PowerShell Contracts in London

Windows PowerShell
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 69 75
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 668 906 1,325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.82% 3.47% 3.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.45% 8.59% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 600 969
10th Percentile £350 £400 £387
25th Percentile £425 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £701 £650
90th Percentile £725 £798 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile - £55.78 £33.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.33% +71.43% -46.77%
75th Percentile £35.33 £64.50 £73.13
90th Percentile £42.25 - £85.25
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £50.49
% change year-on-year -32.92% +18.85% +23.13%

All Programming Languages
London

PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,392 10,547 16,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.52% 40.34% 41.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,883 7,910 12,506
10th Percentile £381 £413 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £829 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 81 112
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.25 £28.53
25th Percentile £40.77 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.02 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

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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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 +28 134 £550 -2.22% 24
East London +7 16 £480 +1.05% 5
South London +14 10 £463 -15.91% 1
West London +21 7 £525 +34.62% 8
North London +3 2 £250 +5.26%
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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 70 (10.48%) SharePoint
2 54 (8.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (3.29%) IIS
4 21 (3.14%) Confluence
5 13 (1.95%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (1.65%) Exchange Server 2007
6 11 (1.65%) Exchange Server 2013
7 10 (1.50%) nginx
7 10 (1.50%) Skype for Business
8 9 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2003
8 9 (1.35%) Tomcat
9 8 (1.20%) Site Server
10 5 (0.75%) Apache
10 5 (0.75%) JBoss
11 3 (0.45%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.15%) CMS
13 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
13 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.65%) Aladdin
1 11 (1.65%) SimCorp Dimension
2 5 (0.75%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.30%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.15%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 410 (61.38%) Azure
2 193 (28.89%) Azure DevOps
3 126 (18.86%) Entra ID
4 125 (18.71%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (14.82%) AWS
6 61 (9.13%) Power Platform
7 36 (5.39%) GCP
8 34 (5.09%) GitHub
9 33 (4.94%) PowerApps
10 29 (4.34%) Azure Service Bus
10 29 (4.34%) IaaS
11 28 (4.19%) PaaS
12 27 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (3.89%) Serverless
14 25 (3.74%) Azure Functions
15 24 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 24 (3.59%) Azure Key Vault
15 24 (3.59%) Power Automate
16 23 (3.44%) SaaS
17 21 (3.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.98%) Firewall
2 57 (8.53%) DNS
3 28 (4.19%) DHCP
4 24 (3.59%) VPN
5 18 (2.69%) Network Security
5 18 (2.69%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.40%) SAN
7 14 (2.10%) HTTP
7 14 (2.10%) LAN
7 14 (2.10%) WAN
8 13 (1.95%) NAS
9 12 (1.80%) Internet
9 12 (1.80%) Skype
10 10 (1.50%) Kerberos
10 10 (1.50%) SSH
11 9 (1.35%) Wireless
12 8 (1.20%) VLAN
13 6 (0.90%) IPv4
13 6 (0.90%) SSL
14 5 (0.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (27.84%) SQL Server
2 41 (6.14%) Power BI
3 35 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 28 (4.19%) Relational Database
6 22 (3.29%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (2.54%) Big Data
10 16 (2.40%) MySQL
10 16 (2.40%) Redis
11 10 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (1.20%) GIS
13 8 (1.20%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.05%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
15 6 (0.90%) OLTP
15 6 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (6.89%) Jenkins
2 41 (6.14%) Git
3 34 (5.09%) JIRA
4 33 (4.94%) GitLab
5 28 (4.19%) SpecFlow
6 22 (3.29%) TeamCity
7 21 (3.14%) Visual Studio
8 17 (2.54%) Selenium
9 13 (1.95%) Artifactory
10 12 (1.80%) WebDriver
11 11 (1.65%) Subversion
12 6 (0.90%) Visual Studio Team System
13 5 (0.75%) MSI
14 4 (0.60%) Burp Suite
15 3 (0.45%) InstallShield
15 3 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
15 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
16 2 (0.30%) Gradle
16 2 (0.30%) Maven
16 2 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
General
1 172 (25.75%) Finance
2 128 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 78 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 69 (10.33%) Banking
5 51 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (5.84%) Front Office
7 24 (3.59%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.25%) Legal
9 13 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.80%) Back Office
10 12 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.80%) Local Government
11 10 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.20%) Electronics
12 8 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.20%) Marketing
13 7 (1.05%) Law
14 3 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 149 (22.31%) Developer
2 139 (20.81%) Senior
3 82 (12.28%) Senior Developer
4 56 (8.38%) Azure Engineer
4 56 (8.38%) Software Developer
5 54 (8.08%) Analyst
5 54 (8.08%) Architect
6 48 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 48 (7.19%) Senior Software Developer
7 37 (5.54%) Backend Developer
8 32 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (4.64%) Applications Support
9 31 (4.64%) Azure Developer
10 29 (4.34%) Support Engineer
11 27 (4.04%) Senior Backend Developer
12 25 (3.74%) Consultant
12 25 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (3.59%) .NET Developer
13 24 (3.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (25.15%) .NET
2 113 (16.92%) XML
3 63 (9.43%) .NET Framework
4 42 (6.29%) .NET Core
5 38 (5.69%) ARM Templates
6 33 (4.94%) AngularJS
7 31 (4.64%) ASP.NET
7 31 (4.64%) JSON
8 28 (4.19%) React
9 27 (4.04%) REST
10 26 (3.89%) CSS
11 22 (3.29%) HTML
11 22 (3.29%) YAML
12 21 (3.14%) ASP.NET Core
13 20 (2.99%) Middleware
14 18 (2.69%) LDAP
15 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Graph
16 12 (1.80%) Web Services
17 10 (1.50%) SAML
18 9 (1.35%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.99%) Product Ownership
2 27 (4.04%) Data Centre
3 19 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (2.69%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.54%) Clustering
6 16 (2.40%) PKI
7 14 (2.10%) Hedge funds
8 12 (1.80%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.65%) Replication
10 10 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.20%) Contactless
13 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 6 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.75%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 232 (34.73%) Windows
2 103 (15.42%) Windows Server
3 87 (13.02%) Linux
4 31 (4.64%) Unix
5 23 (3.44%) Windows 10
6 17 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (1.80%) Windows Server 2008
10 10 (1.50%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.90%) CentOS
12 6 (0.90%) Solaris
13 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.30%) VMS
14 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (44.76%) DevOps
2 222 (33.23%) Agile
3 189 (28.29%) CI/CD
4 135 (20.21%) Scrum
5 105 (15.72%) Migration
6 77 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (10.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 64 (9.58%) B2C
9 63 (9.43%) ITIL
10 57 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (8.23%) Software Engineering
12 52 (7.78%) SDLC
13 49 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (6.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 43 (6.44%) Task Automation
16 42 (6.29%) Test Automation
17 41 (6.14%) Configuration Management
18 39 (5.84%) Project Delivery
19 38 (5.69%) Disaster Recovery
20 31 (4.64%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 196 (29.34%) Python
2 187 (27.99%) C#
3 172 (25.75%) SQL
4 62 (9.28%) Java
5 60 (8.98%) JavaScript
6 58 (8.68%) Bicep
7 55 (8.23%) Bash
8 19 (2.84%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.54%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.40%) TypeScript
11 14 (2.10%) VBScript
12 11 (1.65%) C++
13 9 (1.35%) Go
13 9 (1.35%) Korn
14 7 (1.05%) Perl
14 7 (1.05%) VB
15 5 (0.75%) Ruby
16 4 (0.60%) PHP
17 3 (0.45%) C
18 2 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 63 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 58 (8.68%) Degree
3 52 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.69%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.40%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.05%) MCSE
12 6 (0.90%) CCNP
12 6 (0.90%) CISSP
13 4 (0.60%) CISM
14 3 (0.45%) CCIE
14 3 (0.45%) CCNA
15 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.30%) CEH
15 2 (0.30%) MCSA
16 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.84%) PCI DSS
2 17 (2.54%) SLA
3 15 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.10%) QA
5 8 (1.20%) NIST
6 7 (1.05%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.90%) GDPR
8 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) GLBA
11 1 (0.15%) ISAE 3402
11 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 210 (31.44%) Active Directory
2 42 (6.29%) Docker
3 39 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.69%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.50%) vSphere
8 8 (1.20%) VMware NSX
9 7 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.75%) NFS
12 4 (0.60%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.60%) Firmware
13 3 (0.45%) XenApp
14 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 2 (0.30%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.15%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 113 (16.92%) Terraform
2 65 (9.73%) Ansible
3 50 (7.49%) Kubernetes
4 47 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (4.64%) SCCM
6 26 (3.89%) Puppet
7 21 (3.14%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (2.40%) Grafana
9 13 (1.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.35%) BladeLogic
10 9 (1.35%) PingFederate
10 9 (1.35%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.05%) ArcSight ESM
11 7 (1.05%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.90%) SCOM
12 6 (0.90%) Tivoli
12 6 (0.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 312 (46.71%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.98%) VMware
3 58 (8.68%) Oracle
4 30 (4.49%) Citrix
5 27 (4.04%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.74%) Cisco
7 24 (3.59%) IBM
8 23 (3.44%) Dynatrace
9 19 (2.84%) Red Hat
9 19 (2.84%) Splunk
10 12 (1.80%) SAP
11 11 (1.65%) ArcSight
11 11 (1.65%) CyberArk
11 11 (1.65%) Dell
11 11 (1.65%) F5
11 11 (1.65%) HP
11 11 (1.65%) Qualys
11 11 (1.65%) SimCorp
11 11 (1.65%) SolarWinds
12 10 (1.50%) Bloomberg