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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 27 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 9 32 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 3.61% 6.97% 6.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 20.92% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 21
10th Percentile £279 £425 £288
25th Percentile £394 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £530
90th Percentile £640 £650 £600
South West median daily rate £575 £575 £530
% change year-on-year - +8.49% +0.95%

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 54 153 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 21.69% 33.33% 44.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 101 130
10th Percentile £184 £400 £386
25th Percentile £434 £475 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year - +0.46% +4.29%
75th Percentile £670 £625 £700
90th Percentile £738 £688 £739
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 18
10th Percentile £70.75 £30.00 £56.43
25th Percentile £71.88 £60.00 £71.63
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.26% +56.98%
75th Percentile £75.63 - -
90th Percentile £76.75 £71.50 £86.50
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +8.33%

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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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -7 4 £533 +13.30% 4
Cheltenham +19 3 £638 +15.91% 5
Filton - 1 £300 - 1
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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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) HTTP
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 1 (11.11%) Release Management
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Security Patching
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) MCSE
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
1 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Puppet
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (11.11%) Podman
4 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) NetApp
3 1 (11.11%) Veeam