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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 65 58
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +18
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 510 536 728
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.58% 3.51% 3.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.47% 9.13% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 356 530
10th Percentile £375 £316 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £783 £759 £789
England median daily rate £523 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.74% -0.46% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 13
10th Percentile £31.02 - £22.75
25th Percentile £41.88 - £32.00
Median hourly rate £50.75 £112.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -54.69% +155.50% -18.80%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £60.00
90th Percentile £64.59 - £65.08
England median hourly rate £65.50 £56.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year +15.43% +17.24% -12.00%

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 5,385 5,870 6,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.75% 38.43% 36.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,615 3,963 5,209
10th Percentile £368 £375 £395
25th Percentile £430 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 39 65
10th Percentile £25.29 £35.60 £26.24
25th Percentile £33.88 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -0.79%

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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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -18 68 £525 -10.06% 22
South London +20 32 £425 +17.24% 7
West London -12 6 £500 +5.26% 5
East London +2 2 - - 7
North London -3 1 £510 +100.00% 1
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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 63 (12.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (9.41%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.94%) Confluence
4 10 (1.96%) nginx
5 7 (1.37%) Skype for Business
6 6 (1.18%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.78%) SAS
8 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.39%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) Apache
9 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 13 (2.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Actimize
3 1 (0.20%) Eikon
3 1 (0.20%) Eze OMS
3 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 277 (54.31%) Azure
2 122 (23.92%) Microsoft 365
3 115 (22.55%) Entra ID
4 82 (16.08%) AWS
5 61 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (10.00%) GitHub
7 45 (8.82%) GCP
8 40 (7.84%) IaaS
9 37 (7.25%) Power Platform
10 32 (6.27%) Azure Monitor
11 31 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (5.49%) PowerApps
13 26 (5.10%) OneDrive
14 25 (4.90%) Power Automate
15 24 (4.71%) Azure Sentinel
16 23 (4.51%) Microsoft Purview
17 20 (3.92%) SaaS
18 19 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
19 18 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
20 17 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (14.90%) Firewall
2 61 (11.96%) DNS
3 35 (6.86%) DHCP
4 33 (6.47%) VPN
5 31 (6.08%) Network Security
6 22 (4.31%) TCP/IP
7 19 (3.73%) HTTP
8 18 (3.53%) SMTP
9 14 (2.75%) SSH
10 10 (1.96%) FTP
10 10 (1.96%) IMAP
10 10 (1.96%) OpenLDAP
11 9 (1.76%) DKIM
11 9 (1.76%) DMARC
11 9 (1.76%) Wireshark
12 8 (1.57%) Internet
12 8 (1.57%) LAN
12 8 (1.57%) Multicast
13 7 (1.37%) Skype
13 7 (1.37%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (3.53%) Power BI
2 18 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.78%) Delta Lake
7 4 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.59%) KDB
9 2 (0.39%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.39%) Impala
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 42 (8.24%) Jenkins
2 34 (6.67%) Git
3 27 (5.29%) JIRA
4 22 (4.31%) GitLab
5 10 (1.96%) Vagrant
6 8 (1.57%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.57%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.98%) GCC
9 4 (0.78%) Clang
9 4 (0.78%) Maven
9 4 (0.78%) Postman
9 4 (0.78%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.59%) Gradle
11 2 (0.39%) Chocolatey
11 2 (0.39%) MLflow
11 2 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.39%) Selenium
11 2 (0.39%) Spinnaker
General
1 168 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 120 (23.53%) Finance
3 79 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.22%) Banking
5 39 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.73%) Front Office
6 19 (3.73%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.55%) Marketing
10 12 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.16%) Electronics
11 11 (2.16%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.37%) Legal
12 7 (1.37%) Retail
13 5 (0.98%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.78%) International Banking
14 4 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (10.98%) Architect
2 49 (9.61%) Senior
3 47 (9.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (8.24%) Consultant
5 40 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
6 38 (7.45%) Platform Engineer
7 36 (7.06%) Analyst
7 36 (7.06%) Security Engineer
8 31 (6.08%) Developer
9 24 (4.71%) Windows Engineer
10 19 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (3.53%) Support Analyst
12 17 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.33%) PowerShell Engineer
13 16 (3.14%) Lead
14 15 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (2.75%) Operations Analyst
16 13 (2.55%) Microsoft Engineer
16 13 (2.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (12.94%) REST
2 43 (8.43%) JSON
3 25 (4.90%) FIX Protocol
4 24 (4.71%) LDAP
5 22 (4.31%) Microsoft Graph
6 20 (3.92%) .NET
7 19 (3.73%) OAuth
8 18 (3.53%) SAML
9 15 (2.94%) Middleware
9 15 (2.94%) OpenID
10 14 (2.75%) XML
11 13 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (2.55%) SailPoint
11 13 (2.55%) YAML
12 12 (2.35%) SOAP
13 11 (2.16%) ARM Templates
13 11 (2.16%) Ultra Messaging
14 7 (1.37%) .NET Framework
14 7 (1.37%) HTML
14 7 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.86%) PKI
2 31 (6.08%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 26 (5.10%) Replication
5 22 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 21 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (4.12%) Security Posture
7 17 (3.33%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (2.35%) Hedge funds
11 11 (2.16%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.96%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.37%) Clustering
14 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
15 6 (1.18%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 161 (31.57%) Windows
2 113 (22.16%) Linux
3 63 (12.35%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.12%) Windows 10
5 17 (3.33%) VMS
6 16 (3.14%) Ubuntu
7 13 (2.55%) Mac OS
8 11 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (1.96%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (1.57%) Unix
11 5 (0.98%) Solaris
11 5 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.78%) CentOS
13 3 (0.59%) Android
13 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.39%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (26.27%) DevOps
2 111 (21.76%) CI/CD
3 102 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (15.88%) Agile
6 65 (12.75%) Migration
7 63 (12.35%) Configuration Management
8 55 (10.78%) ITIL
9 49 (9.61%) RBAC
10 48 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
10 48 (9.41%) Identity Access Management
11 46 (9.02%) SIEM
12 43 (8.43%) Analytics
12 43 (8.43%) Task Automation
13 42 (8.24%) Cloud Security
13 42 (8.24%) Incident Response
14 40 (7.84%) Platform Engineering
14 40 (7.84%) Zero Trust
15 39 (7.65%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 227 (44.51%) Python
2 106 (20.78%) Bash
3 89 (17.45%) SQL
4 34 (6.67%) C#
5 33 (6.47%) Kusto Query Language
6 31 (6.08%) JavaScript
7 23 (4.51%) Bicep
8 14 (2.75%) Groovy
8 14 (2.75%) Java
9 8 (1.57%) C++
9 8 (1.57%) Go
10 6 (1.18%) Perl
10 6 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.98%) C
12 4 (0.78%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.59%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.59%) Ruby
13 3 (0.59%) VBScript
14 2 (0.39%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 115 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 106 (20.78%) SC Cleared
3 62 (12.16%) Degree
4 37 (7.25%) Azure Certification
5 29 (5.69%) CISSP
5 29 (5.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 16 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (2.94%) AWS Certification
9 14 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 14 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (2.55%) CISM
11 10 (1.96%) CCNA
12 9 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (1.57%) CEH
14 7 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.37%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.18%) DV Cleared
15 6 (1.18%) OSCP
15 6 (1.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (7.45%) GDPR
3 24 (4.71%) NIST
4 10 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.76%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.37%) SLA
7 6 (1.18%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.98%) NCSC
9 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.78%) MiFID
9 4 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.59%) EMIR
10 3 (0.59%) ITGC
11 2 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.20%) FISMA
12 1 (0.20%) PSD2
12 1 (0.20%) QA
12 1 (0.20%) SOC 1
System Software
1 157 (30.78%) Active Directory
2 62 (12.16%) Docker
3 32 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (2.94%) Squid
6 12 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.96%) DFS Replication
7 10 (1.96%) Dovecot
7 10 (1.96%) Postfix
8 6 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.98%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.98%) Snort
10 4 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.39%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.39%) Firmware
11 2 (0.39%) HDFS
11 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.39%) vSphere
11 2 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 105 (20.59%) Terraform
2 53 (10.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 51 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 49 (9.61%) SCCM
5 32 (6.27%) Ansible
6 24 (4.71%) SCOM
6 24 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (4.12%) Grafana
8 19 (3.73%) vRealize
9 18 (3.53%) Nessus
9 18 (3.53%) Prometheus
10 17 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 14 (2.75%) HP SiteScope
11 14 (2.75%) Kibana
12 11 (2.16%) logstash
13 10 (1.96%) Proxmox
14 9 (1.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (1.57%) Puppet
16 7 (1.37%) NetBackup
17 5 (0.98%) Suricata
Vendors
1 223 (43.73%) Microsoft
2 51 (10.00%) VMware
3 34 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 30 (5.88%) Splunk
5 29 (5.69%) CyberArk
6 27 (5.29%) Google
7 22 (4.31%) CrowdStrike
8 21 (4.12%) Cisco
9 20 (3.92%) Citrix
9 20 (3.92%) Solace
10 17 (3.33%) SAP
11 16 (3.14%) Databricks
11 16 (3.14%) Okta
11 16 (3.14%) Qualys
12 14 (2.75%) Zscaler
13 13 (2.55%) Oracle
13 13 (2.55%) Remedy
14 11 (2.16%) Bloomberg
14 11 (2.16%) TIBCO
15 10 (1.96%) Jaspersoft