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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 31 34
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 14 22 37
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 3.29% 5.28% 5.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.15% 14.97% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 16
10th Percentile £368 £341 £208
25th Percentile £450 £350 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.13% +25.62%
75th Percentile £550 £605 £674
90th Percentile £616 £662 £775
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £82.00 £56.75 £76.53
% change year-on-year +44.51% -25.85% +39.15%

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 153 147 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 36.00% 35.25% 26.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 101 129
10th Percentile £204 - £245
25th Percentile £204 £203 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £588
90th Percentile £626 £575 £675
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 13
10th Percentile - - £44.93
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -79.23% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £57.41
% change year-on-year -3.50% -0.72% -4.32%

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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 27 December 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 27 December 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
Leatherhead +4 3 £493 -27.04% 1
Camberley -2 3 £325 -38.10% 1
Godalming - 1 £500 -
Woking - 1 £640 - 8
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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 (50.00%) Mattermost
1 7 (50.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Akamai
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Skype
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) VSAN
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications
3 1 (7.14%) VLAN
3 1 (7.14%) VoIP
3 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
1 7 (50.00%) Messaging Analyst
1 7 (50.00%) Messaging Support
1 7 (50.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
1 7 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) ERP Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) Vue
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Smartphone
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 7 (50.00%) B2B
2 7 (50.00%) Information Security
2 7 (50.00%) ITSM
2 7 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 7 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Application Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Change Control
4 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) NFS
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (7.14%) Docker
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (50.00%) SCOM
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.14%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (57.14%) Splunk
3 7 (50.00%) Cisco
3 7 (50.00%) Remedy
4 3 (21.43%) VMware
5 2 (14.29%) Citrix
6 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
6 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
6 1 (7.14%) Imperva
6 1 (7.14%) NetApp
6 1 (7.14%) Okta
6 1 (7.14%) Proofpoint
6 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 1 (7.14%) SAP
6 1 (7.14%) Tenable
6 1 (7.14%) Zscaler