PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Windows PowerShell
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 4.38% - 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.17% - 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
South East median daily rate £508 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -11.74% +1.71% +10.85%

All Programming Languages
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 24 29 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 15.00% 21.17% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 21
10th Percentile - £364 £120
25th Percentile £350 £416 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £522 £575
90th Percentile £580 £566 £588
South East median daily rate £488 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.30
25th Percentile - - £32.31
Median hourly rate - - £32.32
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.05%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -13.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing PowerShell

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Banbury - 4 - -
Oxford - 2 £600 - 4
PowerShell
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Migration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (57.14%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
4 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) RBAC
5 2 (28.57%) Runbook
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) HIPAA
1 4 (57.14%) SOC 2
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Sophos