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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 64 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,188 1,042 1,437
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.90% 3.37% 3.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.16% 10.44% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 690 1,000
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £433 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £715 £701 £743
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 40
10th Percentile £44.38 £17.65 £18.20
25th Percentile £47.25 £29.69 £30.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% +17.24% -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.82 £74.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.89 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £64.82 £57.62 £48.40
% change year-on-year +12.49% +19.04% -12.00%

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 9,772 9,981 12,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.07% 32.31% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,508 6,451 8,814
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 269 409
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.86
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.20% +4.58% -

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

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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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 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
London -13 517 £525 -4.55% 143
South East +6 206 £500 -12.28% 162
South West +23 144 £560 +6.67% 51
North of England -21 123 £448 -5.79% 54
Midlands -4 113 £475 -5.00% 65
West Midlands -4 88 £475 -5.00% 30
North West -10 63 £438 -7.89% 29
East of England +16 55 £525 +50.00% 33
Yorkshire -13 51 £460 -2.17% 18
East Midlands +1 25 £450 -5.26% 34
North East -5 13 £550 +20.35% 7
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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
1 185 (15.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (9.51%) SharePoint
3 64 (5.39%) Confluence
4 38 (3.20%) Skype for Business
5 16 (1.35%) Apache
6 13 (1.09%) Mattermost
6 13 (1.09%) nginx
7 7 (0.59%) IIS
8 4 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.25%) SAS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.17%) WordPress
11 1 (0.084%) CMS
11 1 (0.084%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.084%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.084%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.084%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 40 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.084%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.084%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 19 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.084%) Actimize
2 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.084%) Eikon
2 1 (0.084%) Endur
2 1 (0.084%) Eze OMS
2 1 (0.084%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.084%) Findur
2 1 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.084%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 526 (44.28%) Azure
2 264 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 235 (19.78%) Entra ID
4 211 (17.76%) AWS
5 116 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (8.92%) GCP
7 102 (8.59%) GitHub
8 69 (5.81%) Power Platform
9 63 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
10 60 (5.05%) IaaS
11 51 (4.29%) OneDrive
12 50 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
13 48 (4.04%) Azure Sentinel
13 48 (4.04%) SaaS
14 46 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
15 43 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 43 (3.62%) Microsoft Purview
16 40 (3.37%) Amazon S3
17 38 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 37 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 200 (16.84%) Firewall
2 187 (15.74%) DNS
3 95 (8.00%) DHCP
4 67 (5.64%) Network Security
5 63 (5.30%) TCP/IP
6 59 (4.97%) VPN
7 43 (3.62%) HTTP
7 43 (3.62%) SMTP
8 41 (3.45%) Skype
9 31 (2.61%) FTP
10 30 (2.53%) VLAN
11 29 (2.44%) SSH
12 25 (2.10%) Cisco IOS
13 22 (1.85%) SAN
14 19 (1.60%) LAN
14 19 (1.60%) WAN
14 19 (1.60%) Wireshark
15 17 (1.43%) SSL
16 14 (1.18%) Unified Communications
17 13 (1.09%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 45 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
2 45 (3.79%) Power BI
3 34 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (1.26%) Metadata
5 14 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (0.93%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.84%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.76%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.59%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.59%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.51%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.42%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.34%) MySQL
13 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 110 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 98 (8.25%) JIRA
3 82 (6.90%) Git
4 57 (4.80%) GitLab
5 24 (2.02%) MSI
5 24 (2.02%) Vagrant
6 21 (1.77%) Artifactory
7 16 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.01%) InstallShield
8 12 (1.01%) SonarQube
8 12 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (0.76%) AdminStudio
9 9 (0.76%) Metasploit
10 8 (0.67%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.67%) Maven
11 7 (0.59%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.51%) Postman
13 5 (0.42%) GCC
13 5 (0.42%) Gradle
13 5 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 411 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 186 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 182 (15.32%) Finance
4 120 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 69 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
6 56 (4.71%) Banking
7 39 (3.28%) Legal
8 24 (2.02%) Games
9 22 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 19 (1.60%) Front Office
11 19 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.35%) Marketing
13 15 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.18%) Electronics
15 11 (0.93%) Law
15 11 (0.93%) Retail
16 10 (0.84%) Military
17 9 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
2 101 (8.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 96 (8.08%) Senior
4 95 (8.00%) Architect
5 93 (7.83%) Analyst
6 71 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (5.72%) Security Engineer
8 66 (5.56%) Consultant
8 66 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 53 (4.46%) Developer
10 48 (4.04%) Support Engineer
11 38 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 37 (3.11%) Administrator
13 32 (2.69%) Lead
13 32 (2.69%) Windows Engineer
14 31 (2.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 29 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
16 28 (2.36%) Microsoft Engineer
16 28 (2.36%) SOC Analyst
17 25 (2.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (9.93%) REST
2 60 (5.05%) JSON
3 58 (4.88%) LDAP
4 53 (4.46%) OAuth
5 49 (4.12%) SAML
6 42 (3.54%) OpenID
7 36 (3.03%) ARM Templates
8 35 (2.95%) .NET
9 32 (2.69%) Middleware
10 30 (2.53%) SailPoint
11 29 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
12 27 (2.27%) OAuth2
13 26 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
14 24 (2.02%) YAML
15 23 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
16 22 (1.85%) XML
17 15 (1.26%) SOAP
18 14 (1.18%) HTML
19 13 (1.09%) React
20 12 (1.01%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.06%) PKI
2 58 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.71%) Replication
4 42 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.95%) Security Posture
6 34 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 33 (2.78%) Cloud Native
8 32 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
10 26 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (2.19%) Private Cloud
11 23 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
14 19 (1.60%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
16 12 (1.01%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.01%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 485 (40.82%) Windows
2 266 (22.39%) Linux
3 171 (14.39%) Windows Server
4 76 (6.40%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.55%) Mac OS
6 50 (4.21%) Android
7 39 (3.28%) VMS
8 36 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (2.02%) Amazon Linux
10 22 (1.85%) Unix
11 18 (1.52%) Ubuntu
12 16 (1.35%) Apple iOS
13 14 (1.18%) CentOS
14 13 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (1.01%) Solaris
16 11 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
17 8 (0.67%) Kali Linux
17 8 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
18 5 (0.42%) Windows 7
19 3 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (27.53%) DevOps
2 262 (22.05%) CI/CD
3 254 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
4 209 (17.59%) Agile
5 202 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 173 (14.56%) Migration
7 149 (12.54%) Cybersecurity
8 148 (12.46%) ITIL
9 140 (11.78%) SIEM
10 114 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 113 (9.51%) Identity Access Management
12 108 (9.09%) Configuration Management
13 105 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 101 (8.50%) Incident Response
14 101 (8.50%) Platform Engineering
14 101 (8.50%) RBAC
15 100 (8.42%) Task Automation
16 94 (7.91%) Containerisation
17 92 (7.74%) Change Management
18 88 (7.41%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 535 (45.03%) Python
2 233 (19.61%) Bash
3 164 (13.80%) SQL
4 71 (5.98%) C#
5 70 (5.89%) JavaScript
6 68 (5.72%) Java
7 47 (3.96%) Kusto Query Language
8 43 (3.62%) Bicep
9 40 (3.37%) Perl
10 33 (2.78%) Groovy
11 29 (2.44%) VBScript
12 14 (1.18%) BeanShell
12 14 (1.18%) C++
12 14 (1.18%) Go
13 11 (0.93%) PHP
13 11 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.84%) VB
15 9 (0.76%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.67%) C
17 7 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 427 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 334 (28.11%) SC Cleared
3 117 (9.85%) Degree
4 105 (8.84%) DV Cleared
5 90 (7.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 79 (6.65%) CISSP
7 58 (4.88%) Azure Certification
8 36 (3.03%) CISM
9 33 (2.78%) AWS Certification
10 32 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (2.53%) CEH
11 30 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 29 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
14 24 (2.02%) CCNA
15 22 (1.85%) CCNP
16 19 (1.60%) GCIH
17 17 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
17 17 (1.43%) GIAC
18 16 (1.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (10.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 105 (8.84%) GDPR
3 83 (6.99%) NIST
4 27 (2.27%) HIPAA
5 19 (1.60%) QA
6 18 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 15 (1.26%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.09%) SLA
10 10 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.84%) NCSC
11 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.42%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.42%) PSD2
12 4 (0.34%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.34%) MiFID
13 3 (0.25%) EMIR
13 3 (0.25%) ITGC
14 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.084%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 434 (36.53%) Active Directory
2 136 (11.45%) Docker
3 129 (10.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 32 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.85%) DFS Replication
6 22 (1.85%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.35%) Squid
8 13 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
8 13 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (1.09%) vSphere
9 12 (1.01%) Dovecot
9 12 (1.01%) Postfix
10 11 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (0.76%) Firmware
11 9 (0.76%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.67%) NFS
13 7 (0.59%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.34%) Snort
Systems Management
1 240 (20.20%) Terraform
2 154 (12.96%) SCCM
3 139 (11.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 132 (11.11%) Ansible
5 109 (9.18%) Kubernetes
6 58 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
7 53 (4.46%) Grafana
8 51 (4.29%) Prometheus
9 47 (3.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 36 (3.03%) SCOM
11 28 (2.36%) vRealize
12 22 (1.85%) Kibana
13 21 (1.77%) HP SiteScope
14 19 (1.60%) Nessus
14 19 (1.60%) Proxmox
15 18 (1.52%) vCenter Server
16 17 (1.43%) ITRS Geneos
16 17 (1.43%) WSUS
17 15 (1.26%) NetBackup
18 13 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 532 (44.78%) Microsoft
2 182 (15.32%) VMware
3 109 (9.18%) Splunk
4 88 (7.41%) Cisco
5 84 (7.07%) ServiceNow
6 70 (5.89%) CyberArk
7 64 (5.39%) Citrix
8 46 (3.87%) Red Hat
9 41 (3.45%) Google
10 40 (3.37%) Oracle
11 35 (2.95%) BeyondTrust
12 34 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
13 29 (2.44%) Atlassian
13 29 (2.44%) Meraki
14 25 (2.10%) Veeam
15 24 (2.02%) SAP
16 22 (1.85%) Okta
16 22 (1.85%) Remedy
16 22 (1.85%) SolarWinds
17 21 (1.77%) Databricks