PowerShell Contracts in Gloucester

Windows PowerShell
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 14 16 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 15.38% 19.05% 31.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.85% 42.11% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 41
10th Percentile £363 £200 £200
25th Percentile £381 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -21.95%
75th Percentile £478 £625 -
90th Percentile £623 - £488
Gloucestershire median daily rate £575 £550 £400
% change year-on-year +4.55% +37.50% -20.00%

All Programming Languages
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 26 38 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 28.57% 45.24% 63.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 72
10th Percentile £370 £385 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +24.57% -16.67%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £556
90th Percentile £740 £706 £669
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £550 £528
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £72.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -6.21% -7.05% +115.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Gloucester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Gloucester.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Gloucester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Gloucester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Gloucester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) SaaS
5 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) Google Workspace
6 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
2 2 (14.29%) HTTP
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Wintel Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Android
4 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
4 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (57.14%) Task Automation
2 5 (35.71%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Application Security
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
3 4 (28.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (21.43%) Threat Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Line Management
5 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Service Management
5 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) VB
3 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
5 1 (7.14%) MCP
5 1 (7.14%) MCSA
5 1 (7.14%) MCSE
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
4 2 (14.29%) Docker
5 1 (7.14%) BitLocker
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) McAfee ePO
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (28.57%) SCCM
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (21.43%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) McAfee
3 4 (28.57%) Symantec
3 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.14%) Citrix
5 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow