PowerShell Contract Job Trends in London

Windows PowerShell
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 77 55
Rank change year-on-year -25 -22 +10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 552 456 708
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.79% 3.37% 4.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.92% 8.63% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 305 517
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £629 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £723 £700
England median daily rate £519 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.14% - -6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £28.94 £21.87 -
25th Percentile £43.48 £26.45 -
Median hourly rate £67.70 £41.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% +75.42% -60.40%
75th Percentile - £63.25 £29.57
90th Percentile - - £39.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -13.39% +44.84% -27.06%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,189 5,283 6,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.33% 39.09% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,129 3,710 5,179
10th Percentile £375 £370 £372
25th Percentile £449 £431 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 50 51
10th Percentile £33.90 £27.29 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £36.57
Median hourly rate £56.25 £43.16 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -11.02% -23.02%
75th Percentile £74.50 £61.25 £61.97
90th Percentile £88.75 £80.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in London over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PowerShell

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in London over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the London region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Central London -23 58 £575 +4.55% 25
South London -4 13 £538 -10.42% 1
West London -21 5 £500 +5.26% 5
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 66 (11.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 64 (11.59%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.72%) Confluence
4 5 (0.91%) IIS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.18%) MTS
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.18%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 344 (62.32%) Azure
2 151 (27.36%) Entra ID
3 114 (20.65%) AWS
4 113 (20.47%) Microsoft 365
5 83 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (13.22%) GitHub
7 54 (9.78%) GitHub Actions
8 53 (9.60%) Power Platform
9 50 (9.06%) Azure Monitor
10 38 (6.88%) Azure AKS
11 37 (6.70%) GCP
11 37 (6.70%) OneDrive
12 35 (6.34%) Microsoft Purview
12 35 (6.34%) PaaS
13 26 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
14 25 (4.53%) IaaS
15 24 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (4.35%) SaaS
16 23 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 89 (16.12%) DNS
2 61 (11.05%) Firewall
3 56 (10.14%) DHCP
4 46 (8.33%) VPN
5 31 (5.62%) Network Security
6 28 (5.07%) WAN
7 26 (4.71%) TCP/IP
8 18 (3.26%) Kerberos
9 13 (2.36%) LAN
9 13 (2.36%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.81%) DKIM
11 9 (1.63%) DMARC
11 9 (1.63%) Internet
11 9 (1.63%) SMTP
12 8 (1.45%) HTTP
12 8 (1.45%) SSH
13 7 (1.27%) DMZ
13 7 (1.27%) HTTPS
13 7 (1.27%) Unified Communications
13 7 (1.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.60%) SQL Server
2 25 (4.53%) Power BI
3 19 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.63%) Metadata
7 7 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.09%) Big Data
8 6 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.72%) Delta Lake
10 4 (0.72%) EDRMS
10 4 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.36%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.36%) Parquet
12 2 (0.36%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 55 (9.96%) Git
2 37 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.07%) JIRA
4 19 (3.44%) GitLab
5 8 (1.45%) MSI
6 7 (1.27%) Postman
7 6 (1.09%) JMeter
7 6 (1.09%) Selenium
8 5 (0.91%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.72%) Appium
10 3 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.54%) JUnit
10 3 (0.54%) TestNG
10 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.36%) AdminStudio
11 2 (0.36%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.36%) InstallShield
11 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 142 (25.72%) Finance
2 137 (24.82%) Social Skills
3 60 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.42%) Banking
5 31 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (3.62%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.26%) Front Office
8 12 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.81%) Legal
10 7 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.27%) Law
11 5 (0.91%) Back Office
11 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.91%) Retail
12 3 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.54%) Local Government
13 2 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.36%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.18%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (11.41%) Azure Engineer
2 60 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 53 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 53 (9.60%) Senior
4 42 (7.61%) Architect
5 41 (7.43%) Security Engineer
6 37 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 31 (5.62%) Support Engineer
8 25 (4.53%) Analyst
8 25 (4.53%) Developer
9 20 (3.62%) Consultant
9 20 (3.62%) Lead
10 18 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
10 18 (3.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (3.26%) Microsoft Engineer
11 15 (2.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 14 (2.54%) Desktop Engineer
13 13 (2.36%) Applications Support
13 13 (2.36%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 12 (2.17%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.79%) Microsoft Graph
2 40 (7.25%) REST
3 39 (7.07%) OAuth
4 30 (5.43%) JSON
4 30 (5.43%) SAML
5 28 (5.07%) LDAP
6 26 (4.71%) .NET
7 22 (3.99%) YAML
8 19 (3.44%) ARM Templates
9 17 (3.08%) OpenID
10 15 (2.72%) OAuth2
11 12 (2.17%) Web Services
12 10 (1.81%) SOAP
13 9 (1.63%) .NET Framework
13 9 (1.63%) Kafka
13 9 (1.63%) XML
14 8 (1.45%) SailPoint
15 7 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
15 7 (1.27%) React
15 7 (1.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.61%) Onboarding
3 34 (6.16%) Security Posture
4 28 (5.07%) Replication
5 19 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.26%) PKI
7 17 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (2.17%) Clustering
9 12 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.99%) CMDB
10 11 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.63%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.63%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.45%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 209 (37.86%) Windows
2 84 (15.22%) Linux
3 76 (13.77%) Windows Server
4 21 (3.80%) Windows 10
5 20 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (2.17%) Android
7 11 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.81%) VMS
9 9 (1.63%) Apple iOS
9 9 (1.63%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.45%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.91%) Unix
11 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.54%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.54%) SUSE
14 1 (0.18%) CentOS
14 1 (0.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (29.89%) CI/CD
2 162 (29.35%) DevOps
3 150 (27.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 72 (13.04%) Migration
7 71 (12.86%) AI
8 69 (12.50%) ITIL
9 68 (12.32%) Identity Access Management
10 66 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (11.23%) Agile
11 62 (11.23%) Runbook
11 62 (11.23%) Task Automation
12 61 (11.05%) Analytics
13 57 (10.33%) RBAC
14 56 (10.14%) High Availability
15 54 (9.78%) Cloud Security
15 54 (9.78%) Zero Trust
16 53 (9.60%) Disaster Recovery
17 48 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 235 (42.57%) Python
2 109 (19.75%) Bash
3 96 (17.39%) SQL
4 58 (10.51%) C#
5 56 (10.14%) Bicep
6 24 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.62%) Java
8 19 (3.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 16 (2.90%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.17%) C++
11 9 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.27%) Groovy
12 7 (1.27%) Perl
12 7 (1.27%) Rust
13 4 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.54%) Go
14 3 (0.54%) Korn
14 3 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
14 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 127 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 104 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.70%) Degree
4 44 (7.97%) Azure Certification
5 38 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (5.80%) CISSP
7 16 (2.90%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.54%) CISM
9 12 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.81%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.72%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.72%) CCNA
13 4 (0.72%) CCNP
13 4 (0.72%) GIAC
13 4 (0.72%) ISSAP
13 4 (0.72%) MCSA
13 4 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.43%) GDPR
2 25 (4.53%) NIST
3 24 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (3.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (2.54%) SLA
6 12 (2.17%) QA
7 11 (1.99%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.63%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.45%) HIPAA
9 8 (1.45%) NCSC
10 4 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.54%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.36%) SOC 1
13 1 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 149 (26.99%) Active Directory
2 53 (9.60%) Docker
3 46 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (5.25%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (4.35%) Hyper-V
6 20 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (2.54%) Microsoft App-V
9 12 (2.17%) BitLocker
10 10 (1.81%) Firmware
10 10 (1.81%) vSphere
11 4 (0.72%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.54%) Squid
12 3 (0.54%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.36%) OpenSSH
13 2 (0.36%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.18%) RACF
14 1 (0.18%) UAG
Systems Management
1 177 (32.07%) Terraform
2 80 (14.49%) Kubernetes
2 80 (14.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 65 (11.78%) Ansible
4 33 (5.98%) SCCM
5 26 (4.71%) Grafana
6 25 (4.53%) Prometheus
7 23 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 17 (3.08%) Puppet
9 17 (3.08%) vCenter Server
10 10 (1.81%) Packer
11 9 (1.63%) WSUS
12 8 (1.45%) vMotion
13 7 (1.27%) Progress Chef
13 7 (1.27%) vRealize
14 6 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (1.09%) QRadar
15 4 (0.72%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 277 (50.18%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.87%) VMware
3 42 (7.61%) ServiceNow
4 32 (5.80%) Citrix
5 25 (4.53%) Oracle
6 23 (4.17%) CyberArk
7 22 (3.99%) Google
7 22 (3.99%) Splunk
8 21 (3.80%) Okta
9 20 (3.62%) Bloomberg
10 15 (2.72%) Cisco
11 14 (2.54%) Reuters
12 13 (2.36%) Databricks
13 11 (1.99%) Dell
13 11 (1.99%) Qualys
13 11 (1.99%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.81%) ION Trading
14 10 (1.81%) NetApp
15 8 (1.45%) Apple
15 8 (1.45%) SAP