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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 458 521
Rank change year-on-year -101 +63 +155
Contract jobs citing PowerCLI 18 13 27
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.048% 0.053% 0.072%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.34% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 25
10th Percentile £421 £488 £514
25th Percentile £425 £525 £630
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £515 £694 -
90th Percentile £738 £913 -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -13.64% -21.43% +27.27%

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 5,501 3,872 4,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.69% 15.81% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,806 2,622 3,264
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 39 133
10th Percentile £19.65 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -15.87% -41.86%
75th Percentile £68.13 £61.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.35 £77.74 £69.73
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 - 7 £454 - 8
London -53 6 £475 -21.65% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £454 - 3
South West -26 3 £775 +9.73%
North West - 2 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
Midlands - 1 £425 -
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) OpenShift
2 3 (16.67%) Nutanix
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) VSAN
2 1 (5.56%) NAS
2 1 (5.56%) PCoIP
2 1 (5.56%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) VMS
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (38.89%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (38.89%) High Availability
4 5 (27.78%) Change Management
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 4 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Task Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
5 4 (22.22%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
6 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 3 (16.67%) Performance Management
6 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Change Control
7 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (11.11%) Service Management
7 2 (11.11%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 8 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 3 (16.67%) VCAP
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) MCSA
3 2 (11.11%) MCSE
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) OCA
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (61.11%) vSphere
3 8 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (38.89%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (22.22%) KVM
5 4 (22.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
8 1 (5.56%) Docker
8 1 (5.56%) UAG
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Ansible
2 11 (61.11%) vCenter Server
3 6 (33.33%) Terraform
4 3 (16.67%) vRealize
4 3 (16.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) VMware
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Atlassian
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 2 (11.11%) Veeam
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) Pure Storage