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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 50 54
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 -17
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 17 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.17% 2.07% 2.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.18% 8.47% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 24
10th Percentile £366 £211 £223
25th Percentile £374 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £531 £434
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +22.48% +8.44%
75th Percentile £506 £619 £481
90th Percentile £581 £625 £578
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.30
25th Percentile - - £18.87
Median hourly rate - - £26.48
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year -27.50% -33.22% +19.80%

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 129 189 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.07% 24.45% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 137 266
10th Percentile £311 £283 £273
25th Percentile £358 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.19%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £538
90th Percentile £545 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.66 £20.39
25th Percentile £16.88 £22.12 £26.48
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% -50.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £20.38 £31.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £21.95 £40.71 £63.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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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 1 May 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 1 May 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 8 £475 -1.30% 3
Nottinghamshire +13 6 £460 - 9
Northamptonshire 0 2 £450 -5.26% 2
Leicestershire +3 1 - - 7
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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 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Chocolatey
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
3 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
4 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Mac Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OpenID
2 1 (5.88%) SAML
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Mac OS
3 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) High Availability
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Service Catalogue
5 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.76%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 2 (11.76%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Server Building
5 2 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Bash
2 6 (35.29%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) Bicep
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) ACSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.76%) Apple
3 2 (11.76%) Databricks
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Perforce
4 1 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (5.88%) Workday