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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 62 64
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,283 944 1,209
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.59% 3.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.74% 10.73% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 627 864
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £447 £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 32 15 46
10th Percentile £50.33 £17.00 £21.41
25th Percentile £59.47 £20.24 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +30.87% +29.44% -21.95%
75th Percentile £82.06 £69.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.98 £98.20 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £30.04 £43.84
% change year-on-year +147.20% -31.47% -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 10,072 8,797 11,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.15% 33.47% 29.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,701 5,622 7,985
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 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 206 482
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £76.48 £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

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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 5 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 5 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 5 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 -14 561 £535 -0.47% 120
South East +8 227 £500 -13.04% 134
North of England +1 192 £472 +0.45% 98
South West +18 147 £560 -2.18% 45
North West +8 95 £456 -4.00% 56
Midlands -38 91 £475 -5.00% 52
Yorkshire -15 85 £500 +9.89% 29
West Midlands -30 68 £500 -4.76% 24
East of England -2 29 £525 +7.69% 27
East Midlands -12 23 £449 -0.33% 28
North East -7 17 £550 +20.35% 13
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
1 193 (15.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 148 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 61 (4.75%) Confluence
4 43 (3.35%) Skype for Business
5 13 (1.01%) Mattermost
6 12 (0.94%) Apache
7 8 (0.62%) 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 (4.13%) 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
1 598 (46.61%) Azure
2 291 (22.68%) Entra ID
3 288 (22.45%) Microsoft 365
4 221 (17.23%) AWS
5 138 (10.76%) GCP
6 115 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (7.79%) GitHub
8 86 (6.70%) OneDrive
9 70 (5.46%) Power Platform
10 63 (4.91%) IaaS
11 58 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
12 57 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
13 54 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
14 50 (3.90%) SaaS
15 49 (3.82%) Azure Sentinel
16 41 (3.20%) PaaS
17 39 (3.04%) Serverless
18 38 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
18 38 (2.96%) PowerApps
19 34 (2.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 210 (16.37%) DNS
2 175 (13.64%) Firewall
3 136 (10.60%) DHCP
4 71 (5.53%) TCP/IP
5 69 (5.38%) VPN
6 66 (5.14%) Network Security
7 46 (3.59%) Skype
8 42 (3.27%) Kerberos
9 37 (2.88%) LAN
10 35 (2.73%) WAN
11 30 (2.34%) VLAN
12 27 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (1.95%) SMTP
14 23 (1.79%) HTTP
15 22 (1.71%) Unified Communications
16 18 (1.40%) DKIM
16 18 (1.40%) DMARC
17 17 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
18 16 (1.25%) SAN
18 16 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.36%) SQL Server
2 39 (3.04%) Power BI
3 31 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (1.64%) Metadata
6 14 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.86%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.47%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.47%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.39%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.31%) MySQL
14 3 (0.23%) DB2
14 3 (0.23%) KDB
Development Applications
1 83 (6.47%) JIRA
2 82 (6.39%) Jenkins
3 72 (5.61%) Git
4 68 (5.30%) GitLab
5 18 (1.40%) MSI
6 17 (1.33%) Artifactory
7 12 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (0.86%) InstallShield
9 10 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.78%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.78%) Vagrant
10 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
11 8 (0.62%) AdminStudio
11 8 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.47%) Postman
12 6 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.39%) Gradle
13 5 (0.39%) Spinnaker
14 4 (0.31%) Robot Framework
General
1 476 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 219 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
3 176 (13.72%) Finance
4 126 (9.82%) Public Sector
5 84 (6.55%) Documentation Skills
6 59 (4.60%) Banking
7 50 (3.90%) Legal
8 18 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (1.33%) Front Office
10 16 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.09%) Military
13 12 (0.94%) Manufacturing
13 12 (0.94%) Retail
14 11 (0.86%) Marketing
14 11 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.78%) Electronics
16 8 (0.62%) Law
17 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 167 (13.02%) Architect
2 110 (8.57%) Senior
3 91 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 75 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
5 71 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
6 65 (5.07%) Analyst
6 65 (5.07%) Security Engineer
7 64 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 61 (4.75%) Consultant
9 58 (4.52%) Support Engineer
10 56 (4.36%) Developer
11 39 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (3.04%) Microsoft Engineer
12 37 (2.88%) CyberArk Architect
13 34 (2.65%) SIEM Engineer
14 33 (2.57%) Lead
15 31 (2.42%) Windows Engineer
16 26 (2.03%) Support Analyst
17 25 (1.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 24 (1.87%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (12.31%) REST
2 125 (9.74%) LDAP
3 66 (5.14%) OAuth
4 63 (4.91%) SAML
5 62 (4.83%) Microsoft Graph
6 58 (4.52%) JSON
7 51 (3.98%) SOAP
8 40 (3.12%) OpenID
9 34 (2.65%) ARM Templates
10 32 (2.49%) SailPoint
11 31 (2.42%) .NET
12 29 (2.26%) OAuth2
13 23 (1.79%) Middleware
14 22 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.48%) XML
16 18 (1.40%) AngularJS
17 17 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
18 16 (1.25%) HTML
18 16 (1.25%) Node.js
18 16 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (6.24%) Replication
2 72 (5.61%) Security Posture
3 67 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 64 (4.99%) PKI
5 63 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
6 45 (3.51%) Data Centre
7 43 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 39 (3.04%) Cloud Native
9 32 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (2.34%) Management Information System
11 29 (2.26%) Clustering
12 26 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.64%) Product Ownership
14 19 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.48%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
16 15 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
17 14 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
18 13 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 500 (38.97%) Windows
2 243 (18.94%) Linux
3 196 (15.28%) Windows Server
4 85 (6.63%) Windows 10
5 32 (2.49%) Mac OS
6 31 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (1.87%) Unix
8 22 (1.71%) VMS
9 21 (1.64%) Android
10 20 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (1.09%) Ubuntu
13 13 (1.01%) 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 (25.18%) DevOps
2 316 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
3 270 (21.04%) CI/CD
4 205 (15.98%) Agile
5 196 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 183 (14.26%) SIEM
7 151 (11.77%) ITIL
8 149 (11.61%) Migration
9 148 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
10 137 (10.68%) Task Automation
11 127 (9.90%) ITSM
12 123 (9.59%) Identity Access Management
12 123 (9.59%) RBAC
13 112 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 103 (8.03%) Incident Response
15 101 (7.87%) Change Management
16 100 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 100 (7.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 98 (7.64%) Analytics
18 94 (7.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 550 (42.87%) Python
2 232 (18.08%) Bash
3 153 (11.93%) SQL
4 78 (6.08%) C#
5 75 (5.85%) JavaScript
6 74 (5.77%) Kusto Query Language
7 57 (4.44%) Java
8 35 (2.73%) Bicep
8 35 (2.73%) Perl
9 28 (2.18%) VBScript
10 17 (1.33%) Go
11 16 (1.25%) Groovy
12 15 (1.17%) BeanShell
13 12 (0.94%) VB
14 9 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.62%) PHP
15 8 (0.62%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.39%) C++
16 5 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
16 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 541 (42.17%) Security Cleared
2 430 (33.52%) SC Cleared
3 118 (9.20%) Degree
4 114 (8.89%) DV Cleared
5 103 (8.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 82 (6.39%) CISSP
7 54 (4.21%) Azure Certification
8 43 (3.35%) CISM
9 40 (3.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.42%) CEH
10 31 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
11 27 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (2.03%) AWS Certification
12 26 (2.03%) MCSE
13 23 (1.79%) GIAC
13 23 (1.79%) MCSA
14 22 (1.71%) CCNA
15 20 (1.56%) CCNP
16 18 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
17 13 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (9.59%) GDPR
2 113 (8.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (5.30%) NIST
4 29 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.48%) 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
1 481 (37.49%) Active Directory
2 142 (11.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (9.90%) Docker
4 47 (3.66%) Hyper-V
5 43 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (2.49%) vSphere
8 20 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (1.25%) BitLocker
10 14 (1.09%) 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 (19.10%) Terraform
2 132 (10.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 131 (10.21%) Ansible
4 126 (9.82%) SCCM
5 118 (9.20%) Kubernetes
6 85 (6.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 68 (5.30%) Single Sign-On
8 40 (3.12%) Grafana
8 40 (3.12%) SCOM
9 38 (2.96%) Prometheus
10 36 (2.81%) vCenter Server
11 27 (2.10%) vRealize
12 24 (1.87%) 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
1 591 (46.06%) Microsoft
2 195 (15.20%) VMware
3 103 (8.03%) CyberArk
4 87 (6.78%) Splunk
5 70 (5.46%) BeyondTrust
6 69 (5.38%) ServiceNow
7 60 (4.68%) Citrix
8 57 (4.44%) Cisco
9 42 (3.27%) Google
10 34 (2.65%) Centrify
11 33 (2.57%) Oracle
11 33 (2.57%) Red Hat
12 32 (2.49%) Okta
13 30 (2.34%) Veeam
14 25 (1.95%) Atlassian
15 23 (1.79%) Databricks
15 23 (1.79%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.56%) Remedy
17 19 (1.48%) Tanium