PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Windows PowerShell
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 13 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 -1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 5 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 5.26% 4.55% 3.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.52% 17.24% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £235 - £335
25th Percentile £283 £506 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% +20.59% +80.85%
75th Percentile £483 £519 £450
90th Percentile £538 - £491
South West median daily rate £516 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.49% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £69.62
75th Percentile - - £69.88
90th Percentile - - £70.34
South West median hourly rate £64.00 £74.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year -13.51% +6.29% +40.08%

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 27 29 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 28.42% 26.36% 26.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 43
10th Percentile £263 £339 £363
25th Percentile £339 £415 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £581 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% +8.14% +2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £675
90th Percentile £563 £721 -
South West median daily rate £513 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £57.50 -
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £69.62
Median % change year-on-year - -13.82% +28.92%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £69.88
90th Percentile - - £70.34
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Dorset

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Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Dorset over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Dorset

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Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing PowerShell

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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 19 October 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 +3 4 £205 -
Blandford Forum - 1 £550 - 1
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South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (20.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Android
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
1 3 (60.00%) Data Management
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Perl
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Packer
2 1 (20.00%) Podman
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware