PowerShell Contracts in the City of London

Windows PowerShell
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 32 62
Rank change year-on-year -30 +30 -7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 55 122 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.28% 5.65% 3.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.21% 15.89% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 99 63
10th Percentile £300 £400 £452
25th Percentile £463 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £680
90th Percentile £725 £775 £723
Central London median daily rate £548 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -0.45% -2.22% +2.27%

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 670 768 1,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.00% 35.57% 42.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 540 947
10th Percentile £406 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £738
90th Percentile £800 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £554 £625
% change year-on-year -0.63% -11.44% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £23.63
25th Percentile £16.50 £46.75 £39.06
Median hourly rate £17.00 £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.95% -11.82% +2.80%
75th Percentile £17.50 £50.25 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £84.38
Central London median hourly rate £23.04 £48.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.51% -11.82% +2.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the City of London

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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 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 32 (58.18%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) AWS
3 10 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (14.55%) GitHub
5 7 (12.73%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (12.73%) Entra ID
5 7 (12.73%) GCP
6 6 (10.91%) Azure AKS
6 6 (10.91%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (10.91%) SaaS
7 5 (9.09%) PaaS
8 4 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (7.27%) IaaS
8 4 (7.27%) Serverless
9 3 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.64%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (3.64%) Nutanix
10 2 (3.64%) OneDrive
10 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.18%) DNS
2 7 (12.73%) Firewall
3 6 (10.91%) DHCP
4 4 (7.27%) HTTP
4 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.45%) SMTP
6 2 (3.64%) FTP
6 2 (3.64%) LAN
6 2 (3.64%) Network Security
6 2 (3.64%) SSL
6 2 (3.64%) VLAN
6 2 (3.64%) WAN
7 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.82%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.82%) NAS
7 1 (1.82%) SAN
7 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.64%) Power BI
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.82%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.82%) Big Data
5 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.82%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Git
1 5 (9.09%) JIRA
2 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.64%) GitLab
3 2 (3.64%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.82%) Serena SBM
4 1 (1.82%) Subversion
4 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (47.27%) Finance
2 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Banking
4 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Front Office
6 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.82%) Back Office
7 1 (1.82%) Military
7 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) Analyst
2 6 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (10.91%) Support Analyst
3 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Applications Support
5 3 (5.45%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) SCCM Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Senior
6 2 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (3.64%) CyberArk Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Lead
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) .NET
2 3 (5.45%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.45%) REST
3 2 (3.64%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (3.64%) LDAP
3 2 (3.64%) OAuth
3 2 (3.64%) SAML
3 2 (3.64%) Web Services
4 1 (1.82%) ADO
4 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.82%) Kafka
4 1 (1.82%) OpenID
4 1 (1.82%) RESTful
4 1 (1.82%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.82%) SOAP
4 1 (1.82%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.45%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.64%) Insider Threat
4 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Reinsurance
4 2 (3.64%) Wiki
5 1 (1.82%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.82%) iPad
5 1 (1.82%) iPhone
5 1 (1.82%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (60.00%) Windows
2 15 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 13 (23.64%) Linux
4 7 (12.73%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.64%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.64%) Unix
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.82%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.09%) DevOps
1 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (14.55%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (12.73%) Migration
5 5 (9.09%) Cloud Security
5 5 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (9.09%) High Availability
5 5 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 5 (9.09%) Microservices
5 5 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
5 5 (9.09%) SIEM
5 5 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (7.27%) Agile
6 4 (7.27%) Asset Management
6 4 (7.27%) Cost Management
6 4 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (47.27%) Python
2 11 (20.00%) Bash
3 10 (18.18%) SQL
4 9 (16.36%) C#
5 6 (10.91%) Bicep
5 6 (10.91%) Java
6 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.45%) VBScript
7 2 (3.64%) C++
7 2 (3.64%) Perl
7 2 (3.64%) Ruby
7 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.82%) C
8 1 (1.82%) Groovy
8 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) CISSP
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.64%) CISM
4 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.82%) CEH
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.45%) NIST
3 2 (3.64%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.82%) EMIR
4 1 (1.82%) MiFID
4 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.64%) Docker
4 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.82%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.82%) OpenAM
5 1 (1.82%) OpenDJ
5 1 (1.82%) OpenIDM
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.82%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.82%) XenApp
5 1 (1.82%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Terraform
2 8 (14.55%) SCCM
3 5 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.27%) Ansible
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.45%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (5.45%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.64%) Grafana
6 2 (3.64%) Kibana
6 2 (3.64%) Puppet
6 2 (3.64%) WSUS
7 1 (1.82%) Control-M
7 1 (1.82%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.82%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.82%) QRadar
7 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.82%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.18%) VMware
3 7 (12.73%) CyberArk
4 6 (10.91%) ServiceNow
5 4 (7.27%) Splunk
6 2 (3.64%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (3.64%) Databricks
6 2 (3.64%) IBM
7 1 (1.82%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.82%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.82%) Google
7 1 (1.82%) HP
7 1 (1.82%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.82%) NETGEAR
7 1 (1.82%) Qualys
7 1 (1.82%) Serena
7 1 (1.82%) Solace
7 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.82%) Sun
7 1 (1.82%) TP-LINK