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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 67 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,176 1,018 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 3.29% 3.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.04% 10.15% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 674 995
10th Percentile £350 £331 £350
25th Percentile £417 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £656
90th Percentile £725 £722 £743
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 22 40
10th Percentile £44.38 £17.32 £18.20
25th Percentile £47.25 £26.75 £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 £77.19 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £64.82 £56.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year +14.22% +17.24% -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 9,764 10,031 12,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.79% 32.38% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,502 6,491 8,777
10th Percentile £345 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 268 405
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £44.87 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £78.45
UK median hourly rate £64.63 £63.00 £60.14
% change year-on-year +2.59% +4.76% -0.60%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -6 515 £525 -4.55% 132
South East +8 209 £500 -12.66% 138
South West +30 138 £560 +6.67% 57
North of England -20 124 £448 -5.79% 48
Midlands 0 106 £475 - 67
West Midlands +1 82 £475 -5.00% 31
North West -10 64 £431 -11.49% 28
East of England +16 54 £525 +50.00% 36
Yorkshire -13 51 £460 -2.17% 15
East Midlands +1 24 £450 -5.26% 35
North East -5 13 £550 +20.35% 5
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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
1 182 (15.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (9.61%) SharePoint
3 63 (5.36%) Confluence
4 38 (3.23%) Skype for Business
5 16 (1.36%) Apache
6 13 (1.11%) Mattermost
6 13 (1.11%) nginx
7 7 (0.60%) IIS
8 4 (0.34%) SAS
8 4 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.17%) WordPress
10 1 (0.085%) CMS
10 1 (0.085%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.085%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.085%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.085%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 40 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.085%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.085%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 19 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.085%) Actimize
2 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.085%) Eikon
2 1 (0.085%) Endur
2 1 (0.085%) Eze OMS
2 1 (0.085%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.085%) Findur
2 1 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.085%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 524 (44.56%) Azure
2 262 (22.28%) Microsoft 365
3 235 (19.98%) Entra ID
4 211 (17.94%) AWS
5 114 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (9.18%) GCP
7 99 (8.42%) GitHub
8 65 (5.53%) Power Platform
9 61 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (4.93%) IaaS
11 52 (4.42%) OneDrive
12 49 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
12 49 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
13 47 (4.00%) SaaS
14 44 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
16 40 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 38 (3.23%) Amazon S3
17 38 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 36 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 191 (16.24%) Firewall
2 187 (15.90%) DNS
3 96 (8.16%) DHCP
4 64 (5.44%) TCP/IP
5 63 (5.36%) Network Security
6 59 (5.02%) VPN
7 42 (3.57%) HTTP
7 42 (3.57%) SMTP
8 41 (3.49%) Skype
9 31 (2.64%) VLAN
10 30 (2.55%) FTP
11 28 (2.38%) SSH
12 22 (1.87%) Cisco IOS
12 22 (1.87%) SAN
13 19 (1.62%) WAN
13 19 (1.62%) Wireshark
14 18 (1.53%) LAN
15 16 (1.36%) SSL
16 14 (1.19%) Unified Communications
17 13 (1.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (3.40%) Power BI
4 33 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.19%) Metadata
6 13 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.51%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.43%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.43%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.34%) MySQL
12 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 108 (9.18%) Jenkins
2 91 (7.74%) JIRA
3 81 (6.89%) Git
4 57 (4.85%) GitLab
5 24 (2.04%) MSI
6 23 (1.96%) Vagrant
7 21 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 15 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.02%) InstallShield
11 10 (0.85%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.77%) AdminStudio
12 9 (0.77%) Metasploit
13 8 (0.68%) Burp Suite
14 7 (0.60%) TeamCity
15 6 (0.51%) Maven
15 6 (0.51%) Postman
16 5 (0.43%) GCC
16 5 (0.43%) Gradle
16 5 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 406 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 183 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
3 180 (15.31%) Finance
4 122 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 69 (5.87%) Documentation Skills
6 56 (4.76%) Banking
7 41 (3.49%) Legal
8 22 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (1.79%) Games
10 20 (1.70%) Investment Banking
11 19 (1.62%) Front Office
11 19 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.28%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.28%) Marketing
13 14 (1.19%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.11%) Electronics
15 12 (1.02%) Retail
16 11 (0.94%) Law
17 10 (0.85%) Military
18 9 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (9.18%) Platform Engineer
2 99 (8.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 95 (8.08%) Architect
3 95 (8.08%) Senior
4 91 (7.74%) Analyst
5 69 (5.87%) Security Engineer
6 68 (5.78%) Azure Engineer
6 68 (5.78%) Consultant
7 60 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 49 (4.17%) Developer
9 47 (4.00%) Support Engineer
10 37 (3.15%) Administrator
10 37 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
11 33 (2.81%) Windows Engineer
12 31 (2.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 31 (2.64%) Lead
13 29 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
13 29 (2.47%) Microsoft Engineer
14 27 (2.30%) Support Analyst
15 26 (2.21%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (9.78%) REST
2 61 (5.19%) JSON
3 59 (5.02%) LDAP
4 54 (4.59%) OAuth
5 49 (4.17%) SAML
6 41 (3.49%) OpenID
7 34 (2.89%) ARM Templates
8 32 (2.72%) .NET
8 32 (2.72%) Middleware
9 30 (2.55%) Microsoft Graph
10 29 (2.47%) SailPoint
11 27 (2.30%) OAuth2
12 26 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
13 24 (2.04%) YAML
14 22 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (1.87%) XML
15 15 (1.28%) SOAP
16 13 (1.11%) HTML
16 13 (1.11%) React
17 11 (0.94%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 74 (6.29%) PKI
2 60 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 55 (4.68%) Replication
4 42 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 34 (2.89%) Cloud Native
5 34 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 32 (2.72%) Security Posture
7 32 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 26 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
8 26 (2.21%) Private Cloud
9 22 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
12 18 (1.53%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.02%) CMDB
14 12 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 482 (40.99%) Windows
2 266 (22.62%) Linux
3 171 (14.54%) Windows Server
4 75 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.51%) Mac OS
6 46 (3.91%) Android
7 38 (3.23%) VMS
8 37 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 23 (1.96%) Amazon Linux
10 22 (1.87%) Unix
11 18 (1.53%) Ubuntu
12 15 (1.28%) Apple iOS
13 14 (1.19%) CentOS
13 14 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (1.02%) Solaris
15 9 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
16 8 (0.68%) Kali Linux
16 8 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
17 5 (0.43%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (27.47%) DevOps
2 261 (22.19%) CI/CD
3 253 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
4 202 (17.18%) Agile
4 202 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 166 (14.12%) Migration
6 148 (12.59%) Cybersecurity
7 142 (12.07%) ITIL
8 138 (11.73%) SIEM
9 116 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 114 (9.69%) Identity Access Management
11 108 (9.18%) Configuration Management
12 102 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 102 (8.67%) Platform Engineering
12 102 (8.67%) RBAC
13 100 (8.50%) Incident Response
14 99 (8.42%) Task Automation
15 93 (7.91%) Containerisation
16 91 (7.74%) Change Management
17 89 (7.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 532 (45.24%) Python
2 231 (19.64%) Bash
3 159 (13.52%) SQL
4 69 (5.87%) JavaScript
5 67 (5.70%) C#
6 65 (5.53%) Java
7 46 (3.91%) Kusto Query Language
8 42 (3.57%) Bicep
9 39 (3.32%) Perl
10 32 (2.72%) Groovy
11 29 (2.47%) VBScript
12 14 (1.19%) BeanShell
12 14 (1.19%) C++
12 14 (1.19%) Go
13 11 (0.94%) PHP
14 10 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.77%) VB
16 8 (0.68%) C
17 7 (0.60%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 425 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 330 (28.06%) SC Cleared
3 114 (9.69%) Degree
4 108 (9.18%) DV Cleared
5 88 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (6.63%) CISSP
7 56 (4.76%) Azure Certification
8 37 (3.15%) CISM
9 33 (2.81%) AWS Certification
9 33 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (2.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 29 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (2.38%) CEH
13 26 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (2.13%) CCNA
15 21 (1.79%) CCNP
16 19 (1.62%) GCIH
17 17 (1.45%) GIAC
18 15 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
18 15 (1.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 105 (8.93%) GDPR
3 85 (7.23%) NIST
4 26 (2.21%) HIPAA
5 18 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 18 (1.53%) QA
6 17 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.28%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.94%) SLA
9 10 (0.85%) NCSC
10 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.43%) PSD2
11 4 (0.34%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.34%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.34%) MiFID
12 3 (0.26%) EMIR
12 3 (0.26%) ITGC
13 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.085%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 432 (36.73%) Active Directory
2 133 (11.31%) Docker
3 128 (10.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 31 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.87%) Hyper-V
7 21 (1.79%) DFS Replication
8 17 (1.45%) Squid
9 13 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (1.11%) vSphere
10 12 (1.02%) Dovecot
10 12 (1.02%) Postfix
11 11 (0.94%) Microsoft App-V
11 11 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (0.77%) Firmware
12 9 (0.77%) VMware NSX
13 8 (0.68%) NFS
14 7 (0.60%) BitLocker
15 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.43%) Snort
Systems Management
1 238 (20.24%) Terraform
2 149 (12.67%) SCCM
3 135 (11.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 129 (10.97%) Ansible
5 109 (9.27%) Kubernetes
6 55 (4.68%) Single Sign-On
7 51 (4.34%) Grafana
8 49 (4.17%) Prometheus
9 47 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 37 (3.15%) SCOM
11 28 (2.38%) vRealize
12 22 (1.87%) Kibana
13 21 (1.79%) HP SiteScope
14 19 (1.62%) Nessus
14 19 (1.62%) Proxmox
14 19 (1.62%) vCenter Server
15 17 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
15 17 (1.45%) WSUS
16 16 (1.36%) NetBackup
17 14 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 526 (44.73%) Microsoft
2 182 (15.48%) VMware
3 106 (9.01%) Splunk
4 80 (6.80%) Cisco
5 78 (6.63%) ServiceNow
6 71 (6.04%) CyberArk
7 62 (5.27%) Citrix
8 47 (4.00%) Red Hat
9 42 (3.57%) Google
10 38 (3.23%) Oracle
11 36 (3.06%) CrowdStrike
12 35 (2.98%) BeyondTrust
13 28 (2.38%) Atlassian
14 26 (2.21%) Meraki
15 25 (2.13%) Veeam
16 22 (1.87%) Remedy
16 22 (1.87%) SAP
17 21 (1.79%) Databricks
17 21 (1.79%) Okta
18 20 (1.70%) Zscaler