PowerShell Contracts in the East of England

Windows PowerShell
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 58 93 55
Rank change year-on-year +35 -38 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 24 19 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.56% 1.00% 3.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.72% 4.53% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 55
10th Percentile £200 £412 £289
25th Percentile £479 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £561 £484 £550
90th Percentile £645 £550 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate £200.00 £40.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +396.15% +61.24% -44.44%
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year -27.50% -33.22% +19.80%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 247 419 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.33% 21.95% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 183 344
10th Percentile £315 £308 £289
25th Percentile £406 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £572 £563 £575
90th Percentile £675 £635 £684
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 145 99
10th Percentile £32.65 £52.50 £48.50
25th Percentile £59.00 £60.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £88.75 £77.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +35 10 £560 +31.76% 35
Cambridgeshire +14 6 £550 +33.33% 26
Suffolk - 5 £200 - 1
Essex +3 3 - - 15
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (8.33%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (20.83%) AWS
4 4 (16.67%) GitHub
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (12.50%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) Cohesity
6 2 (8.33%) IaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.17%) PaaS
7 1 (4.17%) SaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 5 (20.83%) VSAN
3 4 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (8.33%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (8.33%) SAN
5 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.17%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 18 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Legal
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
3 1 (4.17%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (29.17%) Mobile Device Management
3 7 (29.17%) PRINCE2
3 7 (29.17%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (20.83%) Zero Trust
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) SIEM
6 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Waterfall
7 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (12.50%) Migration
7 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (8.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) VCAP
4 3 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (25.00%) vSphere
3 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
4 4 (16.67%) VMware NSX
5 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
1 7 (29.17%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (20.83%) Terraform
3 4 (16.67%) PowerCLI
3 4 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 4 (16.67%) VxRail
4 3 (12.50%) WSUS
5 2 (8.33%) SCCM
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) VMware
3 7 (29.17%) Apple
3 7 (29.17%) Samsung
3 7 (29.17%) SOTI
4 4 (16.67%) Dell
4 4 (16.67%) Splunk
5 2 (8.33%) Computacenter
5 2 (8.33%) Google
5 2 (8.33%) NetApp
5 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.17%) HP
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.17%) Tenable