PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Wales

Windows PowerShell
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 34 35
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +24
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 7 12 21
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 1.84% 2.80% 4.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.14% 12.50% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 17
10th Percentile - £161 £268
25th Percentile £256 £161 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £338 £488 £500
90th Percentile £406 £520 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £538
% change year-on-year -4.31% -2.79% +2.38%

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 86 96 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 22.63% 22.38% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 57 100
10th Percentile £256 £206 £212
25th Percentile £313 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.67% -14.77%
75th Percentile £500 £544 £563
90th Percentile £638 £560 £650
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 6
10th Percentile £24.27 £19.63 £19.11
25th Percentile £26.42 £20.12 £22.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -46.75% +100.47%
75th Percentile £31.88 £21.59 £54.56
90th Percentile £33.00 £26.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +8.62%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Wales

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PowerShell

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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 7 October 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 +3 7 £263 +62.96% 13
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Bash
1 5 (71.43%) Python
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix