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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 32 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 25 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 4.87% 2.35% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.23% 8.43% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 11
10th Percentile £472 £469 £356
25th Percentile £488 £497 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £613
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -5.10% +6.52%
75th Percentile £563 £661 £619
90th Percentile - £669 -
South East median daily rate £511 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% +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 154 83 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 30.02% 27.85% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 56 114
10th Percentile £204 £344 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £563 £540 £619
90th Percentile £647 £641 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.72% +2.80% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 3
10th Percentile £57.00 - £41.00
25th Percentile £60.63 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% -65.00% +45.45%
75th Percentile £69.69 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% -5.42% +9.09%

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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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +3 8 £510 -24.44%
Godalming - 1 £500 -
Woking - 1 £640 -
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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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (84.00%) Azure
2 16 (64.00%) Entra ID
3 7 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Akamai
6 1 (4.00%) AWS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) DHCP
1 13 (52.00%) DNS
2 12 (48.00%) Kerberos
3 3 (12.00%) SMTP
4 2 (8.00%) Firewall
4 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
5 1 (4.00%) VLAN
5 1 (4.00%) VoIP
5 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) ERP Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Security Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) LDAP
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (4.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) Vue
3 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Robotics
2 1 (4.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.00%) Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Migration
2 12 (48.00%) Digital Identity
3 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (12.00%) Change Control
5 3 (12.00%) Patch Management
5 3 (12.00%) Security Patching
5 3 (12.00%) Service Management
6 2 (8.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (8.00%) Robotic Process Automation
6 2 (8.00%) User Experience
6 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (8.00%) Workflow
7 1 (4.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (4.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (4.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (4.00%) Prototyping
7 1 (4.00%) Security Operations
7 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) C#
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) Java
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
4 2 (8.00%) VBScript
5 1 (4.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) QA
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (68.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (16.00%) SCCM
4 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 3 (12.00%) Citrix
4 2 (8.00%) Blue Prism
4 2 (8.00%) Tenable
5 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.00%) Imperva
5 1 (4.00%) NetApp
5 1 (4.00%) Okta
5 1 (4.00%) Proofpoint
5 1 (4.00%) Qualys
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (4.00%) VMware