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

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	61	68	55
Rank change year-on-year	+7	-13	+12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell	86	55	71
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London	4.03%	3.22%	3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category	13.21%	8.97%	9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted	57	43	48
10^th Percentile	£391	£295	£409
25^th Percentile	£513	£406	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£550	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+4.55%	-	+1.85%
75^th Percentile	£650	£659	£652
90^th Percentile	£740	£690	£733
Central London median daily rate	£575	£525	£544
% change year-on-year	+9.52%	-3.45%	+0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	2
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£19.25	-	-
Median hourly rate	£19.50	-	£112.00
75^th Percentile	£19.75	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Central London median hourly rate	£19.50	-	£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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	651	613	742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	30.52%	35.91%	35.08%
Number of daily rates quoted	462	450	483
10^th Percentile	£390	£385	£400
25^th Percentile	£450	£458	£475
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£600	£585
Median % change year-on-year	-8.33%	+2.56%	-3.94%
75^th Percentile	£675	£688	£700
90^th Percentile	£775	£776	£825
Central London median daily rate	£550	£575	£575
% change year-on-year	-4.35%	-	-4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	7	3
10^th Percentile	£12.78	£22.05	£51.80
25^th Percentile	£16.94	£26.00	£74.38
Median hourly rate	£28.50	£34.00	£112.00
Median % change year-on-year	-16.18%	-69.64%	+273.33%
75^th Percentile	£39.38	£63.75	-
90^th Percentile	£40.50	£73.75	-
Central London median hourly rate	£37.50	£42.72	£41.50
% change year-on-year	-12.22%	+2.94%	+38.33%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PowerShell.

PowerShell 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 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the City of London

PowerShell Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PowerShell.

PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	48.8%	42
2	Python	46.5%	40
2	Windows	46.5%	40
4	CI/CD	40.7%	35
5	DevOps	39.5%	34
6	Terraform	36.0%	31
7	Microsoft	33.7%	29
8	Kubernetes	31.4%	27
9	Security Cleared	29.1%	25
10	AWS	25.6%	22
10	Infrastructure as Code	25.6%	22
12	Ansible	23.3%	20
12	Linux	23.3%	20
12	SQL Server	23.3%	20
15	Windows Server	22.1%	19
16	Azure DevOps	20.9%	18
16	SC Cleared	20.9%	18
18	Bash	19.8%	17
18	DNS	19.8%	17
18	Migration	19.8%	17
18	Problem-Solving	19.8%	17
22	Infrastructure Engineering	18.6%	16
23	AI	17.4%	15
23	Root Cause Analysis	17.4%	15
23	SQL	17.4%	15
23	VMware	17.4%	15
27	Active Directory	16.3%	14
27	Firewall	16.3%	14
27	GitHub	16.3%	14
30	Azure AKS	15.1%	13

PowerShell Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	46.5%	40
2	Bash	19.8%	17
3	SQL	17.4%	15
4	C#	11.6%	10
4	Java	11.6%	10
6	Korn	7.0%	6
7	Bicep	4.7%	4
7	JavaScript	4.7%	4
9	C++	3.5%	3
10	Kusto Query Language	2.3%	2
10	Perl	2.3%	2
10	Shell Script	2.3%	2
13	CodeQL	1.2%	1