PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Windows PowerShell
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 3.66% 6.33% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.14% 22.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £524 - -
25th Percentile £561 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £200 -
Median % change year-on-year +193.75% - -
75th Percentile £591 - -
90th Percentile £593 £531 -
East of England median daily rate £507 £530 £450
% change year-on-year -4.34% +17.78% -10.00%

All Programming Languages
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 35 22 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 21.34% 27.85% 18.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 11
10th Percentile £465 - £198
25th Percentile £538 £200 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £325 £550
Median % change year-on-year +86.92% -40.91% -21.43%
75th Percentile £716 £448 £619
90th Percentile £746 £480 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Suffolk

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Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Ipswich -6 2 - - 1
Newmarket - 1 £588 -
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £588 - 1
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) ADSL
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) IPsec
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Migration Lead
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
1 2 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CRM
1 4 (66.67%) Data Deduplication
1 4 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) Dimensional Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
1 4 (66.67%) Logical Data Model
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) ISA99
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Databricks
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (33.33%) VMware