PowerShell Contracts in Dorset

Windows PowerShell
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 26 24
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 15 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 15.31% 1.21% 5.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.61% 7.14% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £450 - £236
25th Percentile £459 £506 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year +19.51% +10.81% +15.63%
75th Percentile £694 £519 £525
90th Percentile £780 - -
South West median daily rate £585 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% +14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £51.63
25th Percentile - - £54.52
Median hourly rate - - £57.33
75th Percentile - - £59.18
90th Percentile - - £60.25
South West median hourly rate £82.96 £40.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year +107.40% -30.23% +12.92%

All Programming Languages
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 49 28 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 50.00% 16.97% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 25
10th Percentile £384 £175 £303
25th Percentile £433 £341 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £419 £513
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -18.29% +10.81%
75th Percentile £606 £472 £638
90th Percentile £688 £551 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - - £49.32
25th Percentile - £61.25 £49.96
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £56.08
Median % change year-on-year - +11.45% +15.68%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £57.95
90th Percentile - - £60.07
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Dorset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Dorset.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Dorset

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Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Dorset over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Dorset

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Dorset.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Dorset

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Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth - 10 £650 - 7
Blandford Forum - 5 £525 -
PowerShell
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
1 10 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (40.00%) Google Workspace
3 3 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (20.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Skype
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) NAS
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) VoIP
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Legal
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Site Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Wintel Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
1 6 (40.00%) Windows 10
1 6 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.67%) VMS
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Migration
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Change Management
3 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Validation
4 4 (26.67%) Critical Thinking
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (26.67%) ITIL
4 4 (26.67%) NsoIT
4 4 (26.67%) Service Management
4 4 (26.67%) System Testing
5 3 (20.00%) B2B
5 3 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (20.00%) E-Discovery
6 1 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Scrum
6 1 (6.67%) Server Building
6 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) MCSE
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) JSP 440
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (26.67%) WSUS
2 1 (6.67%) PowerCLI
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) VMware