PowerCLI Contract Job Trends in England

VMware PowerCLI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring PowerCLI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 467 520
Rank change year-on-year -105 +53 +113
Contract jobs citing PowerCLI 27 16 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.065% 0.067% 0.084%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.49% 0.42% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 22
10th Percentile £365 £484 £521
25th Percentile £424 £517 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £573 £583 -
90th Percentile £639 £619 -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -13.64% -21.43% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £63.75
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £67.50

All Systems Management Skills
England

PowerCLI falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,546 3,784 4,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.27% 15.77% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,812 2,577 3,289
10th Percentile £316 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £708 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.34% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 38 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.22 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £38.75 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +45.81% +34.78% -45.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.89 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +89.66% -3.33% -47.83%

PowerCLI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

PowerCLI job vacancy trend in England

PowerCLI
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerCLI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerCLI

PowerCLI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerCLI in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerCLI in England

PowerCLI
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerCLI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerCLI

PowerCLI
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerCLI within the England region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. 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
North of England - 11 £485 -
London -72 7 £475 -21.65% 4
Midlands - 6 £450 - 1
North West - 6 £551 -
West Midlands - 6 £450 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £454 -
South East -59 2 £625 +8.70% 1
PowerCLI
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PowerCLI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) OpenShift
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Nutanix
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) VSAN
2 2 (7.41%) NAS
2 2 (7.41%) SAN
2 2 (7.41%) VLAN
3 1 (3.70%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Advertising
4 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
4 2 (7.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) VMware Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Senior
2 6 (22.22%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) VMware Expert
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
6 1 (3.70%) Product Owner
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (7.41%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 9 (33.33%) Linux
3 5 (18.52%) VMS
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Ubuntu
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (40.74%) Capacity Planning
2 11 (40.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (40.74%) High Availability
3 8 (29.63%) Knowledge Transfer
3 8 (29.63%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 7 (25.93%) Change Management
4 7 (25.93%) Migration
5 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (22.22%) ITIL
5 6 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) Storage Management
7 4 (14.81%) Data Centre Operations
7 4 (14.81%) Service Management
7 4 (14.81%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (11.11%) Business Continuity
8 3 (11.11%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 10 (37.04%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) VCAP
5 2 (7.41%) Degree
5 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 21 (77.78%) vSphere
2 18 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 18 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (51.85%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (29.63%) VMware NSX
5 4 (14.81%) KVM
6 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
8 1 (3.70%) UAG
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Ansible
2 15 (55.56%) vCenter Server
3 6 (22.22%) vMotion
3 6 (22.22%) vRealize
4 3 (11.11%) Terraform
4 3 (11.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) 3PAR
3 4 (14.81%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco
4 2 (7.41%) Dell
4 2 (7.41%) EMC
4 2 (7.41%) Isilon
4 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.41%) Veeam
4 2 (7.41%) Zerto