PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Windows PowerShell
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 39 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 15 1 18
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.56% 0.31% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.09% 0.95% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 13
10th Percentile - - £268
25th Percentile £505 - £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -9.09% -27.34%
75th Percentile £577 - £619
90th Percentile £649 - -
South East median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.91% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £59.61 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - £58.49
% change year-on-year - - +17.62%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 105 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.21% 32.92% 31.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 79 138
10th Percentile £204 £204 £203
25th Percentile £413 £300 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.27% +8.82% -22.02%
75th Percentile £619 £548 £561
90th Percentile £675 £575 £632
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.65% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 7
10th Percentile £62.50 - £68.00
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -62.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £83.00
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% -19.23% +18.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Surrey

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Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Surrey over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Surrey

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Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Guildford -6 6 - - 2
Leatherhead - 4 £510 - 1
Staines - 1 - - 1
Woking - 1 £598 -
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 5 (33.33%) Apache
1 5 (33.33%) Confluence
1 5 (33.33%) nginx
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
3 1 (6.67%) Datadog
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DNS
2 6 (40.00%) DHCP
2 6 (40.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) SMTP
4 1 (6.67%) DNSSEC
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Linux
3 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) BCP
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
1 5 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Service Management
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Robotic Process Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Workflow
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) VBScript
4 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (13.33%) Docker
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Packer
2 5 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
5 1 (6.67%) Argo
5 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 5 (33.33%) Tanium
3 4 (26.67%) Zscaler
4 2 (13.33%) Blue Prism
5 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
5 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 1 (6.67%) EMC
5 1 (6.67%) Google
5 1 (6.67%) Infoblox
5 1 (6.67%) New Relic
5 1 (6.67%) Qualys
5 1 (6.67%) Tenable