PowerShell Contracts in the South West

Windows PowerShell
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 34 56 33
Rank change year-on-year +22 -23 +26
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 91 109 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.42% 3.41% 5.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.27% 17.44% 20.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 73 166
10th Percentile £397 £425 £275
25th Percentile £472 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £655 £700 £650
90th Percentile £738 - £714
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 9
10th Percentile - - £46.22
25th Percentile - - £53.58
Median hourly rate £82.96 £40.00 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year +107.40% -30.23% +12.92%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £60.70
90th Percentile - £74.44 £92.50
England median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year -27.50% -33.22% +19.80%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 449 625 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.76% 19.54% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 421 759
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £625
90th Percentile £676 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 91 97
10th Percentile £61.30 £46.39 £49.87
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.13 £57.33
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.00 £75.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire +17 33 £575 +4.55% 28
Wiltshire +21 30 £586 -16.25% 11
Dorset +17 15 £613 +19.51% 5
Bristol +6 9 £570 +8.57% 17
Devon - 3 £513 - 11
Somerset -5 1 £710 - 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 18 (19.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (18.68%) SharePoint
3 14 (15.38%) Confluence
4 4 (4.40%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.10%) Apache
5 1 (1.10%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (1.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 14 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (53.85%) Azure
2 28 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (28.57%) AWS
4 17 (18.68%) Entra ID
5 15 (16.48%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.79%) SaaS
7 7 (7.69%) Google Workspace
8 4 (4.40%) GCP
8 4 (4.40%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.10%) GitHub
11 1 (1.10%) IaaS
11 1 (1.10%) PaaS
11 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.10%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 21 (23.08%) DNS
2 19 (20.88%) DHCP
3 18 (19.78%) TCP/IP
4 15 (16.48%) HTTP
5 12 (13.19%) Skype
6 7 (7.69%) Firewall
7 4 (4.40%) VPN
8 3 (3.30%) LAN
8 3 (3.30%) SAN
8 3 (3.30%) Unified Communications
8 3 (3.30%) VLAN
8 3 (3.30%) WAN
9 2 (2.20%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.10%) NAS
10 1 (1.10%) Network Security
10 1 (1.10%) SMTP
10 1 (1.10%) VoIP
10 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (20.88%) Git
2 18 (19.78%) JIRA
3 15 (16.48%) Bitbucket
4 12 (13.19%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.20%) GitLab
6 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.10%) MLflow
6 1 (1.10%) MSI
General
1 32 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.09%) Legal
5 9 (9.89%) Finance
6 6 (6.59%) Telecoms
7 5 (5.49%) Electronics
7 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.49%) Marketing
8 2 (2.20%) Military
9 1 (1.10%) Aviation
9 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (13.19%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 9 (9.89%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Wintel Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Senior
6 5 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Administrator
7 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Senior Wintel Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Site Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Support Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) 3rd Line Support
9 2 (2.20%) Developer
9 2 (2.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) Test Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) Windows Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.19%) REST
2 10 (10.99%) SOAP
3 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (5.49%) .NET
5 3 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.20%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.10%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.10%) React
7 1 (1.10%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.10%) Vue
7 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) PKI
2 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.40%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.10%) CESG
6 1 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 66 (72.53%) Windows
2 43 (47.25%) Windows Server
3 40 (43.96%) Linux
4 15 (16.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (15.38%) Windows 10
6 7 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.10%) Android
9 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.10%) VMS
9 1 (1.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.16%) Agile
2 30 (32.97%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (32.97%) Service Management
3 22 (24.18%) Configuration Management
3 22 (24.18%) NsoIT
4 21 (23.08%) DevOps
5 20 (21.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (20.88%) Containerisation
7 17 (18.68%) Migration
7 17 (18.68%) System Testing
7 17 (18.68%) Validation
8 14 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 12 (13.19%) Task Automation
11 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (10.99%) ITIL
11 10 (10.99%) Reverse Engineering
12 8 (8.79%) CI/CD
12 8 (8.79%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 43 (47.25%) Python
2 33 (36.26%) Bash
3 16 (17.58%) Java
3 16 (17.58%) SQL
4 2 (2.20%) VBScript
5 1 (1.10%) C#
5 1 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.10%) Perl
5 1 (1.10%) Ruby
5 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 64 (70.33%) Security Cleared
2 50 (54.95%) SC Cleared
3 21 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 17 (18.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (17.58%) Degree
6 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (10.99%) OCA
7 10 (10.99%) Oracle Certification
8 9 (9.89%) CCNP
8 9 (9.89%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (9.89%) RHCA
8 9 (9.89%) RHCE
9 8 (8.79%) MCSE
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.20%) MCSA
11 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.10%) MCITP
11 1 (1.10%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.20%) NIST
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.10%) NCSC
3 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (39.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (32.97%) Active Directory
3 26 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 18 (19.78%) Docker
5 6 (6.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (4.40%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.20%) vSphere
8 1 (1.10%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 37 (40.66%) Ansible
2 29 (31.87%) Terraform
3 28 (30.77%) Puppet
4 19 (20.88%) Kubernetes
5 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (10.99%) Progress Chef
6 10 (10.99%) vCenter Server
7 9 (9.89%) SCCM
8 7 (7.69%) WSUS
9 4 (4.40%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (3.30%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (3.30%) PowerCLI
10 3 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (3.30%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 2 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
12 1 (1.10%) Grafana
12 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (1.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 44 (48.35%) VMware
2 41 (45.05%) Microsoft
3 16 (17.58%) Red Hat
4 12 (13.19%) Atlassian
5 10 (10.99%) Oracle
6 9 (9.89%) Cisco
7 7 (7.69%) Google
8 6 (6.59%) Veeam
9 5 (5.49%) McAfee
9 5 (5.49%) SAP
10 4 (4.40%) Symantec
11 3 (3.30%) Citrix
12 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
12 2 (2.20%) Splunk
13 1 (1.10%) ESRI
13 1 (1.10%) Fujitsu
13 1 (1.10%) Rapid7
13 1 (1.10%) Remedy
13 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow