PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Windows PowerShell
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +27
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 119 87 111
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 6.15% 9.09% 8.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.15% 35.80% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 74
10th Percentile £263 £463 -
25th Percentile £463 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £628
90th Percentile £725 £663 £684
South East median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
South East median hourly rate £63.48 - £58.49
% change year-on-year - - -10.20%

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 359 243 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 18.56% 25.39% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 197 221
10th Percentile £363 £402 £395
25th Percentile £473 £483 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £625
90th Percentile £726 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 21
10th Percentile £13.20 - £27.00
25th Percentile £37.49 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £49.25 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -28.57% +19.47%
75th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £60.00 £58.50 -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Hampshire

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Hampshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Hampshire

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PowerShell

PowerShell
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 16 September 2026. 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 -5 51 £625 +4.17% 13
Southampton +10 16 £488 -2.06% 13
Havant +5 11 £575 -11.54%
Portsmouth -3 11 £573 -4.58% 4
Andover - 11 £475 -
Farnborough -28 7 £275 -46.34% 9
Fareham -7 1 £450 - 3
Aldershot - 1 £775 - 2
Winchester - 1 £575 -
Hook - 1 £510 -
PowerShell
South East

PowerShell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.36%) Apache
1 4 (3.36%) IIS
1 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.52%) nginx
2 3 (2.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (6.72%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 48 (40.34%) Azure
2 25 (21.01%) Entra ID
3 22 (18.49%) AWS
4 11 (9.24%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.56%) Power Platform
6 8 (6.72%) IaaS
6 8 (6.72%) iPaaS
7 7 (5.88%) SaaS
8 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.36%) Azure Batch
9 4 (3.36%) Cloudflare
9 4 (3.36%) GCP
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.52%) Azure Databricks
11 2 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.68%) GitHub
11 2 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.84%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.65%) DNS
2 4 (3.36%) Firewall
3 3 (2.52%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.68%) BIG-IP
4 2 (1.68%) DHCP
4 2 (1.68%) Skype
5 1 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.84%) LAN
5 1 (0.84%) NAS
5 1 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.84%) SAN
5 1 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.84%) VLAN
5 1 (0.84%) VPN
5 1 (0.84%) WAN
5 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.92%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.56%) Power BI
3 3 (2.52%) MySQL
4 2 (1.68%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.84%) Redis
5 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.56%) MSI
2 4 (3.36%) JIRA
3 3 (2.52%) GitLab
3 3 (2.52%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.84%) Git
4 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.84%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (19.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.20%) Military
4 4 (3.36%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (29.41%) Cloud Engineer
2 22 (18.49%) Support Engineer
3 20 (16.81%) Architect
4 15 (12.61%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (12.61%) Senior
5 11 (9.24%) Infrastructure Architect
5 11 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.72%) Lead
6 8 (6.72%) Technical Leader
7 7 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (3.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) ITSM Architect
9 4 (3.36%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.52%) 3rd Line Support
10 3 (2.52%) Databricks Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.65%) Terraform
2 18 (15.13%) REST
3 8 (6.72%) SOAP
4 3 (2.52%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.52%) LAMP
4 3 (2.52%) LEMP Stack
4 3 (2.52%) YAML
5 2 (1.68%) Node.js
5 2 (1.68%) React
5 2 (1.68%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.68%) Vue
5 2 (1.68%) Web Services
6 1 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.84%) Kafka
6 1 (0.84%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.84%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.84%) OAuth
6 1 (0.84%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.84%) OpenID
6 1 (0.84%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.61%) PKI
2 10 (8.40%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.56%) Clustering
3 9 (7.56%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.72%) CMDB
5 7 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.20%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.84%) CSOC
8 1 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (66.39%) Windows
2 49 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 23 (19.33%) Linux
4 12 (10.08%) CentOS
4 12 (10.08%) Ubuntu
4 12 (10.08%) Windows 10
5 8 (6.72%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.68%) Android
8 2 (1.68%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (33.61%) ITSM
2 35 (29.41%) Agile
2 35 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
3 33 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (27.73%) Service Management
4 22 (18.49%) ITIL
5 21 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (15.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (15.13%) Software Distribution
7 14 (11.76%) Change Management
8 12 (10.08%) DevOps
8 12 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (10.08%) Migration
9 10 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (7.56%) Data Visualisation
10 9 (7.56%) eTOM
10 9 (7.56%) Patch Management
10 9 (7.56%) Runbook
10 9 (7.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.66%) Python
2 26 (21.85%) Bash
3 25 (21.01%) SQL
4 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.20%) Bicep
5 5 (4.20%) Java
6 4 (3.36%) Scala
7 3 (2.52%) C
7 3 (2.52%) Lua
8 1 (0.84%) C#
8 1 (0.84%) Groovy
8 1 (0.84%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (73.11%) Security Cleared
2 67 (56.30%) DV Cleared
3 27 (22.69%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.20%) Degree
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.84%) VCAP
7 1 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.68%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.84%) NIST
2 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 47 (39.50%) Active Directory
2 25 (21.01%) VMware ESXi
3 24 (20.17%) vCloud
3 24 (20.17%) VMware NSX
4 23 (19.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (7.56%) Docker
6 8 (6.72%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (5.88%) vSphere
8 3 (2.52%) Dovecot
8 3 (2.52%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.52%) Postfix
9 2 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (21.85%) SCOM
2 25 (21.01%) vCenter Server
3 17 (14.29%) Ansible
4 15 (12.61%) WMI
5 8 (6.72%) Kubernetes
5 8 (6.72%) Progress Chef
5 8 (6.72%) Puppet
6 7 (5.88%) SCCM
7 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.52%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.68%) Argo
9 2 (1.68%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 2 (1.68%) Grafana
9 2 (1.68%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.68%) SCSM
10 1 (0.84%) Rancher
10 1 (0.84%) vRealize
10 1 (0.84%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 47 (39.50%) Microsoft
2 40 (33.61%) VMware
3 17 (14.29%) BMC
3 17 (14.29%) Remedy
4 15 (12.61%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.04%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.36%) Databricks
6 4 (3.36%) Qualys
7 3 (2.52%) Cisco
7 3 (2.52%) F5
7 3 (2.52%) IBM
7 3 (2.52%) Juniper
7 3 (2.52%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.52%) Trend Micro
8 2 (1.68%) Google
8 2 (1.68%) NetIQ
8 2 (1.68%) Veeam
9 1 (0.84%) Citrix
9 1 (0.84%) Clearswift
9 1 (0.84%) Tripwire