Hybrid/Remote PowerCLI Contract Job Trends

VMware PowerCLI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring PowerCLI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 304 351
Rank change year-on-year -25 +47 +134
Contract jobs citing PowerCLI 7 5 3
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.060% 0.049% 0.019%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.40% 0.32% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £439 £501 -
25th Percentile - £512 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £538 £553
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% -2.71% +0.45%
75th Percentile £475 £638 £591
90th Percentile £486 £671 -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -13.64% -21.43% +27.27%

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 1,762 1,573 1,720
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.09% 15.39% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 1,121 1,291
10th Percentile £360 £375 £360
25th Percentile £425 £438 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +1.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 27
10th Percentile £37.00 £13.49 £22.68
25th Percentile £50.63 £25.25 £43.28
Median hourly rate £68.00 £26.88 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.02% -44.59% -26.52%
75th Percentile £79.75 £63.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £114.20 £68.38 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

PowerCLI
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerCLI and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PowerCLI job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

PowerCLI
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PowerCLI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PowerCLI

PowerCLI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Nutanix
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Change Control
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) BCP
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) VCAP
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) NCDA
3 1 (14.29%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 2 (28.57%) KVM
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) vCenter Server
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Packer
4 1 (14.29%) vMotion
4 1 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) Brocade
3 1 (14.29%) Commvault
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) Pure Storage