PowerShell Contracts in Sheffield

Windows PowerShell
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 41 46
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 25 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 7.84% 3.69% 2.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.12% 11.57% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 6
10th Percentile £359 £420 £500
25th Percentile £404 £445 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £624 £675
Median % change year-on-year -24.22% -7.63% +35.00%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £747
90th Percentile £658 £647 £769
South Yorkshire median daily rate £473 £624 £575
% change year-on-year -24.22% +8.43% +15.00%

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 113 121 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.42% 31.93% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 78 90
10th Percentile £359 £397 £413
25th Percentile £409 £413 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £700
90th Percentile £650 £629 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £445 £594
% change year-on-year +16.54% -25.05% +25.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) GitHub
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (16.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (16.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) SMTP
2 6 (24.00%) DNS
2 6 (24.00%) SAN
3 4 (16.00%) NAS
4 2 (8.00%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.00%) GitLab
4 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (12.00%) JIRA
4 3 (12.00%) Vagrant
4 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (8.00%) Selenium
5 2 (8.00%) TestNG
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Developer
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365 Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) Software Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Network Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (8.00%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Designer
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) REST
2 4 (16.00%) Middleware
2 4 (16.00%) React
3 3 (12.00%) CSS
3 3 (12.00%) Gherkin
3 3 (12.00%) HTML
3 3 (12.00%) SPFx
4 2 (8.00%) pytest
5 1 (4.00%) LDAP
5 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (16.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ITSM
1 9 (36.00%) SIEM
2 7 (28.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.00%) DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (16.00%) Kanban
3 4 (16.00%) Migration
3 4 (16.00%) Scrum
3 4 (16.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (12.00%) Change Management
4 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (12.00%) Web Development
5 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (8.00%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (12.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (56.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (16.00%) vSphere
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (12.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 18 (72.00%) Ansible
2 6 (24.00%) vRealize
3 5 (20.00%) Puppet
4 4 (16.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (8.00%) Terraform
6 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (4.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) VMware
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Splunk
4 2 (8.00%) 3PAR
4 2 (8.00%) Brocade
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco
4 2 (8.00%) EMC
4 2 (8.00%) HP
4 2 (8.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.00%) Centrify
5 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.00%) Thycotic