The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 21 May 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills
32,374
23,704
19,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
36.67%
40.54%
40.86%
Number of daily rates quoted
23,582
16,684
13,956
10th Percentile
£384
£325
£325
25th Percentile
£455
£406
£400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£550
£500
£488
Median % change year-on-year
+10.00%
+2.56%
+2.63%
75th Percentile
£655
£600
£575
90th Percentile
£750
£688
£663
UK excluding London median daily rate
£500
£430
£450
% change year-on-year
+16.16%
-4.44%
+5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted
535
460
354
10th Percentile
£19.52
£17.00
£17.50
25th Percentile
£35.00
£25.00
£21.68
Median hourly rate
£50.00
£42.00
£42.50
Median % change year-on-year
+19.05%
-1.18%
-1.16%
75th Percentile
£61.63
£52.50
£50.00
90th Percentile
£73.70
£63.00
£57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£50.00
£40.00
£42.50
% change year-on-year
+25.00%
-5.88%
-3.41%
PowerShell Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
PowerShell Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell.
PowerShell Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 21 May 2022.
PowerShell Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell.
PowerShell Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 21 May 2022.
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 21 May 2022. 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
For the 6 months to 21 May 2022, IT contractor jobs citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for PowerShell.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
