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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 30 63
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 -3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 69 126 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.93% 5.74% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.77% 16.94% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 99 68
10th Percentile £404 £400 £409
25th Percentile £504 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £626 £675 £679
90th Percentile £722 £775 £725
Central London median daily rate £549 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.14% - -

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 706 744 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.21% 33.86% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 530 1,040
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

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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 1 May 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 10 (14.49%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 47 (68.12%) Azure
2 16 (23.19%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (21.74%) AWS
4 13 (18.84%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (18.84%) Entra ID
5 8 (11.59%) GitHub
6 7 (10.14%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (8.70%) Azure AKS
7 6 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (8.70%) GCP
8 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
8 5 (7.25%) SaaS
9 4 (5.80%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.80%) Nutanix
9 4 (5.80%) OneDrive
9 4 (5.80%) PaaS
9 4 (5.80%) Serverless
10 3 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
10 3 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) DNS
2 7 (10.14%) Firewall
3 6 (8.70%) DHCP
4 4 (5.80%) HTTP
4 4 (5.80%) Network Security
4 4 (5.80%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.35%) SMTP
5 3 (4.35%) SSL
6 2 (2.90%) FTP
6 2 (2.90%) Kerberos
6 2 (2.90%) LAN
6 2 (2.90%) VLAN
6 2 (2.90%) VPN
6 2 (2.90%) WAN
7 1 (1.45%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.45%) MPLS
7 1 (1.45%) NAS
7 1 (1.45%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.45%) S/MIME
7 1 (1.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.90%) MySQL
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.90%) Power BI
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.45%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) DTS
5 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.45%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.45%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Git
2 4 (5.80%) JIRA
3 3 (4.35%) GitLab
3 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.45%) Serena SBM
5 1 (1.45%) Subversion
5 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (42.03%) Finance
2 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.04%) Banking
4 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Military
6 1 (1.45%) Back Office
6 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Front Office
6 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (13.04%) Analyst
1 9 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (10.14%) Senior
3 6 (8.70%) Developer
4 5 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Support Analyst
5 3 (4.35%) Applications Support
5 3 (4.35%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) Consultant
5 3 (4.35%) IT Security Officer
5 3 (4.35%) Lead
5 3 (4.35%) Security Officer
5 3 (4.35%) Support Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) CRM Analyst
6 2 (2.90%) Desktop Support
6 2 (2.90%) SCCM Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Security Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.59%) .NET
2 7 (10.14%) LDAP
3 5 (7.25%) OAuth
3 5 (7.25%) SAML
4 3 (4.35%) REST
4 3 (4.35%) SailPoint
4 3 (4.35%) YAML
5 2 (2.90%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (2.90%) Web Services
6 1 (1.45%) ADO
6 1 (1.45%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.45%) CSS
6 1 (1.45%) HTML
6 1 (1.45%) JWT
6 1 (1.45%) Kafka
6 1 (1.45%) React
6 1 (1.45%) RESTful
6 1 (1.45%) SOAP
6 1 (1.45%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Insider Threat
5 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.90%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.90%) Wiki
6 1 (1.45%) Derivative
6 1 (1.45%) Equities
6 1 (1.45%) iPad
6 1 (1.45%) iPhone
6 1 (1.45%) PKI
6 1 (1.45%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.45%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (49.28%) Windows
2 16 (23.19%) Windows Server
3 9 (13.04%) Linux
4 8 (11.59%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.90%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.45%) Solaris
6 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.99%) DevOps
2 15 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (14.49%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (11.59%) Agile
6 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (10.14%) ITIL
8 6 (8.70%) Configuration Management
8 6 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.70%) High Availability
8 6 (8.70%) Migration
8 6 (8.70%) Privileged Access Management
9 5 (7.25%) Cloud Security
10 4 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (5.80%) Cost Management
10 4 (5.80%) Incident Response
10 4 (5.80%) Microservices
10 4 (5.80%) Patch Management
10 4 (5.80%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.23%) Python
2 10 (14.49%) C#
3 9 (13.04%) SQL
4 8 (11.59%) Bash
5 7 (10.14%) Bicep
6 4 (5.80%) Java
6 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.90%) Ruby
7 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.90%) VBScript
8 1 (1.45%) C++
8 1 (1.45%) Groovy
8 1 (1.45%) Perl
8 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) Degree
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.90%) CISM
5 2 (2.90%) CISSP
5 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.45%) CCNA
6 1 (1.45%) CCNP
6 1 (1.45%) CCSA
6 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) GDPR
2 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.80%) NIST
3 2 (2.90%) SLA
3 2 (2.90%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.45%) EMIR
4 1 (1.45%) MiFID
4 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (31.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.45%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.45%) Docker
5 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.45%) OpenAM
5 1 (1.45%) OpenDJ
5 1 (1.45%) OpenIDM
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.45%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.45%) XenApp
5 1 (1.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (14.49%) Terraform
2 8 (11.59%) SCCM
3 6 (8.70%) Ansible
4 5 (7.25%) Kubernetes
4 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (5.80%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.90%) Puppet
7 2 (2.90%) WSUS
8 1 (1.45%) Control-M
8 1 (1.45%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (1.45%) Grafana
8 1 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.45%) Kibana
8 1 (1.45%) QRadar
8 1 (1.45%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 29 (42.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.04%) VMware
3 7 (10.14%) ServiceNow
4 6 (8.70%) CyberArk
5 3 (4.35%) Databricks
5 3 (4.35%) Oracle
5 3 (4.35%) Sybase
6 2 (2.90%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (2.90%) Cisco
6 2 (2.90%) Citrix
6 2 (2.90%) Commvault
6 2 (2.90%) IBM
6 2 (2.90%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.90%) Splunk
7 1 (1.45%) Arista
7 1 (1.45%) ForeScout
7 1 (1.45%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.45%) Meraki
7 1 (1.45%) Okta
7 1 (1.45%) TP-LINK