PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Newport

Windows PowerShell
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 5.13% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £486 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £566 - -
90th Percentile £594 - -
South Wales median daily rate £600 £263 £356
% change year-on-year +128.57% -26.18% -25.14%

All Programming Languages
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 17.95% 16.67% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £471 - £185
25th Percentile £494 £513 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £285
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +84.21% -48.06%
75th Percentile £641 £538 £384
90th Percentile £733 - £469
South Wales median daily rate £500 £403 £495
% change year-on-year +24.22% -18.69% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £15.75
25th Percentile - - £20.12
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +13.66% +11.55%
75th Percentile - - £20.44
90th Percentile - - £22.18
South Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £22.92 £20.24
% change year-on-year -4.01% +13.27% -10.07%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Newport

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing PowerShell

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Presales
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp