PowerShell Contracts in Birmingham

Windows PowerShell
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 40 42
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 25 27 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.79% 3.49% 3.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.84% 14.52% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 25
10th Percentile £388 £212 £313
25th Percentile £558 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £388 £575
Median % change year-on-year +67.74% -32.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £713
90th Percentile - £680 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £501 £375 £525
% change year-on-year +33.60% -28.57% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 126 186 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.14% 24.06% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 144 158
10th Percentile £341 £259 £313
25th Percentile £425 £310 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.88% -18.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £456 £525
% change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +64.74% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 6 (24.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.00%) Akamai
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MSI
General
1 16 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Legal
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (12.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 1 (4.00%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Software Packaging
2 6 (24.00%) HTML
2 6 (24.00%) Middleware
3 3 (12.00%) .NET
4 2 (8.00%) LDAP
4 2 (8.00%) OAuth
4 2 (8.00%) SAML
4 2 (8.00%) Web Services
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) SCADA
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Android
3 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (28.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (24.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 5 (20.00%) Software Deployment
4 5 (20.00%) Software Distribution
5 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Project Management
6 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (12.00%) ITIL
6 3 (12.00%) Time Management
7 2 (8.00%) Change Management
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (8.00%) Service Management
7 2 (8.00%) Web Application Development
8 1 (4.00%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CEH
5 1 (4.00%) CISSP
5 1 (4.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Ansible
2 4 (16.00%) SCCM
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Tanium
3 3 (12.00%) Foundry
4 2 (8.00%) Dell
4 2 (8.00%) HP
5 1 (4.00%) Apple
5 1 (4.00%) F5
5 1 (4.00%) Imperva