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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 31 51
Rank change year-on-year -33 +20 +10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 20 17 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.99% 3.34% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.36% 12.41% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 9
10th Percentile £253 £358 £163
25th Percentile £321 £373 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £431 £488 £625
90th Percentile £478 £500 -
England median daily rate £525 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.54 - £20.82
Median hourly rate £14.48 - £22.28
75th Percentile £15.41 - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £55.62 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.51% +39.06% -28.78%

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 193 137 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.18% 26.92% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 106 131
10th Percentile £360 £312 £288
25th Percentile £402 £356 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £600 £541 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 10
10th Percentile £17.02 £13.98 £15.66
25th Percentile £21.68 £15.56 £21.05
Median hourly rate £42.71 £18.20 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +134.66% -27.20% -50.00%
75th Percentile £79.94 £20.60 £32.13
90th Percentile £84.25 £22.04 £52.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -4 10 - - 2
Leicestershire -3 5 £418 +35.77% 4
Northamptonshire -20 4 £408 +2.00% 4
Nottinghamshire -19 1 £275 -40.22% 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 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 4 (20.00%) GitHub
3 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Batch
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.00%) IaaS
5 2 (10.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Google Workspace
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DHCP
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) VLAN
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chocolatey
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) MSI
1 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Database Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) DBA
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) ADO
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (30.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) High Availability
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Zero Trust
6 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.00%) Docker
4 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (20.00%) SCCM
5 3 (15.00%) Ansible
6 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Google
3 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.00%) Citrix
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Sophos
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) F5
5 1 (5.00%) NetApp