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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 31 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 27 14 30
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 6.03% 3.97% 4.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.15% 13.21% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 10
10th Percentile £446 - £209
25th Percentile £488 £513 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £523
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +10.05% +4.50%
75th Percentile £563 £656 £560
90th Percentile - £668 £569
South East median daily rate £503 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -12.61% -0.43% +5.00%
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 £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 134 106 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.91% 30.03% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 66 115
10th Percentile £204 £211 £263
25th Percentile £206 £403 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £576
90th Percentile £670 £658 £683
South East median daily rate £490 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.67% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 11
10th Percentile £50.00 - £44.60
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £50.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -79.93% +34.53%
75th Percentile £60.00 £13.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £67.63 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -10.57% +4.24% +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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +5 5 £500 -25.93%
Camberley -2 2 £325 -38.10%
Woking - 1 £640 -
Godalming - 1 £500 -
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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 (18.52%) Mattermost
1 5 (18.52%) Skype for Business
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) Azure
2 16 (59.26%) Entra ID
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.41%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Akamai
5 1 (3.70%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.70%) IaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (48.15%) DHCP
1 13 (48.15%) DNS
2 12 (44.44%) Kerberos
3 5 (18.52%) Skype
4 2 (7.41%) Firewall
4 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.41%) VSAN
4 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.70%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.70%) VLAN
5 1 (3.70%) VoIP
5 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Analyst
1 5 (18.52%) Messaging Analyst
1 5 (18.52%) Messaging Support
1 5 (18.52%) Messaging Support Analyst
1 5 (18.52%) Support Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) ERP Specialist
4 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Security Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.70%) React
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) Vue
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Replication
2 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Linux
3 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Migration
2 12 (44.44%) Digital Identity
3 7 (25.93%) ITIL
4 6 (22.22%) ITSM
5 5 (18.52%) B2B
5 5 (18.52%) Information Security
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Problem Management
5 5 (18.52%) Validation
6 3 (11.11%) Change Control
6 3 (11.11%) Patch Management
6 3 (11.11%) Security Patching
7 2 (7.41%) Agile
7 2 (7.41%) Application Virtualisation
7 2 (7.41%) Data Protection
7 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (7.41%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (3.70%) Business Continuity
8 1 (3.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (48.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) QA
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (81.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.41%) NFS
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
4 1 (3.70%) Docker
4 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (18.52%) HP SiteScope
2 5 (18.52%) SCOM
3 4 (14.81%) SCCM
4 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (7.41%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.70%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 22 (81.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Splunk
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco
3 5 (18.52%) Remedy
4 3 (11.11%) Citrix
4 3 (11.11%) VMware
5 2 (7.41%) Tenable
5 2 (7.41%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.70%) Imperva
6 1 (3.70%) NetApp
6 1 (3.70%) Okta
6 1 (3.70%) Proofpoint
6 1 (3.70%) Qualys
6 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.70%) SAP