PowerShell Contracts in the Thames Valley

Windows PowerShell
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 61 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 89 88 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.39% 3.09% 2.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.89% 13.08% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 74 68
10th Percentile £444 £230 £353
25th Percentile £506 £325 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +3.25% +25.00%
75th Percentile £608 £609 £618
90th Percentile £619 £665 £671
South East median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £65.47 -
25th Percentile - £71.44 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £81.37 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.18% +160.00%
75th Percentile - £84.44 £67.50
90th Percentile - £86.27 -
South East median hourly rate - £81.37 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +47.95% +120.00%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 527 673 778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.09% 23.66% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 496 569
10th Percentile £333 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £585
90th Percentile £665 £675 £640
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 5
10th Percentile £31.83 £25.64 £61.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -15.57% +79.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.88 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -17.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire +14 78 £605 +10.00% 26
Buckinghamshire +4 9 £489 +55.15% 13
Oxfordshire +7 2 £465 +69.09% 5
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 21 (23.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 58 (65.17%) Azure
2 24 (26.97%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (22.47%) Entra ID
5 18 (20.22%) Azure Storage
6 17 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (15.73%) OCI
8 7 (7.87%) AWS
8 7 (7.87%) PaaS
9 6 (6.74%) Azure API Management
9 6 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (6.74%) Azure Functions
9 6 (6.74%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (6.74%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (6.74%) Serverless
10 4 (4.49%) IaaS
10 4 (4.49%) SaaS
11 3 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (2.25%) Google Workspace
12 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 42 (47.19%) DNS
2 38 (42.70%) DHCP
3 36 (40.45%) Firewall
4 18 (20.22%) SAN
5 4 (4.49%) NAS
6 3 (3.37%) VPN
7 2 (2.25%) LAN
7 2 (2.25%) WAN
7 2 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.12%) HTTP
8 1 (1.12%) Internet
8 1 (1.12%) RNC
8 1 (1.12%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.49%) MySQL
3 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.12%) GIS
5 1 (1.12%) Metadata
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.12%) OLAP
5 1 (1.12%) Power BI
5 1 (1.12%) Spatial Data
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Git
2 12 (13.48%) Visual Studio
3 10 (11.24%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.62%) Selenium
5 3 (3.37%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.12%) Appium
6 1 (1.12%) MSTest
6 1 (1.12%) NUnit
6 1 (1.12%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.12%) Law
4 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (20.22%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (15.73%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (15.73%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (15.73%) Support Specialist
4 11 (12.36%) Support Engineer
5 10 (11.24%) Storage Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) Developer
7 8 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Active Directory Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Administrator
9 4 (4.49%) Analyst
9 4 (4.49%) Integration Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Server Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Solutions Analyst
9 4 (4.49%) VMware Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.21%) ARM Templates
2 12 (13.48%) .NET
3 7 (7.87%) ASP.NET
4 4 (4.49%) JSON
5 3 (3.37%) OAuth
5 3 (3.37%) OpenID
5 3 (3.37%) REST
5 3 (3.37%) SOAP
5 3 (3.37%) XML
5 3 (3.37%) YAML
6 2 (2.25%) CSS
6 2 (2.25%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (2.25%) Loki
7 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.12%) HTML
7 1 (1.12%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.12%) LangChain
7 1 (1.12%) Middleware
7 1 (1.12%) OpenLayers
7 1 (1.12%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.09%) PKI
2 18 (20.22%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (15.73%) Data Centre
4 8 (8.99%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.49%) Fat Client
5 4 (4.49%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.12%) CCTV
7 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 59 (66.29%) Windows
2 54 (60.67%) Windows Server
3 46 (51.69%) Linux
4 38 (42.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 36 (40.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (16.85%) Windows 10
7 14 (15.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (15.73%) Windows XP
8 8 (8.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (4.49%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.82%) DevOps
2 37 (41.57%) ITIL
3 31 (34.83%) Agile
4 30 (33.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (31.46%) CI/CD
5 28 (31.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (31.46%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (30.34%) Release Management
7 20 (22.47%) Identity Management
8 19 (21.35%) Analytics
8 19 (21.35%) Break/Fix
8 19 (21.35%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (21.35%) Log Analytics
8 19 (21.35%) RBAC
8 19 (21.35%) Service Management
9 18 (20.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 18 (20.22%) Privileged Identity Management
10 17 (19.10%) Server Management
11 16 (17.98%) Project Management
12 14 (15.73%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.58%) C#
2 26 (29.21%) VBScript
3 19 (21.35%) Bicep
4 18 (20.22%) VB
5 16 (17.98%) Python
6 7 (7.87%) SQL
7 4 (4.49%) Bash
8 2 (2.25%) Java
9 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.12%) Perl
9 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (75.28%) Security Cleared
2 54 (60.67%) SC Cleared
3 47 (52.81%) DV Cleared
4 39 (43.82%) Degree
5 18 (20.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (15.73%) CCNA
6 14 (15.73%) CCNP
6 14 (15.73%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.12%) CEH
8 1 (1.12%) CISSP
8 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.12%) GDPR
2 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (53.93%) Active Directory
2 29 (32.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (22.47%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (20.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (20.22%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (17.98%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.49%) Docker
7 1 (1.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 38 (42.70%) SCCM
2 37 (41.57%) WSUS
3 35 (39.33%) SCOM
4 23 (25.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 22 (24.72%) Kubernetes
6 20 (22.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (20.22%) vCenter Server
8 15 (16.85%) Ansible
9 14 (15.73%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (15.73%) NetBackup
10 7 (7.87%) Terraform
11 4 (4.49%) Nessus
11 4 (4.49%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (4.49%) ZABBIX
12 2 (2.25%) Argo
12 2 (2.25%) Grafana
12 2 (2.25%) Kustomize
12 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
13 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
13 1 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (59.55%) Microsoft
2 34 (38.20%) VMware
3 19 (21.35%) Oracle
3 19 (21.35%) Veeam
4 17 (19.10%) Cisco
5 15 (16.85%) Dell
5 15 (16.85%) HP
6 14 (15.73%) 3PAR
6 14 (15.73%) EMC
6 14 (15.73%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (15.73%) Juniper
6 14 (15.73%) Palo Alto
6 14 (15.73%) Symantec
7 4 (4.49%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.37%) Google
9 2 (2.25%) Meraki
9 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.12%) ArcSight
10 1 (1.12%) Databricks
10 1 (1.12%) Snow