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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 483 525
Rank change year-on-year -51 +42 +164
Contract jobs citing PowerCLI 7 3 20
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.022% 0.011% 0.056%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.14% 0.076% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 17
10th Percentile £506 £508 £358
25th Percentile £508 £631 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £875 £553
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +58.37% +7.80%
75th Percentile £781 £913 £663
90th Percentile £793 - £675
UK median daily rate £600 £723 £553
% change year-on-year -16.96% +30.77% +10.50%

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 4,946 3,954 4,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.68% 14.45% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,408 2,570 3,468
10th Percentile £313 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £528 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -2.27% -8.09%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 148
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.02 £21.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.94% -42.62% +24.07%
75th Percentile £65.06 £61.25 £65.31
90th Percentile £79.70 £77.50 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +111.35% -46.21% +31.94%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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
South West -7 3 £775 -11.43%
London -8 3 £510 +1.90% 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - -
PowerCLI
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) System Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Minimum Viable Product
3 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (28.57%) MCSA
3 2 (28.57%) MCSE
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (28.57%) OCA
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (28.57%) VCAP
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) vSphere
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Packer
3 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 2 (28.57%) Veeam
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Pure Storage