PowerCLI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware PowerCLI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring PowerCLI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerCLI 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 299 342 470
Rank change year-on-year +43 +128 +142
Contract jobs citing PowerCLI 5 3 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.020% 0.027%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £501 - £435
25th Percentile £512 £514 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +0.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £591 £575
90th Percentile £671 - £580
UK median daily rate £550 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% +10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

PowerCLI falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

PowerCLI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PowerCLI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PowerCLI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PowerCLI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PowerCLI.

PowerCLI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PowerCLI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PowerCLI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

PowerCLI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PowerCLI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) NsoIT
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) VCAP
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) MCSA
3 1 (20.00%) MCSE
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) OCA
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (60.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (40.00%) vRealize
3 2 (40.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam