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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 54 56
Rank change year-on-year -24 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,230 940 1,249
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 3.87% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.37% 11.44% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 653 903
10th Percentile £334 £351 £350
25th Percentile £423 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £625
90th Percentile £718 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 10 22
10th Percentile £22.49 £16.98 £25.18
25th Percentile £50.50 £17.81 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.07 £41.75 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +53.46% +4.05% -33.01%
75th Percentile £75.00 £78.41 £46.34
90th Percentile £83.38 £200.00 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £24.66 £40.13
% change year-on-year +156.02% -38.54% -33.13%

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 10,822 8,217 10,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.66% 33.80% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,139 5,712 7,899
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.48%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £530
% change year-on-year -4.40% -1.32% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 217 443
10th Percentile £41.94 £26.25 £37.78
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.50 £50.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% -0.12%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -27 509 £539 +2.62% 123
South East -6 251 £513 -10.74% 126
North of England -4 225 £460 -1.60% 70
North West +17 132 £465 -0.09% 42
South West -19 99 £438 -25.21% 38
Yorkshire -22 90 £458 -8.50% 16
Midlands -50 79 £469 -3.85% 35
West Midlands -57 60 £485 -3.00% 17
East of England -22 40 £507 -7.82% 23
East Midlands -31 18 £380 -20.00% 18
North East -14 5 £438 +25.00% 12
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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UK

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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
1 140 (11.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 122 (9.92%) SharePoint
3 37 (3.01%) Confluence
4 17 (1.38%) IIS
5 12 (0.98%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.73%) Apache
7 5 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.081%) MTS
Applications
1 36 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.081%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.65%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.081%) Actimize
5 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 663 (53.90%) Azure
2 276 (22.44%) Entra ID
3 253 (20.57%) AWS
4 229 (18.62%) Microsoft 365
5 137 (11.14%) GCP
6 135 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
7 126 (10.24%) GitHub
8 97 (7.89%) Power Platform
9 87 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
10 79 (6.42%) OneDrive
11 75 (6.10%) Azure Monitor
12 57 (4.63%) PaaS
13 53 (4.31%) Azure AKS
14 52 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
15 44 (3.58%) Microsoft Copilot
16 39 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
17 38 (3.09%) IaaS
18 35 (2.85%) Azure Sentinel
19 33 (2.68%) Power Automate
19 33 (2.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 161 (13.09%) DNS
2 131 (10.65%) Firewall
3 98 (7.97%) DHCP
4 70 (5.69%) VPN
5 58 (4.72%) Network Security
6 45 (3.66%) TCP/IP
7 40 (3.25%) Kerberos
8 36 (2.93%) WAN
9 30 (2.44%) LAN
10 24 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.79%) VLAN
12 21 (1.71%) SMTP
13 18 (1.46%) SAN
14 17 (1.38%) SNMP
15 16 (1.30%) SSL
16 14 (1.14%) HTTP
17 12 (0.98%) NAS
17 12 (0.98%) Skype
17 12 (0.98%) Unified Communications
17 12 (0.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 60 (4.88%) Power BI
3 41 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.22%) Metadata
8 13 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 10 (0.81%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.81%) MySQL
12 9 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.73%) Relational Database
12 9 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (0.57%) DB2
14 7 (0.57%) Spark SQL
15 6 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 80 (6.50%) Jenkins
2 79 (6.42%) Git
3 63 (5.12%) GitLab
4 56 (4.55%) JIRA
5 20 (1.63%) MSI
6 12 (0.98%) InstallShield
7 11 (0.89%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.73%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.73%) Robot Framework
8 9 (0.73%) Selenium
9 8 (0.65%) Postman
9 8 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.57%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.41%) Appium
12 5 (0.41%) JMeter
13 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.33%) Jaeger
13 4 (0.33%) JUnit
14 3 (0.24%) Spinnaker
General
1 351 (28.54%) Social Skills
2 154 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
3 139 (11.30%) Finance
4 109 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 82 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 59 (4.80%) Banking
7 44 (3.58%) Legal
8 21 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.38%) Front Office
11 13 (1.06%) Military
12 11 (0.89%) Retail
13 10 (0.81%) Law
14 9 (0.73%) Publishing
15 7 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.49%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.41%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 146 (11.87%) Architect
2 129 (10.49%) Senior
3 99 (8.05%) Azure Engineer
3 99 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 75 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 75 (6.10%) Security Engineer
5 74 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (3.98%) Support Engineer
7 46 (3.74%) Developer
8 40 (3.25%) Analyst
9 37 (3.01%) CyberArk Architect
10 35 (2.85%) Consultant
10 35 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
11 31 (2.52%) Lead
12 27 (2.20%) Desktop Engineer
12 27 (2.20%) PowerShell Engineer
13 26 (2.11%) SIEM Engineer
14 25 (2.03%) Automation Engineer
14 25 (2.03%) Windows Engineer
15 24 (1.95%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (10.89%) REST
2 121 (9.84%) LDAP
3 74 (6.02%) Microsoft Graph
4 59 (4.80%) SOAP
5 52 (4.23%) .NET
6 49 (3.98%) OAuth
7 42 (3.41%) SAML
8 39 (3.17%) JSON
9 36 (2.93%) SailPoint
10 34 (2.76%) ARM Templates
11 32 (2.60%) YAML
12 26 (2.11%) OpenID
12 26 (2.11%) Web Services
13 21 (1.71%) .NET Framework
14 18 (1.46%) Kafka
14 18 (1.46%) OAuth2
15 16 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (1.22%) Node.js
16 15 (1.22%) React
17 14 (1.14%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 84 (6.83%) Onboarding
1 84 (6.83%) Replication
2 75 (6.10%) Security Posture
3 71 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
4 59 (4.80%) Clustering
5 51 (4.15%) Cloud Native
6 49 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 49 (3.98%) PKI
7 34 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 33 (2.68%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.54%) Product Ownership
12 18 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
14 14 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (1.06%) Operational Technology
16 11 (0.89%) Private Cloud
16 11 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 518 (42.11%) Windows
2 224 (18.21%) Linux
3 212 (17.24%) Windows Server
4 54 (4.39%) Windows 10
5 39 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (2.76%) Unix
7 25 (2.03%) AIX
7 25 (2.03%) Mac OS
8 24 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.46%) VMS
11 13 (1.06%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.89%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.81%) Android
13 10 (0.81%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.33%) CentOS
16 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (25.28%) DevOps
2 291 (23.66%) CI/CD
3 280 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
4 224 (18.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 172 (13.98%) SIEM
6 169 (13.74%) Agile
7 149 (12.11%) Migration
8 140 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 126 (10.24%) Task Automation
10 122 (9.92%) ITIL
11 121 (9.84%) Disaster Recovery
12 115 (9.35%) Identity Access Management
13 114 (9.27%) Analytics
14 113 (9.19%) Runbook
15 112 (9.11%) ITSM
16 110 (8.94%) High Availability
17 109 (8.86%) Observability
18 107 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
19 105 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
20 103 (8.37%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 541 (43.98%) Python
2 236 (19.19%) Bash
3 185 (15.04%) SQL
4 98 (7.97%) C#
5 69 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 66 (5.37%) Bicep
7 58 (4.72%) Kusto Query Language
8 46 (3.74%) Java
9 24 (1.95%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.54%) VBScript
11 18 (1.46%) Search Processing Language
12 17 (1.38%) Go
13 16 (1.30%) Perl
13 16 (1.30%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.89%) Groovy
15 10 (0.81%) VB
16 9 (0.73%) BeanShell
17 7 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 495 (40.24%) Security Cleared
2 373 (30.33%) SC Cleared
3 109 (8.86%) DV Cleared
4 106 (8.62%) Degree
5 89 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 72 (5.85%) Azure Certification
7 66 (5.37%) CISSP
8 44 (3.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 38 (3.09%) CISM
10 27 (2.20%) MCSE
11 26 (2.11%) MCSA
12 23 (1.87%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (1.46%) VCAP
15 17 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (1.30%) CEH
17 15 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
18 12 (0.98%) GIAC
19 10 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
20 8 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (7.89%) GDPR
2 95 (7.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 78 (6.34%) NIST
4 31 (2.52%) QA
5 26 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.54%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 16 (1.30%) SLA
9 14 (1.14%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.98%) MiFID
11 11 (0.89%) FINRA
12 9 (0.73%) NCSC
12 9 (0.73%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.49%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.41%) GRC
15 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
17 2 (0.16%) GxP
17 2 (0.16%) ISA99
17 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 418 (33.98%) Active Directory
2 145 (11.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.76%) Docker
4 70 (5.69%) Hyper-V
5 67 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
6 52 (4.23%) vSphere
7 47 (3.82%) VMware ESXi
8 36 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 24 (1.95%) BitLocker
10 20 (1.63%) Microsoft App-V
11 18 (1.46%) Firmware
11 18 (1.46%) KVM
12 17 (1.38%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.41%) Squid
14 4 (0.33%) vCloud
15 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
16 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.16%) Sendmail
16 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 280 (22.76%) Terraform
2 165 (13.41%) Kubernetes
3 158 (12.85%) Ansible
4 136 (11.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 88 (7.15%) SCCM
6 57 (4.63%) vCenter Server
7 55 (4.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 49 (3.98%) Grafana
9 44 (3.58%) Prometheus
10 42 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.87%) Nagios
12 21 (1.71%) Puppet
13 20 (1.63%) SCOM
14 19 (1.54%) Progress Chef
14 19 (1.54%) vRealize
15 18 (1.46%) ZABBIX
16 17 (1.38%) Tivoli
17 16 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
17 16 (1.30%) Netcool
18 13 (1.06%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 571 (46.42%) Microsoft
2 188 (15.28%) VMware
3 92 (7.48%) CyberArk
4 80 (6.50%) ServiceNow
5 78 (6.34%) BeyondTrust
6 74 (6.02%) Splunk
7 55 (4.47%) Citrix
8 46 (3.74%) Google
9 45 (3.66%) Oracle
10 43 (3.50%) Cisco
11 36 (2.93%) Centrify
12 34 (2.76%) SolarWinds
13 31 (2.52%) BMC
13 31 (2.52%) Red Hat
14 26 (2.11%) Databricks
15 25 (2.03%) IBM
16 22 (1.79%) HP
17 21 (1.71%) Dynatrace
17 21 (1.71%) Remedy
18 19 (1.54%) Okta