PowerShell Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 54 57
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 62 83 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.42% 3.84% 3.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.11% 10.91% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 49 68
10th Percentile £349 £421 £409
25th Percentile £413 £488 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £593 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +9.72% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £740 £744
Central London median daily rate £524 £575 £539
% change year-on-year -8.91% +6.73% -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £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 613 761 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.85% 35.22% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 487 637
10th Percentile £363 £406 £400
25th Percentile £436 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.83% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £835
Central London median daily rate £557 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.50% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £26.10 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.73% +135.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £71.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +8.43% -12.63% -9.52%

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 5 December 2025.

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 11 (17.74%) SharePoint
2 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (51.61%) Azure
2 22 (35.48%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (27.42%) Entra ID
4 11 (17.74%) Power Automate
4 11 (17.74%) Power Platform
4 11 (17.74%) PowerApps
5 6 (9.68%) AWS
5 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.45%) ShareGate
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (4.84%) GCP
7 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.23%) PaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Azure WebJobs
9 1 (1.61%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.61%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) DHCP
1 6 (9.68%) DNS
1 6 (9.68%) Firewall
2 5 (8.06%) Network Security
3 4 (6.45%) VPN
4 3 (4.84%) Internet
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (1.61%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.61%) SSH
5 1 (1.61%) VLAN
5 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Power BI
2 6 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.61%) Impala
3 1 (1.61%) Metadata
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) MSTest
2 1 (1.61%) Postman
2 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.03%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Banking
4 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.06%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.23%) Law
8 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Front Office
9 1 (1.61%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (11.29%) Consultant
2 6 (9.68%) Lead
3 5 (8.06%) Architect
3 5 (8.06%) Developer
3 5 (8.06%) Senior
4 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Security Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (4.84%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Lead Architect
6 2 (3.23%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.23%) SharePoint Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) VMware Specialist
6 2 (3.23%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (9.68%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (9.68%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (8.06%) REST
4 3 (4.84%) .NET
5 2 (3.23%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.23%) JSON
5 2 (3.23%) Middleware
5 2 (3.23%) SPFx
6 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.61%) LDAP
6 1 (1.61%) OAuth
6 1 (1.61%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.61%) SAML
6 1 (1.61%) SOAP
6 1 (1.61%) Swagger
6 1 (1.61%) Swing
6 1 (1.61%) Web Services
6 1 (1.61%) XML
6 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
1 5 (8.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.45%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.61%) BYOD
4 1 (1.61%) CMDB
4 1 (1.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.61%) PKI
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.42%) Windows
2 11 (17.74%) Linux
3 8 (12.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.61%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.61%) Solaris
5 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.81%) DevOps
2 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (16.13%) ITIL
2 10 (16.13%) Migration
3 9 (14.52%) CI/CD
3 9 (14.52%) Observability
4 7 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (11.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (9.68%) Agile
5 6 (9.68%) Analytics
5 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (9.68%) ITSM
5 6 (9.68%) RBAC
5 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (9.68%) Time Management
6 5 (8.06%) Cloud Security
6 5 (8.06%) Incident Response
6 5 (8.06%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.32%) Python
2 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.68%) SQL
4 5 (8.06%) Bash
5 4 (6.45%) C#
6 3 (4.84%) Perl
7 2 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.61%) C++
8 1 (1.61%) Java
8 1 (1.61%) Korn
8 1 (1.61%) R
8 1 (1.61%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (8.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.45%) Degree
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.23%) CISSP
6 2 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.61%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.61%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.61%) GCFA
7 1 (1.61%) GCIA
7 1 (1.61%) GCIH
7 1 (1.61%) MCSA
7 1 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.45%) GDPR
3 2 (3.23%) NIST
4 1 (1.61%) GRC
4 1 (1.61%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.29%) Docker
3 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.61%) HDFS
5 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (14.52%) Terraform
3 7 (11.29%) Ansible
4 6 (9.68%) Kibana
4 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
4 6 (9.68%) vRealize
5 5 (8.06%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (8.06%) logstash
5 5 (8.06%) SCCM
6 1 (1.61%) Icinga
6 1 (1.61%) Packer
6 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.61%) QRadar
6 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.61%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (46.77%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) VMware
3 5 (8.06%) Solace
4 4 (6.45%) CyberArk
4 4 (6.45%) Okta
4 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.84%) Zscaler
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle
6 2 (3.23%) Splunk
7 1 (1.61%) Altiris
7 1 (1.61%) Apple
7 1 (1.61%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.61%) Bomgar
7 1 (1.61%) Cisco
7 1 (1.61%) Qualys
7 1 (1.61%) Reuters
7 1 (1.61%) SAP
7 1 (1.61%) Symantec
7 1 (1.61%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.61%) Veeam