PowerShell Contracts in Wiltshire

Windows PowerShell
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 27 48 31
Rank change year-on-year +21 -17 +1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 30 41 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 6.68% 4.34% 5.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.96% 36.28% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 34 52
10th Percentile £542 £472 £428
25th Percentile £563 £523 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +21.74% +25.96%
75th Percentile £641 - £675
90th Percentile £675 - £724
South West median daily rate £585 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% +14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £106.25
90th Percentile - - £110.00
South West median hourly rate £82.96 £40.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year +107.40% -30.23% +12.92%

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 77 113 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 17.15% 11.97% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 85 171
10th Percentile £426 £413 £385
25th Percentile £516 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £553 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +5.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £635 £700 £614
90th Percentile £663 £720 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.50
25th Percentile - - £49.38
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.86%
75th Percentile - - £100.00
90th Percentile - - £107.50
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Wiltshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Wiltshire

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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 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
Corsham +22 26 £588 -16.07% 4
Salisbury -9 2 £470 +4.44% 3
Swindon 0 1 - - 1
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 12 (40.00%) Confluence
2 8 (26.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (13.33%) Skype for Business
5 1 (3.33%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) DNS
1 5 (16.67%) Skype
2 4 (13.33%) DHCP
3 3 (10.00%) Unified Communications
4 2 (6.67%) Firewall
4 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.33%) LAN
5 1 (3.33%) SMTP
5 1 (3.33%) VPN
5 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.33%) MySQL
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (60.00%) Git
2 15 (50.00%) Bitbucket
3 12 (40.00%) JIRA
4 11 (36.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.33%) GitLab
5 1 (3.33%) MSI
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Electronics
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Applications Packager
5 1 (3.33%) Automation Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Design Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Development Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) REST
2 10 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) PKI
2 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (80.00%) Windows
2 20 (66.67%) Linux
3 15 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.33%) Windows 7
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 18 (60.00%) Agile
2 18 (60.00%) NsoIT
3 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (46.67%) Service Management
4 13 (43.33%) System Testing
5 12 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 10 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
6 10 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 10 (33.33%) Validation
7 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (16.67%) DevOps
10 4 (13.33%) Critical Thinking
10 4 (13.33%) ITIL
11 3 (10.00%) Information Security
11 3 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 3 (10.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Python
2 13 (43.33%) Bash
3 5 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (93.33%) Security Cleared
2 27 (90.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (56.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (33.33%) OCA
4 10 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
5 9 (30.00%) CCNP
5 9 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (30.00%) RHCA
5 9 (30.00%) RHCE
6 7 (23.33%) Degree
7 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (3.33%) MCSA
8 1 (3.33%) MCSE
8 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 4 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.33%) Docker
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (63.33%) Ansible
2 11 (36.67%) Puppet
3 10 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 10 (33.33%) vCenter Server
4 9 (30.00%) Terraform
5 3 (10.00%) SCCM
5 3 (10.00%) WSUS
6 2 (6.67%) PowerCLI
7 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) VMware
2 12 (40.00%) Atlassian
3 10 (33.33%) Oracle
4 9 (30.00%) Cisco
4 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (13.33%) Veeam
6 2 (6.67%) SAP
6 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.33%) Citrix
7 1 (3.33%) Fujitsu
7 1 (3.33%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) Remedy
7 1 (3.33%) Splunk