PowerShell Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 55 67 57
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 384 453 1,024
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.88% 2.95% 3.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.38% 8.83% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 307 742
10th Percentile £366 £350 £383
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £592 £625 £673
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 22
10th Percentile £48.25 £37.15 £51.15
25th Percentile £52.00 £37.63 £54.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £40.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.80% -39.02% +18.39%
75th Percentile £68.63 £42.88 £69.19
90th Percentile £70.95 £44.98 £87.25
UK median hourly rate £23.77 £40.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year -40.58% -33.22% +19.56%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PowerShell trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PowerShell daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PowerShell daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PowerShell hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PowerShell hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 42 (10.94%) SharePoint
2 28 (7.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.60%) Confluence
4 8 (2.08%) IIS
5 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.26%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 212 (55.21%) Azure
2 74 (19.27%) Azure DevOps
3 71 (18.49%) AWS
4 67 (17.45%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (16.93%) Entra ID
6 31 (8.07%) Power Platform
7 28 (7.29%) Azure Monitor
7 28 (7.29%) GCP
8 26 (6.77%) GitHub
9 24 (6.25%) Power Automate
9 24 (6.25%) PowerApps
9 24 (6.25%) SaaS
10 18 (4.69%) Azure AKS
10 18 (4.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 17 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (3.91%) Serverless
13 14 (3.65%) IaaS
14 11 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.20%) Firewall
2 36 (9.38%) DNS
3 18 (4.69%) DHCP
3 18 (4.69%) VPN
4 15 (3.91%) Network Security
5 12 (3.13%) SMTP
6 11 (2.86%) SSL
7 10 (2.60%) TCP/IP
8 9 (2.34%) HTTP
9 8 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (2.08%) Skype
9 8 (2.08%) WAN
10 6 (1.56%) LAN
10 6 (1.56%) S/MIME
11 5 (1.30%) FTP
11 5 (1.30%) NetScaler
12 4 (1.04%) SAN
12 4 (1.04%) VLAN
13 3 (0.78%) NAS
13 3 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.90%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.17%) Power BI
3 12 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.30%) Redis
7 4 (1.04%) Big Data
7 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.78%) DB2
8 3 (0.78%) Hazelcast
8 3 (0.78%) MySQL
8 3 (0.78%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (10.16%) Git
2 29 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.69%) JIRA
4 13 (3.39%) GitLab
5 8 (2.08%) MSI
5 8 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.56%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.04%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.78%) Maven
8 3 (0.78%) Selenium
8 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.52%) JMeter
10 1 (0.26%) JUnit
10 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.26%) NUnit
10 1 (0.26%) Subversion
10 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 135 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 79 (20.57%) Finance
3 42 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 32 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.69%) Banking
6 12 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.82%) Back Office
7 7 (1.82%) Electronics
7 7 (1.82%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.82%) Marketing
8 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.30%) Legal
8 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.78%) Retail
10 2 (0.52%) Front Office
10 2 (0.52%) Italian Language
10 2 (0.52%) Law
10 2 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (13.02%) Senior
2 38 (9.90%) Developer
3 36 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (9.11%) Azure Engineer
5 32 (8.33%) Architect
6 21 (5.47%) Analyst
6 21 (5.47%) Lead
7 19 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 15 (3.91%) Consultant
9 13 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (3.39%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 11 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 10 (2.60%) .NET Developer
11 10 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (2.60%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 10 (2.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 10 (2.60%) Software Developer
11 10 (2.60%) Technical Engineer
11 10 (2.60%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.68%) .NET
2 18 (4.69%) REST
3 15 (3.91%) LDAP
4 13 (3.39%) ARM Templates
5 12 (3.13%) CSS
5 12 (3.13%) HTML
5 12 (3.13%) OAuth
6 11 (2.86%) SAML
6 11 (2.86%) YAML
7 10 (2.60%) Web Services
8 9 (2.34%) React
8 9 (2.34%) SailPoint
8 9 (2.34%) SOAP
9 8 (2.08%) Software Packaging
10 7 (1.82%) ADO
10 7 (1.82%) JSON
10 7 (1.82%) SPFx
11 6 (1.56%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.30%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.95%) PKI
1 19 (4.95%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.86%) Private Cloud
5 10 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.30%) Clustering
10 5 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.30%) Insider Threat
10 5 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 139 (36.20%) Windows
2 67 (17.45%) Windows Server
3 60 (15.63%) Linux
4 18 (4.69%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.86%) Unix
5 11 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.04%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.78%) Android
10 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.78%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.52%) Solaris
11 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.52%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.26%) AIX
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (32.55%) DevOps
2 88 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (20.57%) CI/CD
4 74 (19.27%) Agile
5 60 (15.63%) Migration
6 52 (13.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (10.94%) Identity Access Management
8 38 (9.90%) Containerisation
8 38 (9.90%) Task Automation
9 33 (8.59%) ITIL
10 30 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (6.77%) Computer Science
12 25 (6.51%) Cloud Security
12 25 (6.51%) High Availability
13 24 (6.25%) Configuration Management
13 24 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
13 24 (6.25%) Mentoring
14 22 (5.73%) Incident Response
14 22 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 22 (5.73%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 134 (34.90%) Python
2 77 (20.05%) Bash
3 60 (15.63%) SQL
4 49 (12.76%) C#
5 27 (7.03%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.25%) Bicep
7 21 (5.47%) Java
8 9 (2.34%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.82%) VBScript
10 6 (1.56%) C++
10 6 (1.56%) Perl
10 6 (1.56%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.30%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.04%) VBA
13 3 (0.78%) VB
14 2 (0.52%) Groovy
14 2 (0.52%) PHP
15 1 (0.26%) ActionScript 2.0
15 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 83 (21.61%) Security Cleared
2 69 (17.97%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.42%) Degree
4 22 (5.73%) Azure Certification
4 22 (5.73%) CISSP
5 21 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.34%) CEH
9 8 (2.08%) CISM
9 8 (2.08%) GIAC
10 7 (1.82%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.82%) MCSE
11 6 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.30%) SANS
13 3 (0.78%) CCNA
13 3 (0.78%) GCIH
13 3 (0.78%) OSCP
13 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.73%) GDPR
2 17 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (4.17%) NIST
3 16 (4.17%) PCI DSS
4 14 (3.65%) HIPAA
5 11 (2.86%) QA
6 10 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.56%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.52%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.26%) EMIR
10 1 (0.26%) HL7
10 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.26%) MiFID
10 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 107 (27.86%) Active Directory
2 44 (11.46%) Docker
3 22 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (3.91%) vSphere
5 9 (2.34%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.04%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.04%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.78%) XenApp
8 2 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.52%) Platform Symphony
9 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.26%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.26%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.26%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 82 (21.35%) Terraform
2 72 (18.75%) Ansible
3 46 (11.98%) Kubernetes
4 42 (10.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (8.85%) SCCM
6 25 (6.51%) Progress Chef
7 23 (5.99%) Puppet
8 16 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (3.91%) Grafana
10 13 (3.39%) WSUS
11 9 (2.34%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.56%) SCOM
13 4 (1.04%) Argo
13 4 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.04%) Kibana
14 3 (0.78%) Consul
14 3 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.78%) logstash
14 3 (0.78%) Packer
14 3 (0.78%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 181 (47.14%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.85%) VMware
3 20 (5.21%) CyberArk
4 17 (4.43%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.91%) Splunk
6 13 (3.39%) Citrix
7 12 (3.13%) Okta
7 12 (3.13%) SAP
8 10 (2.60%) Oracle
9 9 (2.34%) Cisco
9 9 (2.34%) IBM
10 8 (2.08%) Google
10 8 (2.08%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.82%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.82%) HP
12 6 (1.56%) BeyondTrust
12 6 (1.56%) Dell
12 6 (1.56%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.30%) Databricks
13 5 (1.30%) Red Hat