PowerShell Contract Job Trends in England

Windows PowerShell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 67 53
Rank change year-on-year -20 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,338 1,014 1,284
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 3.67% 3.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.12% 11.21% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 654 932
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £423 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +2.46% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 15 16
10th Percentile £19.25 £45.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £33.70 £45.75 £45.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £65.69
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.05% +16.50%
75th Percentile £74.26 £83.98 £74.11
90th Percentile £90.53 £154.00 £74.72
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £63.50 £69.38
% change year-on-year -13.39% -8.47% +15.63%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,035 9,049 10,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.45% 32.79% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,808 6,247 7,661
10th Percentile £363 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 497 227 369
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £31.07
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.08 £83.58 £78.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in England

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in England

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in England

PowerShell
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 August 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 -16 578 £533 +2.90% 197
South East -8 295 £537 -6.70% 122
North of England +8 240 £454 +1.17% 82
North West +14 144 £450 -0.83% 50
South West -7 110 £490 -14.78% 54
Yorkshire -10 87 £458 +2.01% 22
Midlands -79 61 £500 +11.11% 42
East of England -44 43 £507 -7.82% 37
West Midlands -90 41 £500 +8.70% 21
East Midlands -12 19 £469 +4.17% 21
North East - 10 £394 - 12
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
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
1 124 (9.27%) SharePoint
2 121 (9.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (3.51%) Confluence
4 21 (1.57%) IIS
5 13 (0.97%) Apache
6 12 (0.90%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.75%) nginx
8 5 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.37%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.30%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 24 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.075%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (3.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.30%) Remedy AR System
4 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.075%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.075%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.075%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.075%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.075%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.075%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 740 (55.31%) Azure
2 325 (24.29%) Entra ID
3 304 (22.72%) AWS
4 216 (16.14%) Microsoft 365
5 182 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
6 167 (12.48%) GitHub
7 136 (10.16%) GCP
8 123 (9.19%) Power Platform
9 115 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
10 106 (7.92%) Azure Monitor
11 73 (5.46%) OneDrive
12 71 (5.31%) Azure AKS
13 56 (4.19%) SaaS
14 55 (4.11%) PaaS
15 53 (3.96%) Microsoft Purview
16 52 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 46 (3.44%) IaaS
17 46 (3.44%) Microsoft Copilot
18 43 (3.21%) Azure Sentinel
19 41 (3.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 188 (14.05%) DNS
2 175 (13.08%) Firewall
3 103 (7.70%) DHCP
4 85 (6.35%) VPN
5 84 (6.28%) TCP/IP
6 61 (4.56%) Network Security
7 38 (2.84%) WAN
8 32 (2.39%) SAN
9 28 (2.09%) VLAN
10 24 (1.79%) VSAN
11 23 (1.72%) SSL
12 21 (1.57%) LAN
13 19 (1.42%) SSH
14 17 (1.27%) NAS
14 17 (1.27%) SNMP
15 15 (1.12%) SD-WAN
16 14 (1.05%) Skype
16 14 (1.05%) SMTP
16 14 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
17 13 (0.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (13.75%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.28%) Power BI
3 40 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (1.35%) MySQL
9 17 (1.27%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 16 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.20%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.20%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.05%) Big Data
12 13 (0.97%) Metadata
12 13 (0.97%) NoSQL
13 10 (0.75%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (0.45%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 117 (8.74%) Jenkins
2 108 (8.07%) Git
3 71 (5.31%) JIRA
4 67 (5.01%) GitLab
5 25 (1.87%) MSI
6 13 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.82%) Selenium
9 10 (0.75%) InstallShield
9 10 (0.75%) Postman
10 9 (0.67%) AdminStudio
10 9 (0.67%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (0.60%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.52%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.45%) JMeter
14 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.37%) MSBuild
14 5 (0.37%) Robot Framework
15 4 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 311 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 221 (16.52%) Finance
3 180 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 77 (5.75%) Banking
5 77 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
6 34 (2.54%) Legal
7 22 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 19 (1.42%) Front Office
9 16 (1.20%) Military
10 15 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 15 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (0.75%) Law
13 8 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.60%) Retail
14 7 (0.52%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.45%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 157 (11.73%) Senior
2 141 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 140 (10.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 116 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
5 83 (6.20%) Architect
6 82 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 80 (5.98%) Security Engineer
8 71 (5.31%) Support Engineer
9 58 (4.33%) Developer
10 50 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
11 48 (3.59%) Consultant
12 47 (3.51%) Analyst
13 46 (3.44%) Lead
14 36 (2.69%) Administrator
15 35 (2.62%) IT Engineer
16 34 (2.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (2.24%) DBA
17 30 (2.24%) PowerShell Engineer
18 29 (2.17%) Automation Engineer
18 29 (2.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (9.12%) REST
2 75 (5.61%) .NET
3 66 (4.93%) Microsoft Graph
4 55 (4.11%) ARM Templates
5 53 (3.96%) JSON
6 52 (3.89%) OAuth
7 50 (3.74%) LDAP
8 45 (3.36%) SailPoint
9 44 (3.29%) YAML
10 41 (3.06%) SAML
11 40 (2.99%) OpenID
12 33 (2.47%) Web Services
13 31 (2.32%) OAuth2
14 28 (2.09%) .NET Framework
15 24 (1.79%) Kafka
16 23 (1.72%) SOAP
17 18 (1.35%) React
18 17 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
19 16 (1.20%) XML
20 12 (0.90%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 126 (9.42%) Onboarding
2 93 (6.95%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.31%) PKI
4 70 (5.23%) Security Posture
5 61 (4.56%) Replication
6 59 (4.41%) Clustering
7 58 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 53 (3.96%) Management Information System
9 51 (3.81%) Data Centre
10 48 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.87%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.72%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.57%) Product Ownership
15 20 (1.49%) CMDB
15 20 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
16 19 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
17 18 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 630 (47.09%) Windows
2 332 (24.81%) Linux
3 261 (19.51%) Windows Server
4 82 (6.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (4.41%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.44%) Unix
7 28 (2.09%) Ubuntu
8 23 (1.72%) AIX
8 23 (1.72%) Mac OS
8 23 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (1.49%) Apple iOS
10 19 (1.42%) CentOS
11 18 (1.35%) VMS
12 17 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 15 (1.12%) Android
14 10 (0.75%) Rocky
14 10 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
15 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
17 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (29.07%) DevOps
2 367 (27.43%) CI/CD
3 326 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 267 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
5 222 (16.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 183 (13.68%) Agile
7 171 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 171 (12.78%) Migration
8 169 (12.63%) ITIL
9 164 (12.26%) Runbook
10 145 (10.84%) ITSM
11 137 (10.24%) Analytics
11 137 (10.24%) Identity Access Management
12 135 (10.09%) SIEM
13 131 (9.79%) Observability
14 129 (9.64%) AI
15 127 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
16 123 (9.19%) Cloud Security
17 122 (9.12%) Disaster Recovery
17 122 (9.12%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 634 (47.38%) Python
2 336 (25.11%) Bash
3 239 (17.86%) SQL
4 117 (8.74%) Bicep
5 102 (7.62%) C#
6 63 (4.71%) Java
7 62 (4.63%) JavaScript
8 29 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.72%) Perl
11 22 (1.64%) VBScript
12 21 (1.57%) Search Processing Language
13 20 (1.49%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.42%) Groovy
15 14 (1.05%) Go
16 13 (0.97%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.90%) C++
18 11 (0.82%) BeanShell
19 10 (0.75%) VB
20 7 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 471 (35.20%) Security Cleared
2 331 (24.74%) SC Cleared
3 150 (11.21%) Degree
4 144 (10.76%) DV Cleared
5 101 (7.55%) Azure Certification
6 97 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 76 (5.68%) CISSP
8 55 (4.11%) AWS Certification
9 42 (3.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 30 (2.24%) CISM
11 28 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.79%) MCSE
13 22 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (1.49%) VCAP
15 18 (1.35%) MCSA
16 14 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
17 12 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 11 (0.82%) A+ Certification
19 10 (0.75%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 92 (6.88%) NIST
3 48 (3.59%) GDPR
4 40 (2.99%) QA
5 34 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 30 (2.24%) SLA
7 14 (1.05%) HIPAA
8 13 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.82%) NCSC
9 11 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.45%) GxP
12 5 (0.37%) GRC
13 4 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 422 (31.54%) Active Directory
2 167 (12.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 152 (11.36%) Docker
4 85 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
5 70 (5.23%) Hyper-V
6 60 (4.48%) VMware ESXi
7 59 (4.41%) vSphere
8 42 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (3.06%) VMware NSX
10 24 (1.79%) BitLocker
11 20 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
12 17 (1.27%) Firmware
13 16 (1.20%) vCloud
14 8 (0.60%) KVM
15 5 (0.37%) Squid
15 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.22%) NFS
16 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 401 (29.97%) Terraform
2 239 (17.86%) Ansible
3 223 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 167 (12.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 95 (7.10%) SCCM
6 67 (5.01%) Grafana
7 63 (4.71%) vCenter Server
8 56 (4.19%) Prometheus
9 43 (3.21%) Progress Chef
10 41 (3.06%) Puppet
10 41 (3.06%) SCOM
11 28 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (1.72%) Packer
13 21 (1.57%) Nagios
14 20 (1.49%) ZABBIX
15 18 (1.35%) Tivoli
15 18 (1.35%) vRealize
16 16 (1.20%) Netcool
17 15 (1.12%) NetBackup
17 15 (1.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 614 (45.89%) Microsoft
2 223 (16.67%) VMware
3 130 (9.72%) ServiceNow
4 86 (6.43%) Google
5 83 (6.20%) CyberArk
6 80 (5.98%) Splunk
7 77 (5.75%) Oracle
8 57 (4.26%) Cisco
9 52 (3.89%) BeyondTrust
9 52 (3.89%) Red Hat
10 50 (3.74%) Citrix
11 47 (3.51%) BMC
12 45 (3.36%) Remedy
13 38 (2.84%) SolarWinds
14 33 (2.47%) Databricks
15 30 (2.24%) IBM
16 28 (2.09%) HP
16 28 (2.09%) NetApp
17 24 (1.79%) Dynatrace
18 22 (1.64%) Qualys