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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 75 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 -34 +20
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 66 52 101
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.79% 2.78% 4.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.05% 7.27% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 38 78
10th Percentile £425 £275 £400
25th Percentile £513 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -1.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £640
90th Percentile £728 £699 £725
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 657 715 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.74% 38.28% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 492 511
10th Percentile £380 £400 £413
25th Percentile £456 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £593
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -1.69% -3.66%
75th Percentile £668 £696 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +11.77% -3.00% -48.13%

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 12 August 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 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.55%) Confluence
4 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.52%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (51.52%) Azure
2 15 (22.73%) AWS
3 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (19.70%) Entra ID
5 10 (15.15%) Power Platform
6 9 (13.64%) GCP
7 8 (12.12%) Azure AKS
7 8 (12.12%) GitHub
8 7 (10.61%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (9.09%) SaaS
10 5 (7.58%) OneDrive
10 5 (7.58%) OpenShift
11 4 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (6.06%) PaaS
12 3 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (4.55%) IaaS
12 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.21%) DNS
2 13 (19.70%) Firewall
3 10 (15.15%) VPN
4 8 (12.12%) DHCP
5 6 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 4 (6.06%) WAN
7 3 (4.55%) LAN
7 3 (4.55%) Network Security
7 3 (4.55%) SMTP
7 3 (4.55%) Unified Communications
8 2 (3.03%) SSL
8 2 (3.03%) VLAN
8 2 (3.03%) Wireshark
9 1 (1.52%) DKIM
9 1 (1.52%) DMARC
9 1 (1.52%) Internet
9 1 (1.52%) Multicast
9 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.52%) SSH
9 1 (1.52%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.21%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.12%) Power BI
3 5 (7.58%) Big Data
3 5 (7.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (7.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.03%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.52%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.09%) JIRA
3 4 (6.06%) JMeter
3 4 (6.06%) Postman
4 3 (4.55%) Git
4 3 (4.55%) GitLab
5 2 (3.03%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.03%) Fiddler
5 2 (3.03%) MSI
5 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.52%) Subversion
6 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Finance
3 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Banking
4 3 (4.55%) Law
5 2 (3.03%) Back Office
5 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.52%) Front Office
6 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (12.12%) Support Engineer
3 6 (9.09%) Architect
3 6 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (9.09%) Senior
4 5 (7.58%) Applications Support
4 5 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Analyst
5 4 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Tester
6 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Consultant
6 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) .NET
2 4 (6.06%) JSON
2 4 (6.06%) Swagger
3 3 (4.55%) YAML
4 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.03%) Kafka
4 2 (3.03%) OAuth
4 2 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (3.03%) PCRE
4 2 (3.03%) Regular Expression
4 2 (3.03%) REST
5 1 (1.52%) ADO
5 1 (1.52%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.52%) OpenID
5 1 (1.52%) PySpark
5 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.52%) RESTful
5 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Clustering
1 8 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.61%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.58%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.06%) PKI
6 3 (4.55%) CMDB
6 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
7 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (3.03%) Replication
8 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (46.97%) Windows
2 12 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 11 (16.67%) Linux
4 4 (6.06%) VMS
5 2 (3.03%) Unix
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.52%) SUSE
6 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (39.39%) DevOps
2 25 (37.88%) CI/CD
3 16 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (22.73%) Migration
5 14 (21.21%) AI
5 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (15.15%) Mentoring
8 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (12.12%) Zero Trust
10 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (10.61%) Containerisation
10 7 (10.61%) High Availability
10 7 (10.61%) ITSM
10 7 (10.61%) Observability
10 7 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (9.09%) Change Control
11 6 (9.09%) ITIL
11 6 (9.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 28 (42.42%) Python
2 14 (21.21%) Bash
3 13 (19.70%) SQL
4 8 (12.12%) Java
5 7 (10.61%) C#
6 4 (6.06%) Bicep
6 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.55%) C++
7 3 (4.55%) Korn
8 2 (3.03%) Perl
9 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 21 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Degree
3 5 (7.58%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.06%) CISSP
4 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.55%) CISM
6 1 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) GDPR
3 2 (3.03%) NIST
3 2 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.03%) SLA
4 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (24.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (10.61%) Docker
5 5 (7.58%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.58%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.55%) BitLocker
6 3 (4.55%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (4.55%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.52%) Firmware
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (34.85%) Terraform
2 20 (30.30%) Kubernetes
3 13 (19.70%) Ansible
4 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (7.58%) Grafana
5 5 (7.58%) vCenter Server
6 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Clustering
6 4 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.06%) Puppet
6 4 (6.06%) SCCM
7 3 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (4.55%) Nagios
7 3 (4.55%) SCOM
7 3 (4.55%) vMotion
8 1 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.52%) Packer
8 1 (1.52%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.52%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.52%) vRealize
8 1 (1.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.21%) VMware
3 8 (12.12%) ServiceNow
4 6 (9.09%) Databricks
4 6 (9.09%) Google
5 5 (7.58%) Oracle
6 4 (6.06%) BMC
6 4 (6.06%) Citrix
6 4 (6.06%) Dynatrace
6 4 (6.06%) Remedy
6 4 (6.06%) Splunk
7 3 (4.55%) Commvault
7 3 (4.55%) Dell
7 3 (4.55%) F5
7 3 (4.55%) HP
7 3 (4.55%) ION Trading
7 3 (4.55%) Symantec
8 2 (3.03%) Cisco
8 2 (3.03%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.52%) Okta