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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 38 47
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 24 24 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.81% 3.23% 3.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.51% 12.90% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 24
10th Percentile £388 £190 £278
25th Percentile £440 £350 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £375 £575
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -34.78% +21.05%
75th Percentile £694 £638 £717
90th Percentile £700 £691 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +15.00% -23.81% +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 123 186 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.65% 25.07% 25.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 142 145
10th Percentile £363 £259 £313
25th Percentile £425 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £513
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -20.00% +7.89%
75th Percentile £607 £575 £688
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.22% -14.29% +10.53%
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 £33.91 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -41.03% +96.13% -22.34%

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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 30 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 4 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Akamai
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) DHCP
3 2 (8.33%) SMTP
4 1 (4.17%) FTP
4 1 (4.17%) HTTP
4 1 (4.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Tableau
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) MSI
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (8.33%) Analyst
1 2 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Applications Support
2 1 (4.17%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Software Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Software Support Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Software Packaging
2 4 (16.67%) HTML
2 4 (16.67%) Middleware
3 3 (12.50%) .NET
4 2 (8.33%) Web Services
5 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) SCADA
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Android
3 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (4.17%) VMS
4 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Software Delivery
3 5 (20.83%) Software Deployment
3 5 (20.83%) Software Distribution
4 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (16.67%) Project Management
4 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Change Management
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) ITIL
5 3 (12.50%) Service Management
6 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
6 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.33%) High Availability
6 2 (8.33%) ITSM
6 2 (8.33%) Problem Management
6 2 (8.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) Bash
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CEH
5 1 (4.17%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) DFS Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Ansible
1 6 (25.00%) SCCM
2 4 (16.67%) Grafana
3 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Tanium
3 3 (12.50%) Foundry
4 2 (8.33%) Dell
4 2 (8.33%) HP
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Apple
5 1 (4.17%) Commvault
5 1 (4.17%) F5
5 1 (4.17%) Imperva
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam