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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 44 39
Rank change year-on-year -41 -5 +27
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 46 79 104
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.18% 4.45% 4.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.19% 11.30% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 83
10th Percentile £413 £412 £400
25th Percentile £428 £509 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +7.73% -
75th Percentile £584 £641 £677
90th Percentile £643 £729 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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 640 699 762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.30% 39.36% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 457 542
10th Percentile £350 £410 £404
25th Percentile £436 £471 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.71%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £699
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £566
% change year-on-year -7.83% +1.55% -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £29.70 - £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.52%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £48.00
% change year-on-year +54.80% -39.44% -16.52%

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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 22 March 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 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 28 (60.87%) Azure
2 15 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (28.26%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.04%) AWS
5 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.70%) GCP
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.52%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.35%) GitHub
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.35%) OCI
8 2 (4.35%) PaaS
8 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) DNS
2 6 (13.04%) DHCP
2 6 (13.04%) VPN
3 5 (10.87%) Firewall
3 5 (10.87%) Network Security
4 3 (6.52%) Internet
5 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.17%) BGP
6 1 (2.17%) IPsec
6 1 (2.17%) OSPF
6 1 (2.17%) SSL
6 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.17%) Metadata
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) MSTest
2 1 (2.17%) Postman
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.17%) International Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Consultant
2 6 (13.04%) Senior
2 6 (13.04%) VMware Consultant
3 4 (8.70%) Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Service Desk Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) CyberArk Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Lead
5 2 (4.35%) Lead Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) REST
2 4 (8.70%) JSON
3 3 (6.52%) OAuth
3 3 (6.52%) XML
4 2 (4.35%) .NET
4 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.35%) Middleware
4 2 (4.35%) SAML
5 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.17%) Kafka
5 1 (2.17%) Node.js
5 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.17%) OpenID
5 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.17%) Regular Expression
5 1 (2.17%) RESTful
5 1 (2.17%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.17%) Swagger
5 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.35%) BYOD
2 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (2.17%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (2.17%) CMDB
3 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Windows
2 8 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.04%) Linux
4 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.17%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.17%) Solaris
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (21.74%) DevOps
3 9 (19.57%) ITIL
4 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
4 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (15.22%) Zero Trust
5 6 (13.04%) Change Management
5 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.04%) Cloud Security
5 6 (13.04%) Migration
5 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
5 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (10.87%) AI
6 5 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (10.87%) Incident Response
6 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.70%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (8.70%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) Bash
2 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.52%) C#
3 3 (6.52%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (6.52%) SQL
4 1 (2.17%) Bicep
4 1 (2.17%) Perl
4 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
4 5 (10.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (6.52%) CISSP
5 3 (6.52%) Degree
6 2 (4.35%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.17%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.17%) CCNA
7 1 (2.17%) CCNP
7 1 (2.17%) CISM
7 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.17%) MCSA
7 1 (2.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (8.70%) GDPR
4 2 (4.35%) NIST
4 2 (4.35%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (30.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.17%) Docker
4 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (21.74%) Terraform
2 8 (17.39%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) vRealize
4 3 (6.52%) SCCM
5 2 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (4.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (2.17%) Icinga
6 1 (2.17%) Packer
6 1 (2.17%) QRadar
6 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) VMware
3 3 (6.52%) CyberArk
3 3 (6.52%) Okta
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
3 3 (6.52%) Zscaler
4 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Altiris
5 1 (2.17%) Apple
5 1 (2.17%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.17%) Bomgar
5 1 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.17%) Planview
5 1 (2.17%) Qualys
5 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) Symantec
5 1 (2.17%) Tanium
5 1 (2.17%) Veeam