PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Windows PowerShell
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 5 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 11 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 12.64% 21.05% 12.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.83% 55.17% 23.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 10
10th Percentile £337 - £396
25th Percentile £343 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £470 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% +1.62% +23.33%
75th Percentile £447 £625 £504
90th Percentile £479 - £711
Gloucestershire median daily rate £438 £550 £490
% change year-on-year -20.45% +12.24% +8.89%

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 24 29 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 27.59% 38.16% 54.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 56
10th Percentile £343 £414 £438
25th Percentile £409 £434 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -12.84% -3.11%
75th Percentile £594 £606 £681
90th Percentile £640 £625 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £81.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% -10.26% +33.69%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Gloucester over the 6 months to 4 September 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) MSI
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) AdminStudio
3 3 (27.27%) InstallShield
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Deployment Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Blackberry
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) Android
3 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Application Packaging
4 5 (45.45%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) Batch Scripting
6 3 (27.27%) High Availability
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (27.27%) ITIL
6 3 (27.27%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) Software Delivery
7 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (9.09%) Change Management
8 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
8 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
8 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (9.09%) Mobile Device Management
8 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) MCSA
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (9.09%) MCITP
3 1 (9.09%) MCP
3 1 (9.09%) MCSE
3 1 (9.09%) MCTS
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certified Master
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (36.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) SCCM
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
1 4 (36.36%) NetApp
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow