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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 62 32
Rank change year-on-year -28 -30 +28
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 47 58 121
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.94% 3.36% 5.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.51% 8.39% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 99
10th Percentile £463 £303 £410
25th Percentile £513 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £565
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -3.54% -1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £650 £735 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £543 £563
% change year-on-year +5.99% -3.56% -2.17%
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 626 691 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.83% 39.99% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 466 562
10th Percentile £360 £404 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £799
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £563
% change year-on-year -3.93% +1.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £26.32 £25.45 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £38.88 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.87% -7.62%
75th Percentile £56.11 £76.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 £83.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £51.44 £48.50
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.06% -7.62%

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 June 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 (17.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 24 (51.06%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) AWS
3 9 (19.15%) Entra ID
3 9 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (17.02%) Power Platform
5 7 (14.89%) GCP
6 6 (12.77%) GitHub
7 5 (10.64%) Azure AKS
7 5 (10.64%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (6.38%) IaaS
8 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (6.38%) OneDrive
8 3 (6.38%) OpenShift
8 3 (6.38%) PaaS
8 3 (6.38%) SaaS
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) DNS
1 9 (19.15%) VPN
2 8 (17.02%) Firewall
3 7 (14.89%) DHCP
4 4 (8.51%) Network Security
4 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
5 3 (6.38%) SMTP
5 3 (6.38%) Unified Communications
5 3 (6.38%) WAN
6 2 (4.26%) LAN
7 1 (2.13%) BGP
7 1 (2.13%) Internet
7 1 (2.13%) IPsec
7 1 (2.13%) Multicast
7 1 (2.13%) OSPF
7 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.13%) SSL
7 1 (2.13%) VLAN
7 1 (2.13%) VSAN
7 1 (2.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) Power BI
1 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.51%) Big Data
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.51%) JMeter
2 4 (8.51%) Postman
3 2 (4.26%) Git
4 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.13%) Fiddler
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) MSI
4 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Back Office
5 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.26%) Law
6 1 (2.13%) Front Office
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) International Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Consultant
2 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Senior
4 4 (8.51%) Tester
5 3 (6.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.38%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (6.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) VMware Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) JSON
2 4 (8.51%) Swagger
2 4 (8.51%) YAML
3 3 (6.38%) OAuth
4 2 (4.26%) .NET
4 2 (4.26%) REST
4 2 (4.26%) SAML
4 2 (4.26%) XML
5 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.13%) ADO
5 1 (2.13%) J2EE
5 1 (2.13%) JDBC
5 1 (2.13%) Kafka
5 1 (2.13%) LDAP
5 1 (2.13%) Middleware
5 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.13%) OpenID
5 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.13%) RESTful
5 1 (2.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.51%) Clustering
3 4 (8.51%) PKI
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.13%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (2.13%) BYOD
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) CMDB
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.17%) Windows
2 9 (19.15%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.64%) Linux
4 2 (4.26%) VMS
4 2 (4.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.13%) SUSE
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) DevOps
2 15 (31.91%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (21.28%) AI
5 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (19.15%) Zero Trust
6 7 (14.89%) Migration
7 6 (12.77%) Containerisation
7 6 (12.77%) Mentoring
7 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.64%) Analytics
8 5 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (10.64%) Cloud Security
8 5 (10.64%) ITIL
8 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (10.64%) Test Automation
8 5 (10.64%) Validation
9 4 (8.51%) Change Management
9 4 (8.51%) Manual Testing
9 4 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) Python
2 10 (21.28%) Bash
3 4 (8.51%) Bicep
3 4 (8.51%) Java
3 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.51%) SQL
4 3 (6.38%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) C++
5 2 (4.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) Degree
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.51%) CISSP
4 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.26%) CISM
6 2 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.13%) CCNP
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.13%) MCSA
7 1 (2.13%) MCSE
7 1 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) GDPR
1 2 (4.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.77%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (8.51%) Docker
4 4 (8.51%) Hyper-V
4 4 (8.51%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (6.38%) BitLocker
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (6.38%) Terminal Services
6 1 (2.13%) Firmware
6 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) Kubernetes
1 13 (27.66%) Terraform
2 10 (21.28%) Ansible
3 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (8.51%) Grafana
4 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.51%) vCenter Server
4 4 (8.51%) vRealize
5 3 (6.38%) Nagios
5 3 (6.38%) Puppet
5 3 (6.38%) SCCM
5 3 (6.38%) vMotion
6 2 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.13%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.13%) QRadar
7 1 (2.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (2.13%) VxRail
7 1 (2.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (25.53%) VMware
3 4 (8.51%) Citrix
3 4 (8.51%) Databricks
3 4 (8.51%) Google
4 3 (6.38%) HP
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.38%) Symantec
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco
5 2 (4.26%) Dell
5 2 (4.26%) F5
5 2 (4.26%) ION Trading
5 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.26%) Splunk
5 2 (4.26%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.13%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.13%) EMC
6 1 (2.13%) OneTrust
6 1 (2.13%) Workday