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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 50 66
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 52 90 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.97% 4.28% 3.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.04% 12.08% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 68 63
10th Percentile £281 £421 £413
25th Percentile £365 £484 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £659 £652 £675
90th Percentile £697 £750 £705
Central London median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%

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 647 745 1,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.91% 35.39% 37.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 500 752
10th Percentile £386 £406 £407
25th Percentile £456 £484 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £608
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -3.41% +1.38%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £727
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £36.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +208.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £12.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +232.00% -76.19%

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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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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 19 September 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 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 12 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) Azure
2 15 (28.85%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (21.15%) Power Platform
4 10 (19.23%) Power Automate
5 9 (17.31%) Entra ID
5 9 (17.31%) PowerApps
6 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.69%) AWS
7 4 (7.69%) ShareGate
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (5.77%) GCP
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.85%) GitHub
9 2 (3.85%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.92%) IaaS
10 1 (1.92%) PaaS
10 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) DNS
2 4 (7.69%) DHCP
2 4 (7.69%) Firewall
3 3 (5.77%) VLAN
4 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (1.92%) FTP
5 1 (1.92%) HTTP
5 1 (1.92%) LAN
5 1 (1.92%) NAS
5 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.92%) Network Security
5 1 (1.92%) SAN
5 1 (1.92%) SMTP
5 1 (1.92%) SSH
5 1 (1.92%) SSL
5 1 (1.92%) WAN
5 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) Power BI
2 7 (13.46%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.92%) Impala
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (44.23%) Finance
2 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Banking
4 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.54%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.77%) Front Office
6 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Law
7 2 (3.85%) Military
8 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (11.54%) Analyst
2 4 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (7.69%) Developer
2 4 (7.69%) Lead
3 3 (5.77%) Architect
3 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (5.77%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (5.77%) Security Analyst
3 3 (5.77%) Security Engineer
3 3 (5.77%) Security Operations Analyst
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (5.77%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (3.85%) Consultant
4 2 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Desktop Support
4 2 (3.85%) Support Analyst
4 2 (3.85%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (5.77%) .NET
5 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.92%) ADO
5 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.92%) HTML
5 1 (1.92%) LDAP
5 1 (1.92%) Middleware
5 1 (1.92%) REST
5 1 (1.92%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.92%) SPFx
5 1 (1.92%) Swing
5 1 (1.92%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (1.92%) Web Services
5 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (11.54%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.77%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.92%) CMDB
5 1 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.92%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.92%) STIX
5 1 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.92%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 20 (38.46%) Windows
2 12 (23.08%) Linux
3 6 (11.54%) Windows 10
3 6 (11.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.00%) DevOps
1 13 (25.00%) Migration
2 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (17.31%) Observability
3 9 (17.31%) Time Management
4 8 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
5 7 (13.46%) Electronic Trading
6 6 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (11.54%) Data Loss Prevention
6 6 (11.54%) Incident Response
6 6 (11.54%) Low Latency
6 6 (11.54%) Machine Learning
6 6 (11.54%) RBAC
6 6 (11.54%) SIEM
7 5 (9.62%) Agile
7 5 (9.62%) Algorithmic Trading
7 5 (9.62%) Asset Management
7 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.62%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (46.15%) Python
2 6 (11.54%) SQL
3 5 (9.62%) Bash
3 5 (9.62%) C#
4 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.77%) Java
5 3 (5.77%) Perl
5 3 (5.77%) VBScript
6 2 (3.85%) C++
7 1 (1.92%) Bicep
7 1 (1.92%) C
7 1 (1.92%) Korn
7 1 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.92%) R
7 1 (1.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) CISSP
3 3 (5.77%) Degree
3 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) CEH
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CISM
5 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.92%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) GCFA
5 1 (1.92%) GCIA
5 1 (1.92%) GCIH
5 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.92%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.92%) GRC
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 7 (13.46%) Docker
3 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) SCCM
2 8 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.46%) ITRS Geneos
3 7 (13.46%) Kibana
4 6 (11.54%) logstash
5 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (5.77%) Terraform
6 3 (5.77%) vRealize
7 1 (1.92%) Ansible
7 1 (1.92%) Grafana
7 1 (1.92%) Istio
7 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.92%) QRadar
7 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (17.31%) VMware
3 6 (11.54%) Solace
4 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
4 5 (9.62%) Splunk
5 4 (7.69%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.92%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.92%) Dell
6 1 (1.92%) Exabeam
6 1 (1.92%) F5
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) HP
6 1 (1.92%) Okta
6 1 (1.92%) Reuters
6 1 (1.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.92%) Snow
6 1 (1.92%) Thycotic
6 1 (1.92%) TIBCO