PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Windows PowerShell
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 20 18 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 20.41% 10.40% 5.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.51% 40.00% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 6
10th Percentile £475 £486 £350
25th Percentile £500 £531 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £582 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% +36.94% -19.05%
75th Percentile £619 £604 £609
90th Percentile £634 £628 £669
Hampshire median daily rate £573 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.09% +4.76% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Farnborough

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 43 45 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 43.88% 26.01% 35.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 23
10th Percentile £368 £433 £415
25th Percentile £385 £518 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £591
90th Percentile £619 £627 £640
Hampshire median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% +4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £51.00
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.00%
75th Percentile - - £59.25
90th Percentile - - £59.70
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -28.57% +19.47% -2.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Farnborough over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Farnborough

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Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing PowerShell

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

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

Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
1 12 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Middleware
1 10 (50.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) Swagger
3 2 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (70.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (65.00%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (60.00%) Configuration Management
4 12 (60.00%) Migration
5 7 (35.00%) High Availability
6 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (20.00%) Open Source
8 3 (15.00%) DevOps
8 3 (15.00%) Observability
9 2 (10.00%) API Development
9 2 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
9 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 1 (5.00%) Application Virtualisation
10 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 1 (5.00%) Runbook
10 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 15 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (70.00%) SQL
4 13 (65.00%) Java
5 10 (50.00%) C#
6 3 (15.00%) Bash
6 3 (15.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) UAG
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Ansible
2 14 (70.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (30.00%) Terraform
4 3 (15.00%) Proxmox
4 3 (15.00%) Rundeck
4 3 (15.00%) Salt
5 2 (10.00%) Grafana
5 2 (10.00%) Kibana
5 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (10.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) NetIQ