PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Derby

Windows PowerShell
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 21 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 5.68% 3.08% 5.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.25% 14.81% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £318 £522 £306
25th Percentile £381 £526 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £338
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +60.00% -35.10%
75th Percentile £606 £580 £366
90th Percentile £663 £592 £379
Derbyshire median daily rate £500 £540 £338
% change year-on-year -7.41% +60.00% -27.42%

All Programming Languages
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16 27 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 18.18% 20.77% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 18
10th Percentile £405 £306 £351
25th Percentile £443 £322 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £627 £544 £517
90th Percentile £693 £588 £631
Derbyshire median daily rate £596 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +32.44% -2.70% -6.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Derby

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Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Derby over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Derby

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Batch
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) VMware