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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 4.00% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £375 £425 £690
% change year-on-year -11.76% -38.41% +45.26%
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 19 13 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 25.33% 26.53% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 6
10th Percentile £363 £239 £236
25th Percentile £409 £415 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £563 £350
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +60.71% -44.00%
75th Percentile £556 £606 £389
90th Percentile £733 £618 £459
South Wales median daily rate £425 £415 £450
% change year-on-year +2.41% -7.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £38.00 £20.98 £15.38
25th Percentile - £22.28 £15.66
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.00 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +87.43% -3.59%
75th Percentile - £45.00 £21.29
90th Percentile £72.50 - £22.77
South Wales median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £20.47
% change year-on-year +11.11% +119.83% +8.80%

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

PowerShell
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Check_MK
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) BMC
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Tenable