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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 52 65
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,302 984 1,175
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.40% 4.06% 3.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.00% 12.04% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 670 837
10th Percentile £337 £353 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.05% -
75th Percentile £622 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 13 27
10th Percentile £34.58 £17.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £37.35
Median hourly rate £74.26 £54.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.26% +36.25% -30.23%
75th Percentile £78.75 £77.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.80 £176.59 £57.13
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £24.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +201.14% -38.35% -30.23%

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 10,849 8,173 10,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.36% 33.71% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,238 5,597 7,877
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 216 434
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.85 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 2 April 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 April 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 2 April 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 -24 538 £550 +4.76% 123
South East -8 238 £505 -12.17% 97
North of England -7 224 £500 +6.38% 66
South West -1 143 £525 -10.45% 60
North West +10 130 £513 +10.22% 35
Yorkshire -27 88 £460 -8.00% 16
Midlands -58 83 £450 -5.26% 45
West Midlands -62 62 £480 -4.00% 29
East of England -9 41 £507 +9.03% 34
East Midlands -32 20 £418 -9.73% 16
North East -8 11 £550 +18.28% 15
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
1 173 (13.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 136 (10.45%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.30%) Confluence
4 20 (1.54%) Skype for Business
5 16 (1.23%) IIS
6 13 (1.00%) Apache
7 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
8 2 (0.15%) WordPress
9 1 (0.077%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 35 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.077%) Actimize
5 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.077%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 657 (50.46%) Azure
2 297 (22.81%) Entra ID
3 258 (19.82%) Microsoft 365
4 228 (17.51%) AWS
5 137 (10.52%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (10.14%) GCP
7 121 (9.29%) GitHub
8 84 (6.45%) Power Platform
9 82 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
10 79 (6.07%) OneDrive
11 77 (5.91%) Azure Monitor
12 64 (4.92%) IaaS
13 59 (4.53%) PaaS
14 56 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
15 44 (3.38%) Azure AKS
15 44 (3.38%) Azure Sentinel
15 44 (3.38%) Serverless
16 41 (3.15%) SaaS
17 40 (3.07%) Azure Key Vault
18 36 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 201 (15.44%) DNS
2 171 (13.13%) Firewall
3 126 (9.68%) DHCP
4 88 (6.76%) VPN
5 61 (4.69%) TCP/IP
6 60 (4.61%) Network Security
7 42 (3.23%) LAN
7 42 (3.23%) WAN
8 39 (3.00%) Kerberos
9 34 (2.61%) VLAN
10 31 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.77%) Skype
12 19 (1.46%) SAN
12 19 (1.46%) SMTP
13 18 (1.38%) DKIM
13 18 (1.38%) DMARC
14 16 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
14 16 (1.23%) SSL
15 15 (1.15%) SNMP
16 13 (1.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (7.30%) SQL Server
2 48 (3.69%) Power BI
3 32 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.38%) Metadata
8 13 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.77%) Delta Lake
11 9 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.69%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.69%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.61%) MySQL
12 8 (0.61%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.54%) DB2
13 7 (0.54%) Spark SQL
13 7 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (0.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 80 (6.14%) Git
2 77 (5.91%) JIRA
3 74 (5.68%) Jenkins
4 69 (5.30%) GitLab
5 14 (1.08%) Artifactory
5 14 (1.08%) MSI
6 9 (0.69%) InstallShield
6 9 (0.69%) Selenium
6 9 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.61%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.46%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.38%) AdminStudio
10 5 (0.38%) Appium
10 5 (0.38%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.38%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.31%) JUnit
11 4 (0.31%) MSTest
11 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 407 (31.26%) Social Skills
2 205 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
3 137 (10.52%) Finance
4 109 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 90 (6.91%) Documentation Skills
6 62 (4.76%) Banking
7 58 (4.45%) Legal
8 20 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.38%) Front Office
9 18 (1.38%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.08%) Retail
11 11 (0.84%) Military
12 10 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.69%) Publishing
14 8 (0.61%) Law
15 7 (0.54%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.46%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.46%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.38%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 178 (13.67%) Architect
2 123 (9.45%) Senior
3 100 (7.68%) Azure Engineer
4 85 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 80 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (5.22%) Security Engineer
7 62 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 60 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
9 59 (4.53%) Support Engineer
10 55 (4.22%) Consultant
11 46 (3.53%) Developer
12 45 (3.46%) Analyst
13 40 (3.07%) Lead
14 37 (2.84%) CyberArk Architect
15 35 (2.69%) Microsoft Engineer
16 30 (2.30%) IT Engineer
16 30 (2.30%) SIEM Engineer
17 29 (2.23%) Administrator
18 28 (2.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 24 (1.84%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (13.59%) REST
2 115 (8.83%) LDAP
3 76 (5.84%) Microsoft Graph
4 62 (4.76%) SOAP
5 54 (4.15%) JSON
5 54 (4.15%) OAuth
6 53 (4.07%) .NET
7 50 (3.84%) SAML
8 40 (3.07%) ARM Templates
9 30 (2.30%) OpenID
10 28 (2.15%) SailPoint
10 28 (2.15%) YAML
11 27 (2.07%) .NET Framework
12 23 (1.77%) OAuth2
13 21 (1.61%) Web Services
14 16 (1.23%) Middleware
15 15 (1.15%) Kafka
16 14 (1.08%) Node.js
17 13 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
18 12 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.30%) Replication
2 80 (6.14%) Security Posture
3 75 (5.76%) PKI
4 73 (5.61%) Onboarding
5 67 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 48 (3.69%) Clustering
8 44 (3.38%) Data Centre
9 41 (3.15%) Cloud Native
10 37 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
11 34 (2.61%) Product Ownership
12 29 (2.23%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
14 20 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
15 17 (1.31%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (1.00%) BYOD
18 12 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 532 (40.86%) Windows
2 229 (17.59%) Linux
3 227 (17.43%) Windows Server
4 64 (4.92%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.92%) Mac OS
7 23 (1.77%) Unix
8 21 (1.61%) AIX
9 20 (1.54%) VMS
10 19 (1.46%) Android
11 18 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 18 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
12 17 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
13 13 (1.00%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.77%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.77%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.54%) CentOS
17 5 (0.38%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (25.42%) DevOps
2 311 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
3 274 (21.04%) CI/CD
4 217 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 212 (16.28%) Agile
6 171 (13.13%) SIEM
7 166 (12.75%) Migration
8 146 (11.21%) ITIL
9 141 (10.83%) Task Automation
10 135 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 134 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
12 125 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 122 (9.37%) Identity Access Management
14 117 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
14 117 (8.99%) ITSM
15 116 (8.91%) RBAC
16 113 (8.68%) Analytics
17 111 (8.53%) Incident Response
18 109 (8.37%) High Availability
19 100 (7.68%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 552 (42.40%) Python
2 241 (18.51%) Bash
3 169 (12.98%) SQL
4 98 (7.53%) C#
5 75 (5.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 66 (5.07%) JavaScript
7 64 (4.92%) Bicep
8 45 (3.46%) Java
9 29 (2.23%) Perl
10 21 (1.61%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.61%) VBScript
11 13 (1.00%) Go
12 12 (0.92%) VB
13 11 (0.84%) BeanShell
13 11 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
14 10 (0.77%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.54%) PHP
16 6 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 553 (42.47%) Security Cleared
2 429 (32.95%) SC Cleared
3 120 (9.22%) DV Cleared
4 114 (8.76%) Degree
5 100 (7.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (5.99%) CISSP
7 67 (5.15%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.53%) CISM
9 37 (2.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 25 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.77%) CEH
12 22 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.69%) MCSE
13 21 (1.61%) MCSA
14 20 (1.54%) AWS Certification
15 18 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (1.23%) CCNA
16 16 (1.23%) GIAC
17 14 (1.08%) CCNP
18 12 (0.92%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (8.45%) GDPR
2 99 (7.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 78 (5.99%) NIST
4 33 (2.53%) QA
5 23 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.46%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (1.23%) SLA
8 15 (1.15%) MiFID
9 13 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.84%) FINRA
10 11 (0.84%) NCSC
11 10 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.69%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.31%) GRC
14 3 (0.23%) EMIR
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) GxP
15 2 (0.15%) ISA99
System Software
1 452 (34.72%) Active Directory
2 142 (10.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.22%) Docker
4 72 (5.53%) Hyper-V
5 54 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (3.46%) vSphere
7 37 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
8 32 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.61%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.31%) KVM
11 15 (1.15%) Firmware
12 14 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
12 14 (1.08%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) Squid
15 2 (0.15%) NFS
15 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.15%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.15%) Snort
15 2 (0.15%) UAG
Systems Management
1 275 (21.12%) Terraform
2 150 (11.52%) Ansible
3 141 (10.83%) Kubernetes
3 141 (10.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 90 (6.91%) SCCM
5 80 (6.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 60 (4.61%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (3.84%) vCenter Server
8 37 (2.84%) Grafana
9 32 (2.46%) Prometheus
10 19 (1.46%) Puppet
10 19 (1.46%) vRealize
11 18 (1.38%) SCOM
12 17 (1.31%) Nagios
12 17 (1.31%) Progress Chef
13 16 (1.23%) PowerCLI
14 15 (1.15%) WSUS
15 14 (1.08%) Kibana
16 12 (0.92%) Tivoli
17 11 (0.84%) Netcool
Vendors
1 596 (45.78%) Microsoft
2 194 (14.90%) VMware
3 89 (6.84%) CyberArk
4 70 (5.38%) ServiceNow
5 69 (5.30%) BeyondTrust
5 69 (5.30%) Citrix
6 63 (4.84%) Splunk
7 47 (3.61%) Cisco
8 45 (3.46%) Red Hat
9 40 (3.07%) Google
10 38 (2.92%) Oracle
11 35 (2.69%) Centrify
12 32 (2.46%) Databricks
13 30 (2.30%) SolarWinds
14 26 (2.00%) Okta
15 23 (1.77%) Atlassian
16 22 (1.69%) IBM
17 21 (1.61%) BMC
17 21 (1.61%) Veeam
18 19 (1.46%) Qualys