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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 491 504
Rank change year-on-year -113 +13 +91
Contract jobs citing PowerCLI 26 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.057% 0.055% 0.027%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% 0.40% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 1
10th Percentile £439 £410 -
25th Percentile £503 £479 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £315
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +71.43% -42.73%
75th Percentile £644 £550 £323
90th Percentile £685 £569 -
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £315
% change year-on-year +6.67% +78.57% -42.73%
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 5,011 3,790 3,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 13.85% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,365 2,513 2,744
10th Percentile £308 £282 £300
25th Percentile £418 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £711
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.47% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 60 59
10th Percentile £21.33 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £46.00 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £44.48 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.65% +18.60% -24.43%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.80 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £80.30 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -28.57%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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
London -66 7 £600 - 4
North West -41 6 £551 -
North of England -56 6 £551 -
Midlands -45 5 £474 +29.86%
West Midlands -45 5 £474 +29.86%
South West -36 4 £619 +30.26% 5
South East -63 3 £650 +13.04% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (61.54%) VSAN
2 4 (15.38%) DNS
3 3 (11.54%) VLAN
4 2 (7.69%) NAS
4 2 (7.69%) SAN
5 1 (3.85%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) VMware Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
2 6 (23.08%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Server Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) VMware Expert
6 1 (3.85%) Automation Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Data Centre
2 7 (26.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (7.69%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Windows
2 6 (23.08%) Linux
3 4 (15.38%) VMS
3 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (34.62%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Automation
3 8 (30.77%) ITIL
3 8 (30.77%) Knowledge Transfer
3 8 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (30.77%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (26.92%) Runbook
5 6 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (19.23%) DevOps
6 5 (19.23%) High Availability
6 5 (19.23%) Load Balancing
6 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (19.23%) Storage Management
7 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 4 (15.38%) Data Centre Operations
7 4 (15.38%) GitOps
7 4 (15.38%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) PowerShell
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (42.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (30.77%) DV Cleared
5 6 (23.08%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) vSphere
2 19 (73.08%) VMware ESXi
2 19 (73.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (46.15%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (46.15%) VMware NSX
4 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
5 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.85%) UAG
Systems Management
1 16 (61.54%) Ansible
2 12 (46.15%) vCenter Server
3 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 6 (23.08%) vMotion
4 3 (11.54%) vRealize
5 2 (7.69%) SCOM
5 2 (7.69%) SCOrch
6 1 (3.85%) Avamar
6 1 (3.85%) OPNET
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (15.38%) 3PAR
2 4 (15.38%) Nimble Storage
2 4 (15.38%) SaltStack
2 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 3 (11.54%) Veeam
3 3 (11.54%) Zerto
4 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco
4 2 (7.69%) Dell
4 2 (7.69%) EMC
4 2 (7.69%) Isilon
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft