%) F5
7 1 (1.79%) Google
7 1 (1.79%) Qualys
7 1 (1.79%) Snow
7 1 (1.79%) Tanium
7 1 (1.79%) Tenable
7 1 (1.79%) Thycotic
7 1 (1.79%) Zscaler