PowerShell Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows PowerShell
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 57 60 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 512 630 920
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.01% 3.03% 3.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.06% 12.95% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 436 708
10th Percentile £345 £350 £286
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £545 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +7.92% +6.32%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £689 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 19 17
10th Percentile £17.00 £39.53 £24.89
25th Percentile £20.24 £40.00 £32.40
Median hourly rate £22.00 £40.25 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year -45.34% -29.79% +18.51%
75th Percentile £31.88 £46.29 £64.50
90th Percentile £164.89 £74.44 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £23.77 £40.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year -40.58% -33.22% +19.56%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

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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 PowerShell within the UK excluding London 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
South East +4 157 £575 +4.55% 247
North of England +25 129 £470 -1.05% 125
South West +22 91 £585 -2.50% 83
Midlands +28 79 £500 +25.00% 91
North West +14 70 £465 +9.41% 73
West Midlands +23 62 £501 +33.60% 61
Yorkshire +32 58 £475 -9.52% 40
Scotland -33 38 £459 -20.26% 35
East of England +35 24 £550 +22.22% 96
East Midlands +11 17 £475 -10.59% 25
Wales +4 8 £425 -38.41% 16
North East -5 5 £465 -2.11% 12
Northern Ireland -7 2 £425 - 8
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 59 (11.52%) SharePoint
2 57 (11.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (4.10%) IIS
4 19 (3.71%) Confluence
5 15 (2.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 14 (2.73%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.98%) Mattermost
8 4 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.59%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.39%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.20%) Apache
11 1 (0.20%) nginx
11 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 191 (37.30%) Azure
2 123 (24.02%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (14.26%) Entra ID
4 65 (12.70%) AWS
5 51 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (7.03%) Power Platform
7 33 (6.45%) IaaS
8 31 (6.05%) OpenShift
8 31 (6.05%) Power Automate
8 31 (6.05%) SaaS
9 29 (5.66%) PowerApps
10 28 (5.47%) GitHub
11 22 (4.30%) GCP
12 20 (3.91%) PaaS
13 17 (3.32%) OneDrive
14 14 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (1.76%) Azure AKS
15 9 (1.76%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (1.56%) Azure API Management
17 7 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 73 (14.26%) DNS
2 54 (10.55%) Firewall
3 43 (8.40%) DHCP
4 24 (4.69%) SMTP
4 24 (4.69%) TCP/IP
5 22 (4.30%) Skype
6 21 (4.10%) HTTP
6 21 (4.10%) Network Security
7 20 (3.91%) VPN
8 14 (2.73%) Intrusion Detection
8 14 (2.73%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (2.15%) SAN
10 9 (1.76%) NetScaler
10 9 (1.76%) VSAN
10 9 (1.76%) WAN
11 8 (1.56%) LAN
11 8 (1.56%) SSL
11 8 (1.56%) Unified Communications
11 8 (1.56%) VLAN
12 7 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.32%) Oracle Database
3 13 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (2.54%) Big Data
3 13 (2.54%) Power BI
4 10 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.78%) MySQL
8 4 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.59%) SSDT
10 2 (0.39%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.39%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.39%) Power Query
10 2 (0.39%) Redis
10 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (10.55%) Git
2 31 (6.05%) JIRA
3 27 (5.27%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.13%) Bitbucket
4 16 (3.13%) GitLab
5 15 (2.93%) Selenium
6 11 (2.15%) MSI
7 5 (0.98%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.59%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.59%) Chocolatey
9 3 (0.59%) Maven
9 3 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.59%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.39%) JMeter
10 2 (0.39%) TestNG
10 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 190 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 89 (17.38%) Public Sector
3 68 (13.28%) Finance
4 50 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (8.59%) Telecoms
6 30 (5.86%) Electronics
6 30 (5.86%) Manufacturing
6 30 (5.86%) Marketing
7 20 (3.91%) Legal
8 8 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.17%) Military
10 4 (0.78%) Banking
11 3 (0.59%) Local Government
12 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.39%) Publishing
13 1 (0.20%) Aviation
13 1 (0.20%) Police
13 1 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (10.55%) Architect
3 46 (8.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (8.01%) Support Engineer
5 34 (6.64%) Senior
6 27 (5.27%) Developer
7 26 (5.08%) Active Directory Architect
7 26 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (5.08%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 24 (4.69%) Analyst
9 17 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (3.13%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 16 (3.13%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 16 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
11 15 (2.93%) Automation Engineer
11 15 (2.93%) Consultant
11 15 (2.93%) Desktop Engineer
12 14 (2.73%) Administrator
13 13 (2.54%) Security Engineer
13 13 (2.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.66%) REST
2 28 (5.47%) .NET
3 20 (3.91%) HTML
4 14 (2.73%) CSS
4 14 (2.73%) React
4 14 (2.73%) SOAP
5 13 (2.54%) Middleware
6 11 (2.15%) SPFx
7 10 (1.95%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.95%) OAuth
7 10 (1.95%) Software Packaging
8 9 (1.76%) YAML
9 8 (1.56%) JSON
9 8 (1.56%) Web Services
10 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (1.17%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.17%) LDAP
11 6 (1.17%) XML
12 5 (0.98%) SAML
12 5 (0.98%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.45%) PKI
2 25 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.91%) Clustering
4 20 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (2.93%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.93%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.76%) Device Driver
8 9 (1.76%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.37%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.17%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.98%) Replication
13 4 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 301 (58.79%) Windows
2 160 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 123 (24.02%) Linux
4 54 (10.55%) Windows 10
5 26 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (4.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (2.73%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (2.54%) Ubuntu
10 12 (2.34%) Windows 7
11 11 (2.15%) Unix
12 10 (1.95%) Windows Server 2003
13 9 (1.76%) Mac OS
14 8 (1.56%) CentOS
15 5 (0.98%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.78%) Android
17 3 (0.59%) Windows XP
18 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
18 2 (0.39%) Solaris
18 2 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (32.62%) Problem-Solving
2 147 (28.71%) Agile
3 117 (22.85%) DevOps
4 90 (17.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 68 (13.28%) Migration
6 65 (12.70%) CI/CD
7 62 (12.11%) Task Automation
8 57 (11.13%) ITIL
9 54 (10.55%) Configuration Management
10 46 (8.98%) Test Automation
11 43 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
12 42 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
13 41 (8.01%) Infrastructure as Code
14 40 (7.81%) Identity Access Management
14 40 (7.81%) Service Management
15 36 (7.03%) Containerisation
16 32 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
17 31 (6.05%) High Availability
18 30 (5.86%) Change Management
18 30 (5.86%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 162 (31.64%) Python
2 99 (19.34%) Bash
3 91 (17.77%) SQL
4 34 (6.64%) C#
5 32 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 28 (5.47%) Java
7 19 (3.71%) Perl
8 16 (3.13%) Shell Script
8 16 (3.13%) VBScript
9 15 (2.93%) Bicep
10 14 (2.73%) PL/SQL
11 11 (2.15%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.37%) Ruby
12 7 (1.37%) VB
13 5 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.78%) VBA
15 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.39%) C++
16 2 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 236 (46.09%) Security Cleared
2 132 (25.78%) SC Cleared
3 102 (19.92%) DV Cleared
4 45 (8.79%) Degree
5 43 (8.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (5.86%) Azure Certification
7 28 (5.47%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (4.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 12 (2.34%) CISSP
10 11 (2.15%) CCNP
11 10 (1.95%) MCSE
11 10 (1.95%) OCA
11 10 (1.95%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (1.76%) RHCA
12 9 (1.76%) RHCE
13 8 (1.56%) A+ Certification
13 8 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.17%) VCAP
15 5 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.78%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.34%) QA
3 7 (1.37%) GDPR
4 6 (1.17%) NIST
5 5 (0.98%) NCSC
6 4 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.78%) SLA
6 4 (0.78%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 202 (39.45%) Active Directory
2 94 (18.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (9.38%) Docker
4 46 (8.98%) Hyper-V
5 43 (8.40%) vSphere
6 20 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
8 15 (2.93%) BitLocker
9 13 (2.54%) VMware NSX
10 11 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
11 9 (1.76%) Terminal Services
11 9 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (1.37%) XenApp
13 7 (1.37%) XenDesktop
14 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.59%) VirtualBox
16 1 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 118 (23.05%) Ansible
2 88 (17.19%) Terraform
3 61 (11.91%) Kubernetes
4 53 (10.35%) Puppet
5 50 (9.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 45 (8.79%) SCCM
7 38 (7.42%) vCenter Server
8 27 (5.27%) WSUS
9 26 (5.08%) Progress Chef
10 17 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (2.34%) Grafana
12 11 (2.15%) SCOM
13 10 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (1.95%) Prometheus
13 10 (1.95%) vRealize
14 9 (1.76%) Nagios
15 8 (1.56%) Nessus
15 8 (1.56%) PowerCLI
15 8 (1.56%) vMotion
16 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 234 (45.70%) Microsoft
2 131 (25.59%) VMware
3 38 (7.42%) Oracle
4 37 (7.23%) Cisco
5 34 (6.64%) Red Hat
6 32 (6.25%) SAP
7 29 (5.66%) Dell
8 22 (4.30%) HP
9 20 (3.91%) Citrix
9 20 (3.91%) Splunk
10 19 (3.71%) Google
11 16 (3.13%) ServiceNow
11 16 (3.13%) Symantec
12 12 (2.34%) Atlassian
13 10 (1.95%) Apple
13 10 (1.95%) Veeam
14 9 (1.76%) CyberArk
14 9 (1.76%) Wyse
15 8 (1.56%) SolarWinds
16 7 (1.37%) McAfee