PowerShell Contracts in the South East

Windows PowerShell
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 39 43 56
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 157 230 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.22% 4.14% 3.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.82% 19.09% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 176 186
10th Percentile £450 £375 £270
25th Percentile £506 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £608 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £55.20
25th Percentile - - £59.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.19
75th Percentile - - £82.90
90th Percentile - - £85.66
England median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year -27.50% -33.22% +19.80%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 792 1,205 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.31% 21.68% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 831 1,136
10th Percentile £353 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 73 91
10th Percentile £40.05 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.19 £74.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +34 89 £600 -0.83% 41
Berkshire +26 84 £605 - 25
Hampshire -3 54 £575 +4.55% 57
Surrey +10 7 £581 -5.10% 23
Buckinghamshire +14 5 £525 -0.42% 11
East Sussex -3 4 £488 +2.63% 8
West Sussex 0 2 £259 -42.44% 5
Kent +6 1 £475 +18.75% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (7.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.73%) IIS
3 4 (2.55%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.91%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.27%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 62 (39.49%) Azure
2 28 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (13.38%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (12.74%) AWS
5 19 (12.10%) IaaS
6 16 (10.19%) PaaS
6 16 (10.19%) SaaS
7 15 (9.55%) OpenShift
8 13 (8.28%) Entra ID
9 11 (7.01%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (5.73%) GitHub
11 8 (5.10%) Azure API Management
11 8 (5.10%) GCP
12 7 (4.46%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.18%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (2.55%) Azure Storage
14 4 (2.55%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (1.91%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (1.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.10%) DNS
1 19 (12.10%) Firewall
2 13 (8.28%) SMTP
3 10 (6.37%) DHCP
4 9 (5.73%) VPN
5 6 (3.82%) NetScaler
6 4 (2.55%) VSAN
7 3 (1.91%) HTTP
7 3 (1.91%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.27%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.27%) Network Security
8 2 (1.27%) SSL
8 2 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.64%) BGP
9 1 (0.64%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.64%) OSPF
9 1 (0.64%) RIP
9 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.28%) Big Data
2 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.91%) Power BI
5 3 (1.91%) SSDT
6 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.64%) Parquet
7 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (8.28%) Git
2 9 (5.73%) Selenium
3 7 (4.46%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.91%) MSI
4 3 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.27%) GitLab
5 2 (1.27%) Maven
6 1 (0.64%) JIRA
General
1 42 (26.75%) Public Sector
2 30 (19.11%) Finance
3 29 (18.47%) Social Skills
4 25 (15.92%) Electronics
4 25 (15.92%) Manufacturing
4 25 (15.92%) Marketing
4 25 (15.92%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.27%) Military
6 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.64%) Local Government
7 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (24.84%) Architect
2 26 (16.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (15.92%) Active Directory Architect
4 19 (12.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (7.64%) Senior
7 11 (7.01%) Support Engineer
8 10 (6.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (5.10%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
10 7 (4.46%) Applications Packager
10 7 (4.46%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (4.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) DV Cleared Application Packager
11 6 (3.82%) Infrastructure Architect
11 6 (3.82%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.37%) .NET
2 8 (5.10%) OAuth
3 5 (3.18%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.18%) REST
3 5 (3.18%) YAML
4 4 (2.55%) JSON
4 4 (2.55%) Web Services
5 3 (1.91%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.91%) OpenID
5 3 (1.91%) React
5 3 (1.91%) SAML
5 3 (1.91%) SOAP
5 3 (1.91%) XML
5 3 (1.91%) XSLT
6 2 (1.27%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.27%) Ajax
6 2 (1.27%) Apache Axis
6 2 (1.27%) JAX-RS
6 2 (1.27%) JAX-WS
6 2 (1.27%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.10%) PKI
2 17 (10.83%) Clustering
3 11 (7.01%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.01%) Onboarding
4 10 (6.37%) Public Cloud
5 9 (5.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.82%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.82%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.55%) Replication
9 3 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.27%) CMDB
10 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.27%) Wiki
11 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 110 (70.06%) Windows
2 56 (35.67%) Windows Server
3 35 (22.29%) Linux
4 21 (13.38%) Windows 10
5 12 (7.64%) Ubuntu
5 12 (7.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (5.10%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (4.46%) CentOS
7 7 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (4.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.27%) Solaris
9 2 (1.27%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.64%) Unix
10 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.76%) DevOps
2 52 (33.12%) Agile
3 34 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (21.02%) Test Automation
5 28 (17.83%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (17.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (16.56%) Identity Access Management
7 25 (15.92%) Digital Marketing
7 25 (15.92%) Programme Management
8 22 (14.01%) CI/CD
9 17 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (10.19%) Configuration Management
11 14 (8.92%) Application Packaging
12 13 (8.28%) ITIL
13 12 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (7.64%) Migration
13 12 (7.64%) Root Cause Analysis
14 11 (7.01%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (7.01%) High Availability
14 11 (7.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (32.48%) Python
2 25 (15.92%) SQL
3 19 (12.10%) Bash
4 14 (8.92%) C#
5 9 (5.73%) Bicep
6 7 (4.46%) Java
6 7 (4.46%) VBScript
7 6 (3.82%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.55%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.91%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.27%) Ruby
10 2 (1.27%) XPath
11 1 (0.64%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.64%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.64%) C
11 1 (0.64%) C++
11 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.64%) VB
11 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (57.96%) Security Cleared
2 68 (43.31%) DV Cleared
3 22 (14.01%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.64%) Azure Certification
4 12 (7.64%) Degree
5 7 (4.46%) CISSP
6 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.91%) VCAP
6 3 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.27%) GCIH
8 1 (0.64%) CCIE
8 1 (0.64%) CCNP
8 1 (0.64%) CEH
8 1 (0.64%) CFCE
8 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.64%) CISM
8 1 (0.64%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.64%) GCFA
8 1 (0.64%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.55%) GDPR
3 3 (1.91%) SLA
4 2 (1.27%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.27%) NCSC
4 2 (1.27%) NIST
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 70 (44.59%) Active Directory
2 28 (17.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (11.46%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (11.46%) vSphere
4 13 (8.28%) Docker
4 13 (8.28%) Hyper-V
5 10 (6.37%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (5.73%) BitLocker
7 8 (5.10%) Terminal Services
8 6 (3.82%) XenApp
8 6 (3.82%) XenDesktop
9 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.91%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 35 (22.29%) Terraform
2 30 (19.11%) Ansible
3 23 (14.65%) Kubernetes
4 19 (12.10%) vCenter Server
5 15 (9.55%) Puppet
6 13 (8.28%) WSUS
7 12 (7.64%) SCCM
8 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (5.10%) Nagios
9 8 (5.10%) vMotion
10 7 (4.46%) Nessus
11 6 (3.82%) WMI
12 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (3.18%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.91%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (1.91%) Norton AntiVirus
13 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.91%) SCOM
13 3 (1.91%) vRealize
14 2 (1.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 59 (37.58%) Microsoft
2 48 (30.57%) VMware
3 27 (17.20%) SAP
4 15 (9.55%) Citrix
5 14 (8.92%) Dell
6 13 (8.28%) HP
7 11 (7.01%) Symantec
8 9 (5.73%) Red Hat
8 9 (5.73%) Wyse
9 8 (5.10%) Google
10 6 (3.82%) Oracle
11 5 (3.18%) Databricks
12 4 (2.55%) ServiceNow
12 4 (2.55%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.91%) Juniper
13 3 (1.91%) NETGEAR
13 3 (1.91%) TP-LINK
13 3 (1.91%) UiPath
14 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
14 2 (1.27%) Splunk