PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Windows PowerShell
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 26 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 6 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 3.19% 2.58% 9.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.18% 13.51% 22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 11
10th Percentile - £404 £213
25th Percentile £413 £456 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £675
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -20.74% +16.18%
75th Percentile £478 £578 £704
90th Percentile £484 £584 £723
South West median daily rate £520 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -1.42% -4.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £57.90 - £46.02
25th Percentile £58.50 - £46.05
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £46.09
75th Percentile £70.50 - £46.14
90th Percentile £71.70 - £46.16
South West median hourly rate £64.00 £74.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year -13.51% +6.29% +34.56%

All Programming Languages
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33 37 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 17.55% 19.07% 44.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 51
10th Percentile £413 £371 £325
25th Percentile £440 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -4.40%
75th Percentile £649 £588 £688
90th Percentile £703 £600 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 17
10th Percentile £57.90 - £47.12
25th Percentile £58.50 - £48.32
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.61%
75th Percentile £70.50 - £65.00
90th Percentile £71.70 - -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Somerset

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Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing PowerShell

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Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yeovil - 4 £425 -
PowerShell
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
2 5 (83.33%) ShareGate
3 3 (50.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) LDAP
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth
1 3 (50.00%) OpenID
1 3 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Data Discovery
3 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) Information Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) RBAC
3 3 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
3 3 (50.00%) Runbook
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Discovery
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
5 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) GDPR
1 6 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft