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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 67 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 -15 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 78 52 78
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.61% 3.03% 3.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.21% 8.33% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 40 56
10th Percentile £382 £282 £413
25th Percentile £525 £390 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +0.92%
75th Percentile £650 £654 £661
90th Percentile £743 £694 £750
Central London median daily rate £575 £500 £544
% change year-on-year +15.00% -8.05% +0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £112.00
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 639 624 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.57% 36.32% 34.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 449 471
10th Percentile £400 £385 £400
25th Percentile £453 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +1.27% -3.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £712
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile £13.70 £22.05 £51.80
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.00 £74.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -69.64% +796.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year -12.22% +2.94% +232.00%

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 6 October 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 10 (12.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.13%) Confluence
4 2 (2.56%) IIS
5 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.28%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (47.44%) Azure
2 20 (25.64%) AWS
3 14 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (14.10%) Azure AKS
4 11 (14.10%) Entra ID
4 11 (14.10%) GitHub
4 11 (14.10%) Power Platform
5 9 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (10.26%) GCP
7 7 (8.97%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (8.97%) OneDrive
7 7 (8.97%) SaaS
8 5 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (6.41%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (5.13%) PaaS
10 3 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.85%) IaaS
10 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (19.23%) DNS
2 14 (17.95%) Firewall
3 11 (14.10%) VPN
4 8 (10.26%) DHCP
4 8 (10.26%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.13%) WAN
6 3 (3.85%) LAN
6 3 (3.85%) Network Security
6 3 (3.85%) SMTP
6 3 (3.85%) Unified Communications
7 2 (2.56%) SSH
7 2 (2.56%) SSL
7 2 (2.56%) VLAN
7 2 (2.56%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.28%) DKIM
8 1 (1.28%) DMARC
8 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.28%) Internet
8 1 (1.28%) Multicast
8 1 (1.28%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.36%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.54%) Power BI
3 6 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (6.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.13%) Big Data
5 4 (5.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.28%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.28%) Metadata
8 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.28%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.28%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.97%) Git
2 7 (8.97%) JIRA
3 5 (6.41%) Artifactory
4 4 (5.13%) GitLab
4 4 (5.13%) JMeter
4 4 (5.13%) Postman
5 3 (3.85%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.56%) Fiddler
6 2 (2.56%) MSI
6 2 (2.56%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.28%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.28%) NUnit
7 1 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 26 (33.33%) Finance
2 25 (32.05%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Banking
4 5 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Law
6 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.56%) Back Office
8 1 (1.28%) Front Office
8 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Local Government
8 1 (1.28%) Marketing
8 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (10.26%) Support Engineer
3 6 (7.69%) Consultant
3 6 (7.69%) Senior
4 5 (6.41%) Applications Support
4 5 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Analyst
5 4 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Architect
5 4 (5.13%) Azure Consultant
5 4 (5.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) DevOps Consultant
5 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Security Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Tester
6 3 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (3.85%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (34.62%) Terraform
2 8 (10.26%) .NET
2 8 (10.26%) REST
3 6 (7.69%) JSON
3 6 (7.69%) YAML
4 4 (5.13%) Swagger
5 3 (3.85%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.85%) Middleware
5 3 (3.85%) OAuth
5 3 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.56%) JDBC
6 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.56%) PCRE
6 2 (2.56%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.28%) ADO
7 1 (1.28%) Jakarta EE
7 1 (1.28%) LDAP
7 1 (1.28%) SAML
7 1 (1.28%) SOAP
7 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (8.97%) Clustering
3 7 (8.97%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.13%) AI Agents
5 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.85%) CMDB
6 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.85%) PKI
7 2 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.28%) CCTV
8 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.28%) Replication
8 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (47.44%) Windows
2 18 (23.08%) Linux
3 17 (21.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.69%) Unix
5 3 (3.85%) VMS
6 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.28%) CentOS
7 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 28 (35.90%) DevOps
3 18 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (19.23%) AI
4 15 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (19.23%) Migration
4 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (12.82%) ITSM
6 10 (12.82%) Observability
6 10 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (12.82%) Test Automation
7 9 (11.54%) ITIL
7 9 (11.54%) Mentoring
7 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.26%) Change Control
8 8 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.26%) High Availability
8 8 (10.26%) Incident Management
8 8 (10.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (43.59%) Python
2 15 (19.23%) Bash
2 15 (19.23%) SQL
3 10 (12.82%) Java
4 9 (11.54%) C#
5 6 (7.69%) Korn
6 4 (5.13%) Bicep
6 4 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.85%) C++
8 2 (2.56%) Perl
8 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.28%) CodeQL
9 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.69%) Degree
3 6 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.85%) CISSP
5 2 (2.56%) CISM
6 1 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.85%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) SLA
3 2 (2.56%) GDPR
3 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.56%) NIST
4 1 (1.28%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (14.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.97%) Docker
3 7 (8.97%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.85%) BitLocker
6 3 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (3.85%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 19 (24.36%) Ansible
3 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (7.69%) Grafana
4 6 (7.69%) SCCM
5 4 (5.13%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.13%) Puppet
5 4 (5.13%) SCOM
5 4 (5.13%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.85%) Nagios
6 3 (3.85%) vMotion
7 2 (2.56%) PowerCLI
7 2 (2.56%) WSUS
8 1 (1.28%) Packer
8 1 (1.28%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.28%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.95%) VMware
3 11 (14.10%) ServiceNow
4 8 (10.26%) Databricks
5 7 (8.97%) Oracle
6 6 (7.69%) Dynatrace
6 6 (7.69%) Google
7 5 (6.41%) Splunk
8 4 (5.13%) BMC
8 4 (5.13%) Citrix
8 4 (5.13%) CyberArk
8 4 (5.13%) ION Trading
8 4 (5.13%) Remedy
9 3 (3.85%) Commvault
9 3 (3.85%) F5
9 3 (3.85%) HP
9 3 (3.85%) Symantec
10 2 (2.56%) Dell
10 2 (2.56%) IBM
10 2 (2.56%) Zscaler