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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 74 58
Rank change year-on-year +13 -16 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 84 53 72
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.89% 3.07% 3.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.84% 8.56% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 41 52
10th Percentile £389 £294 £413
25th Percentile £513 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £741 £690 £725
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £544
% change year-on-year +9.52% -3.45% +0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £112.00
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £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 654 619 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.28% 35.90% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 455 487
10th Percentile £382 £385 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.87% -2.85%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £708
90th Percentile £775 £795 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.22% -3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £12.78 £22.05 £51.80
25th Percentile £16.94 £26.00 £74.38
Median hourly rate £28.50 £34.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% -69.64% +273.33%
75th Percentile £39.38 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year -12.22% +2.94% +38.33%

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 15 October 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 10 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.76%) Confluence
4 2 (2.38%) IIS
5 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.19%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.62%) Azure
2 21 (25.00%) AWS
3 16 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (16.67%) GitHub
5 12 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 11 (13.10%) Entra ID
6 11 (13.10%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (13.10%) Power Platform
7 9 (10.71%) GCP
7 9 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (8.33%) OneDrive
8 7 (8.33%) SaaS
9 5 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (5.95%) OpenShift
9 5 (5.95%) PaaS
10 4 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.57%) IaaS
11 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.24%) DNS
2 14 (16.67%) Firewall
3 12 (14.29%) VPN
4 9 (10.71%) DHCP
4 9 (10.71%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.76%) WAN
6 3 (3.57%) LAN
6 3 (3.57%) Network Security
6 3 (3.57%) SMTP
6 3 (3.57%) Unified Communications
6 3 (3.57%) VLAN
7 2 (2.38%) SSH
7 2 (2.38%) SSL
7 2 (2.38%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.19%) DKIM
8 1 (1.19%) DMARC
8 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.19%) Internet
8 1 (1.19%) Multicast
8 1 (1.19%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.71%) Power BI
3 6 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (5.95%) Big Data
4 5 (5.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.19%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.19%) Metadata
8 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.19%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.71%) Git
3 8 (9.52%) JIRA
4 7 (8.33%) Artifactory
5 6 (7.14%) GitLab
6 4 (4.76%) JMeter
6 4 (4.76%) Postman
7 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.57%) TeamCity
7 3 (3.57%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.38%) Fiddler
8 2 (2.38%) MSI
8 2 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.19%) Maven
9 1 (1.19%) MSBuild
9 1 (1.19%) NUnit
9 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.19%) Subversion
General
1 30 (35.71%) Finance
2 25 (29.76%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.33%) Banking
4 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Law
5 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.38%) Back Office
6 2 (2.38%) Front Office
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Local Government
7 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (10.71%) Support Engineer
3 7 (8.33%) Senior
4 6 (7.14%) Applications Support
4 6 (7.14%) Consultant
4 6 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Applications Support Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Analyst
6 4 (4.76%) Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) DevOps Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Tester
7 3 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (35.71%) Terraform
2 10 (11.90%) .NET
3 8 (9.52%) REST
4 6 (7.14%) JSON
4 6 (7.14%) YAML
5 4 (4.76%) Swagger
6 3 (3.57%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.57%) Middleware
6 3 (3.57%) OAuth
6 3 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.38%) JDBC
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (2.38%) PCRE
7 2 (2.38%) Regular Expression
8 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.19%) PySpark
8 1 (1.19%) SOAP
8 1 (1.19%) Vue
8 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.33%) Clustering
3 7 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.76%) AI Agents
5 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.57%) CMDB
6 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.57%) PKI
7 2 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.19%) CCTV
8 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.19%) Replication
8 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (47.62%) Windows
2 20 (23.81%) Linux
3 19 (22.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.14%) Unix
5 3 (3.57%) VMS
6 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.19%) CentOS
7 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.19%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.29%) CI/CD
2 32 (38.10%) DevOps
3 20 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (20.24%) Migration
4 17 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (17.86%) AI
6 15 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (13.10%) ITSM
7 11 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (11.90%) ITIL
8 10 (11.90%) Observability
8 10 (11.90%) Test Automation
9 9 (10.71%) Incident Management
9 9 (10.71%) Mentoring
9 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.52%) Change Control
10 8 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.24%) Python
2 17 (20.24%) Bash
3 15 (17.86%) SQL
4 11 (13.10%) Java
5 10 (11.90%) C#
6 6 (7.14%) Korn
7 4 (4.76%) Bicep
7 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.57%) C++
9 2 (2.38%) Perl
9 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.19%) CodeQL
10 1 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) Degree
3 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.57%) CISSP
5 2 (2.38%) CISM
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.57%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) SLA
3 2 (2.38%) GDPR
3 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.38%) NIST
4 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.52%) Docker
4 7 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (7.14%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (3.57%) BitLocker
7 3 (3.57%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (3.57%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 20 (23.81%) Ansible
3 9 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (8.33%) Grafana
4 7 (8.33%) SCCM
5 5 (5.95%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.76%) Puppet
6 4 (4.76%) SCOM
6 4 (4.76%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (3.57%) Nagios
7 3 (3.57%) vMotion
8 2 (2.38%) PowerCLI
8 2 (2.38%) WSUS
9 1 (1.19%) Netcool
9 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.19%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.19%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.86%) VMware
3 13 (15.48%) ServiceNow
4 9 (10.71%) Databricks
5 8 (9.52%) Oracle
6 7 (8.33%) Dynatrace
7 6 (7.14%) Google
7 6 (7.14%) Splunk
8 5 (5.95%) ION Trading
9 4 (4.76%) BMC
9 4 (4.76%) Citrix
9 4 (4.76%) CyberArk
9 4 (4.76%) Remedy
10 3 (3.57%) Commvault
10 3 (3.57%) F5
10 3 (3.57%) HP
10 3 (3.57%) Symantec
11 2 (2.38%) Dell
11 2 (2.38%) IBM
11 2 (2.38%) Zscaler