PowerShell Contracts in Reading

Windows PowerShell
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 41 57
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -25
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 60 49 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.04% 4.71% 3.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.76% 17.82% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 41 34
10th Percentile £500 £413 £372
25th Percentile £525 £525 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £610 £620
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -1.61% +47.62%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £695
90th Percentile £617 £784 £730
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £563 £600
% change year-on-year +7.56% -6.25% +42.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £68.19 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £72.19 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -3.75% +87.50%

All Programming Languages
Reading

PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 289 275 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.27% 26.42% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 216 247
10th Percentile £363 £369 £354
25th Percentile £425 £461 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £613
90th Percentile £688 £714 £659
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £63.00 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £72.63 -
Median hourly rate £59.22 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.06 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -12.50% +106.45%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Reading.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Reading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (78.33%) Azure
2 22 (36.67%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 16 (26.67%) Azure Storage
4 16 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (21.67%) OCI
7 6 (10.00%) Azure API Management
7 6 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Functions
8 5 (8.33%) Serverless
9 3 (5.00%) AWS
10 2 (3.33%) PaaS
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.67%) IaaS
11 1 (1.67%) NuGet
11 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (51.67%) DNS
1 31 (51.67%) Firewall
2 29 (48.33%) DHCP
3 13 (21.67%) SAN
4 1 (1.67%) HTTP
4 1 (1.67%) Internet
4 1 (1.67%) RNC
4 1 (1.67%) SGSN
4 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.67%) GIS
3 1 (1.67%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 11 (18.33%) Git
3 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.33%) Selenium
5 3 (5.00%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.67%) Appium
6 1 (1.67%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.67%) MSTest
6 1 (1.67%) NUnit
6 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (25.00%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (23.33%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (23.33%) Support Specialist
4 9 (15.00%) Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Integration Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Solutions Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Developer
7 3 (5.00%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Server Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) SCCM Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (38.33%) ARM Templates
2 11 (18.33%) .NET
3 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET
4 4 (6.67%) JSON
5 3 (5.00%) OAuth
5 3 (5.00%) OpenID
5 3 (5.00%) REST
5 3 (5.00%) SOAP
5 3 (5.00%) XML
5 3 (5.00%) YAML
6 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.67%) CSS
6 1 (1.67%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.67%) LangChain
6 1 (1.67%) OpenLayers
6 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.33%) PKI
2 16 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (21.67%) Data Centre
4 7 (11.67%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (66.67%) Windows
2 37 (61.67%) Windows Server
3 35 (58.33%) Linux
4 29 (48.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 29 (48.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (21.67%) Windows 10
5 13 (21.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (21.67%) Windows XP
6 7 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) DevOps
2 30 (50.00%) ITIL
3 25 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (40.00%) Agile
5 23 (38.33%) CI/CD
6 22 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (33.33%) Release Management
8 18 (30.00%) Break/Fix
8 18 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (28.33%) Analytics
9 17 (28.33%) Identity Management
9 17 (28.33%) Log Analytics
9 17 (28.33%) RBAC
9 17 (28.33%) Service Management
10 16 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (26.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 16 (26.67%) Privileged Identity Management
11 13 (21.67%) Converged Infrastructure
11 13 (21.67%) Proactive Monitoring
11 13 (21.67%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.00%) C#
2 23 (38.33%) VBScript
3 16 (26.67%) Bicep
3 16 (26.67%) VB
4 11 (18.33%) Python
5 4 (6.67%) SQL
6 2 (3.33%) Bash
6 2 (3.33%) Java
7 1 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (78.33%) Security Cleared
2 38 (63.33%) DV Cleared
2 38 (63.33%) SC Cleared
3 31 (51.67%) Degree
4 16 (26.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 13 (21.67%) CCNA
5 13 (21.67%) CCNP
5 13 (21.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CEH
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 31 (51.67%) Active Directory
2 21 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (26.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (26.67%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (21.67%) Hyper-V
4 13 (21.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (53.33%) SCCM
2 30 (50.00%) SCOM
3 29 (48.33%) WSUS
4 18 (30.00%) Kubernetes
4 18 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (26.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 13 (21.67%) EMC NetWorker
6 13 (21.67%) NetBackup
6 13 (21.67%) vCenter Server
7 9 (15.00%) Ansible
8 4 (6.67%) Terraform
9 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (61.67%) Microsoft
2 21 (35.00%) VMware
3 14 (23.33%) Cisco
3 14 (23.33%) Oracle
4 13 (21.67%) 3PAR
4 13 (21.67%) Dell
4 13 (21.67%) EMC
4 13 (21.67%) Extreme Networks
4 13 (21.67%) HP
4 13 (21.67%) Juniper
4 13 (21.67%) Palo Alto
4 13 (21.67%) Symantec
4 13 (21.67%) Veeam
5 1 (1.67%) BMC
5 1 (1.67%) Databricks
5 1 (1.67%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) Mapinfo
5 1 (1.67%) Nokia
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow