PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Windows PowerShell
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 23 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 3 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 1.61% 2.99% 2.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.00% 13.33% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £298 £461 -
25th Percentile £333 £461 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +5.56% +5.82%
75th Percentile £470 £531 £475
90th Percentile £499 £558 -
Hampshire median daily rate £573 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.43% -4.17% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 25 30 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 13.44% 22.39% 26.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 40
10th Percentile £398 £399 £474
25th Percentile £417 £420 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £594
90th Percentile - £600 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 15
10th Percentile £45.83 £57.06 £51.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £62.19 £55.00
Median hourly rate £48.11 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.98% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £50.77 £70.63 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Portsmouth

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing PowerShell

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitOps
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Runbook
1 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Rancher
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk