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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 12 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.82% 2.03% 3.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.45% 4.93% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £323 - £251
25th Percentile £413 - £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - £346
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.04%
75th Percentile £536 - £397
90th Percentile £573 - £534
South East median daily rate £538 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +2.38% -6.25% +1.82%
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 £61.11 - £57.62
% change year-on-year - - -14.34%

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 142 142 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 21.58% 41.28% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 88 116
10th Percentile £204 - -
25th Percentile £413 £204 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -13.46%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £556
90th Percentile £653 £579 £628
South East median daily rate £516 £488 £514
% change year-on-year +5.79% -5.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 8
10th Percentile £67.47 - £13.25
25th Percentile £68.74 £52.50 £46.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +37.61%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £76.25
90th Percentile - - £82.25
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £68.20
% change year-on-year +9.09% -19.35% +22.81%

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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 6 October 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 6 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford - 7 £275 - 9
Leatherhead - 2 £493 - 6
Staines - 1 - - 2
Woking - 1 £598 - 3
PowerShell
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 (41.67%) Apache
1 5 (41.67%) Confluence
1 5 (41.67%) nginx
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (8.33%) Datadog
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) DHCP
2 6 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) SMTP
4 1 (8.33%) DNSSEC
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (41.67%) Bitbucket
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) BCP
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (41.67%) Security Hardening
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Observability
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Service Management
3 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Self-Awareness
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) Bicep
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (16.67%) Docker
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Packer
1 5 (41.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Argo
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 5 (41.67%) Tanium
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) Zscaler
5 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
5 1 (8.33%) Databricks
5 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (8.33%) EMC
5 1 (8.33%) Google
5 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
5 1 (8.33%) New Relic