PowerShell Engineer Contracts

PowerShell Engineer
UK

The median PowerShell Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 563 699
Rank change year-on-year +60 +136 +95
Contract jobs requiring a PowerShell Engineer 17 19 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.044% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.047% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 15
10th Percentile £413 £444 £313
25th Percentile £441 £519 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +34.44% -21.74%
75th Percentile £565 £700 £500
90th Percentile £597 £768 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate - £605 £500
% change year-on-year - +21.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

PowerShell Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured PowerShell Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell Engineer in the UK

PowerShell Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell Engineer in the UK

PowerShell Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell Engineer in the UK

PowerShell Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell Engineer in the UK

PowerShell Engineer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell Engineer 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 +51 13 £550 -9.09% 5
London +40 13 £550 -12.00% 5
Work from Home +34 5 £425 -39.29% 2

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, PowerShell Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring PowerShell Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (88.24%) Azure
3 14 (82.35%) Finance
4 7 (41.18%) Terraform
4 7 (41.18%) Databricks
4 7 (41.18%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
4 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
4 7 (41.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (35.29%) Azure AKS
5 6 (35.29%) C#
5 6 (35.29%) Java
5 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (35.29%) PaaS
5 6 (35.29%) Cloudera
5 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Zscaler
6 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
6 4 (23.53%) Splunk
6 4 (23.53%) .NET
6 4 (23.53%) Windows
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
7 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Banking

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
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 (11.76%) Confluence
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (35.29%) Azure AKS
3 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) PaaS
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
6 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
6 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DKIM
1 1 (5.88%) DMARC
1 1 (5.88%) Extranet
1 1 (5.88%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 14 (82.35%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (11.76%) Agile
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
2 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (11.76%) Kanban
3 1 (5.88%) Coaching
3 1 (5.88%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.88%) High Availability
3 1 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.88%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (5.88%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (35.29%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) SCCM
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Databricks
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Cloudera
3 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
3 4 (23.53%) Splunk
3 4 (23.53%) Zscaler
4 1 (5.88%) Avaya
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Mitel
4 1 (5.88%) MobileIron
4 1 (5.88%) Proofpoint
4 1 (5.88%) VMware