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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 67 34
Rank change year-on-year -20 -33 +24
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 44 55 116
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.86% 3.24% 5.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.05% 8.04% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 40 94
10th Percentile £453 £298 £404
25th Percentile £513 £481 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -3.98% -1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £675
90th Percentile £661 £727 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £540 £551
% change year-on-year +1.85% -2.04% -4.13%
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 624 684 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.32% 40.28% 35.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 457 540
10th Percentile £355 £405 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -0.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £555
% change year-on-year - -0.81% -11.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £26.32 - -
25th Percentile £32.39 £16.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £17.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.59% -64.95% -7.62%
75th Percentile £56.11 £17.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £23.04 £48.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -52.51% -7.62%

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 6 June 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 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) AWS
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 6 (13.64%) GCP
5 4 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 4 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (4.55%) IaaS
7 2 (4.55%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) DNS
1 7 (15.91%) VPN
2 5 (11.36%) DHCP
2 5 (11.36%) Firewall
3 3 (6.82%) Network Security
3 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.55%) SMTP
4 2 (4.55%) Unified Communications
4 2 (4.55%) WAN
5 1 (2.27%) BGP
5 1 (2.27%) Internet
5 1 (2.27%) IPsec
5 1 (2.27%) LAN
5 1 (2.27%) OSPF
5 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.27%) SSL
5 1 (2.27%) VLAN
5 1 (2.27%) VSAN
5 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Power BI
2 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.82%) Big Data
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.09%) JMeter
1 4 (9.09%) Postman
2 2 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) Fiddler
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) MSI
3 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (25.00%) Finance
1 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Back Office
4 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Front Office
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) International Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Consultant
2 5 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Senior
3 4 (9.09%) Tester
4 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) VMware Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) DevOps Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) JSON
2 4 (9.09%) Swagger
2 4 (9.09%) YAML
3 3 (6.82%) OAuth
3 3 (6.82%) REST
4 2 (4.55%) SAML
4 2 (4.55%) XML
5 1 (2.27%) .NET
5 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.27%) ADO
5 1 (2.27%) J2EE
5 1 (2.27%) JDBC
5 1 (2.27%) Kafka
5 1 (2.27%) LDAP
5 1 (2.27%) Middleware
5 1 (2.27%) OpenID
5 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.27%) RESTful
5 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.82%) Clustering
3 3 (6.82%) PKI
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.27%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (2.27%) BYOD
5 1 (2.27%) CMDB
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Windows
2 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.09%) Linux
4 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.55%) VMS
4 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.27%) SUSE
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) DevOps
2 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
2 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (20.45%) AI
3 9 (20.45%) Zero Trust
4 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (13.64%) Analytics
5 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
5 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
5 6 (13.64%) Migration
6 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (11.36%) ITIL
6 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.36%) Test Automation
6 5 (11.36%) Validation
7 4 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (9.09%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) Bash
3 4 (9.09%) Bicep
3 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.82%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) C++
6 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 4 (9.09%) CISSP
5 3 (6.82%) Degree
5 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.55%) CISM
6 2 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.27%) CCNP
7 1 (2.27%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.27%) MCSA
7 1 (2.27%) MCSE
7 1 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) GDPR
1 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.55%) NIST
1 2 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.36%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.82%) Docker
4 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.82%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.55%) BitLocker
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (4.55%) Terminal Services
6 1 (2.27%) Firmware
6 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 11 (25.00%) Terraform
2 8 (18.18%) Ansible
3 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (9.09%) Grafana
4 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.09%) vRealize
5 3 (6.82%) SCCM
5 3 (6.82%) vCenter Server
6 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (4.55%) Nagios
6 2 (4.55%) Puppet
6 2 (4.55%) vMotion
7 1 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.27%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.27%) QRadar
7 1 (2.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (2.27%) VxRail
7 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (52.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) VMware
3 4 (9.09%) Databricks
3 4 (9.09%) Oracle
4 3 (6.82%) Citrix
4 3 (6.82%) Google
4 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.55%) Cisco
5 2 (4.55%) Dell
5 2 (4.55%) HP
5 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.55%) Symantec
6 1 (2.27%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.27%) EMC
6 1 (2.27%) iManage
6 1 (2.27%) ION Trading
6 1 (2.27%) Meraki
6 1 (2.27%) Reuters
6 1 (2.27%) SAP