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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 66 61
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,139 1,031 1,453
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.88% 3.33% 3.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.97% 10.32% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 690 1,026
10th Percentile £345 £325 £345
25th Percentile £420 £427 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £597 £631 £675
90th Percentile £700 £701 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.48% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 35
10th Percentile £44.00 £42.17 £17.95
25th Percentile £45.88 £55.87 £30.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £63.93 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +28.56% -9.58%
75th Percentile £74.26 £74.33 £70.14
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.85 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £69.38 £49.88
% change year-on-year -8.47% +39.08% -8.48%

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 9,516 9,991 12,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.40% 32.32% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,330 6,541 9,117
10th Percentile £340 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 249 413
10th Percentile £31.25 £29.55 £34.40
25th Percentile £45.00 £46.18 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.13%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.92
% change year-on-year - +0.94% +2.35%

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 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 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 -9 491 £525 -4.55% 455
South East -5 190 £508 -11.35% 394
South West +23 133 £550 +2.80% 122
North of England -17 114 £448 -10.41% 156
Midlands 0 109 £475 -5.00% 61
West Midlands -5 87 £475 -5.00% 39
East of England +31 72 £550 +57.14% 61
North West -13 57 £448 -10.50% 113
Yorkshire -18 49 £436 -10.56% 27
East Midlands -4 22 £450 - 21
North East -7 12 £550 +69.23% 16
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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
1 169 (14.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 106 (9.31%) SharePoint
3 59 (5.18%) Confluence
4 43 (3.78%) Skype for Business
5 17 (1.49%) Mattermost
6 16 (1.40%) Apache
7 14 (1.23%) nginx
8 9 (0.79%) IIS
9 4 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.26%) SAS
10 3 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.088%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.088%) CMS
12 1 (0.088%) HCL Domino
12 1 (0.088%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.088%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.088%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 35 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.088%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.088%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.088%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.088%) Eikon
2 1 (0.088%) Endur
2 1 (0.088%) Eze OMS
2 1 (0.088%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.088%) Findur
2 1 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.088%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 487 (42.76%) Azure
2 245 (21.51%) Microsoft 365
3 219 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 201 (17.65%) AWS
5 111 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (8.43%) GCP
7 87 (7.64%) GitHub
8 65 (5.71%) Power Platform
9 59 (5.18%) IaaS
10 52 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (4.21%) OneDrive
11 48 (4.21%) SaaS
12 47 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
13 45 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
14 44 (3.86%) Azure Sentinel
15 42 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 39 (3.42%) Amazon S3
17 37 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
17 37 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 36 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 194 (17.03%) Firewall
2 182 (15.98%) DNS
3 81 (7.11%) DHCP
4 66 (5.79%) Network Security
5 53 (4.65%) TCP/IP
5 53 (4.65%) VPN
6 45 (3.95%) Skype
7 44 (3.86%) SMTP
8 43 (3.78%) HTTP
9 37 (3.25%) SAN
10 31 (2.72%) FTP
11 29 (2.55%) SSH
11 29 (2.55%) VLAN
12 25 (2.19%) Cisco IOS
13 20 (1.76%) SSL
14 19 (1.67%) LAN
14 19 (1.67%) WAN
14 19 (1.67%) Wireshark
15 17 (1.49%) Unified Communications
16 13 (1.14%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 46 (4.04%) Power BI
3 44 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (1.05%) Metadata
9 11 (0.97%) Relational Database
10 10 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.79%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.61%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.53%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.35%) MySQL
14 4 (0.35%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.35%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 105 (9.22%) Jenkins
2 93 (8.17%) JIRA
3 73 (6.41%) Git
4 52 (4.57%) GitLab
5 29 (2.55%) MSI
6 24 (2.11%) Vagrant
7 19 (1.67%) Artifactory
8 15 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.23%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.79%) InstallShield
11 9 (0.79%) Metasploit
12 8 (0.70%) AdminStudio
12 8 (0.70%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.70%) Maven
13 7 (0.61%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.53%) Postman
15 5 (0.44%) GCC
16 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
16 4 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 369 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 177 (15.54%) Finance
3 164 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 50 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (4.13%) Banking
7 33 (2.90%) Legal
8 25 (2.19%) Games
9 22 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.76%) Marketing
11 20 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.67%) Front Office
13 18 (1.58%) Electronics
13 18 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.58%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.97%) Law
14 11 (0.97%) Military
15 9 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (9.22%) Platform Engineer
2 102 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 96 (8.43%) Analyst
4 80 (7.02%) Architect
5 77 (6.76%) Senior
6 64 (5.62%) Security Engineer
7 63 (5.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 62 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
9 61 (5.36%) Consultant
10 53 (4.65%) Support Engineer
11 52 (4.57%) Developer
12 36 (3.16%) Lead
13 32 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 32 (2.81%) Windows Engineer
14 31 (2.72%) Administrator
15 29 (2.55%) AWS Engineer
15 29 (2.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 29 (2.55%) SOC Analyst
16 28 (2.46%) Support Analyst
17 26 (2.28%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (8.60%) REST
2 49 (4.30%) JSON
2 49 (4.30%) LDAP
2 49 (4.30%) OAuth
3 46 (4.04%) SAML
4 41 (3.60%) .NET
5 39 (3.42%) OpenID
6 35 (3.07%) ARM Templates
7 34 (2.99%) Middleware
8 29 (2.55%) SailPoint
9 27 (2.37%) FIX Protocol
10 26 (2.28%) Microsoft Graph
10 26 (2.28%) YAML
11 25 (2.19%) OAuth2
11 25 (2.19%) XML
12 21 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (1.76%) React
14 15 (1.32%) HTML
15 13 (1.14%) .NET Core
15 13 (1.14%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.00%) PKI
2 53 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 51 (4.48%) Replication
4 36 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 31 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
7 31 (2.72%) Security Posture
8 30 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (2.46%) Private Cloud
10 24 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.84%) Product Ownership
14 20 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
15 18 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 12 (1.05%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 475 (41.70%) Windows
2 260 (22.83%) Linux
3 170 (14.93%) Windows Server
4 85 (7.46%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.48%) Mac OS
6 48 (4.21%) Android
7 37 (3.25%) VMS
8 33 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 31 (2.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 25 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 24 (2.11%) Amazon Linux
12 23 (2.02%) Unix
13 20 (1.76%) Apple iOS
14 17 (1.49%) Ubuntu
15 14 (1.23%) CentOS
16 12 (1.05%) Solaris
17 8 (0.70%) Kali Linux
17 8 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
18 5 (0.44%) Windows 7
19 3 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (27.83%) DevOps
2 242 (21.25%) CI/CD
3 229 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
4 196 (17.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 191 (16.77%) Agile
6 173 (15.19%) Migration
7 138 (12.12%) ITIL
8 135 (11.85%) SIEM
9 126 (11.06%) Cybersecurity
10 109 (9.57%) Identity Access Management
11 106 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (8.87%) Configuration Management
13 99 (8.69%) Incident Response
13 99 (8.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 95 (8.34%) Task Automation
15 94 (8.25%) RBAC
16 91 (7.99%) Platform Engineering
17 90 (7.90%) Cloud Security
18 87 (7.64%) Change Management
19 86 (7.55%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 493 (43.28%) Python
2 224 (19.67%) Bash
3 175 (15.36%) SQL
4 79 (6.94%) C#
5 70 (6.15%) Java
6 69 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 48 (4.21%) Bicep
8 40 (3.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 39 (3.42%) Perl
10 35 (3.07%) Groovy
11 30 (2.63%) VBScript
12 16 (1.40%) Go
13 15 (1.32%) VB
14 14 (1.23%) C++
15 12 (1.05%) BeanShell
15 12 (1.05%) TypeScript
16 11 (0.97%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.88%) PHP
18 9 (0.79%) C
19 7 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 417 (36.61%) Security Cleared
2 304 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 125 (10.97%) DV Cleared
4 99 (8.69%) Degree
5 74 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 61 (5.36%) CISSP
7 54 (4.74%) Azure Certification
8 33 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
9 32 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (2.63%) AWS Certification
10 30 (2.63%) CEH
11 24 (2.11%) CCNA
12 23 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 22 (1.93%) CCNP
14 21 (1.84%) CISM
14 21 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (1.67%) GCIH
16 15 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
16 15 (1.32%) GIAC
17 14 (1.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 87 (7.64%) GDPR
3 69 (6.06%) NIST
4 29 (2.55%) HIPAA
5 19 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 18 (1.58%) SLA
7 17 (1.49%) QA
7 17 (1.49%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.79%) NCSC
10 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.44%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.44%) PSD2
11 4 (0.35%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.26%) EMIR
12 3 (0.26%) ITGC
12 3 (0.26%) MiFID
13 1 (0.088%) FISMA
13 1 (0.088%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 418 (36.70%) Active Directory
2 128 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (11.15%) Docker
4 45 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 31 (2.72%) Virtual Servers
6 28 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (2.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 22 (1.93%) DFS Replication
9 17 (1.49%) Hyper-V
10 16 (1.40%) Squid
11 13 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
12 12 (1.05%) Dovecot
12 12 (1.05%) Postfix
12 12 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
12 12 (1.05%) vSphere
13 9 (0.79%) VMware NSX
14 8 (0.70%) Firmware
14 8 (0.70%) NFS
15 6 (0.53%) BitLocker
16 4 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 234 (20.54%) Terraform
2 167 (14.66%) SCCM
3 149 (13.08%) Ansible
4 128 (11.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 105 (9.22%) Kubernetes
6 54 (4.74%) Single Sign-On
7 51 (4.48%) Grafana
8 49 (4.30%) Prometheus
9 42 (3.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 33 (2.90%) SCOM
11 31 (2.72%) WSUS
12 27 (2.37%) vRealize
13 21 (1.84%) HP SiteScope
13 21 (1.84%) Kibana
13 21 (1.84%) Nessus
14 19 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
15 18 (1.58%) Proxmox
16 15 (1.32%) NetBackup
17 14 (1.23%) Puppet
17 14 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 528 (46.36%) Microsoft
2 184 (16.15%) VMware
3 128 (11.24%) Splunk
4 87 (7.64%) Cisco
4 87 (7.64%) ServiceNow
5 55 (4.83%) Citrix
5 55 (4.83%) CyberArk
6 53 (4.65%) Red Hat
7 39 (3.42%) Oracle
8 38 (3.34%) Google
9 34 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
10 30 (2.63%) NetApp
11 29 (2.55%) SAP
12 28 (2.46%) Meraki
13 25 (2.19%) Atlassian
14 24 (2.11%) BeyondTrust
15 22 (1.93%) Okta
16 21 (1.84%) Remedy
16 21 (1.84%) Solace
17 19 (1.67%) Palo Alto