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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 69 60
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,466 1,021 1,145
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.16% 3.64% 3.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.21% 11.07% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 922 639 792
10th Percentile £331 £340 £332
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £619
90th Percentile £713 £669 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% -2.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 15 19
10th Percentile £31.42 £44.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £48.00 £45.38 £46.88
Median hourly rate £63.48 £63.00 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +7.71% -2.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £74.22
90th Percentile £92.11 £81.00 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £63.93
% change year-on-year -0.57% -0.68% +6.37%

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 12,004 9,223 10,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.91% 32.85% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,766 6,190 7,076
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
75th Percentile £634 £631 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.86% -3.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 269 300
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £78.75 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -18 637 £550 +7.58% 583
South East 0 317 £538 +2.38% 237
North of England +42 282 £477 +12.24% 203
North West +44 170 £456 +4.23% 109
South West -17 107 £631 +23.41% 107
Yorkshire +14 95 £519 +23.94% 64
Midlands -79 57 £500 +5.26% 113
East of England -40 49 £507 -7.82% 78
West Midlands -77 42 £510 +7.37% 64
North East -27 18 £500 - 33
East Midlands -16 15 £475 +3.83% 49
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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
1 121 (8.25%) SharePoint
2 118 (8.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 50 (3.41%) Confluence
4 26 (1.77%) IIS
5 24 (1.64%) Apache
6 21 (1.43%) Skype for Business
7 16 (1.09%) Apache Spark
8 15 (1.02%) nginx
9 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.27%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
14 1 (0.068%) Camunda
14 1 (0.068%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.068%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 42 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.34%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.34%) Summit
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.068%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.068%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.068%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.068%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.068%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.068%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.068%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.068%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 818 (55.80%) Azure
2 401 (27.35%) Entra ID
3 322 (21.96%) AWS
4 244 (16.64%) Microsoft 365
5 215 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (12.28%) GitHub
7 151 (10.30%) GCP
8 122 (8.32%) Azure Monitor
8 122 (8.32%) Power Platform
9 105 (7.16%) GitHub Actions
10 83 (5.66%) Azure AKS
11 66 (4.50%) SaaS
12 62 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
13 60 (4.09%) OneDrive
14 59 (4.02%) IaaS
15 51 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 49 (3.34%) Microsoft Copilot
17 47 (3.21%) Microsoft Purview
18 46 (3.14%) PaaS
19 44 (3.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 237 (16.17%) DNS
2 212 (14.46%) Firewall
3 142 (9.69%) DHCP
4 107 (7.30%) TCP/IP
5 103 (7.03%) VPN
6 86 (5.87%) Network Security
7 36 (2.46%) WAN
8 34 (2.32%) SAN
8 34 (2.32%) VLAN
9 26 (1.77%) SSL
10 24 (1.64%) Skype
10 24 (1.64%) SSH
11 22 (1.50%) VSAN
12 19 (1.30%) LAN
13 17 (1.16%) NAS
13 17 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (1.09%) Kerberos
14 16 (1.09%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.95%) SMTP
16 13 (0.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (11.73%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.66%) Power BI
3 33 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 32 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (1.50%) Big Data
8 21 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 19 (1.30%) Metadata
9 19 (1.30%) MySQL
10 17 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (1.02%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.02%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 14 (0.95%) NoSQL
13 13 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.61%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.55%) Apache Hive
16 7 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 118 (8.05%) Git
2 117 (7.98%) Jenkins
3 79 (5.39%) GitLab
4 73 (4.98%) JIRA
5 34 (2.32%) MSI
6 14 (0.95%) Artifactory
6 14 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.61%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.55%) Postman
11 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.48%) Snyk
13 6 (0.41%) JMeter
14 5 (0.34%) AdminStudio
14 5 (0.34%) InstallShield
14 5 (0.34%) MSBuild
14 5 (0.34%) Selenium
15 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
General
1 372 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 276 (18.83%) Finance
3 199 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (7.57%) Public Sector
5 91 (6.21%) Banking
6 79 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.98%) Legal
8 24 (1.64%) Military
9 22 (1.50%) Aerospace
10 19 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 18 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.09%) Law
13 14 (0.95%) Front Office
14 11 (0.75%) Back Office
14 11 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (0.61%) Local Government
16 8 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 163 (11.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 158 (10.78%) Cloud Engineer
3 149 (10.16%) Senior
4 144 (9.82%) Azure Engineer
5 115 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 94 (6.41%) Support Engineer
7 90 (6.14%) Security Engineer
8 87 (5.93%) Architect
9 67 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
10 62 (4.23%) Lead
11 51 (3.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 50 (3.41%) Analyst
13 48 (3.27%) Developer
14 46 (3.14%) Consultant
15 45 (3.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 39 (2.66%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
17 38 (2.59%) Automation Engineer
18 37 (2.52%) DBA
19 35 (2.39%) IT Engineer
20 32 (2.18%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (32.81%) Terraform
2 131 (8.94%) REST
3 86 (5.87%) ARM Templates
4 69 (4.71%) OAuth
5 65 (4.43%) JSON
6 63 (4.30%) LDAP
7 60 (4.09%) .NET
8 55 (3.75%) SAML
9 54 (3.68%) YAML
10 52 (3.55%) OpenID
11 49 (3.34%) Microsoft Graph
12 42 (2.86%) OAuth2
13 40 (2.73%) SailPoint
14 27 (1.84%) Kafka
15 26 (1.77%) Web Services
16 25 (1.71%) React
17 19 (1.30%) Middleware
18 16 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
18 16 (1.09%) Software Packaging
19 15 (1.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.62%) Onboarding
2 97 (6.62%) Cloud Native
3 82 (5.59%) Security Posture
4 80 (5.46%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (5.39%) PKI
6 68 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 65 (4.43%) Data Centre
8 64 (4.37%) Management Information System
9 62 (4.23%) Replication
10 54 (3.68%) Clustering
11 34 (2.32%) Linux Command Line
12 30 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (1.91%) CMDB
14 27 (1.84%) Public Cloud
15 25 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
16 23 (1.57%) Product Ownership
17 22 (1.50%) Data Structures
17 22 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
18 20 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
19 17 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 714 (48.70%) Windows
2 380 (25.92%) Linux
3 317 (21.62%) Windows Server
4 93 (6.34%) Windows 10
5 89 (6.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (3.21%) Unix
7 36 (2.46%) Ubuntu
8 31 (2.11%) CentOS
9 30 (2.05%) Apple iOS
10 26 (1.77%) Mac OS
11 23 (1.57%) Windows 7
11 23 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (1.43%) Android
13 18 (1.23%) VMS
14 15 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (0.82%) Rocky
16 9 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
16 9 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
17 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
18 7 (0.48%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (30.35%) DevOps
2 444 (30.29%) CI/CD
3 433 (29.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 300 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
5 249 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 225 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 213 (14.53%) ITIL
8 203 (13.85%) Runbook
9 195 (13.30%) Agile
10 189 (12.89%) Migration
11 185 (12.62%) ITSM
12 178 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
13 168 (11.46%) AI
14 159 (10.85%) Analytics
15 153 (10.44%) Identity Access Management
16 152 (10.37%) Root Cause Analysis
17 151 (10.30%) Cloud Security
18 148 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
19 147 (10.03%) SIEM
20 146 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 687 (46.86%) Python
2 392 (26.74%) Bash
3 230 (15.69%) SQL
4 161 (10.98%) Bicep
5 94 (6.41%) Java
6 78 (5.32%) C#
7 63 (4.30%) JavaScript
8 27 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
8 27 (1.84%) VBScript
9 23 (1.57%) Perl
9 23 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.57%) TypeScript
10 22 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.43%) Groovy
12 17 (1.16%) VB
13 16 (1.09%) Go
14 15 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
15 14 (0.95%) Korn
16 13 (0.89%) BeanShell
17 11 (0.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 538 (36.70%) Security Cleared
2 373 (25.44%) SC Cleared
3 183 (12.48%) DV Cleared
4 168 (11.46%) Degree
5 124 (8.46%) Azure Certification
6 107 (7.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 85 (5.80%) CISSP
8 63 (4.30%) AWS Certification
9 33 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 32 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (1.77%) MCSE
14 25 (1.71%) CISM
15 22 (1.50%) VCAP
16 19 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 15 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
18 15 (1.02%) MCSA
19 13 (0.89%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 103 (7.03%) NIST
3 35 (2.39%) QA
3 35 (2.39%) SLA
4 32 (2.18%) GDPR
5 29 (1.98%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 18 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 14 (0.95%) NCSC
10 13 (0.89%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.55%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.41%) GxP
13 4 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 3 (0.20%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 499 (34.04%) Active Directory
2 194 (13.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 179 (12.21%) Docker
4 100 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
5 81 (5.53%) Hyper-V
6 64 (4.37%) VMware ESXi
6 64 (4.37%) vSphere
7 61 (4.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 47 (3.21%) VMware NSX
9 28 (1.91%) BitLocker
10 24 (1.64%) vCloud
11 17 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (0.75%) Firmware
13 10 (0.68%) NFS
13 10 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.34%) Squid
15 4 (0.27%) Dovecot
15 4 (0.27%) Postfix
15 4 (0.27%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 272 (18.55%) Kubernetes
2 269 (18.35%) Ansible
3 208 (14.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 132 (9.00%) SCCM
5 78 (5.32%) Grafana
6 64 (4.37%) vCenter Server
7 63 (4.30%) SCOM
8 62 (4.23%) Prometheus
9 51 (3.48%) Progress Chef
10 41 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
11 34 (2.32%) Puppet
12 23 (1.57%) Packer
13 21 (1.43%) WMI
14 17 (1.16%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.95%) VxRail
16 12 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Clustering
18 10 (0.68%) Nagios
18 10 (0.68%) vRealize
19 9 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 737 (50.27%) Microsoft
2 252 (17.19%) VMware
3 147 (10.03%) ServiceNow
4 107 (7.30%) CyberArk
5 96 (6.55%) Google
6 91 (6.21%) Splunk
7 69 (4.71%) Oracle
8 59 (4.02%) BeyondTrust
9 57 (3.89%) Cisco
10 53 (3.62%) Red Hat
11 46 (3.14%) Remedy
12 43 (2.93%) Citrix
13 42 (2.86%) Databricks
14 40 (2.73%) BMC
15 30 (2.05%) Dynatrace
16 28 (1.91%) SolarWinds
17 25 (1.71%) Qualys
18 24 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
18 24 (1.64%) Veeam
19 23 (1.57%) Okta