PowerShell Contracts in the City of London

Windows PowerShell
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 37 57
Rank change year-on-year -25 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 61 109 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.36% 5.11% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.43% 13.90% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 86 68
10th Percentile £305 £406 £413
25th Percentile £488 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -3.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £675 £661 £683
90th Percentile £733 £775 £716
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +6.48%

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 724 784 1,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.82% 36.76% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 545 916
10th Percentile £404 £403 £420
25th Percentile £467 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £698 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £808 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £20.20 - £23.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £78.75 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +6.06% -26.79% +26.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the City of London

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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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (11.48%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 33 (54.10%) Azure
2 13 (21.31%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (19.67%) AWS
4 11 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (13.11%) Entra ID
6 7 (11.48%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (11.48%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (11.48%) GitHub
7 6 (9.84%) Azure AKS
8 5 (8.20%) GCP
8 5 (8.20%) SaaS
9 4 (6.56%) PaaS
9 4 (6.56%) Power Platform
9 4 (6.56%) Serverless
10 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (4.92%) IaaS
10 3 (4.92%) Power Automate
11 2 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (3.28%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) DNS
2 8 (13.11%) Firewall
3 6 (9.84%) DHCP
4 4 (6.56%) HTTP
4 4 (6.56%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.92%) Network Security
5 3 (4.92%) SMTP
5 3 (4.92%) VLAN
6 2 (3.28%) FTP
6 2 (3.28%) LAN
6 2 (3.28%) SSL
6 2 (3.28%) WAN
7 1 (1.64%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.64%) NAS
7 1 (1.64%) SAN
7 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.92%) Power BI
3 3 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.64%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.64%) Big Data
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.20%) Git
3 4 (6.56%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) GitLab
5 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (49.18%) Finance
2 23 (37.70%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.39%) Banking
4 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Front Office
6 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Back Office
8 1 (1.64%) Law
8 1 (1.64%) Military
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) Analyst
2 6 (9.84%) Support Analyst
3 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Applications Support
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Senior
5 3 (4.92%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Lead
5 3 (4.92%) Operations Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) SCCM Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Security Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) Security Operations Analyst
6 2 (3.28%) CRM Analyst
6 2 (3.28%) Documentation Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) IT Support
6 2 (3.28%) Senior Architect
6 2 (3.28%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) .NET
2 4 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (6.56%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (6.56%) REST
3 3 (4.92%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.28%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (3.28%) Web Services
5 1 (1.64%) ADO
5 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.64%) JWT
5 1 (1.64%) Kafka
5 1 (1.64%) LDAP
5 1 (1.64%) OAuth
5 1 (1.64%) RESTful
5 1 (1.64%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.64%) SAML
5 1 (1.64%) SOAP
5 1 (1.64%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Cloud Native
1 7 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.84%) Fixed Income
2 6 (9.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.28%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.28%) Wiki
6 1 (1.64%) CMDB
6 1 (1.64%) Derivative
6 1 (1.64%) iPad
6 1 (1.64%) iPhone
6 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (54.10%) Windows
2 15 (24.59%) Linux
3 14 (22.95%) Windows Server
4 8 (13.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.28%) Unix
5 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) DevOps
2 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (19.67%) Migration
4 11 (18.03%) CI/CD
5 9 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (13.11%) Time Management
7 7 (11.48%) SIEM
8 6 (9.84%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (9.84%) Incident Response
8 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (9.84%) Observability
8 6 (9.84%) Threat Modelling
9 5 (8.20%) Asset Management
9 5 (8.20%) Cloud Security
9 5 (8.20%) Electronic Trading
9 5 (8.20%) Event-Driven
9 5 (8.20%) High Availability
9 5 (8.20%) Microservices
9 5 (8.20%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.90%) Python
2 10 (16.39%) Bash
3 9 (14.75%) SQL
4 8 (13.11%) C#
5 6 (9.84%) Bicep
6 5 (8.20%) Java
7 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.56%) VBScript
8 2 (3.28%) C++
8 2 (3.28%) Perl
9 1 (1.64%) C
9 1 (1.64%) Groovy
9 1 (1.64%) Ruby
9 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.92%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.28%) CISSP
4 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CEH
5 1 (1.64%) CISM
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) GDPR
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.28%) NIST
2 2 (3.28%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.64%) EMIR
3 1 (1.64%) GRC
3 1 (1.64%) MiFID
3 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.20%) Docker
3 4 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.64%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.64%) OpenAM
5 1 (1.64%) OpenDJ
5 1 (1.64%) OpenIDM
5 1 (1.64%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.64%) XenApp
5 1 (1.64%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) SCCM
1 10 (16.39%) Terraform
2 8 (13.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.84%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (8.20%) Kibana
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (6.56%) Ansible
5 4 (6.56%) logstash
6 3 (4.92%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.28%) Grafana
7 2 (3.28%) Puppet
7 2 (3.28%) WSUS
8 1 (1.64%) Istio
8 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.64%) QRadar
8 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (36.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.39%) VMware
3 6 (9.84%) ServiceNow
4 5 (8.20%) CyberArk
4 5 (8.20%) Splunk
5 4 (6.56%) Solace
6 3 (4.92%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (3.28%) Databricks
8 1 (1.64%) Cisco
8 1 (1.64%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.64%) Exabeam
8 1 (1.64%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.64%) Google
8 1 (1.64%) IBM
8 1 (1.64%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.64%) NETGEAR
8 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.64%) Sun
8 1 (1.64%) Thycotic
8 1 (1.64%) TP-LINK