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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 65 53
Rank change year-on-year -22 -12 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,330 1,020 1,295
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 3.72% 3.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.16% 11.29% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 659 938
10th Percentile £324 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £618
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.12% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 14 16
10th Percentile £19.25 £45.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £33.70 £45.75 £38.90
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +7.89% +0.58%
75th Percentile £74.26 £84.49 £74.11
90th Percentile £81.25 £165.50 £74.72
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £64.25 £62.00
% change year-on-year -14.40% +3.63% +3.15%

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 11,916 9,037 10,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.43% 32.94% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,730 6,231 7,773
10th Percentile £363 £350 £351
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 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £793
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 226 381
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £39.25 £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 £80.12 £83.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +7.35%

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 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in England

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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 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in England

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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 28 July 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 -18 569 £533 +1.91% 135
South East -13 291 £527 -8.30% 97
North of England +8 251 £454 +1.68% 66
North West +15 147 £450 +0.56% 36
South West -7 105 £453 -21.17% 40
Yorkshire -5 97 £455 +8.54% 18
Midlands -74 62 £500 +11.11% 36
East of England -44 42 £507 -7.82% 29
West Midlands -76 42 £500 +11.11% 20
East Midlands -10 19 £469 +4.17% 16
North East -33 9 £394 +12.50% 14
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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
1 129 (9.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 129 (9.70%) SharePoint
2 51 (3.83%) Confluence
3 21 (1.58%) IIS
4 12 (0.90%) Apache
4 12 (0.90%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.68%) nginx
6 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.30%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 24 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.075%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.15%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.075%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.075%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.075%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.075%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.075%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.075%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.075%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 725 (54.51%) Azure
2 331 (24.89%) Entra ID
3 290 (21.80%) AWS
4 223 (16.77%) Microsoft 365
5 170 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
6 159 (11.95%) GitHub
7 131 (9.85%) GCP
8 122 (9.17%) Power Platform
9 111 (8.35%) GitHub Actions
10 105 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
11 78 (5.86%) OneDrive
12 68 (5.11%) Azure AKS
13 60 (4.51%) SaaS
14 56 (4.21%) PaaS
15 52 (3.91%) Microsoft Purview
16 49 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 46 (3.46%) IaaS
18 44 (3.31%) Microsoft Copilot
19 42 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
20 41 (3.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 179 (13.46%) DNS
2 170 (12.78%) Firewall
3 96 (7.22%) DHCP
4 84 (6.32%) VPN
5 79 (5.94%) TCP/IP
6 59 (4.44%) Network Security
7 44 (3.31%) WAN
8 31 (2.33%) SAN
9 28 (2.11%) LAN
9 28 (2.11%) VLAN
10 22 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (1.58%) SSL
12 20 (1.50%) VSAN
13 19 (1.43%) SSH
14 17 (1.28%) NAS
14 17 (1.28%) SNMP
15 15 (1.13%) SD-WAN
16 14 (1.05%) Skype
16 14 (1.05%) SMTP
17 13 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (13.91%) SQL Server
2 81 (6.09%) Power BI
3 41 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.28%) MySQL
9 16 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.20%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 13 (0.98%) Metadata
10 13 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.90%) Big Data
12 10 (0.75%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.60%) Db2
13 8 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 112 (8.42%) Jenkins
2 106 (7.97%) Git
3 75 (5.64%) JIRA
4 60 (4.51%) GitLab
5 24 (1.80%) MSI
6 11 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.83%) Selenium
6 11 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (0.75%) InstallShield
7 10 (0.75%) Postman
8 9 (0.68%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 8 (0.60%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.45%) JMeter
11 6 (0.45%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.38%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.38%) MSBuild
12 5 (0.38%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.30%) Jaeger
General
1 301 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 221 (16.62%) Finance
3 177 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 78 (5.86%) Banking
6 77 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (2.33%) Legal
8 22 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.35%) Front Office
10 17 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.28%) Military
11 16 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 12 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.75%) Law
14 9 (0.68%) Retail
15 7 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.38%) Back Office
17 5 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 155 (11.65%) Senior
2 137 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 135 (10.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 114 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
5 83 (6.24%) Architect
6 81 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 81 (6.09%) Security Engineer
7 73 (5.49%) Support Engineer
8 56 (4.21%) Developer
9 47 (3.53%) Consultant
10 46 (3.46%) Analyst
11 45 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
12 43 (3.23%) Lead
13 37 (2.78%) IT Engineer
14 36 (2.71%) Administrator
15 34 (2.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (2.33%) DBA
17 30 (2.26%) Automation Engineer
17 30 (2.26%) PowerShell Engineer
18 29 (2.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (8.95%) REST
2 74 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
3 72 (5.41%) .NET
4 53 (3.98%) JSON
5 52 (3.91%) ARM Templates
5 52 (3.91%) LDAP
6 51 (3.83%) OAuth
7 45 (3.38%) SailPoint
8 43 (3.23%) YAML
9 39 (2.93%) OpenID
9 39 (2.93%) SAML
10 32 (2.41%) Web Services
11 30 (2.26%) OAuth2
12 28 (2.11%) .NET Framework
13 23 (1.73%) Kafka
14 21 (1.58%) SOAP
15 17 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
15 17 (1.28%) React
16 16 (1.20%) XML
17 12 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.25%) Onboarding
2 90 (6.77%) Cloud Native
3 69 (5.19%) Security Posture
4 67 (5.04%) PKI
5 62 (4.66%) Replication
6 59 (4.44%) Clustering
7 56 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 53 (3.98%) Management Information System
9 50 (3.76%) Data Centre
10 47 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.88%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.58%) Product Ownership
15 20 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
16 19 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
17 18 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
18 17 (1.28%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 622 (46.77%) Windows
2 324 (24.36%) Linux
3 252 (18.95%) Windows Server
4 79 (5.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (4.44%) Windows 10
6 48 (3.61%) Unix
7 28 (2.11%) Ubuntu
8 25 (1.88%) AIX
9 23 (1.73%) Mac OS
9 23 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (1.43%) Apple iOS
10 19 (1.43%) VMS
11 18 (1.35%) CentOS
12 16 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 15 (1.13%) Android
14 11 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
15 9 (0.68%) Rocky
15 9 (0.68%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
16 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (28.12%) DevOps
2 351 (26.39%) CI/CD
3 313 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 261 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
5 213 (16.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 187 (14.06%) Agile
7 165 (12.41%) Migration
8 164 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 162 (12.18%) ITIL
10 161 (12.11%) Runbook
11 139 (10.45%) ITSM
12 136 (10.23%) Analytics
13 133 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
14 129 (9.70%) SIEM
15 127 (9.55%) Observability
16 124 (9.32%) Cybersecurity
17 121 (9.10%) Disaster Recovery
18 120 (9.02%) Cloud Security
19 119 (8.95%) AI
20 115 (8.65%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 624 (46.92%) Python
2 327 (24.59%) Bash
3 241 (18.12%) SQL
4 112 (8.42%) Bicep
5 96 (7.22%) C#
6 59 (4.44%) Java
7 58 (4.36%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.65%) Perl
11 21 (1.58%) VBScript
12 20 (1.50%) Search Processing Language
12 20 (1.50%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.35%) Groovy
14 14 (1.05%) Go
15 13 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.90%) C++
17 11 (0.83%) BeanShell
18 10 (0.75%) VB
19 7 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 461 (34.66%) Security Cleared
2 324 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 147 (11.05%) Degree
4 139 (10.45%) DV Cleared
5 95 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 93 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 75 (5.64%) CISSP
8 53 (3.98%) AWS Certification
9 39 (2.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.33%) CISM
11 27 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.80%) MCSE
13 21 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (1.35%) MCSA
15 17 (1.28%) VCAP
16 13 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (0.75%) A+ Certification
17 10 (0.75%) CCNA
17 10 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (7.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 89 (6.69%) NIST
3 46 (3.46%) GDPR
4 38 (2.86%) QA
5 33 (2.48%) Data Quality
6 30 (2.26%) SLA
7 14 (1.05%) HIPAA
8 13 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.75%) NCSC
9 10 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.45%) GxP
11 5 (0.38%) GRC
12 4 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 417 (31.35%) Active Directory
2 163 (12.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (10.83%) Docker
4 87 (6.54%) Virtual Machines
5 72 (5.41%) Hyper-V
6 61 (4.59%) VMware ESXi
7 56 (4.21%) vSphere
8 43 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 37 (2.78%) VMware NSX
10 25 (1.88%) BitLocker
11 20 (1.50%) Microsoft App-V
12 19 (1.43%) Firmware
13 16 (1.20%) vCloud
14 13 (0.98%) KVM
15 5 (0.38%) Squid
15 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.23%) NFS
17 3 (0.23%) Postfix
17 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 385 (28.95%) Terraform
2 225 (16.92%) Ansible
3 209 (15.71%) Kubernetes
4 172 (12.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 92 (6.92%) SCCM
6 66 (4.96%) vCenter Server
7 65 (4.89%) Grafana
8 54 (4.06%) Prometheus
9 42 (3.16%) Progress Chef
10 41 (3.08%) Puppet
11 39 (2.93%) SCOM
12 27 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (1.73%) Packer
14 21 (1.58%) Nagios
15 20 (1.50%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.35%) Tivoli
16 18 (1.35%) vRealize
17 17 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
18 16 (1.20%) Netcool
19 15 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 610 (45.86%) Microsoft
2 216 (16.24%) VMware
3 125 (9.40%) ServiceNow
4 82 (6.17%) Google
5 80 (6.02%) CyberArk
6 77 (5.79%) Splunk
7 75 (5.64%) Oracle
8 58 (4.36%) Cisco
9 50 (3.76%) BeyondTrust
9 50 (3.76%) Red Hat
10 49 (3.68%) Citrix
11 44 (3.31%) BMC
12 42 (3.16%) Remedy
13 39 (2.93%) SolarWinds
14 32 (2.41%) IBM
15 29 (2.18%) Databricks
16 28 (2.11%) HP
17 27 (2.03%) NetApp
18 22 (1.65%) Dynatrace
19 21 (1.58%) CrowdStrike