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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 56 29
Rank change year-on-year -29 -27 +32
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 44 61 123
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.90% 3.49% 5.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.21% 8.70% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 43 97
10th Percentile £413 £330 £395
25th Percentile £475 £494 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.45% -1.78%
75th Percentile £577 £644 £675
90th Percentile £638 £724 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.44% +2.27% -2.22%
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 610 701 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.41% 40.13% 34.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 461 526
10th Percentile £355 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £696 £689
90th Percentile £750 £800 £794
Central London median daily rate £528 £575 £553
% change year-on-year -8.26% +4.07% -11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £26.32 - -
25th Percentile £32.39 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.82%
75th Percentile £56.11 - £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +29.00% -40.06% -11.82%

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 17 May 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 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 28 (63.64%) Azure
2 11 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 11 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (20.45%) Power Platform
4 7 (15.91%) AWS
4 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (9.09%) GCP
5 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (6.82%) GitHub
7 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.55%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) DNS
1 7 (15.91%) VPN
2 5 (11.36%) DHCP
2 5 (11.36%) Firewall
2 5 (11.36%) Network Security
3 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.27%) BGP
4 1 (2.27%) Internet
4 1 (2.27%) IPsec
4 1 (2.27%) OSPF
4 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.27%) SSL
4 1 (2.27%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.27%) VLAN
4 1 (2.27%) VSAN
4 1 (2.27%) WAN
4 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Power BI
2 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.27%) Big Data
4 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.09%) JMeter
1 4 (9.09%) Postman
2 2 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) Fiddler
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) MSI
3 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Back Office
5 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) International Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Consultant
1 7 (15.91%) Senior
2 4 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (9.09%) Service Desk Engineer
2 4 (9.09%) Tester
2 4 (9.09%) VMware Consultant
3 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) Architect
4 2 (4.55%) Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Developer
4 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) JSON
2 4 (9.09%) Swagger
3 3 (6.82%) OAuth
3 3 (6.82%) REST
4 2 (4.55%) SAML
4 2 (4.55%) XML
5 1 (2.27%) .NET
5 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.27%) J2EE
5 1 (2.27%) JDBC
5 1 (2.27%) LDAP
5 1 (2.27%) Middleware
5 1 (2.27%) Node.js
5 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.27%) OpenID
5 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.27%) RESTful
5 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.27%) SOAP
5 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.27%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (2.27%) BYOD
3 1 (2.27%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) CMDB
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) PKI
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.73%) Windows
2 6 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.55%) Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.27%) SUSE
4 1 (2.27%) VMS
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) DevOps
1 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 9 (20.45%) Zero Trust
4 8 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 7 (15.91%) AI
5 7 (15.91%) Cloud Security
5 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (15.91%) ITIL
6 6 (13.64%) Analytics
6 6 (13.64%) Change Management
6 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 6 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (11.36%) Change Control
7 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (11.36%) SIEM
7 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) Bash
3 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.82%) Bicep
4 3 (6.82%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) C++
6 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 4 (9.09%) CISSP
4 4 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.55%) CISM
5 2 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.55%) Degree
5 2 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.27%) CCNA
6 1 (2.27%) CCNP
6 1 (2.27%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) MCSA
6 1 (2.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (9.09%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) NIST
3 2 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.27%) Docker
4 1 (2.27%) Firmware
4 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Terraform
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (15.91%) Ansible
3 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
4 5 (11.36%) vRealize
5 4 (9.09%) Grafana
5 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (4.55%) SCCM
7 1 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.27%) Icinga
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.27%) Packer
7 1 (2.27%) QRadar
7 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (2.27%) VxRail
7 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (52.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) VMware
3 4 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.55%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.27%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco
5 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.27%) Databricks
5 1 (2.27%) Dell
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) iManage
5 1 (2.27%) Meraki
5 1 (2.27%) Okta
5 1 (2.27%) OneTrust
5 1 (2.27%) Planview
5 1 (2.27%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) Workday