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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 14 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 59 143 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.95% 8.35% 6.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.19% 35.57% 20.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 97 66
10th Percentile £500 - £463
25th Percentile £506 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £643
90th Percentile £664 £688 £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 217 402 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 29.25% 23.47% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 266 244
10th Percentile £413 £400 £306
25th Percentile £463 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £635 £619
90th Percentile £650 £738 £685
South East median daily rate £505 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +0.80% -4.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 37 50
10th Percentile £47.00 - £18.93
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.25 £45.78
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +64.29%
75th Percentile £61.31 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.25 £76.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%

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 29 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 29 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 +3 22 £600 +33.33% 52
Southampton -1 6 £488 +30.13% 52
Farnborough -4 6 £513 -12.39% 3
Romsey - 5 £508 - 3
Portsmouth +16 3 £550 -4.35% 38
Winchester +8 3 £616 - 1
Eastleigh -2 3 £500 -
Havant - 2 £675 -
Aldershot +12 1 £525 -10.06%
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 11 (18.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.03%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) OpenShift
3 10 (16.95%) IaaS
4 9 (15.25%) AWS
5 8 (13.56%) GCP
5 8 (13.56%) PaaS
6 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.69%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (23.73%) DNS
2 12 (20.34%) Firewall
3 9 (15.25%) SMTP
4 8 (13.56%) DHCP
4 8 (13.56%) VPN
5 3 (5.08%) VSAN
6 2 (3.39%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.69%) HTTP
7 1 (1.69%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (13.56%) Big Data
1 8 (13.56%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) MSI
2 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.69%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (20.34%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Military
5 1 (1.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Architect
2 9 (15.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (13.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Support Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 5 (8.47%) Active Directory Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Configuration Manager
7 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) SCCM Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Applications Packager
8 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) .NET
1 3 (5.08%) Middleware
1 3 (5.08%) React
2 1 (1.69%) OAuth
2 1 (1.69%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) PKI
2 11 (18.64%) Clustering
3 10 (16.95%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.08%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.08%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (69.49%) Windows
2 25 (42.37%) Windows Server
3 17 (28.81%) Linux
4 14 (23.73%) Windows 10
5 6 (10.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (8.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.39%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.39%) Solaris
8 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.69%) CentOS
9 1 (1.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) DevOps
2 19 (32.20%) Agile
3 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (16.95%) Change Management
4 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
5 8 (13.56%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (13.56%) Machine Learning
5 8 (13.56%) Security Patching
5 8 (13.56%) Software Deployment
6 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.17%) Data Analysis
7 6 (10.17%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (10.17%) Migration
8 5 (8.47%) Configuration Management
8 5 (8.47%) Prototyping
9 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (5.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) C#
2 12 (20.34%) Python
3 9 (15.25%) SQL
4 7 (11.86%) VB
5 3 (5.08%) Bash
5 3 (5.08%) Java
5 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.08%) VBScript
6 1 (1.69%) C
6 1 (1.69%) C++
6 1 (1.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (77.97%) Security Cleared
2 31 (52.54%) DV Cleared
3 14 (23.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (15.25%) Degree
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.39%) CISSP
6 2 (3.39%) VCAP
6 2 (3.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) GDPR
1 2 (3.39%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (38.98%) Active Directory
2 17 (28.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (22.03%) Hyper-V
4 9 (15.25%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (13.56%) BitLocker
5 8 (13.56%) Docker
5 8 (13.56%) Terminal Services
5 8 (13.56%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (8.47%) vSphere
7 2 (3.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (30.51%) Ansible
2 11 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.64%) vCenter Server
3 10 (16.95%) SCCM
4 9 (15.25%) Puppet
5 8 (13.56%) Nagios
5 8 (13.56%) vMotion
6 7 (11.86%) WMI
7 6 (10.17%) Terraform
8 4 (6.78%) WSUS
9 3 (5.08%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (5.08%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (3.39%) vRealize
10 2 (3.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (49.15%) Microsoft
2 22 (37.29%) VMware
3 11 (18.64%) Symantec
4 8 (13.56%) Citrix
4 8 (13.56%) Google
4 8 (13.56%) HP
5 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.08%) Juniper
6 3 (5.08%) NETGEAR
6 3 (5.08%) SolarWinds
6 3 (5.08%) TP-LINK
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle
8 1 (1.69%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.69%) CyberArk