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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 69 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +20
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 375 424 884
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.85% 2.89% 3.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.23% 8.35% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 305 618
10th Percentile £363 £350 £372
25th Percentile £425 £425 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.08% +7.62%
75th Percentile £581 £622 £691
90th Percentile £688 £688 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 21
10th Percentile £53.75 - £51.00
25th Percentile £61.75 £37.63 £54.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £40.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.76% -39.02% +7.76%
75th Percentile £65.25 £42.88 £70.25
90th Percentile £68.88 - £87.50
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £40.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +57.76% -32.92% +18.18%

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 3,666 5,076 8,618
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.63% 34.58% 36.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,591 3,643 6,371
10th Percentile £354 £352 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £673
90th Percentile £800 £800 £781
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 134 189
10th Percentile £27.25 £30.63 £25.95
25th Percentile £45.44 £46.25 £49.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £85.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.97% +16.17%

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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 17 June 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 17 June 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 35 (9.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.20%) Confluence
4 9 (2.40%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.53%) OpenEdge
5 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.53%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 219 (58.40%) Azure
2 82 (21.87%) AWS
3 77 (20.53%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (16.00%) Entra ID
5 55 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (9.33%) GCP
7 31 (8.27%) Azure Monitor
7 31 (8.27%) GitHub
8 22 (5.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (5.60%) Azure Sentinel
9 21 (5.60%) IaaS
9 21 (5.60%) SaaS
10 18 (4.80%) Azure AKS
11 17 (4.53%) Power Platform
12 16 (4.27%) Serverless
13 14 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (3.47%) PaaS
15 11 (2.93%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (2.93%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 51 (13.60%) Firewall
2 35 (9.33%) DNS
3 21 (5.60%) Network Security
4 14 (3.73%) VPN
5 12 (3.20%) DHCP
6 11 (2.93%) SMTP
6 11 (2.93%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.40%) HTTP
8 8 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (2.13%) SSL
9 6 (1.60%) Skype
10 5 (1.33%) FTP
10 5 (1.33%) HTTPS
11 4 (1.07%) NetScaler
11 4 (1.07%) PSTN
11 4 (1.07%) SAN
11 4 (1.07%) VLAN
11 4 (1.07%) VoIP
12 3 (0.80%) VSAN
12 3 (0.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.93%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.20%) Power BI
2 12 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 12 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.13%) Redis
5 6 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.60%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.33%) Big Data
6 5 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.80%) Hazelcast
7 3 (0.80%) MySQL
7 3 (0.80%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (10.13%) Git
2 37 (9.87%) Jenkins
3 23 (6.13%) JIRA
4 17 (4.53%) GitLab
5 11 (2.93%) MSI
5 11 (2.93%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.33%) Maven
7 5 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.07%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.80%) JUnit
9 3 (0.80%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.53%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (0.53%) Selenium
10 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.27%) Ranorex
11 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 117 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 83 (22.13%) Finance
3 42 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 33 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.33%) Telecoms
6 17 (4.53%) Banking
7 16 (4.27%) Manufacturing
8 15 (4.00%) Electronics
8 15 (4.00%) Marketing
9 7 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.60%) Law
11 5 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.33%) Legal
12 3 (0.80%) Military
13 2 (0.53%) Front Office
13 2 (0.53%) Police
13 2 (0.53%) Retail
14 1 (0.27%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 45 (12.00%) Senior
2 39 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (9.87%) Azure Engineer
4 32 (8.53%) Architect
5 26 (6.93%) Developer
6 20 (5.33%) Lead
7 19 (5.07%) Analyst
7 19 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (4.53%) Security Engineer
9 15 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.47%) .NET Developer
11 12 (3.20%) Azure Developer
11 12 (3.20%) C# .NET Developer
11 12 (3.20%) C# Developer
11 12 (3.20%) Consultant
11 12 (3.20%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 12 (3.20%) SCCM Engineer
11 12 (3.20%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.13%) .NET
2 23 (6.13%) REST
3 17 (4.53%) ARM Templates
4 13 (3.47%) .NET Core
5 12 (3.20%) LDAP
5 12 (3.20%) YAML
6 10 (2.67%) SOAP
7 9 (2.40%) React
7 9 (2.40%) SailPoint
7 9 (2.40%) Web Services
8 8 (2.13%) Software Packaging
9 7 (1.87%) JSON
9 7 (1.87%) OAuth
9 7 (1.87%) SAML
9 7 (1.87%) XML
10 6 (1.60%) CSS
10 6 (1.60%) HTML
10 6 (1.60%) Middleware
10 6 (1.60%) OpenID
11 5 (1.33%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.73%) Cloud Native
1 14 (3.73%) Product Ownership
2 10 (2.67%) Data Centre
2 10 (2.67%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (2.40%) PKI
4 8 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.60%) Clustering
6 6 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.60%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.33%) Replication
8 4 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.07%) Equities
8 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.07%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 138 (36.80%) Windows
2 65 (17.33%) Windows Server
3 61 (16.27%) Linux
4 19 (5.07%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.93%) Mac OS
5 11 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (2.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.67%) Unix
7 9 (2.40%) Android
8 8 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.07%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.07%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.80%) Solaris
12 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.53%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.27%) AIX
13 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (33.60%) DevOps
2 92 (24.53%) CI/CD
3 82 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (21.07%) Agile
5 72 (19.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (14.67%) Migration
7 49 (13.07%) Containerisation
8 39 (10.40%) Cloud Security
9 32 (8.53%) Identity Access Management
9 32 (8.53%) Task Automation
10 31 (8.27%) Deployment Automation
11 29 (7.73%) Configuration Management
11 29 (7.73%) High Availability
12 26 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 25 (6.67%) Mentoring
14 23 (6.13%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (6.13%) Incident Response
14 23 (6.13%) ITIL
14 23 (6.13%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 147 (39.20%) Python
2 89 (23.73%) Bash
3 59 (15.73%) SQL
4 50 (13.33%) C#
5 31 (8.27%) Bicep
6 24 (6.40%) Java
7 18 (4.80%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.87%) Perl
8 7 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.87%) VBScript
9 6 (1.60%) C++
9 6 (1.60%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.60%) VB
10 5 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.07%) VBA
12 3 (0.80%) Groovy
12 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.53%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 87 (23.20%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.80%) Degree
4 25 (6.67%) CISSP
5 23 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (5.87%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.20%) GIAC
9 12 (3.20%) SANS
10 7 (1.87%) CEH
11 6 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.60%) MCSE
12 5 (1.33%) CISM
12 5 (1.33%) VCAP
12 5 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.07%) OSCP
14 3 (0.80%) CCNA
14 3 (0.80%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.00%) HIPAA
2 29 (7.73%) GDPR
3 23 (6.13%) NIST
3 23 (6.13%) PCI DSS
4 16 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.20%) QA
6 10 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.87%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.27%) EMIR
9 1 (0.27%) MiFID
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (25.87%) Active Directory
2 55 (14.67%) Docker
3 22 (5.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (5.60%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (4.00%) vSphere
6 10 (2.67%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.07%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.07%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.80%) XenApp
10 2 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.53%) Platform Symphony
11 1 (0.27%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.27%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.27%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.27%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 105 (28.00%) Terraform
2 68 (18.13%) Ansible
3 57 (15.20%) Kubernetes
4 46 (12.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (9.60%) SCCM
6 24 (6.40%) Progress Chef
7 20 (5.33%) Puppet
8 13 (3.47%) Grafana
8 13 (3.47%) WSUS
9 12 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.13%) Prometheus
11 7 (1.87%) Nessus
11 7 (1.87%) SCOM
12 5 (1.33%) HP Fortify
12 5 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (1.33%) PowerCLI
13 4 (1.07%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.80%) Consul
14 3 (0.80%) Packer
14 3 (0.80%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 165 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.07%) VMware
3 21 (5.60%) ServiceNow
4 20 (5.33%) SAP
5 17 (4.53%) CyberArk
6 15 (4.00%) Citrix
6 15 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 12 (3.20%) Okta
8 11 (2.93%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.93%) Splunk
9 9 (2.40%) Cisco
9 9 (2.40%) Google
10 8 (2.13%) Oracle
11 7 (1.87%) HP
11 7 (1.87%) Zscaler
12 6 (1.60%) BeyondTrust
12 6 (1.60%) Databricks
12 6 (1.60%) Dell
12 6 (1.60%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.60%) IBM