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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 59 65
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,280 957 1,215
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 3.64% 3.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.74% 10.90% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 640 870
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 46
10th Percentile £51.00 £17.00 £21.41
25th Percentile £60.66 £20.24 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £55.62 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +33.51% +26.88% -20.30%
75th Percentile £82.13 £67.17 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £94.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £31.08 £43.84
% change year-on-year +138.93% -29.10% -20.30%

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 10,050 8,783 11,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.08% 33.43% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,693 5,630 8,047
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £656
90th Percentile £726 £774 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 203 485
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -17 558 £538 - 118
South East +5 227 £500 -13.04% 121
North of England 0 191 £475 +1.06% 97
South West +15 147 £560 -2.18% 44
North West +6 94 £458 -3.58% 55
Midlands -36 92 £475 -5.00% 50
Yorkshire -14 85 £500 +9.89% 29
West Midlands -34 69 £488 -7.14% 24
East of England -6 29 £525 +7.69% 28
East Midlands -16 23 £449 -3.03% 26
North East -8 17 £550 +20.35% 13
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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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
1 193 (15.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 148 (11.56%) SharePoint
3 61 (4.77%) Confluence
4 43 (3.36%) Skype for Business
5 13 (1.02%) Mattermost
6 12 (0.94%) Apache
7 8 (0.63%) nginx
8 7 (0.55%) IIS
9 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.23%) SAS
10 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
12 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.078%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.55%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.078%) Actimize
4 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.078%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 599 (46.80%) Azure
2 290 (22.66%) Entra ID
3 288 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
4 221 (17.27%) AWS
5 138 (10.78%) GCP
6 115 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (7.81%) GitHub
8 86 (6.72%) OneDrive
9 71 (5.55%) Power Platform
10 63 (4.92%) IaaS
11 58 (4.53%) Microsoft Purview
12 57 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
14 50 (3.91%) SaaS
15 49 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
16 41 (3.20%) PaaS
16 41 (3.20%) Serverless
17 37 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
17 37 (2.89%) PowerApps
18 33 (2.58%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 210 (16.41%) DNS
2 173 (13.52%) Firewall
3 136 (10.63%) DHCP
4 70 (5.47%) TCP/IP
5 69 (5.39%) VPN
6 65 (5.08%) Network Security
7 46 (3.59%) Skype
8 42 (3.28%) Kerberos
9 36 (2.81%) LAN
10 34 (2.66%) WAN
11 30 (2.34%) VLAN
12 27 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (1.95%) SMTP
14 23 (1.80%) HTTP
15 22 (1.72%) Unified Communications
16 18 (1.41%) DKIM
16 18 (1.41%) DMARC
17 17 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
18 16 (1.25%) SAN
18 16 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 41 (3.20%) Power BI
3 31 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (1.64%) Metadata
6 16 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (0.86%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.55%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.47%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.47%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.39%) Spark SQL
11 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.31%) MySQL
13 3 (0.23%) DB2
Development Applications
1 83 (6.48%) JIRA
2 82 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 74 (5.78%) Git
4 68 (5.31%) GitLab
5 19 (1.48%) MSI
6 17 (1.33%) Artifactory
7 12 (0.94%) InstallShield
7 12 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.78%) Metasploit
8 10 (0.78%) Vagrant
9 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.63%) AdminStudio
10 8 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.55%) Postman
12 6 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.39%) Gradle
13 5 (0.39%) MSTest
13 5 (0.39%) Spinnaker
General
1 476 (37.19%) Social Skills
2 220 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
3 172 (13.44%) Finance
4 124 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 83 (6.48%) Documentation Skills
6 60 (4.69%) Banking
7 50 (3.91%) Legal
8 18 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (1.33%) Front Office
9 17 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.09%) Military
12 12 (0.94%) Retail
13 10 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.70%) Marketing
14 9 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.63%) Electronics
15 8 (0.63%) Law
16 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 167 (13.05%) Architect
2 109 (8.52%) Senior
3 91 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 75 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
5 71 (5.55%) Platform Engineer
6 66 (5.16%) Security Engineer
7 65 (5.08%) Analyst
8 64 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 61 (4.77%) Consultant
10 58 (4.53%) Support Engineer
11 55 (4.30%) Developer
12 39 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
12 39 (3.05%) Microsoft Engineer
13 37 (2.89%) CyberArk Architect
14 34 (2.66%) SIEM Engineer
15 33 (2.58%) Lead
16 29 (2.27%) Windows Engineer
17 26 (2.03%) Support Analyst
18 25 (1.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 24 (1.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (12.11%) REST
2 124 (9.69%) LDAP
3 65 (5.08%) OAuth
4 63 (4.92%) SAML
5 62 (4.84%) Microsoft Graph
6 60 (4.69%) JSON
7 51 (3.98%) SOAP
8 40 (3.13%) OpenID
9 34 (2.66%) ARM Templates
10 33 (2.58%) .NET
11 31 (2.42%) SailPoint
12 29 (2.27%) OAuth2
13 23 (1.80%) Middleware
14 22 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (1.72%) XML
15 18 (1.41%) AngularJS
15 18 (1.41%) YAML
16 17 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
17 16 (1.25%) HTML
17 16 (1.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (6.25%) Replication
2 73 (5.70%) Security Posture
3 67 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 64 (5.00%) PKI
5 63 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
6 45 (3.52%) Data Centre
7 42 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 39 (3.05%) Cloud Native
9 32 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (2.42%) Management Information System
11 29 (2.27%) Clustering
12 25 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.64%) Product Ownership
14 19 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.48%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
16 15 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
17 14 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
18 13 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 499 (38.98%) Windows
2 243 (18.98%) Linux
3 196 (15.31%) Windows Server
4 85 (6.64%) Windows 10
5 32 (2.50%) Mac OS
6 31 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (1.88%) Unix
8 22 (1.72%) VMS
9 21 (1.64%) Android
10 20 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (1.09%) Ubuntu
13 13 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
14 11 (0.86%) Apple iOS
15 10 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
15 10 (0.78%) Solaris
15 10 (0.78%) Windows 7
16 9 (0.70%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.39%) AIX
17 5 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (25.23%) DevOps
2 318 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
3 268 (20.94%) CI/CD
4 206 (16.09%) Agile
5 197 (15.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 183 (14.30%) SIEM
7 151 (11.80%) ITIL
8 150 (11.72%) Migration
9 147 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
10 137 (10.70%) Task Automation
11 127 (9.92%) ITSM
12 123 (9.61%) Identity Access Management
13 122 (9.53%) RBAC
14 114 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 103 (8.05%) Incident Response
16 101 (7.89%) Change Management
17 100 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 99 (7.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 97 (7.58%) Analytics
20 95 (7.42%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 551 (43.05%) Python
2 233 (18.20%) Bash
3 155 (12.11%) SQL
4 81 (6.33%) C#
5 74 (5.78%) JavaScript
5 74 (5.78%) Kusto Query Language
6 56 (4.38%) Java
7 37 (2.89%) Bicep
8 35 (2.73%) Perl
9 29 (2.27%) VBScript
10 17 (1.33%) Go
11 16 (1.25%) Groovy
12 14 (1.09%) BeanShell
13 13 (1.02%) VB
14 11 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.63%) PHP
15 8 (0.63%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.39%) C++
16 5 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 541 (42.27%) Security Cleared
2 430 (33.59%) SC Cleared
3 118 (9.22%) Degree
4 113 (8.83%) DV Cleared
5 103 (8.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.33%) CISSP
7 54 (4.22%) Azure Certification
8 43 (3.36%) CISM
9 40 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.42%) CEH
10 31 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
11 27 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (2.03%) AWS Certification
12 26 (2.03%) MCSE
13 23 (1.80%) GIAC
13 23 (1.80%) MCSA
14 22 (1.72%) CCNA
15 20 (1.56%) CCNP
16 18 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
17 13 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (9.53%) GDPR
2 112 (8.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (5.31%) NIST
4 28 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (1.64%) QA
6 16 (1.25%) SLA
7 15 (1.17%) MiFID
8 14 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 12 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.94%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.86%) FINRA
11 10 (0.78%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.70%) NCSC
13 7 (0.55%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.39%) PSD2
15 3 (0.23%) EMIR
16 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.16%) GxP
16 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 480 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 140 (10.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (10.08%) Docker
4 47 (3.67%) Hyper-V
5 43 (3.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (2.50%) vSphere
8 20 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (1.25%) BitLocker
10 15 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 12 (0.94%) Squid
11 12 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (0.86%) KVM
13 10 (0.78%) DFS Replication
14 7 (0.55%) Dovecot
14 7 (0.55%) Postfix
15 6 (0.47%) Firmware
15 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
16 5 (0.39%) NFS
Systems Management
1 245 (19.14%) Terraform
2 132 (10.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 131 (10.23%) Ansible
4 124 (9.69%) SCCM
5 118 (9.22%) Kubernetes
6 85 (6.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 67 (5.23%) Single Sign-On
8 40 (3.13%) Grafana
8 40 (3.13%) SCOM
9 38 (2.97%) Prometheus
10 36 (2.81%) vCenter Server
11 26 (2.03%) vRealize
12 24 (1.88%) Kibana
13 21 (1.64%) HP SiteScope
14 16 (1.25%) Proxmox
15 15 (1.17%) Nessus
15 15 (1.17%) WSUS
16 11 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
16 11 (0.86%) NetBackup
17 10 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 592 (46.25%) Microsoft
2 192 (15.00%) VMware
3 102 (7.97%) CyberArk
4 87 (6.80%) Splunk
5 69 (5.39%) BeyondTrust
5 69 (5.39%) ServiceNow
6 60 (4.69%) Citrix
7 56 (4.38%) Cisco
8 42 (3.28%) Google
9 35 (2.73%) Oracle
10 34 (2.66%) Centrify
11 33 (2.58%) Red Hat
12 32 (2.50%) Okta
13 30 (2.34%) Veeam
14 25 (1.95%) Atlassian
15 23 (1.80%) Databricks
15 23 (1.80%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.56%) Remedy
17 19 (1.48%) Tanium