PowerShell Contracts in Hampshire

Windows PowerShell
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 21 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 54 110 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.24% 6.83% 7.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.71% 32.07% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 72 84
10th Percentile £504 £388 £461
25th Percentile £525 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £639
90th Percentile £679 £686 £675
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%

All Programming Languages
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 210 343 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 28.15% 21.30% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 221 299
10th Percentile £401 £388 £313
25th Percentile £460 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.53%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 32 58
10th Percentile £47.00 - £18.78
25th Percentile £51.78 £46.25 £37.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +12.67% +57.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.51 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £77.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Hampshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Hampshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Hampshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Hampshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke +6 18 £600 +33.33% 32
Portsmouth +18 3 £550 -4.35% 11
Winchester +4 3 £616 - 1
Farnborough +1 3 £513 -19.61% 4
Southampton -6 3 - - 16
Eastleigh -2 2 £500 - 2
Havant - 2 £675 -
Aldershot +13 1 £525 -10.06%
Hook +1 1 £500 -13.79%
PowerShell
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.70%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 15 (27.78%) OpenShift
3 10 (18.52%) IaaS
3 10 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (16.67%) AWS
5 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.81%) GCP
5 8 (14.81%) PaaS
6 7 (12.96%) SaaS
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.85%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.22%) DNS
1 12 (22.22%) Firewall
2 8 (14.81%) DHCP
2 8 (14.81%) SMTP
2 8 (14.81%) VPN
3 3 (5.56%) VSAN
4 2 (3.70%) HTTP
4 2 (3.70%) HTTPS
4 2 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (14.81%) Big Data
1 8 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) MSI
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (24.07%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Military
4 1 (1.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) Architect
3 8 (14.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (14.81%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Support Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Senior
4 7 (12.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Applications Packager
5 6 (11.11%) DV Cleared Application Packager
5 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (7.41%) Active Directory Architect
7 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (1.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) PKI
2 11 (20.37%) Clustering
3 10 (18.52%) Data Centre
4 8 (14.81%) Public Cloud
5 7 (12.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (11.11%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 41 (75.93%) Windows
2 29 (53.70%) Windows Server
3 25 (46.30%) Linux
4 9 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 9 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (12.96%) CentOS
5 7 (12.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (12.96%) Ubuntu
6 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.70%) Solaris
8 2 (3.70%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (46.30%) Agile
2 23 (42.59%) DevOps
3 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (24.07%) Application Packaging
5 8 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (14.81%) Machine Learning
5 8 (14.81%) Software Deployment
5 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 7 (12.96%) Change Control
6 7 (12.96%) DevSecOps
6 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.11%) Application Virtualisation
7 6 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (7.41%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (7.41%) Prototyping
9 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (5.56%) Power Management
9 3 (5.56%) SIEM
9 3 (5.56%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) Python
2 7 (12.96%) SQL
3 6 (11.11%) VBScript
4 3 (5.56%) Bash
4 3 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) C
5 1 (1.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (87.04%) Security Cleared
2 35 (64.81%) DV Cleared
3 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
4 9 (16.67%) Degree
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.70%) CISSP
6 2 (3.70%) VCAP
6 2 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) GDPR
1 2 (3.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (46.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (37.04%) Active Directory
3 13 (24.07%) Hyper-V
4 12 (22.22%) vSphere
5 10 (18.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (16.67%) BitLocker
7 8 (14.81%) Docker
7 8 (14.81%) Terminal Services
7 8 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (35.19%) Ansible
2 18 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 15 (27.78%) Kubernetes
4 12 (22.22%) Terraform
5 9 (16.67%) Puppet
6 8 (14.81%) Nagios
6 8 (14.81%) vMotion
7 7 (12.96%) Nessus
8 6 (11.11%) WMI
9 5 (9.26%) WSUS
10 4 (7.41%) SCCM
11 3 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (5.56%) Norton AntiVirus
12 2 (3.70%) vRealize
12 2 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (55.56%) VMware
2 25 (46.30%) Microsoft
3 11 (20.37%) Symantec
4 9 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 8 (14.81%) Citrix
5 8 (14.81%) Google
5 8 (14.81%) HP
6 3 (5.56%) Juniper
6 3 (5.56%) NETGEAR
6 3 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 3 (5.56%) TP-LINK
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle
8 1 (1.85%) ArcSight