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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 62 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +15
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 506 614 820
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.96% 3.03% 3.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.71% 12.81% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 434 619
10th Percentile £326 £350 £287
25th Percentile £440 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £532 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +6.30% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £622 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 16
10th Percentile - £39.29 £24.49
25th Percentile £21.00 £40.00 £30.92
Median hourly rate £24.66 £40.25 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year -38.73% -29.79% +18.77%
75th Percentile £82.96 £46.34 £68.72
90th Percentile £200.00 £74.44 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £30.04 £40.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.37% -32.92% +20.04%

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 3,690 4,792 6,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.86% 23.66% 28.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,444 3,233 4,627
10th Percentile £322 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £564 £586 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £520 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -1.14% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 412 329
10th Percentile £27.94 £37.63 £23.08
25th Percentile £45.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year -0.80% +2.97% +20.56%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +2 158 £575 +4.55% 317
North of England +20 120 £465 -2.11% 173
South West +7 82 £588 -2.08% 98
Midlands +10 68 £460 +16.46% 124
North West +11 64 £465 +0.54% 95
Yorkshire +24 55 £500 -4.76% 60
West Midlands +13 53 £460 +26.90% 82
East of England +57 45 £550 +15.79% 112
Scotland -20 35 £459 -20.26% 55
East Midlands 0 15 £460 -0.54% 39
Wales +6 8 £425 -38.41% 29
Northern Ireland -5 2 £425 - 15
North East -4 1 £350 -26.32% 20
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PowerShell
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 58 (11.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (7.71%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.56%) Confluence
3 18 (3.56%) IIS
3 18 (3.56%) Skype for Business
4 15 (2.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (1.58%) Mattermost
6 6 (1.19%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.40%) nginx
8 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.20%) Apache
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (4.15%) 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 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 175 (34.58%) Azure
2 85 (16.80%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (13.24%) Entra ID
4 64 (12.65%) AWS
5 48 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (6.32%) IaaS
7 28 (5.53%) GitHub
7 28 (5.53%) OpenShift
8 22 (4.35%) Cohesity
8 22 (4.35%) GCP
8 22 (4.35%) SaaS
9 20 (3.95%) Power Platform
10 17 (3.36%) OneDrive
11 16 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (3.16%) PaaS
11 16 (3.16%) Power Automate
12 11 (2.17%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.98%) Azure AKS
13 10 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (1.58%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 93 (18.38%) DNS
2 55 (10.87%) Firewall
3 43 (8.50%) DHCP
4 29 (5.73%) SAN
5 25 (4.94%) Skype
6 24 (4.74%) SMTP
7 23 (4.55%) TCP/IP
8 20 (3.95%) Network Security
9 18 (3.56%) HTTP
9 18 (3.56%) VPN
10 14 (2.77%) Intrusion Detection
11 12 (2.37%) Remote Desktop
12 11 (2.17%) Unified Communications
13 9 (1.78%) NetScaler
13 9 (1.78%) VSAN
13 9 (1.78%) WAN
13 9 (1.78%) WebEx
14 8 (1.58%) LAN
14 8 (1.58%) Softphone
15 7 (1.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.36%) Oracle Database
3 15 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (2.57%) Big Data
4 13 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.17%) Power BI
6 10 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.38%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.79%) MySQL
12 3 (0.59%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.59%) Power Query
12 3 (0.59%) Redis
12 3 (0.59%) SSDT
13 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (10.28%) Git
2 30 (5.93%) JIRA
3 28 (5.53%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.56%) MSI
5 17 (3.36%) GitLab
6 15 (2.96%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.57%) Selenium
8 4 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.79%) Visual Studio
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 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.40%) TestNG
11 1 (0.20%) Postman
11 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 180 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 75 (14.82%) Public Sector
3 70 (13.83%) Finance
4 47 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 32 (6.32%) Manufacturing
7 31 (6.13%) Electronics
7 31 (6.13%) Marketing
8 16 (3.16%) Legal
9 7 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.19%) Military
11 4 (0.79%) Banking
12 2 (0.40%) Automotive
12 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Publishing
13 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.20%) Games
13 1 (0.20%) Police
13 1 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (11.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (10.47%) Architect
3 45 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 28 (5.53%) Analyst
6 26 (5.14%) Active Directory Architect
6 26 (5.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 25 (4.94%) Senior
8 22 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (3.75%) Windows Engineer
10 18 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (3.16%) Automation Engineer
11 16 (3.16%) Lead
11 16 (3.16%) Security Engineer
12 15 (2.96%) Developer
13 14 (2.77%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 13 (2.57%) Consultant
15 12 (2.37%) 3rd Line Support
15 12 (2.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.37%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.13%) .NET
2 29 (5.73%) REST
3 14 (2.77%) Middleware
3 14 (2.77%) SOAP
4 13 (2.57%) Software Packaging
5 11 (2.17%) ARM Templates
6 9 (1.78%) JSON
7 8 (1.58%) .NET Core
7 8 (1.58%) OAuth
7 8 (1.58%) Web Services
7 8 (1.58%) XMPP
7 8 (1.58%) YAML
8 6 (1.19%) HTML
8 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (1.19%) React
8 6 (1.19%) XML
9 5 (0.99%) ADO
9 5 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.79%) LDAP
11 3 (0.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.52%) PKI
2 21 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
2 21 (4.15%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.95%) Clustering
4 18 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.17%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (1.78%) Device Driver
10 7 (1.38%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.38%) Replication
11 6 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.99%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.79%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 313 (61.86%) Windows
2 173 (34.19%) Windows Server
3 118 (23.32%) Linux
4 58 (11.46%) Windows 10
5 39 (7.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 35 (6.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (1.98%) Unix
9 10 (1.98%) Windows Server 2003
10 9 (1.78%) Mac OS
10 9 (1.78%) Windows 7
11 8 (1.58%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.99%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.79%) Android
14 3 (0.59%) CentOS
14 3 (0.59%) Solaris
14 3 (0.59%) Windows XP
15 2 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
2 137 (27.08%) Agile
3 111 (21.94%) DevOps
4 87 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 67 (13.24%) CI/CD
5 67 (13.24%) Migration
6 58 (11.46%) ITIL
7 53 (10.47%) Configuration Management
8 48 (9.49%) SIEM
9 47 (9.29%) Task Automation
10 45 (8.89%) Test Automation
11 43 (8.50%) Deployment Automation
12 42 (8.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (8.10%) Business Intelligence
13 41 (8.10%) Cybersecurity
14 40 (7.91%) Service Management
15 37 (7.31%) Identity Access Management
16 35 (6.92%) Containerisation
17 33 (6.52%) Change Management
17 33 (6.52%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 160 (31.62%) Python
2 99 (19.57%) SQL
3 98 (19.37%) Bash
4 42 (8.30%) C#
5 32 (6.32%) Java
6 18 (3.56%) Bicep
6 18 (3.56%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.56%) Perl
7 16 (3.16%) VBScript
8 15 (2.96%) Shell Script
9 14 (2.77%) PL/SQL
10 13 (2.57%) VB
11 6 (1.19%) Ruby
12 5 (0.99%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.79%) VBA
14 3 (0.59%) C++
15 2 (0.40%) Go
15 2 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 241 (47.63%) Security Cleared
2 127 (25.10%) SC Cleared
3 113 (22.33%) DV Cleared
4 43 (8.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (8.10%) Degree
6 28 (5.53%) Azure Certification
6 28 (5.53%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (2.37%) CISSP
9 11 (2.17%) CCNP
10 10 (1.98%) MCSE
10 10 (1.98%) OCA
10 10 (1.98%) Oracle Certification
11 9 (1.78%) RHCA
11 9 (1.78%) RHCE
12 8 (1.58%) A+ Certification
12 8 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.19%) VCAP
15 4 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.37%) QA
2 10 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.38%) GDPR
3 7 (1.38%) SLA
4 6 (1.19%) NIST
5 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.79%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.59%) NCSC
7 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) HL7
8 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 214 (42.29%) Active Directory
2 102 (20.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (9.09%) Docker
4 43 (8.50%) Hyper-V
5 36 (7.11%) vSphere
6 27 (5.34%) Virtual Servers
7 24 (4.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 21 (4.15%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (2.96%) Microsoft App-V
10 14 (2.77%) BitLocker
11 13 (2.57%) VMware NSX
12 10 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
13 9 (1.78%) Terminal Services
14 7 (1.38%) XenApp
14 7 (1.38%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.59%) VirtualBox
16 1 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 133 (26.28%) Ansible
2 87 (17.19%) Terraform
3 66 (13.04%) SCCM
4 58 (11.46%) Kubernetes
5 49 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (9.68%) Puppet
6 43 (8.50%) WSUS
7 33 (6.52%) vCenter Server
8 26 (5.14%) Progress Chef
9 16 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (2.96%) SCOM
11 14 (2.77%) Grafana
12 11 (2.17%) Prometheus
13 10 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (1.98%) vRealize
14 9 (1.78%) Nagios
15 8 (1.58%) vMotion
16 7 (1.38%) PowerCLI
17 6 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 240 (47.43%) Microsoft
2 141 (27.87%) VMware
3 43 (8.50%) Splunk
4 39 (7.71%) Cisco
5 38 (7.51%) Oracle
6 36 (7.11%) Red Hat
7 33 (6.52%) SAP
8 30 (5.93%) Dell
9 22 (4.35%) HP
10 21 (4.15%) NetApp
11 18 (3.56%) Citrix
12 17 (3.36%) Google
12 17 (3.36%) ServiceNow
13 14 (2.77%) Symantec
14 11 (2.17%) Atlassian
15 10 (1.98%) Apple
15 10 (1.98%) Veeam
15 10 (1.98%) Wyse
16 9 (1.78%) CyberArk
17 8 (1.58%) SolarWinds