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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 9.38% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £525 £425 £160
% change year-on-year +23.53% +165.63% -66.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 23 20 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 35.94% 31.25% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 8
10th Percentile £363 £166 £160
25th Percentile £425 £210 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £373 £350
Median % change year-on-year +47.65% +6.43% -43.43%
75th Percentile £713 £584 £427
90th Percentile £718 £613 £529
South Wales median daily rate £425 £454 £425
% change year-on-year -6.34% +6.76% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 8
10th Percentile £38.00 £15.20 £15.63
25th Percentile - £20.12 £19.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.00 £23.93
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% -8.07% +22.78%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £53.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £45.00 £55.25
South Wales median hourly rate £50.00 £23.59 £25.36
% change year-on-year +111.95% -6.98% +30.12%

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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

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in Newport

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Newport over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Newport

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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 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure App Service
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) VSAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (33.33%) Military
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Database Migration
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Product Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Sendmail
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Check_MK
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Splunk
4 1 (16.67%) BMC
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) IBM
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (16.67%) Remedy
4 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) Tenable
4 1 (16.67%) Veeam