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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 50 65
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 0
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 61 78 87
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.46% 3.74% 3.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.55% 10.63% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 48 62
10th Percentile £317 £419 £414
25th Percentile £413 £497 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £596 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% +10.42% -
75th Percentile £647 £656 £650
90th Percentile £726 £741 £781
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -
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 639 734 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.29% 35.15% 34.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 471 664
10th Percentile £378 £406 £400
25th Percentile £425 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -1.67% +0.42%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £724
90th Percentile £775 £818 £846
Central London median daily rate £563 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -3.43% -2.92% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £23.90 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +135.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -4.82% -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 18 November 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 (18.03%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.90%) Azure
2 21 (34.43%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (24.59%) Entra ID
4 12 (19.67%) Power Automate
5 11 (18.03%) Power Platform
6 10 (16.39%) PowerApps
7 6 (9.84%) AWS
8 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (6.56%) ShareGate
10 3 (4.92%) GCP
10 3 (4.92%) PaaS
11 2 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (3.28%) GitHub
11 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.28%) IaaS
11 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (3.28%) SaaS
12 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (1.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) Firewall
2 5 (8.20%) DHCP
2 5 (8.20%) DNS
3 3 (4.92%) Network Security
3 3 (4.92%) VPN
4 2 (3.28%) Internet
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (1.64%) LAN
5 1 (1.64%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.64%) SSH
5 1 (1.64%) VLAN
5 1 (1.64%) WAN
5 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Power BI
2 6 (9.84%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.64%) Impala
3 1 (1.64%) Metadata
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) MSTest
2 1 (1.64%) Postman
2 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (36.07%) Finance
2 21 (34.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Banking
5 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.28%) Front Office
8 2 (3.28%) Law
9 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Legal
9 1 (1.64%) Military
9 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (9.84%) Lead
2 5 (8.20%) Architect
2 5 (8.20%) Consultant
2 5 (8.20%) Developer
2 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (6.56%) Analyst
3 4 (6.56%) Senior
4 3 (4.92%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (4.92%) Security Engineer
4 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.92%) VMware Consultant
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.28%) Security Analyst
5 2 (3.28%) Security Operations Analyst
5 2 (3.28%) Service Desk Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) VMware Specialist
5 2 (3.28%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (9.84%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.20%) REST
4 4 (6.56%) .NET
5 2 (3.28%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.28%) JSON
5 2 (3.28%) Middleware
5 2 (3.28%) SPFx
6 1 (1.64%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.64%) ADO
6 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.64%) HTML
6 1 (1.64%) LDAP
6 1 (1.64%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.64%) SAML
6 1 (1.64%) SOAP
6 1 (1.64%) Swing
6 1 (1.64%) Web Services
6 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Fixed Income
3 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.64%) BYOD
6 1 (1.64%) CMDB
6 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.64%) PKI
6 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.64%) STIX
6 1 (1.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.15%) Windows
2 14 (22.95%) Linux
3 9 (14.75%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Unix
4 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.64%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.64%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.59%) DevOps
2 12 (19.67%) Migration
3 10 (16.39%) Observability
4 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (14.75%) ITIL
4 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
5 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (11.48%) Data Loss Prevention
6 7 (11.48%) Incident Response
7 6 (9.84%) Analytics
7 6 (9.84%) ITSM
7 6 (9.84%) RBAC
7 6 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.84%) Time Management
8 5 (8.20%) Agile
8 5 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (8.20%) Identity Management
8 5 (8.20%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 26 (42.62%) Python
2 8 (13.11%) Bash
3 7 (11.48%) SQL
4 6 (9.84%) C#
5 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.92%) Perl
7 2 (3.28%) Java
7 2 (3.28%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.64%) Bicep
8 1 (1.64%) C
8 1 (1.64%) C++
8 1 (1.64%) Korn
8 1 (1.64%) R
8 1 (1.64%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.92%) Degree
6 2 (3.28%) CISSP
6 2 (3.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.64%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.64%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.64%) GCFA
7 1 (1.64%) GCIA
7 1 (1.64%) GCIH
7 1 (1.64%) MCSA
7 1 (1.64%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.56%) GDPR
3 3 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.28%) NIST
5 1 (1.64%) GRC
5 1 (1.64%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.48%) Docker
3 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.64%) HDFS
5 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (13.11%) Terraform
3 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
4 6 (9.84%) Ansible
4 6 (9.84%) ITRS Geneos
4 6 (9.84%) Kibana
4 6 (9.84%) SCCM
5 5 (8.20%) logstash
5 5 (8.20%) vRealize
6 1 (1.64%) Grafana
6 1 (1.64%) Istio
6 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) QRadar
6 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 28 (45.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.39%) VMware
3 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.20%) Solace
4 4 (6.56%) CyberArk
4 4 (6.56%) Splunk
5 3 (4.92%) Okta
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.64%) Altiris
7 1 (1.64%) Apple
7 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.64%) Bomgar
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco
7 1 (1.64%) F5
7 1 (1.64%) Reuters
7 1 (1.64%) SAP
7 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.64%) Symantec
7 1 (1.64%) TIBCO