PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Windows PowerShell
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 36 40
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 16 11 30
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.56% 2.54% 4.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.60% 9.32% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 25
10th Percentile £525 £264 £420
25th Percentile £527 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £673 £600 £675
90th Percentile £680 - £713
East of England median daily rate £525 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +40.00% -25.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 - £40.31

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 186 118 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.76% 27.25% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 38 93
10th Percentile £447 £348 £400
25th Percentile £463 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% -4.45% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £584 £650
90th Percentile £739 £636 £704
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £477
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.66% -9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 42 90
10th Percentile £52.15 £61.60 -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £87.65
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.25
% change year-on-year - -3.35% +3.46%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing PowerShell

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing PowerShell

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Stevenage -1 10 £615 +105.00% 12
Hatfield - 3 £650 -
Broxbourne - 1 - -
Hoddesdon - 1 - - 1
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) DNS
2 8 (50.00%) FTP
2 8 (50.00%) HTTP
2 8 (50.00%) Network Security
2 8 (50.00%) SMTP
2 8 (50.00%) SSL
3 4 (25.00%) DHCP
4 3 (18.75%) Firewall
4 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
5 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
5 1 (6.25%) NAS
5 1 (6.25%) SAN
5 1 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
1 8 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
2 7 (43.75%) Senior
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) LDAP
2 3 (18.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 7 (43.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (43.75%) CSOC
2 7 (43.75%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (43.75%) Management Information System
2 7 (43.75%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (18.75%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (6.25%) Replication
4 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
1 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) VMS
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) SIEM
1 9 (56.25%) SOAR
2 8 (50.00%) Analytics
2 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (50.00%) Information Security
2 8 (50.00%) Network Packet Capture
2 8 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 8 (50.00%) Runbook
2 8 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 8 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 7 (43.75%) AI
3 7 (43.75%) Behavioural Analytics
3 7 (43.75%) Incident Response
3 7 (43.75%) Information Management
3 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
3 7 (43.75%) Threat Detection
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) VMware
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) Google
4 2 (12.50%) Veeam
4 2 (12.50%) Wyse
5 1 (6.25%) Aruba
5 1 (6.25%) Cribl.io
5 1 (6.25%) HP