PowerShell Contracts in the East Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 51 62
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -33
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 18 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.50% 2.31% 2.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.74% 8.89% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 14
10th Percentile £347 £312 £223
25th Percentile £388 £394 £242
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year - +15.85% -11.83%
75th Percentile £519 £574 £508
90th Percentile £599 £615 £644
England median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £26.48
England median hourly rate £64.25 £43.84 £60.00
% change year-on-year +46.56% -26.93% +19.52%

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 206 225 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.61% 25.95% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 157 252
10th Percentile £268 £297 £310
25th Percentile £346 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £431
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.45% -4.17%
75th Percentile £475 £530 £538
90th Percentile £531 £600 £650
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £18.26 £14.15 £26.48
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.92 £38.24
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -52.38% +50.00%
75th Percentile £21.25 £28.44 £61.88
90th Percentile £22.30 £40.33 £70.00
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.42%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the East Midlands

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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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the East Midlands

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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 5 July 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
Derbyshire +9 6 £500 -7.19% 19
Northamptonshire -7 5 £400 -13.51% 9
Leicestershire 0 4 £450 +36.88% 15
Nottinghamshire +2 3 £500 - 23
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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 (5.56%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (16.67%) IaaS
4 3 (16.67%) PaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Azure App Service
5 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Storage
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Batch
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) Chocolatey
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Games
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) OpenID
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
2 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 2 (11.11%) VMS
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) ITIL
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (16.67%) Identity Management
6 3 (16.67%) Microservices
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) RBAC
6 3 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
7 2 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
7 2 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) Bash
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (5.56%) Bicep
5 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (27.78%) Ansible
2 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Podman
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Perforce
4 1 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Workday