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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 21 20
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 7.32% 1.39% 1.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.00% 5.88% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £388 £161 £280
% change year-on-year +140.44% -42.44% -37.08%

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 12 17 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 29.27% 23.61% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 17
10th Percentile - - £290
25th Percentile £525 £210 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £220 £475
Median % change year-on-year +206.82% -53.68% -16.67%
75th Percentile £713 £239 £675
90th Percentile £728 £244 £698
South Wales median daily rate £450 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -7.69% +14.71% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 5
10th Percentile - £16.19 £34.22
25th Percentile - £20.12 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £20.24 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - -62.18% +166.50%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £55.25
90th Percentile - £24.62 -
South Wales median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £51.25
% change year-on-year +48.26% -60.52% +170.38%

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 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure App Service
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Product Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam