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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 45 36
Rank change year-on-year -43 -9 +32
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 46 77 115
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.14% 4.45% 4.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.23% 11.03% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 90
10th Percentile £413 £412 £400
25th Percentile £425 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £563
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +5.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £570 £641 £675
90th Percentile £643 £729 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +2.27%

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 636 698 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.53% 40.32% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 461 540
10th Percentile £351 £413 £412
25th Percentile £436 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £700
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £27.86 - £46.30
25th Percentile £29.90 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £38.53 - £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.52%
75th Percentile £50.56 - £49.88
90th Percentile £56.06 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £38.53 £29.07 £48.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -39.44% -16.52%

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 2 April 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
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 31 (67.39%) Azure
2 14 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (28.26%) Entra ID
4 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.04%) AWS
5 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
6 5 (10.87%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (8.70%) GCP
8 3 (6.52%) GitHub
8 3 (6.52%) PowerApps
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (4.35%) OCI
9 2 (4.35%) PaaS
9 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) DNS
1 7 (15.22%) VPN
2 6 (13.04%) DHCP
2 6 (13.04%) Firewall
2 6 (13.04%) Network Security
3 3 (6.52%) Internet
4 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.17%) BGP
5 1 (2.17%) IPsec
5 1 (2.17%) OSPF
5 1 (2.17%) SSL
5 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.17%) VLAN
5 1 (2.17%) VSAN
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%) Big Data
2 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.17%) Delta 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 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.17%) International Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Consultant
2 6 (13.04%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) VMware Consultant
4 4 (8.70%) Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) CyberArk Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) REST
2 4 (8.70%) JSON
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%) OAuth
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%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.17%) Regular Expression
5 1 (2.17%) RESTful
5 1 (2.17%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.17%) SAML
5 1 (2.17%) SOAP
5 1 (2.17%) Swagger
5 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.35%) PKI
1 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.17%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (2.17%) BYOD
2 1 (2.17%) Clustering
2 1 (2.17%) CMDB
2 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Windows
2 8 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 7 (15.22%) Linux
4 4 (8.70%) 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%) SUSE
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
6 1 (2.17%) VMS
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (23.91%) DevOps
3 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (19.57%) ITIL
5 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.39%) Cloud Security
6 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
6 7 (15.22%) Migration
6 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (15.22%) Zero Trust
7 6 (13.04%) AI
7 6 (13.04%) Change Management
7 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
7 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (10.87%) Analytics
9 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (8.70%) Performance Metrics
9 4 (8.70%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) Python
2 9 (19.57%) Bash
3 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.52%) C#
4 3 (6.52%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) Azure Certification
3 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.35%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.35%) CISSP
5 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.17%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CCNA
6 1 (2.17%) CCNP
6 1 (2.17%) CISM
6 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) MCSA
6 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%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.35%) Docker
3 2 (4.35%) vSphere
4 1 (2.17%) Firmware
4 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (26.09%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (15.22%) Ansible
4 6 (13.04%) vRealize
5 3 (6.52%) SCCM
6 2 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.17%) Icinga
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.17%) Packer
7 1 (2.17%) QRadar
7 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.17%) VxRail
7 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) VMware
3 3 (6.52%) Okta
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
3 3 (6.52%) Zscaler
4 2 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Altiris
5 1 (2.17%) Apple
5 1 (2.17%) Bomgar
5 1 (2.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) Dell
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%) Veeam