PowerShell Contracts in Gloucestershire

Windows PowerShell
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 12 29 12
Rank change year-on-year +17 -17 +30
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 33 32 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.04% 7.46% 15.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.37% 23.88% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 59
10th Percentile £356 £425 £200
25th Percentile £416 £453 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +37.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £623 £628 £520
90th Percentile £775 £688 £580
South West median daily rate £585 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% +14.29% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 86 134 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 31.39% 31.24% 50.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 105 160
10th Percentile £363 £363 £287
25th Percentile £460 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% +0.48%
75th Percentile £676 £688 £669
90th Percentile £773 £723 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 11
10th Percentile £64.75 £70.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £66.25 £71.25 £61.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £72.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -7.05% +115.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £74.50 -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Gloucester -1 14 £425 - 13
Cheltenham +8 7 £615 +11.82% 11
Filton - 2 £300 -
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (15.15%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (87.88%) Azure
2 18 (54.55%) AWS
3 15 (45.45%) OpenShift
4 14 (42.42%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (18.18%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.09%) SaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub
7 1 (3.03%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (48.48%) DNS
2 15 (45.45%) DHCP
2 15 (45.45%) HTTP
2 15 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.06%) LAN
3 2 (6.06%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (6.06%) SAN
3 2 (6.06%) VLAN
3 2 (6.06%) VPN
3 2 (6.06%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Administrator
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (6.06%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) Technical Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Wintel Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
1 4 (12.12%) Security Posture
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (78.79%) Windows
2 20 (60.61%) Windows Server
3 15 (45.45%) Linux
3 15 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Android
4 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Containerisation
2 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (36.36%) Service Management
4 11 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 7 (21.21%) DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (18.18%) Incident Management
7 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security
7 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (15.15%) Migration
8 4 (12.12%) Agile
8 4 (12.12%) Application Security
8 4 (12.12%) Project Management
8 4 (12.12%) Threat Analysis
8 4 (12.12%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 4 (12.12%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
9 3 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
10 2 (6.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 2 (6.06%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Python
2 15 (45.45%) Bash
2 15 (45.45%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.03%) VB
3 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 15 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 13 (39.39%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 3 (9.09%) MCSE
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.03%) MCP
6 1 (3.03%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) NCSC
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (57.58%) Hyper-V
1 19 (57.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (45.45%) Docker
3 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
4 5 (15.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (6.06%) vSphere
6 1 (3.03%) BitLocker
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 17 (51.52%) Terraform
2 15 (45.45%) Ansible
2 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (45.45%) Puppet
3 4 (12.12%) McAfee ePO
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (12.12%) SCCM
4 3 (9.09%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (9.09%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 20 (60.61%) VMware
2 15 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
4 5 (15.15%) McAfee
5 4 (12.12%) Symantec
6 2 (6.06%) Citrix
6 2 (6.06%) Veeam
7 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow