PowerShell Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

PowerShell Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median PowerShell Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - 148
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a PowerShell Engineer 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.038% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £605
75th Percentile - - £608
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £410 - £605
% change year-on-year - - +80.60%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,388 1,516 2,623
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.78% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,557 908 1,542
10th Percentile £280 £250 £205
25th Percentile £400 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £492
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +3.69% -1.63%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 50 191
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.40 £15.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.36 £19.25
Median hourly rate £42.25 £53.75 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +24.05% +49.41%
75th Percentile £85.36 £64.29 £62.47
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.67 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £45.00 £40.85
% change year-on-year -17.78% +10.16% -9.22%

PowerShell Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'PowerShell Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

PowerShell Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

PowerShell Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PowerShell Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PowerShell Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

PowerShell Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Berkshire - 1 £410 - 4
PowerShell Engineer
South East

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 7 March 2026, PowerShell Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring PowerShell Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) YAML

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform