PowerShell Contracts in the South East

Windows PowerShell
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 62 64
Rank change year-on-year +27 +2 -15
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 245 192 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.49% 3.44% 3.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.20% 12.57% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 158 183
10th Percentile £384 £259 £333
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +8.05% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £638 £677 £649
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £65.47 £15.70
25th Percentile - £71.44 £23.50
Median hourly rate - £81.37 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year - +114.13% +52.00%
75th Percentile - £84.44 £53.50
90th Percentile - £86.27 £61.90
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £50.09
% change year-on-year -32.92% +19.78% +22.18%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,213 1,528 2,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.24% 27.36% 26.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 1,082 1,312
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £412 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £693 £650
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 83 81
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.10 £19.52
Median hourly rate £60.87 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% +57.14% -14.11%
75th Percentile £67.02 £67.50 £54.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Hampshire +14 122 £550 - 30
Thames Valley +8 86 £605 +18.05% 35
Berkshire +10 76 £605 +10.00% 16
West Sussex +18 15 £450 +12.50% 9
Surrey +12 13 £613 -2.00% 19
Buckinghamshire +5 8 £465 +47.61% 13
East Sussex +8 5 £475 -36.67% 4
Kent - 3 £400 - 9
Oxfordshire +7 2 £465 +69.09% 6
Middlesex +1 1 £425 +30.77%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 24 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (34.29%) Azure
2 31 (12.65%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (10.20%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.80%) AWS
6 23 (9.39%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (6.94%) Azure Storage
8 14 (5.71%) OCI
9 8 (3.27%) IaaS
9 8 (3.27%) PaaS
10 7 (2.86%) SaaS
11 6 (2.45%) Azure API Management
11 6 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.45%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.04%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.04%) Serverless
13 4 (1.63%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (1.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 62 (25.31%) DNS
2 56 (22.86%) DHCP
3 51 (20.82%) Firewall
4 23 (9.39%) SAN
5 5 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.04%) VPN
6 4 (1.63%) LAN
6 4 (1.63%) NAS
6 4 (1.63%) WAN
7 2 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.82%) Wireless
8 1 (0.41%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.41%) HTTP
8 1 (0.41%) Internet
8 1 (0.41%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.41%) SGSN
8 1 (0.41%) VLAN
8 1 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.04%) MySQL
3 5 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.82%) Metadata
6 2 (0.82%) Power BI
6 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.41%) GIS
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.41%) OLAP
7 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.41%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (8.98%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.57%) Git
3 20 (8.16%) Robot Framework
4 18 (7.35%) Visual Studio
5 14 (5.71%) MSI
5 14 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (3.67%) Selenium
7 3 (1.22%) GitLab
8 2 (0.82%) Appium
9 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.41%) MSTest
9 1 (0.41%) NUnit
9 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.41%) Subversion
9 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (4.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.22%) French Language
4 3 (1.22%) Front Office
5 2 (0.82%) Finance
5 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.41%) Advertising
6 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.41%) Law
6 1 (0.41%) Legal
6 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (15.92%) Architect
3 27 (11.02%) Security Engineer
4 20 (8.16%) Infrastructure Architect
5 19 (7.76%) Developer
6 17 (6.94%) Active Directory Support
7 16 (6.53%) Support Engineer
8 14 (5.71%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (5.71%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (5.71%) Support Specialist
9 13 (5.31%) Senior
10 12 (4.90%) Security Architect
11 11 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.08%) Storage Engineer
13 9 (3.67%) Consultant
13 9 (3.67%) Security Consultant
13 9 (3.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.27%) Administrator
14 8 (3.27%) Applications Engineer
15 7 (2.86%) ArcSight Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.20%) ARM Templates
2 24 (9.80%) .NET
3 13 (5.31%) ASP.NET
4 5 (2.04%) REST
4 5 (2.04%) SOAP
5 4 (1.63%) CSS
5 4 (1.63%) JSON
6 3 (1.22%) HTML
6 3 (1.22%) OAuth
6 3 (1.22%) OpenID
6 3 (1.22%) XML
6 3 (1.22%) YAML
7 2 (0.82%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.82%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (0.82%) jQuery
7 2 (0.82%) Loki
7 2 (0.82%) Node.js
7 2 (0.82%) SPFx
7 2 (0.82%) Web Services
8 1 (0.41%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 64 (26.12%) PKI
2 19 (7.76%) Data Centre
3 18 (7.35%) Client/Server
4 17 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.04%) Device Driver
6 4 (1.63%) Fat Client
6 4 (1.63%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.22%) Clustering
7 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.82%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.82%) CMDB
8 2 (0.82%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.41%) CCTV
9 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.41%) Replication
9 1 (0.41%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 162 (66.12%) Windows
2 98 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 77 (31.43%) Linux
4 54 (22.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 43 (17.55%) Windows 10
6 42 (17.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (12.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (11.02%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (5.71%) Windows XP
10 11 (4.49%) Unix
11 8 (3.27%) Ubuntu
12 6 (2.45%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (2.04%) Windows 7
13 5 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.41%) Android
15 1 (0.41%) Solaris
15 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (31.43%) Agile
2 55 (22.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 54 (22.04%) DevOps
4 50 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (17.96%) ITIL
6 33 (13.47%) Release Management
7 31 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (12.65%) Test Automation
8 29 (11.84%) CI/CD
9 26 (10.61%) Service Management
10 23 (9.39%) RBAC
11 21 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (8.16%) Analytics
12 20 (8.16%) Identity Management
12 20 (8.16%) Server Management
13 19 (7.76%) Application Packaging
13 19 (7.76%) Break/Fix
13 19 (7.76%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (7.76%) Prototyping
14 18 (7.35%) Application Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 78 (31.84%) Python
2 48 (19.59%) VBScript
3 38 (15.51%) C#
4 24 (9.80%) VB
5 18 (7.35%) Bicep
6 15 (6.12%) Bash
7 12 (4.90%) SQL
8 8 (3.27%) C++
9 7 (2.86%) Java
10 5 (2.04%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.63%) Perl
12 3 (1.22%) C
12 3 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.22%) Ruby
12 3 (1.22%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 166 (67.76%) Security Cleared
2 103 (42.04%) DV Cleared
3 71 (28.98%) SC Cleared
4 48 (19.59%) Degree
5 17 (6.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (5.71%) CCNA
6 14 (5.71%) CCNP
6 14 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.63%) MCSE
8 4 (1.63%) MCTS
9 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.82%) CISSP
10 2 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.82%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.86%) RMADS
2 6 (2.45%) GDPR
3 5 (2.04%) SLA
4 3 (1.22%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.22%) QA
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 94 (38.37%) Active Directory
2 80 (32.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (9.39%) Hyper-V
3 23 (9.39%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (6.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (5.71%) XenApp
7 9 (3.67%) vSphere
8 8 (3.27%) Docker
9 5 (2.04%) BitLocker
9 5 (2.04%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.41%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.41%) vCloud
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 67 (27.35%) Ansible
2 64 (26.12%) SCCM
3 54 (22.04%) Terraform
4 44 (17.96%) WSUS
5 34 (13.88%) SCOM
6 27 (11.02%) Kubernetes
7 24 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (9.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (7.76%) vCenter Server
10 16 (6.53%) WMI
11 14 (5.71%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (5.71%) NetBackup
12 8 (3.27%) Nessus
13 7 (2.86%) Progress Chef
13 7 (2.86%) Puppet
14 4 (1.63%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (1.63%) ZABBIX
15 3 (1.22%) Nagios
15 3 (1.22%) vRealize
16 2 (0.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 91 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 89 (36.33%) VMware
3 22 (8.98%) Oracle
4 20 (8.16%) Symantec
4 20 (8.16%) Veeam
5 18 (7.35%) Dell
6 17 (6.94%) Cisco
7 16 (6.53%) EMC
8 15 (6.12%) HP
9 14 (5.71%) 3PAR
9 14 (5.71%) Citrix
9 14 (5.71%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (5.71%) Ivanti
9 14 (5.71%) Juniper
9 14 (5.71%) Palo Alto
10 12 (4.90%) ArcSight
11 8 (3.27%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.04%) Google
13 4 (1.63%) SolarWinds
14 3 (1.22%) Qualys