PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Windows PowerShell
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 40 51
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 18 17 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.09% 4.25% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.23% 12.50% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 1
10th Percentile £308 £461 -
25th Percentile £383 £477 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £622 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.68% +3.67% +17.07%
75th Percentile £517 £638 -
90th Percentile £593 £645 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £622 £225
% change year-on-year -33.68% +176.44% -55.00%

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 249 136 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.71% 34.00% 26.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 94 68
10th Percentile £325 £383 £400
25th Percentile £400 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £589
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -10.82% +7.04%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £635
90th Percentile £626 £645 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £587
% change year-on-year -9.52% -10.63% +6.81%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Sheffield over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Sheffield

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Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing PowerShell

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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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
2 7 (38.89%) NAS
2 7 (38.89%) SAN
3 3 (16.67%) Firewall
4 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (5.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Git
3 7 (38.89%) GitLab
4 3 (16.67%) JIRA
5 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.56%) Vagrant
5 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Server Migration Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Server Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Linux
3 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (16.67%) VMS
5 1 (5.56%) Android
5 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (61.11%) Migration
3 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (38.89%) Kanban
4 7 (38.89%) Scrum
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) Server Management
7 3 (16.67%) Server Migrations
8 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.11%) User Experience
9 1 (5.56%) Application Virtualisation
9 1 (5.56%) Data Flow Diagram
9 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 4 (22.22%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) VCAP
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 9 (50.00%) vSphere
3 7 (38.89%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.56%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Ansible
2 9 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 7 (38.89%) vRealize
4 3 (16.67%) Terraform
5 2 (11.11%) PowerCLI
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (5.56%) Puppet
6 1 (5.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) VMware
2 5 (27.78%) F5
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) Broadcom
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix
5 1 (5.56%) Sophos
5 1 (5.56%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) WatchGuard