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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 54 57
Rank change year-on-year -25 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,246 931 1,246
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.06% 3.83% 3.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.41% 11.34% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 647 900
10th Percentile £335 £352 £350
25th Percentile £423 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £621 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 10 23
10th Percentile £22.49 £16.98 £26.57
25th Percentile £50.50 £17.81 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.07 £41.75 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +53.46% +3.73% -32.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £78.41 £46.29
90th Percentile £83.38 £200.00 £73.15
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £24.66 £40.25
% change year-on-year +156.02% -38.73% -32.92%

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 10,925 8,212 10,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.81% 33.79% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,224 5,704 7,900
10th Percentile £353 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.28%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 219 444
10th Percentile £42.05 £26.15 £37.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.81 £49.34
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% +2.27%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 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 -20 517 £550 +4.76% 131
South East -7 256 £513 -10.87% 120
North of England -1 224 £460 -1.60% 67
North West +15 132 £465 -0.09% 40
South West -17 100 £438 -25.21% 29
Yorkshire -22 89 £460 -8.00% 17
Midlands -48 81 £456 -6.41% 34
West Midlands -48 60 £485 -3.10% 17
East of England -27 41 £507 -7.82% 28
East Midlands -29 20 £418 -12.11% 17
North East -14 5 £438 +25.00% 10
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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UK

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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
1 140 (11.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 121 (9.71%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.05%) Confluence
4 17 (1.36%) IIS
5 12 (0.96%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.72%) 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 (0.080%) MTS
Applications
1 36 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.080%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.080%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.64%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.080%) Actimize
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 667 (53.53%) Azure
2 276 (22.15%) Entra ID
3 255 (20.47%) AWS
4 229 (18.38%) Microsoft 365
5 139 (11.16%) GCP
6 136 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
7 127 (10.19%) GitHub
8 94 (7.54%) Power Platform
9 87 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
10 79 (6.34%) OneDrive
11 75 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
12 58 (4.65%) PaaS
13 55 (4.41%) Azure AKS
14 52 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
15 43 (3.45%) IaaS
15 43 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
16 39 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
17 35 (2.81%) Azure Sentinel
17 35 (2.81%) SaaS
18 33 (2.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 164 (13.16%) DNS
2 133 (10.67%) Firewall
3 100 (8.03%) DHCP
4 71 (5.70%) VPN
5 59 (4.74%) Network Security
6 45 (3.61%) TCP/IP
7 40 (3.21%) Kerberos
8 36 (2.89%) WAN
9 30 (2.41%) LAN
10 25 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.77%) VLAN
12 21 (1.69%) SMTP
13 17 (1.36%) SAN
13 17 (1.36%) SNMP
14 16 (1.28%) SSL
15 13 (1.04%) HTTP
16 12 (0.96%) Skype
16 12 (0.96%) Unified Communications
16 12 (0.96%) VSAN
17 11 (0.88%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (9.71%) SQL Server
2 58 (4.65%) Power BI
3 41 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.28%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.20%) Metadata
8 13 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (0.96%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.80%) Delta Lake
11 10 (0.80%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.80%) MySQL
12 9 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.72%) Relational Database
12 9 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (0.56%) DB2
14 7 (0.56%) Spark SQL
15 6 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 81 (6.50%) Git
2 80 (6.42%) Jenkins
3 64 (5.14%) GitLab
4 57 (4.57%) JIRA
5 19 (1.52%) MSI
6 12 (0.96%) Artifactory
6 12 (0.96%) InstallShield
7 9 (0.72%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
7 9 (0.72%) Selenium
8 8 (0.64%) Postman
8 8 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.40%) Appium
11 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.40%) JMeter
12 4 (0.32%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.32%) JUnit
13 3 (0.24%) Spinnaker
General
1 358 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 160 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
3 139 (11.16%) Finance
4 111 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 85 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
6 58 (4.65%) Banking
7 44 (3.53%) Legal
8 20 (1.61%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.36%) Front Office
11 13 (1.04%) Military
12 12 (0.96%) Retail
13 10 (0.80%) Law
14 9 (0.72%) Publishing
15 8 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.56%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.40%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 151 (12.12%) Architect
2 128 (10.27%) Senior
3 102 (8.19%) Azure Engineer
4 98 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 77 (6.18%) Security Engineer
6 76 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 75 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (4.01%) Support Engineer
9 47 (3.77%) Developer
10 40 (3.21%) Analyst
11 37 (2.97%) CyberArk Architect
12 35 (2.81%) Consultant
12 35 (2.81%) Platform Engineer
13 32 (2.57%) Lead
14 28 (2.25%) Desktop Engineer
15 27 (2.17%) PowerShell Engineer
15 27 (2.17%) SIEM Engineer
16 25 (2.01%) Automation Engineer
16 25 (2.01%) Microsoft Engineer
16 25 (2.01%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (11.08%) REST
2 124 (9.95%) LDAP
3 74 (5.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 59 (4.74%) SOAP
5 51 (4.09%) .NET
6 49 (3.93%) OAuth
7 42 (3.37%) JSON
7 42 (3.37%) SAML
8 36 (2.89%) SailPoint
9 34 (2.73%) ARM Templates
10 30 (2.41%) YAML
11 26 (2.09%) OpenID
11 26 (2.09%) Web Services
12 21 (1.69%) .NET Framework
13 18 (1.44%) Kafka
13 18 (1.44%) OAuth2
14 16 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (1.20%) Node.js
15 15 (1.20%) React
16 14 (1.12%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.82%) Onboarding
2 84 (6.74%) Replication
3 75 (6.02%) Security Posture
4 70 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (4.65%) Clustering
6 52 (4.17%) PKI
7 51 (4.09%) Cloud Native
8 49 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 34 (2.73%) Data Centre
10 33 (2.65%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.52%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
16 13 (1.04%) Operational Technology
16 13 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
17 12 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
18 11 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 525 (42.13%) Windows
2 227 (18.22%) Linux
3 213 (17.09%) Windows Server
4 54 (4.33%) Windows 10
5 40 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (2.73%) Unix
7 27 (2.17%) Mac OS
8 25 (2.01%) AIX
9 24 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
11 18 (1.44%) VMS
12 13 (1.04%) Ubuntu
12 13 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (0.96%) Android
13 12 (0.96%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.80%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.32%) CentOS
17 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (25.36%) DevOps
2 294 (23.60%) CI/CD
3 286 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
4 226 (18.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 178 (14.29%) SIEM
6 173 (13.88%) Agile
7 148 (11.88%) Migration
8 138 (11.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 126 (10.11%) Task Automation
10 122 (9.79%) Disaster Recovery
10 122 (9.79%) ITIL
11 116 (9.31%) Analytics
11 116 (9.31%) Identity Access Management
12 113 (9.07%) Runbook
13 111 (8.91%) ITSM
14 109 (8.75%) High Availability
15 108 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 108 (8.67%) Root Cause Analysis
16 106 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
16 106 (8.51%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 549 (44.06%) Python
2 236 (18.94%) Bash
3 182 (14.61%) SQL
4 96 (7.70%) C#
5 69 (5.54%) JavaScript
6 66 (5.30%) Bicep
7 60 (4.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 47 (3.77%) Java
9 24 (1.93%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.52%) VBScript
11 18 (1.44%) Search Processing Language
12 17 (1.36%) Go
13 16 (1.28%) Perl
14 15 (1.20%) TypeScript
15 11 (0.88%) Groovy
16 10 (0.80%) VB
17 9 (0.72%) BeanShell
18 7 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.56%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.48%) C++
Qualifications
1 504 (40.45%) Security Cleared
2 382 (30.66%) SC Cleared
3 109 (8.75%) DV Cleared
4 106 (8.51%) Degree
5 90 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 73 (5.86%) CISSP
7 72 (5.78%) Azure Certification
8 45 (3.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 44 (3.53%) CISM
10 28 (2.25%) MCSE
11 27 (2.17%) MCSA
12 23 (1.85%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (1.44%) VCAP
15 17 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (1.36%) CEH
16 15 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (1.04%) GIAC
18 10 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
19 8 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (8.19%) GDPR
2 101 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (6.82%) NIST
4 31 (2.49%) QA
5 29 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.52%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 16 (1.28%) SLA
9 14 (1.12%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.96%) MiFID
11 11 (0.88%) FINRA
12 9 (0.72%) NCSC
12 9 (0.72%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
17 2 (0.16%) GxP
17 2 (0.16%) ISA99
17 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 421 (33.79%) Active Directory
2 144 (11.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.63%) Docker
4 70 (5.62%) Hyper-V
5 67 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
6 52 (4.17%) vSphere
7 46 (3.69%) VMware ESXi
8 36 (2.89%) Virtual Desktop
9 24 (1.93%) BitLocker
10 19 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
11 18 (1.44%) Firmware
11 18 (1.44%) KVM
12 16 (1.28%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.40%) Squid
14 3 (0.24%) vCloud
14 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.16%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 283 (22.71%) Terraform
2 167 (13.40%) Kubernetes
3 158 (12.68%) Ansible
4 137 (11.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 90 (7.22%) SCCM
6 57 (4.57%) vCenter Server
7 55 (4.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 49 (3.93%) Grafana
9 44 (3.53%) Prometheus
10 43 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.85%) Nagios
12 21 (1.69%) Puppet
13 20 (1.61%) SCOM
14 19 (1.52%) Progress Chef
14 19 (1.52%) vRealize
15 18 (1.44%) ZABBIX
16 17 (1.36%) Tivoli
17 16 (1.28%) Netcool
18 15 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
19 14 (1.12%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 571 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 188 (15.09%) VMware
3 99 (7.95%) CyberArk
4 82 (6.58%) BeyondTrust
5 79 (6.34%) ServiceNow
6 74 (5.94%) Splunk
7 56 (4.49%) Citrix
8 47 (3.77%) Oracle
9 45 (3.61%) Google
10 43 (3.45%) Cisco
11 36 (2.89%) Centrify
12 35 (2.81%) SolarWinds
13 31 (2.49%) Red Hat
14 30 (2.41%) BMC
15 26 (2.09%) Databricks
16 25 (2.01%) IBM
17 22 (1.77%) HP
18 21 (1.69%) Dynatrace
19 20 (1.61%) Remedy
20 19 (1.52%) Veeam