PowerShell Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

PowerShell Engineer
UK > England

The median PowerShell Engineer daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 465 524
Rank change year-on-year -107 +59 +124
Contract jobs requiring a PowerShell Engineer 11 14 21
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.030% 0.054% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.059% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 17
10th Percentile £429 £521 £385
25th Percentile £456 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £558 £605
Median % change year-on-year -17.04% -7.85% +21.00%
75th Percentile £488 £581 £768
90th Percentile - £600 -
UK median daily rate £466 £558 £605
% change year-on-year -16.41% -7.85% +21.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £67.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.70 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,508 23,892 35,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.95% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,182 15,386 23,744
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,169 770 2,257
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.21 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £36.00 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% +9.44% -20.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.22 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -1.44% +6.06% -18.67%

PowerShell Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'PowerShell Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

PowerShell Engineer job vacancy trend in England

PowerShell Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PowerShell Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PowerShell Engineer job vacancies in England

PowerShell Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for PowerShell Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for PowerShell Engineer job vacancies in England

PowerShell Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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
London -46 10 £469 -15.92% 2
South East - 1 £410 - 10
PowerShell Engineer
UK

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 7 March 2026, PowerShell Engineer contract job roles required 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 England region featuring PowerShell Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
4 4 (36.36%) SQL
5 3 (27.27%) C#
5 3 (27.27%) Git
5 3 (27.27%) Python
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (27.27%) VMware
6 2 (18.18%) Appium
6 2 (18.18%) Application Packaging
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
6 2 (18.18%) Citrix
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) JIRA
6 2 (18.18%) JUnit
6 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Testing
6 2 (18.18%) QA
6 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 2 (18.18%) SCCM
6 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Selenium
6 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
6 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 1 (9.09%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Appium
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) TestNG
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Hedge funds
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) VMS
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
1 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Application Packaging
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) API Development
4 1 (9.09%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
2 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix