PowerShell Contracts in the City of London

Windows PowerShell
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 58 56
Rank change year-on-year +27 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 126 132 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.72% 3.63% 4.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.94% 8.34% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 68 136
10th Percentile £400 £409 £375
25th Percentile £463 £490 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £634
90th Percentile £775 £725 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £72.50

All Programming Languages
City of London

PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 744 1,583 1,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.79% 43.52% 44.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 1,035 1,474
10th Percentile £413 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £690 £738 £703
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -8.87% +3.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £43.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +86.82%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £69.25
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.63
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +138.81%

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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 27 April 2024.

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 18 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.56%) IIS
4 5 (3.97%) Site Server
5 3 (2.38%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.59%) Apache
6 2 (1.59%) JBoss
6 2 (1.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 76 (60.32%) Azure
2 37 (29.37%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (23.81%) Entra ID
4 27 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 15 (11.90%) AWS
7 9 (7.14%) OneDrive
7 9 (7.14%) PowerApps
8 8 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (5.56%) IaaS
9 7 (5.56%) Power Automate
10 6 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.76%) GitHub
11 4 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.38%) GCP
12 3 (2.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.08%) DNS
2 17 (13.49%) Firewall
3 8 (6.35%) DHCP
4 6 (4.76%) Network Security
5 5 (3.97%) IPv4
6 3 (2.38%) SSL
7 2 (1.59%) Internet
7 2 (1.59%) SAN
7 2 (1.59%) VPN
8 1 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.79%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.79%) NAS
8 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.79%) WAN
8 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.98%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.35%) Power BI
4 6 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.97%) GIS
6 4 (3.17%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.38%) MySQL
8 2 (1.59%) Redis
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.79%) Metadata
9 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.56%) GitLab
2 7 (5.56%) TeamCity
2 7 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.97%) Git
4 4 (3.17%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.59%) Selenium
5 2 (1.59%) Subversion
5 2 (1.59%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.79%) AppScan
6 1 (0.79%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.79%) JIRA
6 1 (0.79%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.79%) MSI
6 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (33.33%) Finance
2 26 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.29%) Banking
4 15 (11.90%) Legal
5 8 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.17%) Front Office
9 3 (2.38%) Agriculture
9 3 (2.38%) Law
9 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Back Office
11 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (18.25%) Senior
2 22 (17.46%) Architect
3 18 (14.29%) Developer
4 13 (10.32%) Analyst
5 10 (7.94%) Systems Analyst
6 8 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 7 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.76%) Consultant
8 6 (4.76%) Data Analyst
8 6 (4.76%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Lead
8 6 (4.76%) Platform Architect
8 6 (4.76%) Power Platform Architect
9 5 (3.97%) IT Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.67%) .NET
2 16 (12.70%) XML
3 11 (8.73%) REST
4 10 (7.94%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (6.35%) .NET Framework
5 8 (6.35%) ASP.NET
5 8 (6.35%) JSON
6 6 (4.76%) ARM Templates
6 6 (4.76%) CSS
6 6 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.97%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (3.97%) React
7 5 (3.97%) WCF
7 5 (3.97%) WinForms
8 4 (3.17%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.38%) HTML
9 3 (2.38%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (2.38%) jQuery
9 3 (2.38%) YAML
10 2 (1.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.35%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.59%) Contactless
4 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.59%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.59%) Replication
4 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.79%) Clustering
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 43 (34.13%) Windows
2 23 (18.25%) Windows Server
3 11 (8.73%) Linux
4 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.59%) Unix
5 2 (1.59%) VMS
5 2 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.79%) CentOS
6 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (43.65%) DevOps
2 35 (27.78%) Agile
3 27 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 27 (21.43%) Migration
4 21 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (9.52%) Configuration Management
5 12 (9.52%) Scrum
6 11 (8.73%) ETL
6 11 (8.73%) ITIL
6 11 (8.73%) Project Management
7 10 (7.94%) Computer Science
7 10 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (7.94%) SDLC
8 9 (7.14%) Application Packaging
8 9 (7.14%) Data Loss Prevention
8 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (6.35%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (6.35%) PRINCE2
9 8 (6.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.37%) Python
2 26 (20.63%) SQL
3 25 (19.84%) C#
4 11 (8.73%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.35%) Bash
5 8 (6.35%) Bicep
5 8 (6.35%) T-SQL
6 7 (5.56%) VBScript
7 5 (3.97%) Korn
8 3 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) Java
10 1 (0.79%) Perl
10 1 (0.79%) PHP
10 1 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (10.32%) Degree
2 10 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (3.97%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.79%) CCNA
7 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) SLA
2 3 (2.38%) QA
3 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (32.54%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.59%) Docker
3 2 (1.59%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (13.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (10.32%) Terraform
3 9 (7.14%) PingFederate
4 8 (6.35%) Ansible
5 7 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (4.76%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.97%) SCCM
8 4 (3.17%) CSIRT
8 4 (3.17%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (3.17%) Puppet
9 3 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.59%) Grafana
10 2 (1.59%) Graylog
10 2 (1.59%) Nagios
10 2 (1.59%) Packer
10 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.79%) Nessus
11 1 (0.79%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 60 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.52%) Oracle
3 7 (5.56%) iManage
4 6 (4.76%) Cadence
5 5 (3.97%) ESRI
5 5 (3.97%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.97%) VMware
6 4 (3.17%) Citrix
6 4 (3.17%) IBM
7 3 (2.38%) Proofpoint
7 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.38%) Symantec
8 2 (1.59%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.59%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.59%) Splunk
8 2 (1.59%) Temenos
9 1 (0.79%) Dell
9 1 (0.79%) HP
9 1 (0.79%) Sun