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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 37 37
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 10 20 41
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.53% 4.26% 5.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.85% 11.90% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 17
10th Percentile £328 £301 £208
25th Percentile £351 £321 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £350 £570
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -38.60% +38.60%
75th Percentile £461 £508 £674
90th Percentile £486 £553 £760
South East median daily rate £500 £570 £560
% change year-on-year -12.28% +1.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £48.44
25th Percentile - - £66.11
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £79.50 £56.75 £71.90
% change year-on-year +40.10% -21.08% -2.51%

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 146 168 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 36.87% 35.82% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 116 153
10th Percentile - - £305
25th Percentile £204 £203 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £515
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -8.98% -1.90%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £600
90th Percentile £620 £581 £674
South East median daily rate £481 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -5.64% -2.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 15
10th Percentile - £13.25 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £28.69 £45.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +37.61% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile - £81.25 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

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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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 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
Camberley -2 3 £325 -40.91%
Leatherhead - 1 £485 -
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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 7 (70.00%) Mattermost
1 7 (70.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Skype
2 2 (20.00%) VSAN
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
1 7 (70.00%) Messaging Analyst
1 7 (70.00%) Messaging Support
1 7 (70.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
1 7 (70.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 7 (70.00%) B2B
2 7 (70.00%) Information Security
2 7 (70.00%) ITSM
2 7 (70.00%) Problem Management
2 7 (70.00%) Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) Server Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) NFS
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (70.00%) SCOM
2 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) Remedy
2 7 (70.00%) Splunk
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp