PowerShell Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 76 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 -35 +25
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 66 53 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.74% 2.82% 4.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.85% 7.31% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 39 77
10th Percentile £392 £275 £400
25th Percentile £513 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -0.91% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £641
90th Percentile £691 £721 £725
Central London median daily rate £575 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +7.98% -3.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

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 670 725 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.86% 38.54% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 499 512
10th Percentile £373 £400 £413
25th Percentile £456 £456 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £591
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -2.24% -3.86%
75th Percentile £668 £698 £707
90th Percentile £766 £775 £824
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +11.77% -3.00% -37.36%

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 9 August 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 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.55%) Confluence
4 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.52%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (53.03%) Azure
2 14 (21.21%) AWS
2 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (19.70%) Entra ID
4 11 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 10 (15.15%) GCP
6 8 (12.12%) Azure AKS
6 8 (12.12%) GitHub
7 7 (10.61%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (9.09%) SaaS
9 5 (7.58%) OneDrive
9 5 (7.58%) OpenShift
10 4 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (6.06%) PaaS
11 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (4.55%) IaaS
11 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.73%) DNS
2 14 (21.21%) Firewall
3 11 (16.67%) VPN
4 8 (12.12%) DHCP
5 7 (10.61%) TCP/IP
6 4 (6.06%) Network Security
6 4 (6.06%) WAN
7 3 (4.55%) LAN
7 3 (4.55%) SMTP
7 3 (4.55%) SSL
7 3 (4.55%) Unified Communications
8 2 (3.03%) VLAN
8 2 (3.03%) Wireshark
9 1 (1.52%) BGP
9 1 (1.52%) Internet
9 1 (1.52%) IPsec
9 1 (1.52%) OSPF
9 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.52%) SSH
9 1 (1.52%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.64%) Power BI
3 6 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (7.58%) Big Data
4 5 (7.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.03%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.52%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.09%) JIRA
3 4 (6.06%) Git
3 4 (6.06%) JMeter
3 4 (6.06%) Postman
4 3 (4.55%) GitLab
5 2 (3.03%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.03%) Fiddler
5 2 (3.03%) MSI
5 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.52%) Subversion
6 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Finance
3 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Banking
4 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Law
5 2 (3.03%) Back Office
5 2 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.52%) Front Office
6 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (10.61%) Senior
2 7 (10.61%) Support Engineer
3 6 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Applications Support
4 5 (7.58%) Architect
4 5 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Analyst
5 4 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Tester
6 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Administrator
6 3 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Consultant
6 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) .NET
1 5 (7.58%) JSON
2 4 (6.06%) Swagger
2 4 (6.06%) YAML
3 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.03%) Kafka
3 2 (3.03%) OAuth
3 2 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (3.03%) PCRE
3 2 (3.03%) Regular Expression
3 2 (3.03%) XML
4 1 (1.52%) ADO
4 1 (1.52%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.52%) JDBC
4 1 (1.52%) LDAP
4 1 (1.52%) Middleware
4 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.52%) SAML
4 1 (1.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 8 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 8 (12.12%) Clustering
3 5 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.58%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.06%) PKI
5 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.03%) CMDB
6 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.03%) Replication
7 1 (1.52%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (46.97%) Windows
2 12 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 11 (16.67%) Linux
4 4 (6.06%) VMS
5 2 (3.03%) Unix
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.52%) SUSE
6 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.36%) DevOps
2 23 (34.85%) CI/CD
3 17 (25.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (22.73%) Migration
5 14 (21.21%) AI
5 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (15.15%) Mentoring
8 9 (13.64%) Zero Trust
9 8 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (12.12%) High Availability
9 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
10 7 (10.61%) Containerisation
10 7 (10.61%) Observability
10 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (9.09%) ITIL
11 6 (9.09%) ITSM
11 6 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (42.42%) Python
2 14 (21.21%) Bash
2 14 (21.21%) SQL
3 8 (12.12%) C#
4 7 (10.61%) Java
5 5 (7.58%) Bicep
6 3 (4.55%) C++
6 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.55%) Korn
7 2 (3.03%) Perl
8 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) CISSP
3 5 (7.58%) Degree
3 5 (7.58%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.55%) CISM
6 2 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.52%) CCNP
7 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) GDPR
3 2 (3.03%) NIST
3 2 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (24.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (9.09%) Docker
5 5 (7.58%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.58%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.55%) BitLocker
6 3 (4.55%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (4.55%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.52%) Firmware
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (34.85%) Terraform
2 19 (28.79%) Kubernetes
3 14 (21.21%) Ansible
4 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (7.58%) Grafana
5 5 (7.58%) vCenter Server
6 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Clustering
6 4 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.06%) Puppet
6 4 (6.06%) SCCM
7 3 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (4.55%) Nagios
7 3 (4.55%) SCOM
7 3 (4.55%) vMotion
8 1 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.52%) Packer
8 1 (1.52%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.52%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.52%) QRadar
8 1 (1.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.21%) VMware
3 8 (12.12%) ServiceNow
4 6 (9.09%) Databricks
4 6 (9.09%) Google
5 5 (7.58%) Oracle
5 5 (7.58%) Splunk
6 4 (6.06%) Citrix
6 4 (6.06%) Dynatrace
7 3 (4.55%) BMC
7 3 (4.55%) Commvault
7 3 (4.55%) Dell
7 3 (4.55%) F5
7 3 (4.55%) HP
7 3 (4.55%) ION Trading
7 3 (4.55%) Remedy
7 3 (4.55%) Symantec
8 2 (3.03%) Cisco
8 2 (3.03%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.03%) Zscaler