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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 29 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 23 13 25
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 5.23% 4.38% 4.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.70% 14.13% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 9
10th Percentile £450 £481 £373
25th Percentile £488 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +1.40%
75th Percentile £563 £639 £561
90th Percentile - £666 £570
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £76.53
% change year-on-year +32.17% -25.85% +12.24%

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 123 92 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 27.95% 30.98% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 59 113
10th Percentile £204 £298 £304
25th Percentile £413 £375 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £563 £531 £561
90th Percentile £671 £606 £670
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £501
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.30% -5.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 3
10th Percentile £35.75 £14.73 £40.31
25th Percentile £60.00 £16.94 £53.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £20.75 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +213.25% -72.89% +36.05%
75th Percentile £68.75 £24.44 -
90th Percentile - £26.58 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.54 £59.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.47% +7.27%

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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 17 March 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 17 March 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 6 £500 -25.93%
Camberley -3 2 £325 -38.10%
Godalming - 1 £500 -
Woking - 1 £640 - 1
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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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) Azure
2 16 (69.57%) Entra ID
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Akamai
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) DHCP
1 13 (56.52%) DNS
2 12 (52.17%) Kerberos
3 2 (8.70%) Firewall
3 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.70%) VSAN
3 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.35%) SMTP
4 1 (4.35%) Unified Communications
4 1 (4.35%) VLAN
4 1 (4.35%) VoIP
4 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) ERP Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Security Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) Vue
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Replication
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Smartphone
3 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) Windows Server
3 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.70%) Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Migration
2 12 (52.17%) Digital Identity
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (13.04%) Change Control
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
4 3 (13.04%) Security Patching
5 2 (8.70%) Agile
5 2 (8.70%) Application Virtualisation
5 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
5 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (4.35%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (4.35%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (4.35%) Prototyping
6 1 (4.35%) SDLC
6 1 (4.35%) Security Operations
6 1 (4.35%) Software Delivery
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) Bash
2 2 (8.70%) C#
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) QA
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) NFS
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.35%) BitLocker
4 1 (4.35%) Docker
4 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (17.39%) SCCM
3 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.35%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 18 (78.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Citrix
2 3 (13.04%) VMware
2 3 (13.04%) Zscaler
3 2 (8.70%) Tenable
4 1 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.35%) Imperva
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) Okta
4 1 (4.35%) Proofpoint
4 1 (4.35%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk