PowerCLI Contracts

VMware PowerCLI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring PowerCLI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerCLI 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 495 551 705
Rank change year-on-year +56 +154 +101
Contract jobs citing PowerCLI 25 31 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.071% 0.022%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.54% 0.60% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 11
10th Percentile £501 £514 £465
25th Percentile £519 £683 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 - £575
90th Percentile £656 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

PowerCLI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PowerCLI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PowerCLI in the UK

PowerCLI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerCLI.

Daily rate trend for PowerCLI in the UK

PowerCLI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerCLI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerCLI in the UK

PowerCLI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerCLI.

Hourly rate trend for PowerCLI in the UK

PowerCLI
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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
England +40 14 £550 -21.43% 7
UK excluding London +46 9 £550 -21.43% 6
London +39 6 £606 - 1
Work from Home +43 5 £538 -2.71% 2
East of England - 4 £550 -
South West +25 3 £538 -23.21% 1
South East - 1 £575 - 3
Scotland - 1 - -

PowerCLI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (8.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
1 6 (24.00%) GCP
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) VSAN
3 4 (16.00%) Network Security
3 4 (16.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.00%) MySQL
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Military
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Consultant
1 10 (40.00%) VMware Consultant
2 9 (36.00%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Development Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Server Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Development Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.00%) React
1 1 (4.00%) REST
1 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) CMDB
4 1 (4.00%) CESG
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) PKI
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
1 7 (28.00%) Unix
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) VMS
4 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (16.00%) High Availability
4 4 (16.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (16.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (16.00%) Runbook
4 4 (16.00%) Use Case
4 4 (16.00%) Validation
4 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
4 4 (16.00%) Zero Trust
5 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (8.00%) Server Virtualisation
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (32.00%) VCAP
5 6 (24.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (8.00%) Degree
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (4.00%) MCSA
7 1 (4.00%) MCSE
7 1 (4.00%) OCA
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 15 (60.00%) VMware NSX
2 14 (56.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (44.00%) vSphere
4 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (8.00%) NFS
6 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
6 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Terraform
2 13 (52.00%) Ansible
3 9 (36.00%) vRealize
4 8 (32.00%) vCenter Server
5 7 (28.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (16.00%) VxRail
7 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (28.00%) Google
3 4 (16.00%) Dell
4 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) Veeam
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds