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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 46 58
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 24 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.52% 1.62% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.87% 6.72% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 6
10th Percentile £383 £346 £163
25th Percentile £409 £365 £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £420 £536
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% -21.68% +20.51%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £625
90th Percentile £533 - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +30.87% +22.88% -16.04%

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 173 134 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.15% 24.10% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 93 125
10th Percentile £359 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -11.11% +1.12%
75th Percentile £537 £488 £550
90th Percentile £625 £522 £670
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.75 £13.64
25th Percentile £18.84 £15.00 £19.78
Median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.87% -57.58% +9.18%
75th Percentile £36.72 £21.04 £54.00
90th Percentile £56.69 £22.67 £54.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.92% -7.48%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 22 January 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 22 January 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 +5 10 £525 +10.53% 7
Northamptonshire -13 10 £458 +13.52% 13
Leicestershire -5 2 £418 +35.77% 11
Nottinghamshire -10 2 £275 -30.38% 10
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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 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) IIS
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (33.33%) AWS
5 7 (29.17%) GCP
6 4 (16.67%) Azure AKS
6 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (16.67%) GitHub
6 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
8 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) DHCP
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) NAS
2 2 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (4.17%) PBX
3 1 (4.17%) SMTP
3 1 (4.17%) VLAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Programme Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 1 (4.17%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Programme Director
4 1 (4.17%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) ADO
2 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (8.33%) Replication
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Mac OS
3 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps
2 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 7 (29.17%) Data Protection
4 7 (29.17%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (29.17%) Thought Leadership
4 7 (29.17%) User Experience
5 6 (25.00%) Analytics
6 5 (20.83%) Migration
7 4 (16.67%) Business Transformation
7 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (16.67%) High Availability
7 4 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
7 4 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Bash
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CISA
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) GIAC
3 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) GDPR
2 7 (29.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (45.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) Docker
3 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (37.50%) SCCM
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.33%) Ansible
4 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 11 (45.83%) VMware
3 7 (29.17%) Citrix
4 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) Google
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle
5 2 (8.33%) Sophos
6 1 (4.17%) F5
6 1 (4.17%) SAP
6 1 (4.17%) Workday