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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 24 1 15
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 4.15% 0.37% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.46% 1.25% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 1 12
10th Percentile - - £261
25th Percentile £488 - £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £556
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -19.10% -17.59%
75th Percentile £563 - £619
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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 166 80 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.72% 29.63% 25.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 56 123
10th Percentile £204 £320 £250
25th Percentile £413 £411 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +11.76% -25.70%
75th Percentile £581 £540 £575
90th Percentile £657 £588 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £501 £513
% change year-on-year +2.40% -2.34% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 7
10th Percentile £60.00 - £68.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% -62.67% +57.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £83.00
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £54.94 £62.25
% change year-on-year +9.22% -11.75% +10.47%

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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 23 June 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 23 June 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
Leatherhead - 6 £510 - 1
Guildford -13 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 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (87.50%) Azure
2 16 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.17%) AWS
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) Datadog
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) IaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) DNS
2 14 (58.33%) DHCP
3 12 (50.00%) Kerberos
4 3 (12.50%) SMTP
5 2 (8.33%) Firewall
5 2 (8.33%) VPN
6 1 (4.17%) DNSSEC
6 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) LDAP
2 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) JSON
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Migration
2 12 (50.00%) Digital Identity
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) ITIL
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (12.50%) Patch Management
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Security Patching
5 3 (12.50%) Service Management
6 2 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (8.33%) Change Control
6 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.33%) Observability
6 2 (8.33%) Robotic Process Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Task Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (8.33%) Workflow
7 1 (4.17%) Analytics
7 1 (4.17%) DDoS Mitigation
7 1 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) C#
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) VBScript
4 1 (4.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) BitLocker
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (12.50%) SCCM
3 3 (12.50%) Terraform
4 2 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Zscaler
3 2 (8.33%) Blue Prism
3 2 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
4 1 (4.17%) Qualys
4 1 (4.17%) Tenable