PowerShell Contracts in Hertfordshire

Windows PowerShell
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 65 46
Rank change year-on-year +47 -19 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 30 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.40% 1.39% 3.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.81% 6.15% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 23
10th Percentile £518 - £362
25th Percentile £525 £325 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -30.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £428 £550
90th Percentile - £486 £640
East of England median daily rate £550 £406 £475
% change year-on-year +35.38% -14.47% +8.57%

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 126 195 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 35.29% 22.54% 31.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 52 110
10th Percentile £411 £325 £362
25th Percentile £479 £363 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £575 £578 £674
90th Percentile £675 £649 £725
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 112 80
10th Percentile £42.39 £57.75 £53.75
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 £61.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year - -0.38% +18.64%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend 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 24 June 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 +39 20 £550 -8.33% 3
Hatfield - 7 £560 - 3
Hoddesdon - 1 - - 3
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.33%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) Cohesity
2 7 (23.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 21 (70.00%) DNS
1 21 (70.00%) SAN
2 1 (3.33%) Skype
2 1 (3.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (3.33%) Architect
1 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (3.33%) Lead
1 1 (3.33%) Senior
1 1 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (3.33%) VMware Architect
1 1 (3.33%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Blackberry
1 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (3.33%) PKI
1 1 (3.33%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 29 (96.67%) Windows
2 22 (73.33%) Windows Server
3 21 (70.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (70.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.33%) Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) SIEM
2 20 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 20 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (66.67%) Operations Management
3 7 (23.33%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (23.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 7 (23.33%) PRINCE2
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (6.67%) Time Management
6 1 (3.33%) Capacity Management
6 1 (3.33%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (3.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (3.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (96.67%) Security Cleared
2 22 (73.33%) DV Cleared
3 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 22 (73.33%) Active Directory
1 22 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (66.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 20 (66.67%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (73.33%) Ansible
1 22 (73.33%) WSUS
2 21 (70.00%) SCCM
3 7 (23.33%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (93.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (76.67%) VMware
3 21 (70.00%) NetApp
3 21 (70.00%) Splunk
4 7 (23.33%) Apple
4 7 (23.33%) Samsung
4 7 (23.33%) SOTI
5 2 (6.67%) Computacenter
6 1 (3.33%) HP
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.33%) Tenable