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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 45 52
Rank change year-on-year -23 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 14 23 15
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.05% 2.89% 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.80% 10.65% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 10
10th Percentile £371 £376 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £493
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -7.11% +3.96%
75th Percentile - £516 £575
90th Percentile £540 £612 £604
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £63.50 £63.93
% change year-on-year -0.03% -0.68% +6.55%

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 206 216 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.48% 27.14% 26.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 176 147
10th Percentile £304 £270 £310
25th Percentile £400 £358 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -7.30% -6.07%
75th Percentile £548 £475 £506
90th Percentile £588 £556 £588
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.31 -
25th Percentile £19.84 £15.01 £21.25
Median hourly rate £36.60 £16.42 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +122.88% -27.02% -57.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £18.09 £23.75
90th Percentile £66.75 £18.93 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 8 £500 -4.76% 11
Leicestershire -7 4 £411 -8.61% 14
Nottinghamshire -11 2 £425 - 17
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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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (35.71%) IaaS
3 5 (35.71%) PaaS
3 5 (35.71%) SaaS
4 4 (28.57%) Azure AKS
5 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Databricks
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub
7 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
7 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 1 (7.14%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Data Lake
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) MSI
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Configuration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) ARM Templates
1 3 (21.43%) Software Packaging
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Device Driver
1 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.14%) VMS
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (35.71%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Log Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Business Case
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 4 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.14%) BitLocker
3 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (35.71%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) SCOM
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) NetApp
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow