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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 51 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 23 17 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.92% 2.14% 1.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.65% 8.06% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 8
10th Percentile £376 £318 £277
25th Percentile £425 £450 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £518 £474
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +9.23% -5.25%
75th Percentile £516 £567 £503
90th Percentile £612 £599 £511
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 216 211 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.38% 26.57% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 149 169
10th Percentile £270 £310 £313
25th Percentile £358 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £445 £473
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -5.82% -0.53%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £538
90th Percentile £556 £588 £650
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £14.31 - £51.25
25th Percentile £15.01 £21.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £16.42 £22.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.02% -57.55% +57.04%
75th Percentile £18.09 £23.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £18.93 - £70.00
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 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
Northamptonshire -8 11 £465 +0.54% 11
Derbyshire +6 8 £525 -2.78% 6
Leicestershire -2 3 £450 +52.54% 4
Nottinghamshire -4 1 - - 12
PowerShell
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) Entra ID
3 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (26.09%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure App Service
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Storage
5 2 (8.70%) IaaS
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Batch
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (8.70%) PBX
2 2 (8.70%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) NAS
3 1 (4.35%) SAN
3 1 (4.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
1 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Programme Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Security Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) IT Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Programme Director
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Test Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
1 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.35%) JSON
1 1 (4.35%) LDAP
1 1 (4.35%) OAuth
1 1 (4.35%) SAML
1 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Mac OS
3 2 (8.70%) Linux
3 2 (8.70%) VMS
3 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) Roadmaps
3 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
4 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
4 5 (21.74%) Thought Leadership
4 5 (21.74%) User Experience
4 5 (21.74%) Zero Trust
5 4 (17.39%) Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Business Transformation
5 4 (17.39%) Cloud Operations
5 4 (17.39%) Incident Response
5 4 (17.39%) Programme Delivery
5 4 (17.39%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Bash
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 7 (30.43%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) C#
4 2 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CISA
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) GIAC
3 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) GDPR
2 5 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.70%) SLA
4 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.35%) QA
4 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (26.09%) SCCM
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (34.78%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) Citrix
4 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco
6 1 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) SAP
6 1 (4.35%) Workday