PowerShell Contracts in the West Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 48 59
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 +11
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 50 95 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.61% 4.10% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.76% 16.07% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 74 93
10th Percentile £213 £300 £196
25th Percentile £300 £408 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.95% +5.00% +34.23%
75th Percentile £525 £647 £588
90th Percentile £638 £721 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 425 591 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.18% 25.53% 26.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 403 665
10th Percentile £260 £361 £325
25th Percentile £336 £413 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £632
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +68.59% -53.63%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £18.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £18.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

PowerShell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the West Midlands

PowerShell
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Birmingham +7 25 £350 -39.13% 12
Coventry +12 10 £420 -11.58% 3
Shropshire +13 5 £300 -40.03% 2
Warwickshire -3 3 £356 -32.14% 3
Solihull - 3 £225 - 4
Worcestershire +2 2 £438 -16.67% 1
Staffordshire - 2 £375 - 3
PowerShell
England

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 22 (44.00%) SharePoint
2 13 (26.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.00%) IIS
3 2 (4.00%) WordPress
4 1 (2.00%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 37 (74.00%) Azure
2 32 (64.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (28.00%) Azure Monitor
4 13 (26.00%) OneDrive
5 12 (24.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (14.00%) PaaS
7 6 (12.00%) Azure Functions
7 6 (12.00%) Entra ID
7 6 (12.00%) Power Automate
7 6 (12.00%) PowerApps
7 6 (12.00%) Serverless
8 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.00%) IaaS
9 3 (6.00%) ShareGate
10 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
10 2 (4.00%) GitHub
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (38.00%) DNS
2 8 (16.00%) NetScaler
3 7 (14.00%) DHCP
3 7 (14.00%) Firewall
3 7 (14.00%) LAN
3 7 (14.00%) VPN
3 7 (14.00%) WAN
4 6 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (12.00%) SAN
4 6 (12.00%) Unified Communications
5 4 (8.00%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (6.00%) VLAN
6 3 (6.00%) VoIP
6 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (4.00%) iSCSI
7 2 (4.00%) NAS
7 2 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.00%) Power BI
2 9 (18.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.00%) EDRMS
4 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.00%) Hudson
2 1 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Local Government
4 1 (2.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.00%) Legal
4 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Administrator
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) SharePoint Administrator
3 6 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Administrator
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) Server Administrator
5 4 (8.00%) VMWare Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 3 (6.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) JSON
2 2 (4.00%) LAMP
2 2 (4.00%) YAML
3 1 (2.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.00%) REST
3 1 (2.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) PKI
2 6 (12.00%) Digital Signage
3 4 (8.00%) Clustering
3 4 (8.00%) Replication
4 3 (6.00%) Driving Licence
4 3 (6.00%) Fat Client
4 3 (6.00%) Thin Client
5 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (70.00%) Windows
2 26 (52.00%) Windows Server
3 14 (28.00%) Windows 10
4 11 (22.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (16.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (14.00%) Linux
6 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (12.00%) Ubuntu
8 4 (8.00%) CentOS
8 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (6.00%) Mac OS
9 3 (6.00%) Windows 7
10 2 (4.00%) VMS
11 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Patch Management
2 12 (24.00%) ITIL
3 9 (18.00%) DevOps
4 8 (16.00%) Application Packaging
4 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (16.00%) Change Management
5 7 (14.00%) Customer Service
5 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.00%) Identity Management
6 6 (12.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (12.00%) Proactive Management
6 6 (12.00%) Service Delivery
6 6 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (12.00%) Web SSO
7 5 (10.00%) Analytics
7 5 (10.00%) Incident Management
7 5 (10.00%) Problem Management
7 5 (10.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) Bash
2 3 (6.00%) Python
3 2 (4.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (54.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (26.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (16.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 8 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (16.00%) XenApp
3 8 (16.00%) XenDesktop
4 6 (12.00%) vSphere
5 4 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (8.00%) VMware NSX
5 4 (8.00%) VMware Server
6 3 (6.00%) BitLocker
6 3 (6.00%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.00%) Docker
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 12 (24.00%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (16.00%) SCCM
3 5 (10.00%) SysTrack
3 5 (10.00%) Terraform
4 4 (8.00%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.00%) Autotask
5 3 (6.00%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (6.00%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (4.00%) Ansible
6 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.00%) Argo
7 1 (2.00%) Istio
7 1 (2.00%) linkerd
7 1 (2.00%) Packer
7 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 32 (64.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (28.00%) Citrix
3 10 (20.00%) VMware
4 8 (16.00%) NetApp
5 6 (12.00%) Oracle
6 5 (10.00%) New Relic
6 5 (10.00%) OpenAI
7 3 (6.00%) Apple
7 3 (6.00%) Datto
8 2 (4.00%) Aruba
8 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
8 2 (4.00%) ProCurve
8 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.00%) Synology
8 2 (4.00%) Veeam
8 2 (4.00%) Zerto
9 1 (2.00%) LogicMonitor