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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 54 58
Rank change year-on-year -20 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,263 955 1,252
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 3.91% 3.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.53% 11.57% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 660 897
10th Percentile £344 £353 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £623 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 11 26
10th Percentile £27.02 £17.00 £27.90
25th Percentile £50.75 £18.62 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.14% -27.50% -33.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.86 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.30 £200.00 £71.22
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £23.77 £40.00
% change year-on-year +169.56% -40.58% -33.33%

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 10,956 8,256 10,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.11% 33.83% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,276 5,716 7,945
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £542
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.05% -4.16%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 216 440
10th Percentile £42.44 £25.25 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.96 £48.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% +0.83%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -21 533 £550 +4.76% 129
South East -3 250 £513 -10.87% 117
North of England -4 225 £469 -0.17% 58
North West +6 134 £483 +3.87% 34
South West -18 106 £473 -19.10% 34
Yorkshire -23 88 £460 -3.16% 13
Midlands -61 81 £456 -8.75% 38
West Midlands -60 60 £485 -3.19% 23
East of England -14 42 £507 -7.82% 27
East Midlands -32 20 £418 -12.11% 15
North East -19 5 £438 -5.91% 11
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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
1 152 (12.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 124 (9.82%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.25%) Confluence
4 16 (1.27%) IIS
5 14 (1.11%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.71%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.079%) MTS
Applications
1 38 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.079%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.079%) Actimize
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 663 (52.49%) Azure
2 285 (22.57%) Entra ID
3 242 (19.16%) AWS
4 241 (19.08%) Microsoft 365
5 137 (10.85%) GCP
6 130 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (9.74%) GitHub
8 91 (7.21%) Power Platform
9 83 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
10 77 (6.10%) OneDrive
11 76 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
12 59 (4.67%) PaaS
13 56 (4.43%) Microsoft Purview
14 54 (4.28%) Azure AKS
15 53 (4.20%) IaaS
16 41 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
17 40 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
18 37 (2.93%) Azure Sentinel
18 37 (2.93%) SaaS
19 35 (2.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 171 (13.54%) DNS
2 141 (11.16%) Firewall
3 105 (8.31%) DHCP
4 78 (6.18%) VPN
5 56 (4.43%) Network Security
6 46 (3.64%) TCP/IP
7 40 (3.17%) Kerberos
8 38 (3.01%) WAN
9 35 (2.77%) LAN
10 30 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (1.98%) VLAN
12 21 (1.66%) SMTP
13 18 (1.43%) SAN
14 17 (1.35%) SNMP
15 15 (1.19%) DKIM
15 15 (1.19%) DMARC
15 15 (1.19%) Skype
16 14 (1.11%) SSL
17 13 (1.03%) HTTP
18 12 (0.95%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (9.34%) SQL Server
2 55 (4.35%) Power BI
3 40 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 17 (1.35%) Metadata
7 13 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.95%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.79%) Delta Lake
10 10 (0.79%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.79%) MySQL
11 9 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.71%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (0.55%) DB2
13 7 (0.55%) Spark SQL
14 6 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 78 (6.18%) Git
2 77 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 64 (5.07%) GitLab
4 61 (4.83%) JIRA
5 21 (1.66%) MSI
6 13 (1.03%) Artifactory
7 10 (0.79%) InstallShield
8 9 (0.71%) Robot Framework
8 9 (0.71%) Selenium
8 9 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.55%) AdminStudio
9 7 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.40%) Appium
11 5 (0.40%) Postman
12 4 (0.32%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.32%) JUnit
13 3 (0.24%) Chocolatey
13 3 (0.24%) Spinnaker
General
1 368 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 172 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
3 140 (11.08%) Finance
4 115 (9.11%) Public Sector
5 87 (6.89%) Documentation Skills
6 59 (4.67%) Banking
7 47 (3.72%) Legal
8 19 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.35%) Front Office
11 13 (1.03%) Military
11 13 (1.03%) Retail
12 9 (0.71%) Law
12 9 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.71%) Publishing
13 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.40%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.32%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (13.30%) Architect
2 130 (10.29%) Senior
3 101 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
4 97 (7.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 74 (5.86%) Security Engineer
6 72 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 71 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (3.96%) Developer
9 48 (3.80%) Support Engineer
10 40 (3.17%) Analyst
11 38 (3.01%) Consultant
12 37 (2.93%) CyberArk Architect
12 37 (2.93%) Lead
12 37 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (2.14%) Desktop Engineer
13 27 (2.14%) SIEM Engineer
14 26 (2.06%) Administrator
14 26 (2.06%) Microsoft Engineer
14 26 (2.06%) PowerShell Engineer
14 26 (2.06%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (12.35%) REST
2 123 (9.74%) LDAP
3 76 (6.02%) Microsoft Graph
4 62 (4.91%) SOAP
5 53 (4.20%) JSON
6 52 (4.12%) .NET
7 51 (4.04%) OAuth
8 44 (3.48%) SAML
9 34 (2.69%) SailPoint
10 32 (2.53%) ARM Templates
11 28 (2.22%) OpenID
12 27 (2.14%) YAML
13 26 (2.06%) Web Services
14 23 (1.82%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.43%) Kafka
15 18 (1.43%) OAuth2
16 16 (1.27%) Node.js
17 15 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (1.19%) React
18 14 (1.11%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 86 (6.81%) Onboarding
2 84 (6.65%) Replication
3 78 (6.18%) Security Posture
4 70 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
5 62 (4.91%) PKI
6 57 (4.51%) Clustering
7 50 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 46 (3.64%) Cloud Native
9 34 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.53%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.58%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
15 15 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.03%) Operational Technology
17 12 (0.95%) BYOD
18 11 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 530 (41.96%) Windows
2 220 (17.42%) Linux
3 215 (17.02%) Windows Server
4 57 (4.51%) Windows 10
5 39 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (2.69%) Unix
7 27 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 24 (1.90%) AIX
8 24 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (1.27%) VMS
11 15 (1.19%) Android
11 15 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (1.03%) Ubuntu
13 12 (0.95%) Apple iOS
13 12 (0.95%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.40%) CentOS
16 3 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.24%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (24.15%) DevOps
2 285 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
3 277 (21.93%) CI/CD
4 216 (17.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 187 (14.81%) Agile
6 173 (13.70%) SIEM
7 150 (11.88%) Migration
8 140 (11.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 131 (10.37%) ITIL
10 128 (10.13%) Task Automation
11 123 (9.74%) Disaster Recovery
12 115 (9.11%) Analytics
12 115 (9.11%) ITSM
13 110 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
14 109 (8.63%) Identity Access Management
14 109 (8.63%) RBAC
15 107 (8.47%) High Availability
16 106 (8.39%) Runbook
17 105 (8.31%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 537 (42.52%) Python
2 225 (17.81%) Bash
3 180 (14.25%) SQL
4 99 (7.84%) C#
5 71 (5.62%) JavaScript
6 64 (5.07%) Kusto Query Language
7 63 (4.99%) Bicep
8 47 (3.72%) Java
9 24 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.66%) VBScript
11 17 (1.35%) Search Processing Language
12 16 (1.27%) Go
12 16 (1.27%) Perl
13 15 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 12 (0.95%) VB
15 10 (0.79%) BeanShell
15 10 (0.79%) Groovy
16 7 (0.55%) C++
16 7 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 515 (40.78%) Security Cleared
2 395 (31.27%) SC Cleared
3 111 (8.79%) Degree
4 110 (8.71%) DV Cleared
5 95 (7.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 75 (5.94%) CISSP
7 69 (5.46%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.64%) CISM
8 46 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 30 (2.38%) MCSE
10 28 (2.22%) MCSA
11 23 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (1.58%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (1.43%) VCAP
15 17 (1.35%) CEH
16 15 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (1.03%) GIAC
18 12 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
19 8 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (8.31%) GDPR
2 103 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 84 (6.65%) NIST
4 32 (2.53%) QA
5 29 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.50%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 16 (1.27%) SLA
9 14 (1.11%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.95%) MiFID
11 11 (0.87%) FINRA
12 10 (0.79%) NCSC
12 10 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.40%) GRC
13 5 (0.40%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.16%) GxP
16 2 (0.16%) ISA99
16 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 424 (33.57%) Active Directory
2 142 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (8.95%) Docker
4 70 (5.54%) Hyper-V
5 67 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
6 53 (4.20%) vSphere
7 45 (3.56%) VMware ESXi
8 33 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 27 (2.14%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.43%) Firmware
10 18 (1.43%) KVM
11 17 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
12 14 (1.11%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.40%) Squid
14 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.16%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.16%) UAG
14 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 279 (22.09%) Terraform
2 159 (12.59%) Kubernetes
3 154 (12.19%) Ansible
4 144 (11.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 93 (7.36%) SCCM
6 56 (4.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 56 (4.43%) vCenter Server
7 45 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
8 44 (3.48%) Grafana
9 39 (3.09%) Prometheus
10 23 (1.82%) Nagios
11 20 (1.58%) Puppet
11 20 (1.58%) SCOM
11 20 (1.58%) vRealize
12 18 (1.43%) Progress Chef
12 18 (1.43%) ZABBIX
13 17 (1.35%) Tivoli
14 16 (1.27%) Netcool
15 15 (1.19%) PowerCLI
16 14 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 586 (46.40%) Microsoft
2 185 (14.65%) VMware
3 97 (7.68%) CyberArk
4 81 (6.41%) ServiceNow
5 78 (6.18%) BeyondTrust
6 69 (5.46%) Splunk
7 59 (4.67%) Citrix
8 47 (3.72%) Cisco
9 46 (3.64%) Oracle
10 45 (3.56%) Google
11 36 (2.85%) Centrify
11 36 (2.85%) SolarWinds
12 31 (2.45%) Red Hat
13 30 (2.38%) BMC
14 26 (2.06%) Databricks
14 26 (2.06%) IBM
15 22 (1.74%) Veeam
16 20 (1.58%) HP
16 20 (1.58%) Okta
17 19 (1.50%) Dynatrace