PowerShell Contracts in Cheshire

Windows PowerShell
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 27 37
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 -13
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 19 33 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.69% 6.23% 4.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.57% 18.44% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 11
10th Percentile £325 £213 £158
25th Percentile £363 £475 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £564 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.65% +18.74% +14.80%
75th Percentile £638 £566 £610
90th Percentile - £588 £632
North West median daily rate £463 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -15.91% +22.22% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £21.78
North West median hourly rate £46.18 - £35.99
% change year-on-year - - -46.68%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 122 179 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.69% 33.77% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 88
10th Percentile £311 £325 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £552
90th Percentile £617 £638 £632
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile - £25.93 £20.75
25th Percentile £41.25 £31.21 £21.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +78.65% -24.10%
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.88 £27.13
90th Percentile - £60.60 £31.50
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £44.05 £49.98
% change year-on-year +9.96% -11.87% +66.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Warrington +9 8 £390 +24.80% 7
Wilmslow - 3 £375 - 1
Knutsford -6 1 - - 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (26.32%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) AWS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
6 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.26%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) WAAS
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) LAN
2 1 (5.26%) Skype
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
2 1 (5.26%) Wireless
2 1 (5.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Essbase
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Azure Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Azure Consultant
1 5 (26.32%) Consultant
1 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) SCCM Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) IT Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) PKI
1 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Change Control
2 2 (10.53%) Migration
2 2 (10.53%) RBAC
3 1 (5.26%) Data Integration
3 1 (5.26%) Data Management
3 1 (5.26%) Data Validation
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL
3 1 (5.26%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.26%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (5.26%) Validation
3 1 (5.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Bash
1 1 (5.26%) Groovy
1 1 (5.26%) Java
1 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) SCCM
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Hyperion
3 1 (5.26%) Meraki
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Proofpoint
3 1 (5.26%) Sophos
3 1 (5.26%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (5.26%) Veeam