PowerShell Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Windows PowerShell
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Home Counties requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 8.33% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
South East median daily rate £538 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.38% -0.91% -

All Programming Languages
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +3.00% -2.44% -2.38%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) X.509
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat