PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Windows PowerShell
South West > Wiltshire

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 57 35 51
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 11.90% 6.06% 6.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.00% 35.71% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 24 32
10th Percentile £538 £488 -
25th Percentile £561 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £518
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +11.11% -1.43%
75th Percentile £725 £627 £606
90th Percentile - £710 £675
South West median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 95 98 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 19.83% 16.96% 19.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 75 121
10th Percentile £457 £415 £450
25th Percentile £550 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £706 £588 £614
90th Percentile £725 £665 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.90
25th Percentile £21.25 - £61.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £67.00
75th Percentile £23.75 - £69.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Wiltshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Corsham +12 30 £700 +21.00% 9
Swindon +6 8 £588 -9.62% 5
Chippenham +4 2 £578 - 3
Salisbury +1 2 £400 -23.81% 5
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South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (31.58%) Confluence
1 18 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (28.07%) SharePoint
3 14 (24.56%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.82%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (8.77%) GCP
3 4 (7.02%) AWS
3 4 (7.02%) Azure
4 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.75%) GitHub
5 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (40.35%) DNS
2 16 (28.07%) Skype
3 14 (24.56%) DHCP
3 14 (24.56%) TCP/IP
4 12 (21.05%) Firewall
5 2 (3.51%) VPN
6 1 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) Metadata
2 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (31.58%) JIRA
2 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.02%) GitLab
4 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.51%) Git
5 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.75%) AdminStudio
6 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.75%) InstallShield
6 1 (1.75%) MSI
General
1 28 (49.12%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.02%) Finance
5 2 (3.51%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.51%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Advertising
6 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft Engineer
1 13 (22.81%) Support Engineer
2 7 (12.28%) Consultant
3 5 (8.77%) Architect
3 5 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.02%) Administrator
4 4 (7.02%) JIRA Administrator
4 4 (7.02%) Service Management Specialist
5 3 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) JIRA Consultant
5 3 (5.26%) Management Consultant
5 3 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Service Management Consultant
5 3 (5.26%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Technical Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.75%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.07%) REST
2 10 (17.54%) OAuth
2 10 (17.54%) OAuth2
2 10 (17.54%) OpenID
2 10 (17.54%) SAML
3 3 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Private Cloud
1 5 (8.77%) Replication
2 4 (7.02%) PKI
3 1 (1.75%) CMDB
3 1 (1.75%) Device Driver
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 22 (38.60%) Windows
2 16 (28.07%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.77%) Linux
4 4 (7.02%) Windows 10
5 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.51%) CentOS
7 1 (1.75%) Solaris
7 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (36.84%) ITIL
3 18 (31.58%) Knowledge Transfer
3 18 (31.58%) Service Management
4 16 (28.07%) Agile
4 16 (28.07%) Change Management
4 16 (28.07%) DevOps
5 15 (26.32%) ITSM
6 10 (17.54%) Problem Management
6 10 (17.54%) RBAC
7 9 (15.79%) Incident Management
7 9 (15.79%) Service Delivery
8 7 (12.28%) Dashboard Development
8 7 (12.28%) Load Balancing
8 7 (12.28%) Performance Metrics
8 7 (12.28%) Workflow
9 6 (10.53%) Configuration Management
9 6 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (10.53%) Incident Response
9 6 (10.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (38.60%) Python
2 5 (8.77%) Bash
3 3 (5.26%) SQL
4 2 (3.51%) Java
5 1 (1.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (98.25%) Security Cleared
2 37 (64.91%) SC Cleared
3 34 (59.65%) DV Cleared
4 14 (24.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (7.02%) Degree
6 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (5.26%) MCSE
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.51%) CISSP
7 2 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.75%) CCA
8 1 (1.75%) CEH
8 1 (1.75%) CISM
8 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.75%) MCSA
8 1 (1.75%) OCA
8 1 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.75%) OSCP
8 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) NCSC
2 2 (3.51%) NIST
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 16 (28.07%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.26%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.75%) Firmware
3 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.75%) UAG
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 10 (17.54%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (12.28%) Ansible
3 7 (12.28%) Terraform
4 3 (5.26%) Grafana
4 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.26%) SCCM
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.51%) NetBackup
5 2 (3.51%) Packer
5 2 (3.51%) WSUS
6 1 (1.75%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (59.65%) Microsoft
2 18 (31.58%) Atlassian
3 10 (17.54%) VMware
4 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.26%) Splunk
5 2 (3.51%) Commvault
5 2 (3.51%) Oracle
5 2 (3.51%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.51%) Veeam
5 2 (3.51%) Veritas
6 1 (1.75%) Citrix
6 1 (1.75%) CyberArk