PowerShell Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows PowerShell
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 55 65 80
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 -17
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 671 786 951
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.22% 3.43% 3.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.58% 12.25% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 589 678
10th Percentile £350 £286 £256
25th Percentile £425 £413 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +9.47% +6.74%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £689 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 19
10th Percentile - £24.89 £17.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £32.40 £31.77
Median hourly rate £46.18 £57.33 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year -19.45% +22.74% +33.46%
75th Percentile £58.49 £64.50 £51.11
90th Percentile £74.44 £87.50 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £50.20
% change year-on-year -32.92% +19.52% +6.81%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,941 6,414 8,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.70% 27.99% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,307 4,495 6,145
10th Percentile £319 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.68%
75th Percentile £583 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 322 321
10th Percentile £37.55 £26.48 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.19 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £67.36
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the UK excluding London 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
South East +31 281 £550 - 107
South West -4 124 £600 +9.09% 42
North of England -8 119 £500 -2.72% 86
Midlands +9 87 £450 -10.00% 47
North West -21 70 £450 -17.77% 46
West Midlands +6 67 £400 -23.81% 29
Scotland +46 63 £535 +4.19% 29
Yorkshire +18 41 £569 +26.39% 33
East Midlands +3 20 £463 +3.93% 17
East of England -32 18 £419 -14.10% 33
North East +17 8 £475 -32.14% 7
Wales +2 4 £690 +46.81% 3
Northern Ireland -6 1 - - 5
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 99 (14.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 63 (9.39%) SharePoint
3 58 (8.64%) Confluence
4 10 (1.49%) Apache
4 10 (1.49%) IIS
4 10 (1.49%) SharePoint Server
5 8 (1.19%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (0.45%) nginx
7 2 (0.30%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.45%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.30%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 269 (40.09%) Azure
2 129 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
3 82 (12.22%) AWS
4 63 (9.39%) Entra ID
5 59 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
7 31 (4.62%) Power Platform
8 30 (4.47%) PaaS
9 29 (4.32%) GCP
10 26 (3.87%) GitHub
11 25 (3.73%) OneDrive
12 20 (2.98%) Azure Storage
13 17 (2.53%) IaaS
14 15 (2.24%) Serverless
15 14 (2.09%) OCI
16 13 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (1.94%) Azure Functions
17 12 (1.79%) PowerApps
18 10 (1.49%) OpenShift
18 10 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 126 (18.78%) DNS
2 91 (13.56%) DHCP
3 90 (13.41%) Firewall
4 46 (6.86%) SAN
5 39 (5.81%) VPN
6 30 (4.47%) TCP/IP
7 25 (3.73%) LAN
7 25 (3.73%) WAN
8 17 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (2.24%) VLAN
10 13 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
11 12 (1.79%) Fibre Channel
12 11 (1.64%) HTTP
13 10 (1.49%) NetScaler
14 9 (1.34%) NAS
15 8 (1.19%) MPLS
16 7 (1.04%) Skype
17 6 (0.89%) SMTP
17 6 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
17 6 (0.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 27 (4.02%) Power BI
3 16 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (1.94%) MySQL
5 11 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.19%) Metadata
9 7 (1.04%) PowerPivot
10 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Power View
11 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.75%) Tableau
12 4 (0.60%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.60%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.30%) EDRMS
15 1 (0.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (11.03%) Jenkins
2 67 (9.99%) JIRA
3 56 (8.35%) Git
4 37 (5.51%) Bitbucket
5 33 (4.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 33 (4.92%) GitLab
6 22 (3.28%) MSI
6 22 (3.28%) Robot Framework
7 17 (2.53%) Visual Studio
8 15 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 12 (1.79%) Artifactory
10 11 (1.64%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.49%) Selenium
12 9 (1.34%) CircleCI
12 9 (1.34%) Travis CI
13 7 (1.04%) Hudson
14 6 (0.89%) InstallShield
14 6 (0.89%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.75%) AppScan
15 5 (0.75%) Burp Suite
General
1 188 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 91 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (8.64%) Public Sector
4 30 (4.47%) Finance
5 26 (3.87%) Aerospace
6 11 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.49%) Legal
7 10 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.19%) Marketing
9 7 (1.04%) Banking
9 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.89%) Electronics
10 6 (0.89%) Publishing
11 4 (0.60%) Local Government
11 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.45%) French Language
12 3 (0.45%) Front Office
12 3 (0.45%) Military
12 3 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 65 (9.69%) Architect
3 55 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (7.45%) Developer
5 49 (7.30%) Senior
6 42 (6.26%) Security Engineer
7 40 (5.96%) Support Engineer
8 36 (5.37%) Administrator
9 30 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (4.17%) Infrastructure Architect
11 27 (4.02%) Consultant
12 23 (3.43%) Analyst
13 22 (3.28%) Lead
14 20 (2.98%) Active Directory Support
15 18 (2.68%) Windows Engineer
16 16 (2.38%) Exchange Engineer
17 15 (2.24%) Azure Specialist
17 15 (2.24%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 15 (2.24%) Security Architect
18 14 (2.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.69%) .NET
2 36 (5.37%) YAML
3 32 (4.77%) ARM Templates
4 28 (4.17%) .NET Core
5 16 (2.38%) CSS
5 16 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (2.24%) JSON
6 15 (2.24%) REST
7 14 (2.09%) HTML
8 13 (1.94%) .NET Framework
8 13 (1.94%) ASP.NET
9 11 (1.64%) LDAP
9 11 (1.64%) XML
10 9 (1.34%) SAML
11 8 (1.19%) Web Services
12 7 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
12 7 (1.04%) SOAP
13 6 (0.89%) ModSecurity
13 6 (0.89%) OAuth
13 6 (0.89%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 97 (14.46%) PKI
2 38 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 28 (4.17%) Client/Server
4 26 (3.87%) Clustering
4 26 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.49%) CMDB
9 9 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.34%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.19%) Fat Client
10 8 (1.19%) Thin Client
11 6 (0.89%) Digital Signage
11 6 (0.89%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.89%) Replication
11 6 (0.89%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.75%) Device Driver
13 4 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 362 (53.95%) Windows
2 174 (25.93%) Linux
3 171 (25.48%) Windows Server
4 90 (13.41%) Windows 10
5 89 (13.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 61 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 53 (7.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 47 (7.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 30 (4.47%) Unix
10 17 (2.53%) Windows XP
11 15 (2.24%) Mac OS
12 14 (2.09%) Ubuntu
12 14 (2.09%) Windows 7
13 10 (1.49%) VMS
14 9 (1.34%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (1.04%) Apple iOS
15 7 (1.04%) CentOS
15 7 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.75%) Solaris
17 4 (0.60%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (23.99%) DevOps
2 151 (22.50%) Agile
3 143 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
4 126 (18.78%) CI/CD
5 108 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 103 (15.35%) ITIL
7 100 (14.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 65 (9.69%) Migration
9 61 (9.09%) Task Automation
10 59 (8.79%) Configuration Management
11 56 (8.35%) Test Automation
12 53 (7.90%) Infrastructure Automation
13 51 (7.60%) Continuous Integration
14 49 (7.30%) Deployment Automation
15 42 (6.26%) Project Management
15 42 (6.26%) Service Management
16 41 (6.11%) Release Management
17 39 (5.81%) Application Packaging
17 39 (5.81%) Identity Management
17 39 (5.81%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 204 (30.40%) Python
2 75 (11.18%) Bash
3 61 (9.09%) SQL
4 54 (8.05%) VBScript
5 51 (7.60%) C#
6 30 (4.47%) VB
7 29 (4.32%) Bicep
8 25 (3.73%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.09%) Java
9 14 (2.09%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.64%) Perl
11 10 (1.49%) C
11 10 (1.49%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.34%) C++
13 7 (1.04%) Go
14 5 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.60%) Ruby
16 3 (0.45%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.45%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.15%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 342 (50.97%) Security Cleared
2 188 (28.02%) SC Cleared
3 162 (24.14%) DV Cleared
4 112 (16.69%) Degree
5 32 (4.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 17 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.38%) CCNA
8 16 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (2.09%) CCNP
10 12 (1.79%) MCSE
11 10 (1.49%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.60%) CISSP
14 4 (0.60%) MCTS
14 4 (0.60%) VCAP
14 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.77%) QA
2 11 (1.64%) SLA
3 7 (1.04%) RMADS
4 5 (0.75%) GDPR
5 4 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.60%) NIST
6 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.30%) GRC
System Software
1 231 (34.43%) Active Directory
2 162 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (8.05%) Docker
4 48 (7.15%) Hyper-V
5 47 (7.00%) Virtual Machines
6 44 (6.56%) VMware ESXi
7 43 (6.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 30 (4.47%) vSphere
9 25 (3.73%) VMware NSX
10 23 (3.43%) XenApp
11 14 (2.09%) BitLocker
11 14 (2.09%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
13 9 (1.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 9 (1.34%) XenDesktop
14 8 (1.19%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.75%) VMFS
16 4 (0.60%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.60%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 172 (25.63%) Ansible
2 144 (21.46%) Terraform
3 125 (18.63%) SCCM
4 76 (11.33%) Kubernetes
5 65 (9.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 51 (7.60%) WSUS
7 47 (7.00%) SCOM
8 46 (6.86%) Puppet
9 40 (5.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 36 (5.37%) Progress Chef
11 28 (4.17%) vCenter Server
12 27 (4.02%) PowerCLI
12 27 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
13 25 (3.73%) NetBackup
14 19 (2.83%) Grafana
15 18 (2.68%) EMC NetWorker
15 18 (2.68%) Prometheus
16 17 (2.53%) WMI
17 15 (2.24%) Nessus
18 14 (2.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 254 (37.85%) Microsoft
2 196 (29.21%) VMware
3 53 (7.90%) Atlassian
4 42 (6.26%) HP
5 41 (6.11%) Dell
6 38 (5.66%) Citrix
7 36 (5.37%) Oracle
8 33 (4.92%) Red Hat
9 27 (4.02%) Cisco
9 27 (4.02%) Splunk
10 25 (3.73%) EMC
11 24 (3.58%) Symantec
12 22 (3.28%) Veeam
13 17 (2.53%) Juniper
13 17 (2.53%) NetApp
13 17 (2.53%) Palo Alto
14 15 (2.24%) Ivanti
15 14 (2.09%) 3PAR
15 14 (2.09%) Extreme Networks
16 13 (1.94%) ArcSight