PowerShell Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 39 54
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 27 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.68% 2.70% 1.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.06% 10.46% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 8
10th Percentile £383 £357 £163
25th Percentile £409 £371 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £463 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +12.12% -7.30%
75th Percentile £488 £491 £625
90th Percentile £533 £500 -
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.54 - £20.82
Median hourly rate £14.48 - £22.28
75th Percentile £15.41 - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £40.28
% change year-on-year +30.87% +40.88% -26.76%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 192 153 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.03% 25.80% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 109 120
10th Percentile £362 £306 £288
25th Percentile £402 £356 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £575 £488 £538
90th Percentile £600 £534 £626
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.45 £13.64
25th Percentile £17.17 £14.24 £19.78
Median hourly rate £25.42 £15.56 £23.64
Median % change year-on-year +63.34% -34.17% -38.19%
75th Percentile £76.63 £16.88 £29.88
90th Percentile £84.05 £17.67 £40.08
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.16%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. 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
Derbyshire +1 12 £525 +10.53%
Northamptonshire -15 10 £458 +13.52% 2
Leicestershire -4 3 £418 +35.77% 3
Nottinghamshire -14 2 £275 -40.22% 9
PowerShell
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) IIS
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) Entra ID
3 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (29.63%) AWS
5 7 (25.93%) GCP
6 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (18.52%) Azure AKS
8 4 (14.81%) GitHub
8 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (3.70%) Azure Batch
11 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
11 1 (3.70%) IaaS
11 1 (3.70%) PaaS
11 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) NAS
2 2 (7.41%) SAN
3 1 (3.70%) PBX
3 1 (3.70%) VLAN
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Chocolatey
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) MSI
1 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Programme Manager
2 3 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Architect
3 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 1 (3.70%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Lead
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (3.70%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) ADO
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.41%) Operational Technology
2 2 (7.41%) Replication
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Mac OS
3 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 12 (44.44%) DevOps
2 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
4 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (29.63%) Zero Trust
5 7 (25.93%) Data Protection
5 7 (25.93%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (25.93%) Thought Leadership
5 7 (25.93%) User Experience
6 6 (22.22%) Analytics
6 6 (22.22%) Migration
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.81%) Budgeting
8 4 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
8 4 (14.81%) Programme Delivery
8 4 (14.81%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Bash
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) CISA
3 1 (3.70%) CISSP
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) GIAC
3 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) GDPR
2 7 (25.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 11 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (11.11%) Docker
4 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (33.33%) SCCM
2 9 (33.33%) Terraform
3 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
4 3 (11.11%) Ansible
5 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 11 (40.74%) VMware
3 7 (25.93%) Citrix
4 5 (18.52%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco
5 2 (7.41%) Google
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle
5 2 (7.41%) Sophos
6 1 (3.70%) F5
6 1 (3.70%) SAP
6 1 (3.70%) Workday