PowerShell Contracts in the Thames Valley

Windows PowerShell
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 64 62
Rank change year-on-year +34 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 89 83 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.89% 3.09% 3.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.42% 15.57% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 71 77
10th Percentile £416 £425 £230
25th Percentile £500 £501 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £605 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +16.35% -5.45%
75th Percentile £700 £608 £619
90th Percentile - £619 £750
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £55.20
25th Percentile - - £59.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.19
75th Percentile - - £82.90
90th Percentile - - £85.66
South East median hourly rate - - £72.19
% change year-on-year - - +20.31%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 397 533 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.27% 19.84% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 364 521
10th Percentile £350 £352 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £700 £668 £680
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 20
10th Percentile £26.49 £33.94 £25.64
25th Percentile £40.75 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.30 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +2.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.00 £76.61
90th Percentile £70.25 £67.63 £79.41
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +26 84 £605 - 35
Buckinghamshire +14 5 £525 -0.42% 21
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.87%) IIS
2 4 (4.49%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.12%) Confluence
5 1 (1.12%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.45%) Azure
2 19 (21.35%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (12.36%) Azure Monitor
3 11 (12.36%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.11%) AWS
5 8 (8.99%) Azure API Management
5 8 (8.99%) GitHub
5 8 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (7.87%) Azure AKS
6 7 (7.87%) IaaS
7 6 (6.74%) PaaS
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Storage
8 4 (4.49%) SaaS
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.37%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.25%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) DNS
2 6 (6.74%) Firewall
2 6 (6.74%) NetScaler
3 5 (5.62%) SMTP
4 2 (2.25%) DHCP
4 2 (2.25%) Network Security
5 1 (1.12%) BGP
5 1 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.12%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.12%) FTP
5 1 (1.12%) HTTP
5 1 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.12%) OSPF
5 1 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.12%) RIP
5 1 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.12%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.62%) Big Data
2 5 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.37%) SSDT
4 2 (2.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.12%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Git
2 7 (7.87%) Selenium
3 6 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.12%) JIRA
4 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (33.71%) Finance
2 29 (32.58%) Public Sector
3 25 (28.09%) Electronics
3 25 (28.09%) Manufacturing
3 25 (28.09%) Marketing
3 25 (28.09%) Telecoms
4 15 (16.85%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Architect
2 21 (23.60%) Active Directory Architect
3 15 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (12.36%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Consultant
9 3 (3.37%) Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Hardware Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Support Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Applications Architect
10 2 (2.25%) Citrix Specialist
10 2 (2.25%) Desktop Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.99%) OAuth
2 5 (5.62%) .NET
3 4 (4.49%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.37%) .NET Core
4 3 (3.37%) OpenID
4 3 (3.37%) SAML
4 3 (3.37%) YAML
5 2 (2.25%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.25%) ADO
5 2 (2.25%) Apache Axis
5 2 (2.25%) JSON
5 2 (2.25%) REST
6 1 (1.12%) EDI
6 1 (1.12%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.12%) MSMQ
6 1 (1.12%) SOAP
6 1 (1.12%) WCF
6 1 (1.12%) Web Services
6 1 (1.12%) XML
6 1 (1.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.74%) PKI
3 5 (5.62%) Clustering
3 5 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Replication
5 2 (2.25%) CMDB
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.25%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 63 (70.79%) Windows
2 27 (30.34%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.24%) Linux
3 10 (11.24%) Windows 10
4 5 (5.62%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.62%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.12%) Unix
6 1 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.34%) Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.34%) DevOps
2 25 (28.09%) Digital Marketing
2 25 (28.09%) Programme Management
2 25 (28.09%) Test Automation
3 23 (25.84%) Agile
4 22 (24.72%) Identity Access Management
5 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (17.98%) CI/CD
7 13 (14.61%) Configuration Management
7 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (11.24%) Migration
8 10 (11.24%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (10.11%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (10.11%) High Availability
9 9 (10.11%) Identity Management
9 9 (10.11%) RBAC
9 9 (10.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (8.99%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.08%) Python
2 14 (15.73%) Bash
3 11 (12.36%) SQL
4 9 (10.11%) Bicep
5 8 (8.99%) C#
6 6 (6.74%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.49%) Java
8 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.25%) Ruby
9 1 (1.12%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.12%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.12%) VB
9 1 (1.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (46.07%) Security Cleared
2 33 (37.08%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.87%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.62%) CISSP
6 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.25%) GCIH
8 1 (1.12%) CCIE
8 1 (1.12%) CCNP
8 1 (1.12%) CEH
8 1 (1.12%) CFCE
8 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.12%) CISM
8 1 (1.12%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.12%) Degree
8 1 (1.12%) GCFA
8 1 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.12%) VCAP
8 1 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.12%) GDPR
2 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.12%) NIST
2 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (50.56%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.24%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (6.74%) vSphere
3 6 (6.74%) XenApp
3 6 (6.74%) XenDesktop
4 3 (3.37%) Docker
4 3 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (22.47%) Terraform
2 10 (11.24%) Ansible
3 8 (8.99%) WSUS
4 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (5.62%) Puppet
6 5 (5.62%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.49%) SCCM
8 3 (3.37%) SCOM
9 2 (2.25%) Grafana
9 2 (2.25%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.12%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.12%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (33.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (29.21%) SAP
3 18 (20.22%) VMware
4 14 (15.73%) Dell
5 9 (10.11%) Wyse
6 7 (7.87%) Citrix
7 5 (5.62%) Databricks
7 5 (5.62%) HP
8 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.37%) UiPath
10 2 (2.25%) BMC
10 2 (2.25%) Dynatrace
10 2 (2.25%) IBM
10 2 (2.25%) Remedy
10 2 (2.25%) Splunk
11 1 (1.12%) Cisco
11 1 (1.12%) Oracle
11 1 (1.12%) Proofpoint
11 1 (1.12%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.12%) Veeam