PowerShell Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Windows PowerShell UK / England
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	107	99	128
Rank change year-on-year	-8	+29
Contract jobs citing PowerShell	947	1161	915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	2.23%	2.35%	1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category	5.32%	6.01%	4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted	579	749	615
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£290	£264
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£365	£350
% change year-on-year	+2.73%	+4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	19	19	28
Median hourly rate	£44.00	£28.00	£26.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+57.14%	+6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.62	£19.00	£22.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£53.00	£49.00	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£44.00	£36.00	£26.50
% change year-on-year	+22.22%	+35.84%

PowerShell is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	17797	19305	19561
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	41.91%	39.10%	38.33%
Number of daily rates quoted	12243	13462	13266
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£588	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	359	413	395
Median hourly rate	£41.75	£37.50	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+11.33%	+1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.85	£15.95	£19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.30	£51.10	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£36.50
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+2.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing PowerShell as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing PowerShell in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for PowerShell in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for PowerShell in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for PowerShell in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in England

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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 PowerShell within the England region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-10	460	£450	-	137
South East	-30	173	£402	-0.74%	37
East of England	+36	70	£475	+22.58%	17
North West	+24	62	£375	-5.06%	18
South West	+3	62	£325	-5.79%	16
West Midlands	+46	48	£388	+3.33%	31
East Midlands	-1	43	£375	+7.14%	4
Yorkshire	-18	22	£363	-3.33%	16
North East	-12	6	£325	+1.56%	1
South Coast	-	2	-	-
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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for PowerShell.

1	1155 (61.83%)	Windows
2	727 (38.92%)	Microsoft
3	670 (35.87%)	Active Directory
4	577 (30.89%)	Windows Server
5	507 (27.14%)	SQL
5	507 (27.14%)	Microsoft Azure
6	471 (25.21%)	SQL Server
6	471 (25.21%)	VMware
7	418 (22.38%)	DevOps
8	377 (20.18%)	Linux
9	372 (19.91%)	Windows Server 2012
10	354 (18.95%)	Finance
11	349 (18.68%)	Agile Software Development
12	339 (18.15%)	.NET
13	329 (17.61%)	Windows Server 2008

14	295 (15.79%)	Amazon AWS
15	292 (15.63%)	VMware Infrastructure
16	288 (15.42%)	Office 365
17	276 (14.78%)	Migration
18	273 (14.61%)	C#
19	257 (13.76%)	Python
20	256 (13.70%)	Security Cleared
21	252 (13.49%)	SCCM
22	248 (13.28%)	ITIL
23	230 (12.31%)	IIS
24	228 (12.21%)	SharePoint
25	226 (12.10%)	DNS
26	204 (10.92%)	MS Exchange
27	202 (10.81%)	Citrix
28	201 (10.76%)	Opscode Chef

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Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	230 (12.31%)	IIS
2	228 (12.21%)	SharePoint
3	204 (10.92%)	MS Exchange
4	150 (8.03%)	Exchange Server 2010
5	145 (7.76%)	Skype for Business
6	116 (6.21%)	Exchange Server 2013
7	93 (4.98%)	SharePoint 2013
8	62 (3.32%)	SharePoint 2010
9	46 (2.46%)	Confluence
10	45 (2.41%)	WebLogic
11	44 (2.36%)	Exchange Server 2007
12	38 (2.03%)	Apache
12	38 (2.03%)	WebSphere
13	33 (1.77%)	Tomcat
14	24 (1.28%)	CMS
15	23 (1.23%)	OpenStack
16	22 (1.18%)	Exchange Server 2003
17	19 (1.02%)	BizTalk Server
17	19 (1.02%)	JBoss
18	18 (0.96%)	NServiceBus

Applications
1	78 (4.18%)	Microsoft Office
2	38 (2.03%)	Microsoft Excel
3	8 (0.43%)	InfoPath
4	4 (0.21%)	Microsoft Project
5	2 (0.11%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	2 (0.11%)	Spreadsheet
5	2 (0.11%)	SPSS
6	1 (0.054%)	Acrobat
6	1 (0.054%)	HipChat
6	1 (0.054%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	20 (1.07%)	Dynamics CRM
2	18 (0.96%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	3 (0.16%)	Dynamics AX
4	2 (0.11%)	Changepoint
4	2 (0.11%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
4	2 (0.11%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
4	2 (0.11%)	Remedy ITSM
4	2 (0.11%)	Scribe Insight
4	2 (0.11%)	WebTrends
5	1 (0.054%)	Dynamics GP
5	1 (0.054%)	Dynamics NAV
5	1 (0.054%)	FRx
5	1 (0.054%)	ION MarketView
5	1 (0.054%)	LatentZero
5	1 (0.054%)	Oracle Applications
5	1 (0.054%)	Sage CRM
5	1 (0.054%)	Sentinel
5	1 (0.054%)	thinkFolio

Cloud Services
1	507 (27.14%)	Microsoft Azure
2	295 (15.79%)	Amazon AWS
3	288 (15.42%)	Office 365
4	101 (5.41%)	IaaS
5	90 (4.82%)	Azure Active Directory
6	78 (4.18%)	PaaS
7	44 (2.36%)	OneDrive
8	32 (1.71%)	SaaS
9	29 (1.55%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	23 (1.23%)	Trello
11	21 (1.12%)	Amazon EC2
12	19 (1.02%)	Amazon S3
13	15 (0.80%)	Yammer
14	13 (0.70%)	Dynamics 365
14	13 (0.70%)	Route 53
14	13 (0.70%)	Virtual Private Cloud
15	12 (0.64%)	Amazon ELB
15	12 (0.64%)	AWS Lambda
15	12 (0.64%)	GitHub
16	8 (0.43%)	Cloud Computing

Communications & Networking
1	226 (12.10%)	DNS
2	200 (10.71%)	Firewall
3	135 (7.23%)	SAN
4	115 (6.16%)	DHCP
5	100 (5.35%)	TCP/IP
6	87 (4.66%)	LAN
7	81 (4.34%)	Skype
8	61 (3.27%)	WAN
9	60 (3.21%)	HTTP
10	58 (3.10%)	Internet
11	57 (3.05%)	VPN
12	52 (2.78%)	NAS
13	51 (2.73%)	LDAP
14	44 (2.36%)	NetScaler
15	39 (2.09%)	SMTP
16	38 (2.03%)	SSL
16	38 (2.03%)	Wireless
17	35 (1.87%)	VLAN
18	28 (1.50%)	Remote Desktop
19	25 (1.34%)	VSAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	471 (25.21%)	SQL Server
2	122 (6.53%)	SQL Server 2012
3	88 (4.71%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
4	86 (4.60%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	82 (4.39%)	SQL Server 2008
6	56 (3.00%)	SQL Server 2014
7	52 (2.78%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
8	51 (2.73%)	MySQL
8	51 (2.73%)	Oracle Database
9	49 (2.62%)	Relational Database
10	33 (1.77%)	BusinessObjects
11	31 (1.66%)	Data Warehouse
12	26 (1.39%)	SQL Server 2016
13	25 (1.34%)	Big Data
14	24 (1.28%)	Power BI
14	24 (1.28%)	SQL Server 2005
15	20 (1.07%)	Azure SQL Database
16	19 (1.02%)	Amazon RDS
17	16 (0.86%)	MongoDB
17	16 (0.86%)	Oracle Database 10g

Development Applications
1	177 (9.48%)	Jenkins
2	169 (9.05%)	Git (software)
3	168 (8.99%)	Team Foundation Server
4	125 (6.69%)	TeamCity
5	110 (5.89%)	Octopus Deploy
6	90 (4.82%)	Visual Studio
7	71 (3.80%)	JIRA
8	61 (3.27%)	MSBuild
9	45 (2.41%)	MSI
10	43 (2.30%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	41 (2.19%)	Subversion
12	35 (1.87%)	GitLab
12	35 (1.87%)	Sonatype Nexus
13	29 (1.55%)	Ant
14	21 (1.12%)	Hudson
15	20 (1.07%)	Maven
16	19 (1.02%)	SpecFlow
16	19 (1.02%)	Toad
16	19 (1.02%)	Vagrant
16	19 (1.02%)	Visual Studio Team System

General
1	354 (18.95%)	Finance
2	156 (8.35%)	Banking
3	44 (2.36%)	Investment Banking
4	38 (2.03%)	Legal
5	33 (1.77%)	Back Office
6	30 (1.61%)	Law
7	29 (1.55%)	Front Office
8	25 (1.34%)	Manufacturing
9	24 (1.28%)	Telecoms
10	23 (1.23%)	Retail
11	19 (1.02%)	Marketing
12	16 (0.86%)	Electronics
13	14 (0.75%)	Advertising
13	14 (0.75%)	Financial Institution
14	11 (0.59%)	Local Government
15	9 (0.48%)	Games
16	7 (0.37%)	Publishing
17	5 (0.27%)	French Language
18	4 (0.21%)	Billing
19	3 (0.16%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	267 (14.29%)	Developer
2	228 (12.21%)	DevOps Engineer
3	185 (9.90%)	Analyst
4	146 (7.82%)	Consultant
5	139 (7.44%)	Windows Engineer
6	134 (7.17%)	Infrastructure Engineer
7	110 (5.89%)	PowerShell Engineer
8	105 (5.62%)	Administrator
9	102 (5.46%)	Architect
10	77 (4.12%)	Azure Engineer
11	76 (4.07%)	SharePoint Developer
12	72 (3.85%)	Cloud Engineer
13	67 (3.59%)	DBA
13	67 (3.59%)	Support Engineer
14	66 (3.53%)	Support Analyst
15	62 (3.32%)	VMware Engineer
16	61 (3.27%)	.NET Developer
17	57 (3.05%)	C# Developer
18	53 (2.84%)	AWS Engineer
19	51 (2.73%)	Wintel Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	339 (18.15%)	.NET
2	150 (8.03%)	HTML
2	150 (8.03%)	Web Services
3	127 (6.80%)	CSS
4	105 (5.62%)	XML
5	80 (4.28%)	ASP.NET
6	69 (3.69%)	.NET Framework
7	60 (3.21%)	jQuery
8	52 (2.78%)	HTML5
9	50 (2.68%)	AngularJS
10	49 (2.62%)	RESTful
11	46 (2.46%)	REST
12	44 (2.36%)	Software Packaging
13	41 (2.19%)	JSON
14	38 (2.03%)	Entity Framework
15	35 (1.87%)	WCF
16	32 (1.71%)	ASP.NET Web API
17	30 (1.61%)	Middleware
18	27 (1.45%)	SOAP
19	24 (1.28%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	138 (7.39%)	Data Centre
2	132 (7.07%)	Analytical Skills
3	85 (4.55%)	Clustering
4	50 (2.68%)	Replication
5	46 (2.46%)	Computer Science
6	45 (2.41%)	Management Information System
7	39 (2.09%)	PKI
8	29 (1.55%)	Greenfield Project
9	24 (1.28%)	Private Cloud
10	22 (1.18%)	Hybrid Cloud
11	21 (1.12%)	Linux Command Line
12	20 (1.07%)	Blackberry
13	19 (1.02%)	Client/Server
13	19 (1.02%)	Public Cloud
14	18 (0.96%)	Virtual Team
15	16 (0.86%)	Fat Client
15	16 (0.86%)	Fintech
15	16 (0.86%)	Thin Client
16	15 (0.80%)	User Experience
17	14 (0.75%)	EPoS

Operating Systems
1	1155 (61.83%)	Windows
2	577 (30.89%)	Windows Server
3	377 (20.18%)	Linux
4	372 (19.91%)	Windows Server 2012
5	329 (17.61%)	Windows Server 2008
6	194 (10.39%)	Unix
7	126 (6.75%)	Windows Server 2003
8	121 (6.48%)	Windows 7
9	105 (5.62%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	98 (5.25%)	Windows 10
11	29 (1.55%)	VMS
12	28 (1.50%)	Android
12	28 (1.50%)	CentOS
12	28 (1.50%)	Ubuntu
13	25 (1.34%)	Windows 8
14	24 (1.28%)	Apple iOS
15	22 (1.18%)	Solaris
16	21 (1.12%)	Windows XP
17	18 (0.96%)	Mac OS X
18	13 (0.70%)	AIX

Processes & Methodologies
1	418 (22.38%)	DevOps
2	349 (18.68%)	Agile Software Development
3	276 (14.78%)	Migration
4	248 (13.28%)	ITIL
5	194 (10.39%)	Configuration Management
6	186 (9.96%)	Continuous Integration
7	95 (5.09%)	Test Automation
8	89 (4.76%)	Disaster Recovery
8	89 (4.76%)	Task Automation
9	85 (4.55%)	Release Management
9	85 (4.55%)	Workflow
10	84 (4.50%)	Scrum
11	81 (4.34%)	Change Management
12	76 (4.07%)	Business Intelligence
13	71 (3.80%)	Project Management
14	70 (3.75%)	Service Management
15	67 (3.59%)	Load Balancing
16	62 (3.32%)	High Availability
17	61 (3.27%)	Continuous Delivery
17	61 (3.27%)	Open Source

Programming Languages
1	507 (27.14%)	SQL
2	273 (14.61%)	C#
3	257 (13.76%)	Python
4	166 (8.89%)	Bash Shell
5	165 (8.83%)	VBScript
6	163 (8.73%)	Perl
7	154 (8.24%)	JavaScript
8	152 (8.14%)	Java
9	133 (7.12%)	T-SQL
10	85 (4.55%)	Ruby
11	84 (4.50%)	VB
12	67 (3.59%)	Shell Script
13	46 (2.46%)	PHP
14	30 (1.61%)	PL/SQL
14	30 (1.61%)	VB.NET
15	28 (1.50%)	VBA
16	27 (1.45%)	C
17	20 (1.07%)	C++
18	16 (0.86%)	Korn
19	8 (0.43%)	VB6

Qualifications
1	256 (13.70%)	Security Cleared
2	182 (9.74%)	Microsoft Certification
3	181 (9.69%)	SC Cleared
4	100 (5.35%)	MCSE
5	68 (3.64%)	Degree
6	57 (3.05%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7	53 (2.84%)	Cisco Certification
8	51 (2.73%)	DV Cleared
9	48 (2.57%)	MCITP
10	38 (2.03%)	CCNA
11	37 (1.98%)	MCSA
12	32 (1.71%)	Computer Science Degree
13	23 (1.23%)	MCP
14	22 (1.18%)	CCNP
15	17 (0.91%)	MCTS
16	16 (0.86%)	ITIL Certification
17	11 (0.59%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
18	10 (0.54%)	VCP6
19	8 (0.43%)	CISSP
20	7 (0.37%)	Citrix Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	41 (2.19%)	QA
2	35 (1.87%)	SLA
3	10 (0.54%)	PCI DSS
4	8 (0.43%)	COBIT
4	8 (0.43%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	8 (0.43%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	7 (0.37%)	Data Quality
5	7 (0.37%)	GDPR
6	5 (0.27%)	Dodd-Frank
7	4 (0.21%)	PMO
8	3 (0.16%)	Cyber Essentials
8	3 (0.16%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
8	3 (0.16%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
9	1 (0.054%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
9	1 (0.054%)	ISO 8583
9	1 (0.054%)	ISO 9001
9	1 (0.054%)	PMBOK

System Software
1	670 (35.87%)	Active Directory
2	292 (15.63%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	186 (9.96%)	Hyper-V
4	99 (5.30%)	vSphere
5	96 (5.14%)	VMware ESXi
6	68 (3.64%)	XenDesktop
7	59 (3.16%)	Docker
8	55 (2.94%)	XenApp
9	44 (2.36%)	Virtual Machines
10	43 (2.30%)	Microsoft App-V
11	27 (1.45%)	XenServer
12	17 (0.91%)	Virtual Servers
13	16 (0.86%)	BitLocker
13	16 (0.86%)	VirtualBox
14	15 (0.80%)	vCloud
15	14 (0.75%)	DFS Replication
16	13 (0.70%)	VMware Workstation
17	11 (0.59%)	UAG
17	11 (0.59%)	Virtual Desktop
18	10 (0.54%)	NFS

Systems Management
1	252 (13.49%)	SCCM
2	201 (10.76%)	Opscode Chef
3	174 (9.31%)	Ansible
4	162 (8.67%)	Puppet
5	106 (5.67%)	SCOM
6	65 (3.48%)	vCenter Server
7	49 (2.62%)	WSUS
8	45 (2.41%)	Nagios
9	43 (2.30%)	NetBackup
10	36 (1.93%)	Dollar Universe
11	33 (1.77%)	Microsoft Clustering
11	33 (1.77%)	Terraform
12	31 (1.66%)	SCOrch
13	28 (1.50%)	Kubernetes
14	26 (1.39%)	Control-M
15	25 (1.34%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
16	24 (1.28%)	AirWatch
16	24 (1.28%)	PowerCLI
16	24 (1.28%)	vRealize
17	23 (1.23%)	OpenView Configuration Management

Vendors
1	727 (38.92%)	Microsoft
2	471 (25.21%)	VMware
3	202 (10.81%)	Citrix
4	177 (9.48%)	Oracle
5	137 (7.33%)	Cisco
6	131 (7.01%)	HP
7	98 (5.25%)	ServiceNow
8	97 (5.19%)	Red Hat
9	72 (3.85%)	Symantec
10	59 (3.16%)	NetApp
11	55 (2.94%)	Splunk
12	50 (2.68%)	IBM
12	50 (2.68%)	McAfee
13	49 (2.62%)	Dell
14	41 (2.19%)	Atlassian
15	32 (1.71%)	TIBCO
16	28 (1.50%)	EMC
17	27 (1.45%)	Altiris
17	27 (1.45%)	CheckPoint
18	26 (1.39%)	Veritas