PowerShell Contracts in the Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 52 50
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 64 137 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.33% 3.97% 4.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.41% 14.62% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 105 157
10th Percentile £206 £278 £274
25th Percentile £350 £375 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +6.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £14.30 -
25th Percentile - £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £26.48 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - +26.10% -
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.90 £49.24
% change year-on-year -33.22% +21.65% +20.10%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 615 937 1,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.41% 27.16% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 700 1,000
10th Percentile £260 £313 £315
25th Percentile £350 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +16.13%
75th Percentile £550 £557 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £625
England median daily rate £540 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 19
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.24 £17.07
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.78 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -4.61% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £86.00 £45.34
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
West Midlands -11 49 £375 -28.57% 37
East Midlands +4 15 £538 +27.22% 18
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 23 (35.94%) SharePoint
2 13 (20.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.13%) IIS
3 2 (3.13%) WordPress
4 1 (1.56%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (70.31%) Azure
2 35 (54.69%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (21.88%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (21.88%) OneDrive
4 11 (17.19%) Entra ID
4 11 (17.19%) Power Platform
5 8 (12.50%) PaaS
6 7 (10.94%) Power Automate
7 6 (9.38%) Azure Functions
7 6 (9.38%) PowerApps
7 6 (9.38%) Serverless
8 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.25%) IaaS
9 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub
9 2 (3.13%) ShareGate
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.56%) DNS
2 8 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
2 8 (12.50%) Firewall
2 8 (12.50%) NetScaler
2 8 (12.50%) VPN
3 7 (10.94%) SAN
4 6 (9.38%) Unified Communications
5 4 (6.25%) DHCP
5 4 (6.25%) LAN
5 4 (6.25%) WAN
5 4 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (4.69%) VLAN
6 3 (4.69%) VoIP
7 2 (3.13%) iSCSI
7 2 (3.13%) NAS
7 2 (3.13%) Wireless
8 1 (1.56%) Network Security
8 1 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 11 (17.19%) Power BI
3 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.13%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.56%) Metadata
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.56%) Hudson
2 1 (1.56%) NUnit
2 1 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.56%) Selenium
2 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.13%) Finance
3 2 (3.13%) Local Government
3 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (12.50%) Administrator
1 8 (12.50%) Architect
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 7 (10.94%) Deployment Engineer
3 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Engineer
3 6 (9.38%) SharePoint Administrator
3 6 (9.38%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Azure Administrator
4 5 (7.81%) Citrix Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Consultant
4 5 (7.81%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Senior
5 4 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
6 3 (4.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 3 (4.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) IAM Consultant
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) JSON
1 3 (4.69%) LDAP
1 3 (4.69%) OAuth
1 3 (4.69%) OpenID
1 3 (4.69%) SailPoint
1 3 (4.69%) SAML
1 3 (4.69%) Web Services
2 2 (3.13%) .NET
2 2 (3.13%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.13%) LAMP
2 2 (3.13%) REST
2 2 (3.13%) YAML
3 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.56%) ADO
3 1 (1.56%) CSS
3 1 (1.56%) HTML
3 1 (1.56%) jQuery
3 1 (1.56%) NHibernate
3 1 (1.56%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.56%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) PKI
2 6 (9.38%) Digital Signage
3 4 (6.25%) Clustering
3 4 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (6.25%) Replication
4 3 (4.69%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.69%) Fat Client
4 3 (4.69%) HP Storage
4 3 (4.69%) Thin Client
5 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 42 (65.63%) Windows
2 25 (39.06%) Windows Server
3 16 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 12 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (12.50%) Linux
5 8 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (10.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (6.25%) AIX
7 4 (6.25%) Solaris
8 3 (4.69%) Mac OS
8 3 (4.69%) Ubuntu
8 3 (4.69%) VMS
8 3 (4.69%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.56%) CentOS
9 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.00%) ITIL
2 11 (17.19%) DevOps
3 10 (15.63%) Patch Management
4 8 (12.50%) Application Packaging
4 8 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (12.50%) Change Management
5 7 (10.94%) Customer Service
6 6 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (9.38%) CI/CD
6 6 (9.38%) Identity Management
6 6 (9.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (9.38%) Proactive Management
6 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (9.38%) Service Delivery
6 6 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (9.38%) Web SSO
7 5 (7.81%) Agile
7 5 (7.81%) Incident Management
7 5 (7.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) Bash
2 8 (12.50%) Python
3 7 (10.94%) SQL
4 2 (3.13%) Bicep
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) Degree
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.56%) MCSE
7 1 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) SLA
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 31 (48.44%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (12.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 8 (12.50%) XenApp
3 8 (12.50%) XenDesktop
4 5 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (6.25%) BitLocker
6 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.69%) vSphere
7 2 (3.13%) Docker
7 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 15 (23.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (23.44%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (15.63%) SCCM
3 6 (9.38%) Terraform
4 5 (7.81%) SysTrack
5 4 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (4.69%) Autotask
6 3 (4.69%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (4.69%) HP Data Protector
6 3 (4.69%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.69%) NetBackup
7 2 (3.13%) Ansible
8 1 (1.56%) Argo
8 1 (1.56%) Istio
8 1 (1.56%) linkerd
8 1 (1.56%) Packer
8 1 (1.56%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.56%) SELinux
8 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (57.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.88%) Citrix
3 9 (14.06%) Oracle
4 8 (12.50%) NetApp
5 7 (10.94%) VMware
6 5 (7.81%) Cisco
6 5 (7.81%) New Relic
6 5 (7.81%) OpenAI
7 4 (6.25%) Brocade
7 4 (6.25%) EMC
8 3 (4.69%) Apple
8 3 (4.69%) Datto
8 3 (4.69%) HP
8 3 (4.69%) Okta
8 3 (4.69%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.69%) Symantec
9 2 (3.13%) Aruba
9 2 (3.13%) ProCurve
9 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.13%) Veeam