PowerShell Contracts in Wales

Windows PowerShell
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 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 35 39 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +22
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 8 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.73% 1.27% 2.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.67% 4.39% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 17
10th Percentile £178 - £385
25th Percentile £193 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £690 £470
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% +46.81% +16.41%
75th Percentile £444 - £500
90th Percentile £455 - £560
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 75 114 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.60% 28.86% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 87 124
10th Percentile £225 £340 £363
25th Percentile £355 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £613
90th Percentile £588 £599 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £17.18
25th Percentile £21.53 £16.98 £17.48
Median hourly rate £26.13 £21.49 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +21.60% +14.19% -9.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.96 £19.81
90th Percentile £47.63 £39.56 £19.91
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Wales region 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
South Wales +11 7 £425 -38.41% 15
West Wales - 1 £190 - 1
PowerShell
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (12.50%) tSQLt
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Database Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (12.50%) FHIR
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) High Availability
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) SOLID
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) HL7
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Autotask
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Ivanti
3 1 (12.50%) ConnectWise
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) RedGate
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds