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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 44 47
Rank change year-on-year -27 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 17 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.52% 2.76% 2.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.62% 9.82% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 18
10th Percentile £253 £356 £235
25th Percentile £288 £373 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £460 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -0.54% +9.47%
75th Percentile £468 £519 £590
90th Percentile £516 £599 £625
England median daily rate £525 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.54 - -
Median hourly rate £14.48 - -
75th Percentile £15.41 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.73 £73.23 £40.25
% change year-on-year -15.70% +81.94% -32.92%

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 223 163 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.91% 28.10% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 138 146
10th Percentile £361 £269 £281
25th Percentile £406 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -1.45%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £600 £539 £600
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.59% -4.55% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £16.32 £18.26 £15.66
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.35 £22.12
Median hourly rate £25.42 £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.76% -24.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £83.25 £21.25 £31.00
90th Percentile £84.45 £22.30 £40.71
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -

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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 24 May 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

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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 24 May 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 -7 7 £500 - 4
Leicestershire -4 4 £408 - 9
Northamptonshire -9 4 £408 -9.33% 1
Nottinghamshire -26 2 £300 -34.78% 8
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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 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) Entra ID
3 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Batch
5 2 (11.76%) IaaS
5 2 (11.76%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DHCP
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) VLAN
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chocolatey
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) MSI
1 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (5.88%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Database Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) DBA
3 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Device Driver
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Mac OS
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps
1 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
2 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
4 3 (17.65%) Application Packaging
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
4 3 (17.65%) Cost Management
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Service Management
4 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Zero Trust
5 2 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) BitLocker
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) SCCM
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
3 3 (17.65%) Google
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) Citrix
4 2 (11.76%) NetApp
4 2 (11.76%) Sophos
5 1 (5.88%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) HP
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle