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 citing PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	56	44	34
Rank change year-on-year	-12	-10	+6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell	13	8	20
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey	1.99%	2.24%	4.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category	9.49%	5.76%	11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted	5	0	8
10^th Percentile	£278	-	£301
25^th Percentile	£300	-	£321
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	-	£350
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-41.67%
75^th Percentile	£598	-	£508
90^th Percentile	£644	-	£553
South East median daily rate	£543	£513	£570
% change year-on-year	+5.85%	-10.09%	+1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	0	0
10^th Percentile	£59.61	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	-
Median hourly rate	£67.47	-	-
75^th Percentile	-	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
South East median hourly rate	£67.24	-	£56.75
% change year-on-year	-	-	-21.08%

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 citing coding skills in Surrey.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing coding skills	137	139	168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey	20.98%	38.94%	36.05%
Number of daily rates quoted	87	88	115
10^th Percentile	£308	-	-
25^th Percentile	£403	£204	£203
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£450	£450
Median % change year-on-year	+11.11%	-	-14.29%
75^th Percentile	£609	£538	£547
90^th Percentile	£675	£579	£595
South East median daily rate	£525	£492	£513
% change year-on-year	+6.71%	-4.00%	-2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted	24	18	7
10^th Percentile	£67.47	-	£13.25
25^th Percentile	£69.37	£52.50	£35.38
Median hourly rate	£70.00	£55.00	£75.00
Median % change year-on-year	+27.27%	-26.67%	+37.61%
75^th Percentile	-	£57.50	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	£80.00
South East median hourly rate	£60.00	£55.00	£67.02
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	-17.93%	+21.85%

PowerShell 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 Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

PowerShell Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Surrey over the 6 months to 28 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Surrey

PowerShell Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

PowerShell 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 28 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Guildford	-	8	£288	-	2
Leatherhead	-	1	£475	-
Staines	-	1	-	-	1
Woking	-	1	£598	-	1
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PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Surrey region citing PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	84.6%	11
1	Terraform	84.6%	11
3	DNS	61.5%	8
3	Windows	61.5%	8
5	Active Directory	53.8%	7
5	Azure	53.8%	7
5	Linux	53.8%	7
8	DHCP	46.2%	6
8	Firewall	46.2%	6
8	Infrastructure as Code	46.2%	6
8	VMware	46.2%	6
12	Apache	38.5%	5
12	Atlassian Bamboo	38.5%	5
12	Bash	38.5%	5
12	BCP	38.5%	5
12	Bitbucket	38.5%	5
12	CI/CD	38.5%	5
12	Confluence	38.5%	5
12	JIRA	38.5%	5
12	nginx	38.5%	5
12	Packer	38.5%	5
12	Security Hardening	38.5%	5
12	ServiceNow	38.5%	5
12	Tanium	38.5%	5
12	vCenter Server	38.5%	5
12	VMware ESXi	38.5%	5
12	Windows 10	38.5%	5
28	Continuous Improvement	30.8%	4
28	Platform Engineering	30.8%	4
30	Azure DevOps	23.1%	3

PowerShell Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	84.6%	11
2	Bash	38.5%	5
3	Bicep	23.1%	3
4	Kusto Query Language	15.4%	2
5	JavaScript	7.7%	1