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 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	68	52	50
Rank change year-on-year	-16	-2	+3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell	19	23	14
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands	1.37%	2.72%	1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category	10.33%	10.75%	6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	14	11	11
10^th Percentile	£313	-	£304
25^th Percentile	£395	£425	£330
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	£450	£450
Median % change year-on-year	+5.56%	-	-7.69%
75^th Percentile	£539	£489	£488
90^th Percentile	£550	£538	£510
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
Median hourly rate	£17.50	-	-
England median hourly rate	£67.24	£63.00	£58.49
% change year-on-year	+6.72%	+7.71%	-2.52%

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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	184	214	206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands	13.26%	25.27%	27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	117	170	142
10^th Percentile	£300	£270	£313
25^th Percentile	£356	£358	£356
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£413	£425
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-2.94%	-10.53%
75^th Percentile	£544	£484	£500
90^th Percentile	£595	£550	£537
England median daily rate	£525	£513	£543
% change year-on-year	+2.44%	-5.53%	-1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	1	1
10^th Percentile	£16.23	-	-
25^th Percentile	£22.12	-	£21.25
Median hourly rate	£26.26	£13.84	£22.50
Median % change year-on-year	+89.74%	-38.49%	-57.55%
75^th Percentile	£47.50	-	£23.75
90^th Percentile	£59.05	-	-
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£62.50	£65.00
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-3.85%	+4.00%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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 19 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the East Midlands

PowerShell Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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 19 October 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	11	£500	-4.76%	1
Leicestershire	-11	5	£411	-8.61%	5
Nottinghamshire	-9	3	£325	-	8
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PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region with a requirement for PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	73.7%	14
1	SC Cleared	73.7%	14
1	Security Cleared	73.7%	14
4	Windows	63.2%	12
5	Microsoft	52.6%	10
6	Active Directory	47.4%	9
6	Entra ID	47.4%	9
8	DevOps	42.1%	8
8	Migration	42.1%	8
8	SQL	42.1%	8
8	Windows Server	42.1%	8
12	Architecture Governance	36.8%	7
12	Azure Data Factory	36.8%	7
12	Data Lake	36.8%	7
12	Databricks	36.8%	7
12	Firewall	36.8%	7
12	IaaS	36.8%	7
12	Kubernetes	36.8%	7
12	Linux	36.8%	7
12	PaaS	36.8%	7
12	SaaS	36.8%	7
22	Cloud Security	31.6%	6
22	Infrastructure as Code	31.6%	6
24	Azure DevOps	26.3%	5
24	Cybersecurity	26.3%	5
26	Azure Synapse Analytics	21.1%	4
26	Business Case	21.1%	4
26	CI/CD	21.1%	4
26	Degree	21.1%	4
26	Disaster Recovery	21.1%	4

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	42.1%	8
2	Bicep	5.3%	1
2	Python	5.3%	1