PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Windows PowerShell
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 22 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 5 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 4.50% 2.45% 5.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.25% 14.29% 18.60%
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% -27.42%
75th Percentile £606 £580 £366
90th Percentile £663 £592 £379
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £518 £473
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -5.50%

All Programming Languages
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16 28 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 14.41% 17.18% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 22
10th Percentile £405 £306 £329
25th Percentile £443 £322 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -2.70% -6.57%
75th Percentile £627 £544 £517
90th Percentile £693 £588 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £474
% change year-on-year -8.89% -5.01% +2.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +169.51%
75th Percentile - - £54.00
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £35.53 £53.00
% change year-on-year -46.52% -32.96% +51.43%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Derbyshire

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Derbyshire

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 5 September 2025. 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
Derby +7 5 £500 -7.41% 3
PowerShell
East Midlands

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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