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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 43 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 29 22 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.58% 2.84% 3.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.66% 12.09% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 26
10th Percentile £388 £190 £288
25th Percentile £451 £350 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £444
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -9.86% -6.58%
75th Percentile £689 £638 £722
90th Percentile £700 £725 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £450 £469
% change year-on-year +2.22% -4.00% -6.25%

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 128 182 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.62% 23.51% 24.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 135 147
10th Percentile £307 £259 £304
25th Percentile £425 £313 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £658
90th Percentile £694 £654 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile - £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year - +64.74% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%

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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 July 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 (20.69%) Confluence
2 3 (10.34%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (20.69%) AWS
1 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon ELB
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon Glacier
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
2 5 (17.24%) AWS KMS
2 5 (17.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.90%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.45%) PaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) DNS
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
2 6 (20.69%) SMTP
3 5 (17.24%) FTP
3 5 (17.24%) HTTP
3 5 (17.24%) SSH
4 2 (6.90%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JIRA
2 5 (17.24%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) MSI
2 5 (17.24%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (6.90%) Analyst
2 2 (6.90%) Citrix Engineer
2 2 (6.90%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (6.90%) Support Analyst
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) Citrix Consultant
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) Consultant
3 1 (3.45%) Desktop Support
3 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) Software Analyst
3 1 (3.45%) Software Support Analyst
3 1 (3.45%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Software Packaging
2 4 (13.79%) .NET
3 3 (10.34%) HTML
3 3 (10.34%) Middleware
3 3 (10.34%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) JSON
4 2 (6.90%) Web Services
4 2 (6.90%) XML
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Replication
2 3 (10.34%) SCADA
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (68.97%) Windows
2 12 (41.38%) Linux
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (17.24%) VMS
4 2 (6.90%) Android
4 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Agile
2 7 (24.14%) Change Management
3 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
3 6 (20.69%) DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
4 5 (17.24%) Patch Management
4 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (17.24%) Software Delivery
4 5 (17.24%) Software Deployment
4 5 (17.24%) Software Distribution
5 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
5 4 (13.79%) Incident Management
5 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.79%) Project Management
6 3 (10.34%) ITIL
6 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (10.34%) Service Management
7 2 (6.90%) SDLC
7 2 (6.90%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) Bash
3 5 (17.24%) Groovy
3 5 (17.24%) Java
3 5 (17.24%) Perl
4 4 (13.79%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) C#
5 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (65.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (51.72%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.69%) Docker
3 5 (17.24%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Grafana
2 6 (20.69%) Ansible
2 6 (20.69%) Prometheus
2 6 (20.69%) SCCM
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.45%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) ServiceNow
3 5 (17.24%) Tanium
4 3 (10.34%) Citrix
4 3 (10.34%) Foundry
5 2 (6.90%) Dell
5 2 (6.90%) HP
6 1 (3.45%) Apple
6 1 (3.45%) Commvault
6 1 (3.45%) New Relic
6 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.45%) Veeam