PowerCLI Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware PowerCLI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PowerCLI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 360 413
Rank change year-on-year -19 +53 +68
Contract jobs citing PowerCLI 7 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.024% 0.038%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 0.17% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £409 £838 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £875 £588
Median % change year-on-year -46.29% +48.94% +30.56%
75th Percentile £534 £913 £666
90th Percentile £566 - £675
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +17.02%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

PowerCLI falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,634 2,316 2,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.16% 13.66% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,763 1,511 2,029
10th Percentile £235 £250 £273
25th Percentile £381 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.63% -2.19%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £613
90th Percentile £642 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 38 121
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.91 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.73 £25.00
Median hourly rate £22.42 £35.08 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -36.09% -24.03% +110.96%
75th Percentile £66.63 £52.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.13 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £36.83 £52.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.84% +114.68%

PowerCLI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerCLI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PowerCLI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PowerCLI
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PowerCLI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PowerCLI

PowerCLI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerCLI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerCLI in the UK excluding London

PowerCLI
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PowerCLI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PowerCLI

PowerCLI
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerCLI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
North of England - 4 - - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
South West +7 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £365 -
South East - 1 £575 - 1
Midlands - 1 £365 - 1
PowerCLI
UK

PowerCLI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Route 53
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) VSAN
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) SUSE
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (42.86%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Edge Computing
2 2 (28.57%) Minimum Viable Product
2 2 (28.57%) Security Hardening
2 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Data Flow Diagram
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) VCAP
3 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware NSX
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) vSphere
3 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) vCenter Server
3 3 (42.86%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (14.29%) Packer
5 1 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Broadcom
2 2 (28.57%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft