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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 69 53
Rank change year-on-year -15 -16 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,377 999 1,256
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 3.59% 3.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.49% 10.98% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 876 635 906
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £424 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +2.46% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 15 16
10th Percentile £19.25 £44.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £43.81 £45.38 £45.46
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £65.69
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -1.05% +27.92%
75th Percentile £74.26 £83.98 £74.11
90th Percentile £87.50 £154.00 £74.72
UK median hourly rate £59.53 £63.50 £69.69
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.88% +16.15%

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 11,986 9,101 10,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.31% 32.70% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,763 6,255 7,550
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £530
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.91% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 236 359
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £52.88 £37.45 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +7.96%

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 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in England

PowerShell
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 10 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in England

PowerShell
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 10 August 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 -12 603 £536 +3.62% 435
South East -9 305 £525 -8.70% 165
North of England +17 240 £475 +5.56% 125
North West +20 147 £453 -2.05% 83
South West -5 113 £495 -13.91% 71
Yorkshire -12 82 £481 +7.66% 28
Midlands -76 58 £500 +11.11% 57
East of England -38 47 £507 -7.82% 46
West Midlands -83 39 £500 +8.70% 35
East Midlands -6 18 £469 +4.17% 22
North East - 12 £500 - 16
PowerShell
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
1 118 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 115 (8.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (3.49%) Confluence
4 22 (1.60%) IIS
5 17 (1.23%) Apache
6 12 (0.87%) nginx
6 12 (0.87%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.29%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.29%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.29%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 21 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.073%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (3.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.36%) Remedy AR System
3 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.073%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.073%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.073%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.073%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.073%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.073%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 770 (55.92%) Azure
2 334 (24.26%) Entra ID
3 316 (22.95%) AWS
4 217 (15.76%) Microsoft 365
5 188 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
6 175 (12.71%) GitHub
7 138 (10.02%) GCP
8 126 (9.15%) Power Platform
9 118 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
9 118 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
10 75 (5.45%) Azure AKS
11 67 (4.87%) OneDrive
12 59 (4.28%) SaaS
13 56 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 55 (3.99%) PaaS
15 52 (3.78%) Microsoft Purview
16 48 (3.49%) IaaS
17 46 (3.34%) Azure Sentinel
17 46 (3.34%) Microsoft Copilot
18 44 (3.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 204 (14.81%) DNS
2 191 (13.87%) Firewall
3 113 (8.21%) DHCP
4 91 (6.61%) TCP/IP
4 91 (6.61%) VPN
5 67 (4.87%) Network Security
6 37 (2.69%) WAN
7 32 (2.32%) SAN
8 28 (2.03%) VSAN
9 27 (1.96%) VLAN
10 24 (1.74%) SSL
11 17 (1.23%) LAN
11 17 (1.23%) NAS
11 17 (1.23%) SD-WAN
11 17 (1.23%) SNMP
11 17 (1.23%) SSH
12 14 (1.02%) Skype
13 13 (0.94%) Internet
13 13 (0.94%) SMTP
13 13 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (13.44%) SQL Server
2 87 (6.32%) Power BI
3 41 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (1.31%) Big Data
8 18 (1.31%) MySQL
9 17 (1.23%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 16 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.16%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.16%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.02%) Metadata
12 13 (0.94%) NoSQL
13 10 (0.73%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (0.44%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 122 (8.86%) Jenkins
2 104 (7.55%) Git
3 76 (5.52%) GitLab
4 73 (5.30%) JIRA
5 27 (1.96%) MSI
6 13 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (0.80%) Selenium
8 9 (0.65%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.65%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (0.65%) InstallShield
9 8 (0.58%) Postman
9 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.44%) JMeter
10 6 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.36%) MSBuild
11 5 (0.36%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 327 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 228 (16.56%) Finance
3 187 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.81%) Banking
6 78 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.32%) Legal
8 21 (1.53%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.38%) Front Office
10 17 (1.23%) Military
11 15 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.02%) Financial Institution
13 13 (0.94%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.73%) Law
15 10 (0.73%) Retail
16 9 (0.65%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.51%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 161 (11.69%) Senior
2 151 (10.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 145 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 123 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
5 87 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 83 (6.03%) Architect
7 80 (5.81%) Security Engineer
8 78 (5.66%) Support Engineer
9 56 (4.07%) Developer
10 54 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
11 53 (3.85%) Lead
12 50 (3.63%) Consultant
13 48 (3.49%) Analyst
14 39 (2.83%) Administrator
15 37 (2.69%) IT Engineer
16 36 (2.61%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (2.32%) DBA
18 31 (2.25%) PowerShell Engineer
18 31 (2.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 29 (2.11%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (8.86%) REST
2 72 (5.23%) .NET
3 61 (4.43%) Microsoft Graph
4 60 (4.36%) ARM Templates
5 55 (3.99%) OAuth
6 51 (3.70%) JSON
7 50 (3.63%) LDAP
8 44 (3.20%) SailPoint
9 43 (3.12%) SAML
9 43 (3.12%) YAML
10 42 (3.05%) OpenID
11 33 (2.40%) OAuth2
11 33 (2.40%) Web Services
12 27 (1.96%) Kafka
13 26 (1.89%) .NET Framework
14 23 (1.67%) SOAP
15 20 (1.45%) React
16 16 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
17 13 (0.94%) Software Packaging
18 12 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.08%) Onboarding
2 97 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (5.16%) PKI
4 69 (5.01%) Security Posture
5 62 (4.50%) Clustering
6 61 (4.43%) Replication
7 54 (3.92%) Management Information System
8 52 (3.78%) Data Centre
9 50 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
11 26 (1.89%) Public Cloud
12 25 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.74%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.67%) CMDB
15 21 (1.53%) Product Ownership
16 20 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
17 17 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
17 17 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 659 (47.86%) Windows
2 351 (25.49%) Linux
3 277 (20.12%) Windows Server
4 85 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (4.43%) Windows 10
6 45 (3.27%) Unix
7 29 (2.11%) Ubuntu
8 26 (1.89%) Mac OS
9 23 (1.67%) AIX
10 21 (1.53%) Apple iOS
10 21 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (1.45%) CentOS
11 20 (1.45%) VMS
12 17 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (1.16%) Android
14 11 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
15 10 (0.73%) Rocky
16 9 (0.65%) Windows 7
17 6 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
18 4 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (29.77%) DevOps
2 391 (28.40%) CI/CD
3 354 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 278 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
5 233 (16.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 188 (13.65%) Agile
7 181 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 177 (12.85%) ITIL
9 173 (12.56%) Migration
10 170 (12.35%) Runbook
11 153 (11.11%) ITSM
12 147 (10.68%) Analytics
13 146 (10.60%) Identity Access Management
14 137 (9.95%) Observability
15 136 (9.88%) AI
15 136 (9.88%) Platform Engineering
15 136 (9.88%) SIEM
16 135 (9.80%) Cloud Security
16 135 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
16 135 (9.80%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 656 (47.64%) Python
2 354 (25.71%) Bash
3 246 (17.86%) SQL
4 121 (8.79%) Bicep
5 98 (7.12%) C#
6 70 (5.08%) Java
7 65 (4.72%) JavaScript
8 28 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 24 (1.74%) Search Processing Language
9 24 (1.74%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.67%) Perl
11 22 (1.60%) VBScript
12 20 (1.45%) TypeScript
13 19 (1.38%) Groovy
14 14 (1.02%) Go
15 13 (0.94%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.87%) C++
17 11 (0.80%) BeanShell
18 9 (0.65%) VB
19 8 (0.58%) Korn
Qualifications
1 491 (35.66%) Security Cleared
2 344 (24.98%) SC Cleared
3 154 (11.18%) DV Cleared
4 153 (11.11%) Degree
5 107 (7.77%) Azure Certification
6 97 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 81 (5.88%) CISSP
8 59 (4.28%) AWS Certification
9 41 (2.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (2.18%) CISM
12 29 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (1.82%) MCSE
14 21 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (1.53%) VCAP
15 18 (1.31%) MCSA
16 15 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 12 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 11 (0.80%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 92 (6.68%) NIST
3 49 (3.56%) GDPR
4 41 (2.98%) QA
5 35 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 33 (2.40%) SLA
7 15 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (1.02%) HIPAA
8 14 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.94%) NCSC
10 10 (0.73%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.44%) GxP
12 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.36%) GRC
13 4 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 3 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 431 (31.30%) Active Directory
2 180 (13.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (11.40%) Docker
4 86 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 75 (5.45%) Hyper-V
6 64 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
6 64 (4.65%) vSphere
7 46 (3.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 46 (3.34%) VMware NSX
8 23 (1.67%) BitLocker
9 18 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
9 18 (1.31%) vCloud
10 17 (1.23%) Firmware
11 7 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.44%) KVM
13 5 (0.36%) Squid
13 5 (0.36%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.22%) NFS
14 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 430 (31.23%) Terraform
2 254 (18.45%) Ansible
3 241 (17.50%) Kubernetes
4 173 (12.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 99 (7.19%) SCCM
6 73 (5.30%) Grafana
7 65 (4.72%) vCenter Server
8 61 (4.43%) Prometheus
9 49 (3.56%) Progress Chef
10 47 (3.41%) SCOM
11 42 (3.05%) Puppet
12 32 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
13 25 (1.82%) Packer
14 21 (1.53%) Nagios
15 20 (1.45%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.31%) Tivoli
17 17 (1.23%) vRealize
18 16 (1.16%) Netcool
18 16 (1.16%) VxRail
19 15 (1.09%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 636 (46.19%) Microsoft
2 243 (17.65%) VMware
3 132 (9.59%) ServiceNow
4 87 (6.32%) Google
5 86 (6.25%) Splunk
6 82 (5.95%) CyberArk
7 74 (5.37%) Oracle
8 57 (4.14%) Cisco
9 53 (3.85%) Red Hat
10 51 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
11 50 (3.63%) BMC
12 49 (3.56%) Citrix
13 48 (3.49%) Remedy
14 38 (2.76%) SolarWinds
15 36 (2.61%) Databricks
16 30 (2.18%) IBM
17 28 (2.03%) HP
17 28 (2.03%) NetApp
18 24 (1.74%) Dynatrace
19 23 (1.67%) Qualys