PowerShell Contracts in the South West

Windows PowerShell
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 41 58
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 124 170 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.81% 5.00% 3.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.37% 18.18% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 124 91
10th Percentile £450 £300 £313
25th Percentile £513 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £700 £669 £603
90th Percentile - £719 £656
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 7
10th Percentile - £46.22 £44.96
25th Percentile - £53.58 £46.87
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.33 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +18.25% -11.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.70 £53.74
90th Percentile £74.44 £92.50 £57.02
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £48.48
% change year-on-year -32.92% +23.76% +15.43%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 675 935 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 20.74% 27.48% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 657 754
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.40%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £649
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 86 66
10th Percentile £51.00 £51.25 £46.87
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.18 £54.05
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +9.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Wiltshire -4 54 £675 +12.50% 5
Gloucestershire -6 33 £575 +27.78% 16
Bristol +4 21 £525 -6.67% 6
Somerset -3 9 - - 12
Dorset +1 2 £513 +17.14% 1
Devon -10 2 £600 +71.43% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 33 (26.61%) Confluence
2 19 (15.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (9.68%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.84%) Azure
2 21 (16.94%) AWS
3 20 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.26%) OpenShift
5 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.45%) PaaS
6 6 (4.84%) GCP
6 6 (4.84%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.23%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.61%) GitHub
9 2 (1.61%) Slack
10 1 (0.81%) IaaS
10 1 (0.81%) SaaS
10 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) DHCP
1 10 (8.06%) DNS
1 10 (8.06%) LAN
1 10 (8.06%) SAN
1 10 (8.06%) WAN
2 9 (7.26%) VPN
3 8 (6.45%) MPLS
3 8 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (5.65%) Firewall
4 7 (5.65%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (4.84%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.03%) Skype
7 3 (2.42%) IPv4
7 3 (2.42%) OSPF
7 3 (2.42%) VLAN
8 2 (1.61%) SMTP
9 1 (0.81%) Intranet
9 1 (0.81%) NAS
9 1 (0.81%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.23%) Power BI
3 2 (1.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (32.26%) JIRA
2 34 (27.42%) Bitbucket
3 31 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 24 (19.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (10.48%) Git
6 9 (7.26%) Artifactory
7 8 (6.45%) GitLab
8 6 (4.84%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.81%) JMeter
9 1 (0.81%) MSI
9 1 (0.81%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 45 (36.29%) Social Skills
2 31 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (20.97%) Aerospace
4 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.84%) Legal
6 4 (3.23%) Finance
7 2 (1.61%) Electronics
7 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.61%) Marketing
7 2 (1.61%) Military
7 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (17.74%) Developer
2 20 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (8.06%) Senior
4 9 (7.26%) Analyst
4 9 (7.26%) Architect
4 9 (7.26%) Support Engineer
5 8 (6.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (6.45%) IT Analyst
5 8 (6.45%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (6.45%) Lead
6 7 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.65%) Desktop Engineer
6 7 (5.65%) Desktop Support
6 7 (5.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 7 (5.65%) Wintel Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.23%) Automation Architect
9 4 (3.23%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.00%) .NET
2 24 (19.35%) .NET Core
3 16 (12.90%) YAML
4 6 (4.84%) ModSecurity
5 5 (4.03%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (3.23%) REST
7 2 (1.61%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.61%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (1.61%) Loki
8 1 (0.81%) ADO
8 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.81%) React
8 1 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.87%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.26%) Clustering
2 9 (7.26%) PKI
3 8 (6.45%) Client/Server
4 7 (5.65%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.84%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.23%) CMDB
6 4 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.81%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.81%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 62 (50.00%) Windows
2 59 (47.58%) Linux
3 12 (9.68%) Unix
3 12 (9.68%) Windows 10
4 10 (8.06%) Windows Server
5 9 (7.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.03%) Windows 7
6 5 (4.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.42%) VMS
7 3 (2.42%) Windows 2000
7 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.42%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.61%) CentOS
9 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.32%) CI/CD
2 41 (33.06%) Infrastructure Automation
3 38 (30.65%) Configuration Management
4 31 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 30 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (23.39%) DevOps
7 24 (19.35%) Deployment Automation
7 24 (19.35%) OO
8 23 (18.55%) OOP
9 22 (17.74%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (13.71%) Agile
11 14 (11.29%) Data Protection
11 14 (11.29%) Validation
12 12 (9.68%) Migration
13 11 (8.87%) Decision-Making
14 9 (7.26%) NsoIT
14 9 (7.26%) Project Management
14 9 (7.26%) Server Management
14 9 (7.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.35%) Python
2 20 (16.13%) Bash
3 8 (6.45%) SQL
4 4 (3.23%) C
4 4 (3.23%) Java
4 4 (3.23%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.42%) Bicep
5 3 (2.42%) Go
6 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.81%) C#
7 1 (0.81%) Julia
7 1 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 98 (79.03%) Security Cleared
2 66 (53.23%) SC Cleared
3 33 (26.61%) DV Cleared
4 21 (16.94%) Degree
5 5 (4.03%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.61%) MCSE
9 1 (0.81%) GIAC
9 1 (0.81%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) QA
1 4 (3.23%) SLA
2 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 38 (30.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (20.97%) Active Directory
3 21 (16.94%) Docker
4 13 (10.48%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (9.68%) VMware NSX
6 10 (8.06%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (7.26%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (7.26%) vSphere
8 8 (6.45%) VMware Workstation
9 7 (5.65%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (4.84%) Hyper-V
11 4 (3.23%) VMFS
12 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.81%) XenApp
13 1 (0.81%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 65 (52.42%) Ansible
2 45 (36.29%) Terraform
3 27 (21.77%) PowerCLI
4 20 (16.13%) Kubernetes
5 17 (13.71%) SCCM
6 16 (12.90%) Puppet
7 9 (7.26%) Microsoft Clustering
7 9 (7.26%) Progress Chef
7 9 (7.26%) Salt
8 8 (6.45%) Nagios
8 8 (6.45%) NetBackup
8 8 (6.45%) OPNET
9 4 (3.23%) Grafana
9 4 (3.23%) Prometheus
10 3 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.61%) Argo
11 2 (1.61%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.61%) SCOM
11 2 (1.61%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 43 (34.68%) VMware
2 35 (28.23%) Atlassian
3 32 (25.81%) Microsoft
4 22 (17.74%) Dell
4 22 (17.74%) HP
5 16 (12.90%) Red Hat
6 8 (6.45%) Hitachi
6 8 (6.45%) NetApp
6 8 (6.45%) SaltStack
7 6 (4.84%) Google
8 4 (3.23%) Cisco
8 4 (3.23%) Citrix
9 3 (2.42%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.42%) Juniper
10 2 (1.61%) Oracle
10 2 (1.61%) Remedy
10 2 (1.61%) SAP
10 2 (1.61%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.81%) CA
11 1 (0.81%) Ivanti