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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 47 64
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 -29
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 66 41 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.56% 3.94% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.92% 15.77% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 38 25
10th Percentile £501 £413 £358
25th Percentile £525 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £583 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -4.90% +45.83%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £675
90th Percentile £611 £698 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.33% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £58.49 £81.37 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.12% - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.49 £81.37 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.12% +25.18% +62.50%

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 288 260 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.24% 24.98% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 202 230
10th Percentile £330 £363 £352
25th Percentile £425 £456 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £606
90th Percentile £688 £712 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £540 £500
% change year-on-year +1.80% +8.05% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £72.63 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £76.24 -
Median hourly rate £58.40 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.26% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.28 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.45% +52.63%

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 May 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 21 (31.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 51 (77.27%) Azure
2 24 (36.36%) Azure Monitor
3 22 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 21 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (30.30%) Azure Storage
6 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (21.21%) OCI
7 4 (6.06%) Azure API Management
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.55%) AWS
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.55%) Serverless
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.52%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (54.55%) DNS
1 36 (54.55%) Firewall
2 34 (51.52%) DHCP
3 14 (21.21%) SAN
4 1 (1.52%) HTTP
4 1 (1.52%) Internet
4 1 (1.52%) RNC
4 1 (1.52%) SGSN
4 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.52%) GIS
2 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.52%) Spatial Data
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Git
2 10 (15.15%) Visual Studio
3 8 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.58%) Selenium
5 3 (4.55%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.52%) Appium
6 1 (1.52%) InstallShield
6 1 (1.52%) MSI
6 1 (1.52%) MSTest
6 1 (1.52%) NUnit
6 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (56.06%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Active Directory Support
2 19 (28.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (21.21%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (21.21%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (21.21%) Support Specialist
4 10 (15.15%) Storage Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) Support Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (12.12%) Developer
7 6 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) Server Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Solutions Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Integration Developer
9 3 (4.55%) PowerShell Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (39.39%) ARM Templates
2 9 (13.64%) .NET
3 7 (10.61%) ASP.NET
4 3 (4.55%) YAML
5 2 (3.03%) JSON
6 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.52%) CSS
6 1 (1.52%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.52%) LangChain
6 1 (1.52%) OAuth
6 1 (1.52%) OpenID
6 1 (1.52%) OpenLayers
6 1 (1.52%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.52%) REST
6 1 (1.52%) SOAP
6 1 (1.52%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.82%) PKI
2 20 (30.30%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (21.21%) Data Centre
4 8 (12.12%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 47 (71.21%) Windows
2 44 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 42 (63.64%) Linux
4 36 (54.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 36 (54.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (22.73%) Windows 10
5 15 (22.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (21.21%) Windows XP
7 8 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.52%) Unix
8 1 (1.52%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (54.55%) DevOps
2 35 (53.03%) ITIL
3 30 (45.45%) Agile
4 28 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (39.39%) CI/CD
6 25 (37.88%) Release Management
7 23 (34.85%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (31.82%) Analytics
8 21 (31.82%) Identity Management
8 21 (31.82%) Log Analytics
8 21 (31.82%) RBAC
8 21 (31.82%) Service Management
9 20 (30.30%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 20 (30.30%) Privileged Identity Management
10 19 (28.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (25.76%) Break/Fix
11 17 (25.76%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (21.21%) Proactive Monitoring
12 14 (21.21%) Project Management
12 14 (21.21%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.94%) C#
2 28 (42.42%) VBScript
3 21 (31.82%) Bicep
4 20 (30.30%) VB
5 12 (18.18%) Python
6 2 (3.03%) Bash
6 2 (3.03%) Java
6 2 (3.03%) SQL
7 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 46 (69.70%) DV Cleared
3 43 (65.15%) SC Cleared
4 37 (56.06%) Degree
5 20 (30.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (21.21%) CCNA
6 14 (21.21%) CCNP
6 14 (21.21%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.52%) CEH
7 1 (1.52%) CISSP
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 36 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 23 (34.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (30.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 20 (30.30%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (21.21%) Hyper-V
4 14 (21.21%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.03%) Docker
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 37 (56.06%) SCCM
2 35 (53.03%) SCOM
3 34 (51.52%) WSUS
4 22 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 22 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (30.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 14 (21.21%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (21.21%) NetBackup
6 14 (21.21%) vCenter Server
7 9 (13.64%) Ansible
8 4 (6.06%) Terraform
9 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (65.15%) Microsoft
2 23 (34.85%) VMware
3 15 (22.73%) Cisco
3 15 (22.73%) Oracle
4 14 (21.21%) 3PAR
4 14 (21.21%) Dell
4 14 (21.21%) EMC
4 14 (21.21%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (21.21%) HP
4 14 (21.21%) Juniper
4 14 (21.21%) Palo Alto
4 14 (21.21%) Symantec
4 14 (21.21%) Veeam
5 1 (1.52%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.52%) BMC
5 1 (1.52%) Databricks
5 1 (1.52%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) Remedy
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow