PowerShell Contracts

Windows PowerShell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 57 64
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,161 1,473 1,935
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.71% 3.39% 3.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.02% 11.09% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 1,033 1,320
10th Percentile £325 £350 £331
25th Percentile £425 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £675
90th Percentile £689 £690 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £529 £520
% change year-on-year -0.76% +1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 35
10th Percentile £21.00 £33.23 £33.14
25th Percentile £24.66 £40.00 £54.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £43.84 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +44.84% -27.78% +19.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £129.78 £74.44 £77.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £46.18 £57.33
% change year-on-year -32.70% -19.45% +18.77%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,540 13,285 18,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.64% 30.56% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,109 9,334 13,427
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 537 447
10th Percentile £26.52 £31.25 £28.84
25th Percentile £34.55 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £79.61 £75.00 £79.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% +18.42%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 July 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 -3 1,026 £525 - 1,098
UK excluding London +1 577 £525 -0.76% 710
London -21 446 £525 - 464
Work from Home +7 382 £500 -4.76% 543
South East +3 189 £575 +4.55% 223
North of England +10 117 £450 -10.00% 153
Midlands +11 88 £460 +2.22% 106
South West -3 76 £575 -4.17% 67
West Midlands +12 70 £460 +2.22% 61
East of England +67 69 £550 +37.50% 106
North West +3 60 £448 -1.92% 87
Yorkshire +15 56 £475 -14.80% 58
Scotland -5 41 £467 -12.71% 38
East Midlands -1 18 £475 - 45
Wales +7 5 £263 -61.96% 20
Northern Ireland -7 2 £425 - 13
North East -5 1 £350 -26.32% 8

PowerShell
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
1 121 (10.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 95 (8.18%) SharePoint
3 36 (3.10%) Confluence
4 30 (2.58%) IIS
5 27 (2.33%) IBM Domino
6 20 (1.72%) Skype for Business
7 11 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 9 (0.78%) Apache
8 9 (0.78%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.43%) nginx
10 5 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
11 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.26%) IBM Notes
12 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.17%) CICS
13 2 (0.17%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.17%) SAS
13 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.60%) InfoPath
4 6 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.086%) Endur
3 1 (0.086%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.086%) Findur
3 1 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 555 (47.80%) Azure
2 241 (20.76%) AWS
3 201 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
4 169 (14.56%) Entra ID
5 157 (13.52%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (8.87%) GCP
7 88 (7.58%) GitHub
8 74 (6.37%) Power Platform
9 65 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
10 57 (4.91%) Azure Sentinel
11 56 (4.82%) IaaS
12 54 (4.65%) Azure AKS
13 51 (4.39%) PaaS
14 49 (4.22%) SaaS
15 43 (3.70%) Serverless
16 41 (3.53%) OneDrive
16 41 (3.53%) Power Automate
17 36 (3.10%) OpenShift
18 35 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
19 34 (2.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 184 (15.85%) Firewall
2 167 (14.38%) DNS
3 71 (6.12%) DHCP
4 57 (4.91%) VPN
5 56 (4.82%) Network Security
6 48 (4.13%) SMTP
7 41 (3.53%) TCP/IP
8 38 (3.27%) SAN
9 35 (3.01%) HTTP
10 27 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
11 25 (2.15%) Skype
12 23 (1.98%) WAN
13 22 (1.89%) VLAN
14 21 (1.81%) SSL
15 15 (1.29%) FTP
15 15 (1.29%) LAN
16 13 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
16 13 (1.12%) NAS
16 13 (1.12%) Unified Communications
17 12 (1.03%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 51 (4.39%) Power BI
3 37 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 22 (1.89%) Big Data
6 22 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (1.81%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (1.29%) Oracle Database
10 14 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (1.12%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.03%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.86%) Redis
14 7 (0.60%) MySQL
15 6 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.52%) DynamoDB
16 4 (0.34%) Apache Hive
16 4 (0.34%) DB2
16 4 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 113 (9.73%) Git
2 96 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 66 (5.68%) JIRA
4 53 (4.57%) GitLab
5 33 (2.84%) MSI
6 24 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 21 (1.81%) SonarQube
8 16 (1.38%) Artifactory
9 15 (1.29%) Selenium
10 13 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (1.03%) Vagrant
12 10 (0.86%) Maven
12 10 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.86%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.69%) JUnit
14 7 (0.60%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.60%) TeamCity
15 6 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
16 4 (0.34%) GCC
16 4 (0.34%) Robot Framework
General
1 337 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 216 (18.60%) Finance
3 117 (10.08%) Public Sector
4 109 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (4.39%) Telecoms
6 49 (4.22%) Banking
7 44 (3.79%) Manufacturing
8 43 (3.70%) Marketing
9 42 (3.62%) Electronics
10 26 (2.24%) Games
11 22 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.64%) Legal
13 13 (1.12%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.03%) Law
15 10 (0.86%) Military
15 10 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.60%) Back Office
18 5 (0.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 116 (9.99%) Architect
2 109 (9.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 98 (8.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 82 (7.06%) Analyst
5 79 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
5 79 (6.80%) Senior
6 69 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
7 55 (4.74%) Support Engineer
8 48 (4.13%) Windows Engineer
9 46 (3.96%) Security Engineer
10 44 (3.79%) Consultant
10 44 (3.79%) Lead
11 42 (3.62%) Developer
12 34 (2.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 34 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (2.33%) Desktop Engineer
14 26 (2.24%) Active Directory Architect
15 23 (1.98%) Automation Engineer
15 23 (1.98%) Infrastructure Specialist
15 23 (1.98%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (6.29%) .NET
2 55 (4.74%) REST
3 37 (3.19%) ARM Templates
4 28 (2.41%) OAuth
4 28 (2.41%) SAML
5 27 (2.33%) OpenID
5 27 (2.33%) YAML
6 26 (2.24%) SailPoint
7 25 (2.15%) JSON
8 21 (1.81%) SOAP
9 20 (1.72%) .NET Core
9 20 (1.72%) LDAP
10 19 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (1.55%) Middleware
11 18 (1.55%) React
12 17 (1.46%) Software Packaging
13 16 (1.38%) Web Services
14 14 (1.21%) ADO
14 14 (1.21%) XML
15 12 (1.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (4.91%) PKI
2 39 (3.36%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 30 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
7 28 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.15%) Clustering
8 25 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
9 24 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
10 23 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.98%) Replication
11 21 (1.81%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.72%) Product Ownership
13 18 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.29%) Private Cloud
15 10 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (0.86%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 551 (47.46%) Windows
2 246 (21.19%) Windows Server
3 218 (18.78%) Linux
4 100 (8.61%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 40 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 39 (3.36%) Android
7 39 (3.36%) Mac OS
8 37 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (1.89%) Unix
10 18 (1.55%) VMS
11 17 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (1.29%) Apple iOS
13 12 (1.03%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.95%) Windows 7
14 11 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
15 9 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
16 8 (0.69%) CentOS
17 7 (0.60%) Solaris
18 3 (0.26%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (28.17%) DevOps
2 282 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
3 236 (20.33%) Agile
4 211 (18.17%) CI/CD
5 176 (15.16%) Migration
6 174 (14.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 144 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 107 (9.22%) ITIL
9 104 (8.96%) Identity Access Management
10 100 (8.61%) Configuration Management
11 97 (8.35%) SIEM
12 95 (8.18%) Containerisation
12 95 (8.18%) Task Automation
13 92 (7.92%) Cloud Security
14 85 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
15 80 (6.89%) Business Intelligence
16 79 (6.80%) Deployment Automation
17 77 (6.63%) High Availability
18 74 (6.37%) Incident Response
18 74 (6.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 442 (38.07%) Python
2 229 (19.72%) Bash
3 185 (15.93%) SQL
4 128 (11.02%) C#
5 75 (6.46%) Java
6 72 (6.20%) Bicep
7 67 (5.77%) JavaScript
8 33 (2.84%) Perl
9 24 (2.07%) VBScript
10 21 (1.81%) Groovy
11 19 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
11 19 (1.64%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.46%) C++
13 15 (1.29%) VB
14 12 (1.03%) Go
14 12 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.03%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.78%) PHP
16 8 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 374 (32.21%) Security Cleared
2 230 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 134 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 88 (7.58%) Degree
5 73 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 51 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 48 (4.13%) CISSP
8 38 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 26 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (1.72%) CEH
11 20 (1.72%) SANS
12 19 (1.64%) GIAC
13 15 (1.29%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.29%) CCNP
13 15 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
14 13 (1.12%) CISM
15 12 (1.03%) GCIH
15 12 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (1.03%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (5.51%) GDPR
2 54 (4.65%) NIST
3 50 (4.31%) HIPAA
4 47 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.58%) QA
6 29 (2.50%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (1.12%) SLA
9 11 (0.95%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.52%) NCSC
11 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.34%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.26%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.086%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.086%) GRC
15 1 (0.086%) ITGC
15 1 (0.086%) SOC 1
System Software
1 396 (34.11%) Active Directory
2 134 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (10.34%) Docker
4 57 (4.91%) Hyper-V
5 45 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (2.93%) vSphere
8 32 (2.76%) Virtual Desktop
9 27 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
10 25 (2.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 24 (2.07%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 17 (1.46%) BitLocker
12 17 (1.46%) VMware NSX
13 12 (1.03%) XenDesktop
14 11 (0.95%) Terminal Services
15 8 (0.69%) XenApp
16 6 (0.52%) DFS Replication
17 4 (0.34%) NFS
17 4 (0.34%) Platform Symphony
18 3 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 260 (22.39%) Terraform
2 216 (18.60%) Ansible
3 154 (13.26%) SCCM
4 151 (13.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 148 (12.75%) Kubernetes
6 67 (5.77%) Puppet
7 48 (4.13%) Progress Chef
7 48 (4.13%) WSUS
8 44 (3.79%) Grafana
8 44 (3.79%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (3.10%) vCenter Server
10 31 (2.67%) Prometheus
11 20 (1.72%) SCOM
12 15 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.95%) Nessus
13 11 (0.95%) PowerCLI
13 11 (0.95%) vRealize
14 10 (0.86%) Kibana
14 10 (0.86%) vMotion
14 10 (0.86%) WMI
Vendors
1 529 (45.56%) Microsoft
2 190 (16.37%) VMware
3 104 (8.96%) Splunk
4 87 (7.49%) Cisco
5 73 (6.29%) ServiceNow
6 55 (4.74%) SAP
7 54 (4.65%) Citrix
8 52 (4.48%) Oracle
9 48 (4.13%) Red Hat
10 43 (3.70%) Google
11 42 (3.62%) CyberArk
12 33 (2.84%) Dell
13 27 (2.33%) Palo Alto
14 26 (2.24%) HP
14 26 (2.24%) NetApp
15 24 (2.07%) Meraki
16 22 (1.89%) Databricks
17 21 (1.81%) Okta
18 17 (1.46%) SolarWinds
19 16 (1.38%) Atlassian