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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 54 65
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,325 976 1,169
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 4.01% 3.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.08% 11.89% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 941 671 837
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £439 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £621 £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 40 13 26
10th Percentile £35.41 £17.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £54.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.26% +36.25% -31.70%
75th Percentile £78.13 £77.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.78 £176.59 £58.94
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 10,968 8,206 10,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.06% 33.70% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,325 5,628 7,852
10th Percentile £355 £360 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -4.87%
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 507 213 430
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.88 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 8 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 8 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 8 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 -26 547 £550 +4.76% 123
South East -4 244 £510 -11.30% 97
North of England 0 232 £500 +6.38% 66
South West -4 140 £525 -10.26% 60
North West +19 135 £513 +10.22% 35
Yorkshire -24 91 £471 -3.38% 16
Midlands -60 84 £463 -2.63% 45
West Midlands -62 64 £485 -3.00% 29
East of England -6 43 £507 +9.03% 34
East Midlands -28 19 £418 -7.22% 16
North East -12 11 £550 +18.28% 15
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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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
1 176 (13.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 137 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.15%) Confluence
4 20 (1.51%) Skype for Business
5 15 (1.13%) IIS
6 10 (0.75%) Apache
7 4 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.15%) WordPress
10 1 (0.075%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.60%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.075%) Actimize
5 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.075%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 671 (50.64%) Azure
2 299 (22.57%) Entra ID
3 263 (19.85%) Microsoft 365
4 237 (17.89%) AWS
5 141 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (10.11%) GCP
7 123 (9.28%) GitHub
8 86 (6.49%) Power Platform
9 83 (6.26%) GitHub Actions
10 81 (6.11%) OneDrive
11 78 (5.89%) Azure Monitor
12 65 (4.91%) IaaS
13 61 (4.60%) PaaS
14 57 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
15 45 (3.40%) Azure AKS
16 44 (3.32%) Azure Sentinel
16 44 (3.32%) Serverless
17 43 (3.25%) Azure Key Vault
18 42 (3.17%) SaaS
19 36 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 203 (15.32%) DNS
2 169 (12.75%) Firewall
3 125 (9.43%) DHCP
4 89 (6.72%) VPN
5 61 (4.60%) Network Security
5 61 (4.60%) TCP/IP
6 42 (3.17%) LAN
6 42 (3.17%) WAN
7 39 (2.94%) Kerberos
8 35 (2.64%) VLAN
9 34 (2.57%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (1.74%) Skype
11 20 (1.51%) SAN
11 20 (1.51%) SMTP
12 19 (1.43%) DKIM
12 19 (1.43%) DMARC
13 16 (1.21%) Software-Defined Networking
13 16 (1.21%) SSL
14 15 (1.13%) SNMP
15 14 (1.06%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (7.25%) SQL Server
2 49 (3.70%) Power BI
3 35 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (1.51%) Data Lake
6 19 (1.43%) Metadata
7 13 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.75%) Delta Lake
10 9 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.68%) MySQL
10 9 (0.68%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.60%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.53%) DB2
12 7 (0.53%) Spark SQL
12 7 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (0.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 82 (6.19%) Git
2 76 (5.74%) JIRA
3 73 (5.51%) Jenkins
4 67 (5.06%) GitLab
5 15 (1.13%) MSI
6 13 (0.98%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.68%) InstallShield
7 9 (0.68%) Selenium
7 9 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.60%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.45%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.38%) AdminStudio
11 5 (0.38%) Appium
12 4 (0.30%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.30%) JUnit
12 4 (0.30%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.30%) MSTest
12 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 408 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 205 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
3 137 (10.34%) Finance
4 109 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 88 (6.64%) Documentation Skills
6 64 (4.83%) Banking
7 58 (4.38%) Legal
8 19 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (1.43%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.36%) Front Office
10 14 (1.06%) Retail
11 11 (0.83%) Military
12 10 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.68%) Publishing
14 8 (0.60%) Law
15 7 (0.53%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.38%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.38%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (13.66%) Architect
2 129 (9.74%) Senior
3 102 (7.70%) Azure Engineer
4 90 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 80 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (5.21%) Security Engineer
7 64 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 61 (4.60%) Support Engineer
9 60 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
10 54 (4.08%) Consultant
11 48 (3.62%) Developer
12 43 (3.25%) Analyst
13 39 (2.94%) Lead
14 37 (2.79%) CyberArk Architect
15 35 (2.64%) Microsoft Engineer
16 30 (2.26%) SIEM Engineer
17 29 (2.19%) Administrator
17 29 (2.19%) IT Engineer
18 28 (2.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 25 (1.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (13.58%) REST
2 118 (8.91%) LDAP
3 79 (5.96%) Microsoft Graph
4 61 (4.60%) SOAP
5 58 (4.38%) JSON
6 54 (4.08%) .NET
6 54 (4.08%) OAuth
7 50 (3.77%) SAML
8 40 (3.02%) ARM Templates
9 30 (2.26%) OpenID
10 29 (2.19%) YAML
11 28 (2.11%) .NET Framework
11 28 (2.11%) SailPoint
12 23 (1.74%) OAuth2
13 20 (1.51%) Web Services
14 16 (1.21%) Kafka
14 16 (1.21%) Middleware
15 14 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (1.06%) Node.js
16 12 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.26%) Replication
2 79 (5.96%) Security Posture
3 78 (5.89%) PKI
4 72 (5.43%) Onboarding
5 65 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 48 (3.62%) Clustering
8 45 (3.40%) Data Centre
9 44 (3.32%) Cloud Native
10 38 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
11 34 (2.57%) Product Ownership
12 29 (2.19%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
17 17 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
17 17 (1.28%) Private Cloud
18 13 (0.98%) BYOD
19 12 (0.91%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 540 (40.75%) Windows
2 232 (17.51%) Linux
3 229 (17.28%) Windows Server
4 66 (4.98%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (2.04%) Mac OS
7 23 (1.74%) Unix
8 21 (1.58%) AIX
8 21 (1.58%) VMS
9 20 (1.51%) Android
10 18 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (0.98%) Ubuntu
13 12 (0.91%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.75%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.53%) CentOS
17 4 (0.30%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (25.36%) DevOps
2 314 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
3 282 (21.28%) CI/CD
4 220 (16.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 217 (16.38%) Agile
6 173 (13.06%) SIEM
7 168 (12.68%) Migration
8 145 (10.94%) ITIL
9 141 (10.64%) Task Automation
10 140 (10.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 134 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
12 126 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 122 (9.21%) Identity Access Management
14 120 (9.06%) Disaster Recovery
15 119 (8.98%) RBAC
16 117 (8.83%) ITSM
17 114 (8.60%) Analytics
18 112 (8.45%) Incident Response
19 110 (8.30%) High Availability
20 102 (7.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 565 (42.64%) Python
2 250 (18.87%) Bash
3 174 (13.13%) SQL
4 99 (7.47%) C#
5 73 (5.51%) Kusto Query Language
6 67 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 63 (4.75%) Bicep
8 43 (3.25%) Java
9 29 (2.19%) Perl
10 22 (1.66%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.58%) VBScript
12 15 (1.13%) Go
13 12 (0.91%) VB
14 11 (0.83%) Search Processing Language
14 11 (0.83%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.75%) BeanShell
16 7 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.53%) PHP
17 6 (0.45%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 560 (42.26%) Security Cleared
2 436 (32.91%) SC Cleared
3 120 (9.06%) DV Cleared
4 115 (8.68%) Degree
5 102 (7.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 77 (5.81%) CISSP
7 70 (5.28%) Azure Certification
8 45 (3.40%) CISM
9 40 (3.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 24 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.74%) MCSE
12 22 (1.66%) CEH
13 21 (1.58%) MCSA
14 20 (1.51%) AWS Certification
15 18 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (1.28%) CCNA
17 16 (1.21%) GIAC
18 14 (1.06%) CCNP
19 13 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (8.30%) GDPR
2 101 (7.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 80 (6.04%) NIST
4 33 (2.49%) QA
5 25 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 20 (1.51%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 16 (1.21%) SLA
9 15 (1.13%) MiFID
10 12 (0.91%) NCSC
10 12 (0.91%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.83%) FINRA
11 11 (0.83%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.30%) GRC
14 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) EMIR
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) GxP
15 2 (0.15%) ISA99
System Software
1 455 (34.34%) Active Directory
2 147 (11.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.06%) Docker
4 73 (5.51%) Hyper-V
5 58 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
6 49 (3.70%) vSphere
7 39 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
8 31 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 23 (1.74%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.28%) KVM
11 16 (1.21%) Firmware
12 14 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
12 14 (1.06%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.23%) NFS
14 3 (0.23%) Squid
15 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.15%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.15%) UAG
15 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 281 (21.21%) Terraform
2 152 (11.47%) Ansible
3 146 (11.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 144 (10.87%) Kubernetes
5 94 (7.09%) SCCM
6 80 (6.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 59 (4.45%) Single Sign-On
8 52 (3.92%) vCenter Server
9 39 (2.94%) Grafana
10 34 (2.57%) Prometheus
11 20 (1.51%) SCOM
11 20 (1.51%) vRealize
12 19 (1.43%) Puppet
13 17 (1.28%) Nagios
13 17 (1.28%) Progress Chef
14 15 (1.13%) PowerCLI
14 15 (1.13%) WSUS
15 14 (1.06%) Kibana
16 13 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
17 12 (0.91%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 606 (45.74%) Microsoft
2 201 (15.17%) VMware
3 91 (6.87%) CyberArk
4 71 (5.36%) ServiceNow
5 69 (5.21%) BeyondTrust
6 68 (5.13%) Citrix
7 64 (4.83%) Splunk
8 50 (3.77%) Cisco
9 45 (3.40%) Red Hat
10 40 (3.02%) Google
11 37 (2.79%) Oracle
12 36 (2.72%) Centrify
13 32 (2.42%) Databricks
14 31 (2.34%) SolarWinds
15 24 (1.81%) Okta
15 24 (1.81%) Veeam
16 23 (1.74%) Atlassian
17 22 (1.66%) IBM
18 21 (1.58%) BMC
19 19 (1.43%) Qualys