PowerShell Contracts in London

Windows PowerShell
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 52 67
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 445 680 935
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.55% 3.81% 3.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.97% 10.58% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 490 607
10th Percentile £328 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% +6.67%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £700
90th Percentile £686 £738 £798
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £30.68 £23.08 £52.74
25th Percentile £33.19 £23.80 £54.73
Median hourly rate £41.75 £32.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.47% -46.67% +71.43%
75th Percentile £54.69 £38.04 £63.38
90th Percentile £59.83 £42.28 £64.50
England median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year -27.50% -33.22% +19.80%

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 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Central London -12 88 £549 -0.14% 39
East London +8 7 £608 +17.96% 2
West London +10 6 £475 -9.52% 14
South London +2 6 £535 +15.68% 6
North London -4 2 £270 +8.00%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 68 (15.28%) SharePoint
2 35 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.80%) IIS
4 5 (1.12%) Confluence
4 5 (1.12%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.35%) InfoPath
2 6 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Endur
2 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 293 (65.84%) Azure
2 97 (21.80%) Azure DevOps
3 90 (20.22%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (19.55%) AWS
5 85 (19.10%) Entra ID
6 54 (12.13%) Power Platform
7 38 (8.54%) Azure AKS
8 36 (8.09%) Azure Monitor
9 35 (7.87%) GCP
10 32 (7.19%) OneDrive
11 31 (6.97%) GitHub
12 30 (6.74%) Power Automate
13 26 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (5.84%) Azure Sentinel
13 26 (5.84%) PaaS
13 26 (5.84%) Serverless
14 23 (5.17%) PowerApps
15 20 (4.49%) SaaS
16 17 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (2.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (13.48%) Firewall
2 53 (11.91%) DNS
3 27 (6.07%) DHCP
4 26 (5.84%) Network Security
4 26 (5.84%) VPN
5 21 (4.72%) TCP/IP
6 17 (3.82%) SSL
7 16 (3.60%) SMTP
8 14 (3.15%) HTTP
9 11 (2.47%) WAN
10 9 (2.02%) NAS
10 9 (2.02%) VLAN
11 7 (1.57%) FTP
11 7 (1.57%) S/MIME
11 7 (1.57%) SAN
12 6 (1.35%) Kerberos
12 6 (1.35%) Wireless
13 4 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.90%) MPLS
13 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 31 (6.97%) Power BI
3 14 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (1.80%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.57%) Big Data
7 7 (1.57%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.35%) Apache Hive
9 5 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.90%) Redis
11 3 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.67%) Hazelcast
11 3 (0.67%) MySQL
12 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.45%) DB2
12 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (6.07%) Git
2 26 (5.84%) Jenkins
3 24 (5.39%) GitLab
4 15 (3.37%) JIRA
5 9 (2.02%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.02%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (1.12%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.12%) Maven
7 5 (1.12%) Snyk
7 5 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.67%) MSI
9 2 (0.45%) Gradle
9 2 (0.45%) JUnit
9 2 (0.45%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.45%) Postman
9 2 (0.45%) Selenium
10 1 (0.22%) Ranorex
10 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.22%) tSQLt
General
1 133 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 107 (24.04%) Finance
3 42 (9.44%) Banking
3 42 (9.44%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.49%) Back Office
6 16 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.02%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.80%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.57%) Marketing
10 6 (1.35%) Electronics
10 6 (1.35%) Legal
11 5 (1.12%) Military
12 4 (0.90%) Law
12 4 (0.90%) Local Government
13 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 47 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
1 47 (10.56%) Senior
2 39 (8.76%) Architect
2 39 (8.76%) Azure Engineer
3 37 (8.31%) Lead
4 33 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 30 (6.74%) Analyst
6 29 (6.52%) Developer
7 24 (5.39%) Windows Engineer
8 21 (4.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 19 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (4.27%) Support Engineer
10 18 (4.04%) Consultant
11 17 (3.82%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 14 (3.15%) Microsoft Engineer
13 13 (2.92%) PowerShell Engineer
14 12 (2.70%) Technical Leader
15 11 (2.47%) Administrator
15 11 (2.47%) Azure Architect
16 10 (2.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (9.89%) .NET
2 22 (4.94%) LDAP
3 17 (3.82%) YAML
4 15 (3.37%) OAuth
4 15 (3.37%) SAML
5 14 (3.15%) REST
6 13 (2.92%) Web Services
7 12 (2.70%) JSON
8 10 (2.25%) ARM Templates
8 10 (2.25%) SailPoint
9 8 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (1.80%) OpenID
10 7 (1.57%) SOAP
11 6 (1.35%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.35%) SPFx
12 5 (1.12%) React
13 4 (0.90%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.90%) Kafka
13 4 (0.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.27%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.04%) PKI
3 17 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.15%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.02%) Clustering
10 8 (1.80%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.57%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.57%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.35%) Replication
12 6 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.12%) Grid Computing
13 5 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 163 (36.63%) Windows
2 73 (16.40%) Windows Server
3 48 (10.79%) Linux
4 36 (8.09%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.02%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.35%) Unix
8 5 (1.12%) Android
9 4 (0.90%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.67%) Solaris
11 2 (0.45%) VMS
11 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (35.51%) DevOps
2 103 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (20.22%) CI/CD
4 75 (16.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (15.06%) Agile
6 56 (12.58%) Migration
7 49 (11.01%) ITIL
8 48 (10.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 45 (10.11%) Task Automation
10 41 (9.21%) Identity Access Management
11 40 (8.99%) Cloud Security
11 40 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
12 39 (8.76%) High Availability
13 35 (7.87%) Computer Science
14 31 (6.97%) SIEM
15 28 (6.29%) Containerisation
15 28 (6.29%) Mentoring
16 27 (6.07%) Business Intelligence
16 27 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (6.07%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 160 (35.96%) Python
2 76 (17.08%) C#
3 75 (16.85%) SQL
4 70 (15.73%) Bash
5 45 (10.11%) Java
6 42 (9.44%) JavaScript
7 33 (7.42%) Bicep
8 11 (2.47%) Perl
9 8 (1.80%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.80%) VBScript
10 7 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.35%) C++
12 5 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.90%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.67%) VBA
15 2 (0.45%) PHP
15 2 (0.45%) R
15 2 (0.45%) Ruby
15 2 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.81%) Degree
3 47 (10.56%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (4.27%) DV Cleared
7 18 (4.04%) CISSP
8 15 (3.37%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.70%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (2.25%) CISM
10 10 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (2.02%) CEH
12 7 (1.57%) SANS
13 5 (1.12%) CCNA
13 5 (1.12%) GCIH
13 5 (1.12%) GIAC
13 5 (1.12%) PMI Certification
13 5 (1.12%) PMP
14 4 (0.90%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.07%) GDPR
2 22 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (4.27%) NIST
4 13 (2.92%) PCI DSS
5 11 (2.47%) QA
6 10 (2.25%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.90%) NCSC
9 3 (0.67%) SLA
9 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.45%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.22%) EMIR
11 1 (0.22%) HL7
11 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 126 (28.31%) Active Directory
2 27 (6.07%) Docker
3 26 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.47%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.12%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.90%) Platform Symphony
10 4 (0.90%) vSphere
11 2 (0.45%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.45%) XenApp
12 1 (0.22%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.22%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.22%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 96 (21.57%) Terraform
2 64 (14.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 54 (12.13%) Kubernetes
4 42 (9.44%) SCCM
5 38 (8.54%) Ansible
6 16 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (2.92%) Grafana
8 12 (2.70%) Puppet
9 11 (2.47%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (1.12%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (1.12%) Kibana
11 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.90%) Control-M
12 4 (0.90%) WSUS
13 3 (0.67%) Istio
13 3 (0.67%) Packer
13 3 (0.67%) QRadar
13 3 (0.67%) Rundeck
14 2 (0.45%) vMotion
Vendors
1 212 (47.64%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.44%) VMware
3 25 (5.62%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.72%) Google
5 20 (4.49%) Cisco
6 16 (3.60%) CyberArk
6 16 (3.60%) Databricks
6 16 (3.60%) Splunk
7 15 (3.37%) Citrix
8 12 (2.70%) Cloudera
9 10 (2.25%) Okta
10 9 (2.02%) SAP
11 8 (1.80%) IBM
11 8 (1.80%) Oracle
12 7 (1.57%) Apple
12 7 (1.57%) BeyondTrust
12 7 (1.57%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.57%) Sybase
13 6 (1.35%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.35%) Qualys