PowerShell Contracts in the South West

Windows PowerShell
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 41 58
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 122 161 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.70% 4.75% 3.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.53% 17.35% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 114 94
10th Percentile £448 £291 £313
25th Percentile £513 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +8.64% +6.69%
75th Percentile £691 £673 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
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 £74.00 £60.70 £53.74
90th Percentile £74.44 £92.50 £57.02
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £49.99
% change year-on-year -32.92% +20.04% +21.91%

All Programming Languages
South West

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 696 928 1,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 21.10% 27.39% 29.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 649 762
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £653
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 87 68
10th Percentile £52.50 £50.75 £46.93
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.57 £54.15
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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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 13 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 13 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 13 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 50 £700 +14.29% 7
Gloucestershire -7 35 £575 +27.78% 12
Bristol 0 21 £525 -8.70% 6
Somerset -5 9 - - 13
Dorset +1 2 £513 +17.14% 1
Devon -11 2 £600 +71.43% 5
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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 30 (24.59%) Confluence
2 18 (14.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (9.02%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.10%) Apache
5 1 (0.82%) Mendix
5 1 (0.82%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (32.79%) Azure
2 23 (18.85%) AWS
3 19 (15.57%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.38%) OpenShift
5 8 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.56%) PaaS
6 6 (4.92%) GCP
6 6 (4.92%) OneDrive
6 6 (4.92%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.10%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.28%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.64%) GitHub
9 2 (1.64%) Serverless
9 2 (1.64%) Slack
10 1 (0.82%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.82%) IaaS
10 1 (0.82%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.20%) SAN
2 9 (7.38%) DHCP
2 9 (7.38%) DNS
2 9 (7.38%) LAN
2 9 (7.38%) VPN
2 9 (7.38%) WAN
3 8 (6.56%) MPLS
3 8 (6.56%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (4.10%) Firewall
4 5 (4.10%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.28%) Skype
6 3 (2.46%) IPv4
6 3 (2.46%) OSPF
6 3 (2.46%) VLAN
7 1 (0.82%) Intranet
7 1 (0.82%) NAS
7 1 (0.82%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.82%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.10%) Power BI
3 1 (0.82%) MySQL
3 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (30.33%) JIRA
2 31 (25.41%) Bitbucket
3 28 (22.95%) Jenkins
4 21 (17.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (9.84%) Git
6 9 (7.38%) Artifactory
6 9 (7.38%) GitLab
7 6 (4.92%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.82%) JMeter
8 1 (0.82%) MSI
8 1 (0.82%) Postman
8 1 (0.82%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.82%) Selenium
General
1 41 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.77%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (21.31%) Aerospace
4 12 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.92%) Legal
6 4 (3.28%) Finance
7 2 (1.64%) Electronics
7 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.64%) Marketing
7 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (18.85%) Developer
2 21 (17.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (9.02%) Senior
4 9 (7.38%) Architect
5 8 (6.56%) Analyst
5 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (6.56%) IT Analyst
5 8 (6.56%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (6.56%) Lead
5 8 (6.56%) Support Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Desktop Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Desktop Support
6 7 (5.74%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Wintel Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Automation Architect
8 4 (3.28%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.95%) .NET
2 21 (17.21%) .NET Core
3 16 (13.11%) YAML
4 6 (4.92%) ModSecurity
5 5 (4.10%) .NET Framework
5 5 (4.10%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (4.10%) REST
6 3 (2.46%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.64%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (1.64%) Loki
8 1 (0.82%) ADO
8 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.82%) OAuth
8 1 (0.82%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.82%) React
8 1 (0.82%) Swagger
8 1 (0.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.02%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.38%) Clustering
3 8 (6.56%) Client/Server
3 8 (6.56%) PKI
4 7 (5.74%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.92%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.28%) CMDB
6 4 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.82%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.82%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 63 (51.64%) Windows
2 55 (45.08%) Linux
3 12 (9.84%) Unix
4 11 (9.02%) Windows 10
5 9 (7.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (7.38%) Windows Server
6 5 (4.10%) Windows 7
6 5 (4.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.46%) VMS
7 3 (2.46%) Windows 2000
7 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.46%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.64%) CentOS
9 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (39.34%) CI/CD
2 38 (31.15%) Infrastructure Automation
3 35 (28.69%) Configuration Management
4 32 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (24.59%) DevOps
6 29 (23.77%) Task Automation
7 27 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (17.21%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (17.21%) OO
9 20 (16.39%) OOP
10 19 (15.57%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (13.11%) Agile
12 15 (12.30%) Data Protection
13 14 (11.48%) Validation
14 12 (9.84%) Migration
15 11 (9.02%) Decision-Making
16 9 (7.38%) Application Packaging
16 9 (7.38%) Software Engineering
17 8 (6.56%) Asset Management
17 8 (6.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (45.90%) Python
2 20 (16.39%) Bash
3 7 (5.74%) SQL
4 4 (3.28%) C
4 4 (3.28%) Java
4 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.46%) Bicep
5 3 (2.46%) Go
6 2 (1.64%) C#
6 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.82%) Julia
7 1 (0.82%) Perl
7 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 95 (77.87%) Security Cleared
2 63 (51.64%) SC Cleared
3 34 (27.87%) DV Cleared
4 20 (16.39%) Degree
5 5 (4.10%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.64%) MCSE
9 1 (0.82%) GIAC
9 1 (0.82%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.92%) QA
2 3 (2.46%) SLA
3 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 36 (29.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (20.49%) Active Directory
3 21 (17.21%) Docker
4 13 (10.66%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (9.02%) VMware NSX
6 10 (8.20%) vSphere
7 9 (7.38%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (7.38%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (6.56%) VMware Workstation
9 7 (5.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (4.92%) Hyper-V
11 4 (3.28%) VMFS
12 1 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.82%) XenApp
12 1 (0.82%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 63 (51.64%) Ansible
2 46 (37.70%) Terraform
3 24 (19.67%) PowerCLI
4 21 (17.21%) Kubernetes
5 16 (13.11%) SCCM
6 15 (12.30%) Puppet
7 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Clustering
7 9 (7.38%) Progress Chef
7 9 (7.38%) Salt
8 8 (6.56%) Nagios
8 8 (6.56%) NetBackup
9 7 (5.74%) OPNET
10 4 (3.28%) Grafana
10 4 (3.28%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.64%) Argo
11 2 (1.64%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.64%) SCOrch
11 2 (1.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (33.61%) VMware
2 32 (26.23%) Atlassian
2 32 (26.23%) Microsoft
3 19 (15.57%) Dell
3 19 (15.57%) HP
4 17 (13.93%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.56%) Hitachi
5 8 (6.56%) NetApp
5 8 (6.56%) SaltStack
6 6 (4.92%) Google
7 4 (3.28%) Cisco
7 4 (3.28%) Citrix
8 3 (2.46%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.46%) Juniper
9 2 (1.64%) Oracle
9 2 (1.64%) SAP
10 1 (0.82%) CA
10 1 (0.82%) Ivanti
10 1 (0.82%) Remedy
10 1 (0.82%) SolarWinds