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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 61 54
Rank change year-on-year -26 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,321 1,047 1,342
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 3.85% 3.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.10% 11.63% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 685 958
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -5.83%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £520 £525
% change year-on-year - -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 13 27
10th Percentile £19.25 £45.15 £30.87
25th Percentile £33.70 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +40.75% -23.03%
75th Percentile £68.50 £85.00 £68.84
90th Percentile £79.00 £177.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £64.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -18.29% +39.13% -23.30%

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 11,899 9,002 11,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.57% 33.09% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,754 6,201 8,063
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -3.75% -1.82%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 227 438
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £35.37
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -5.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.58 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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

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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 17 July 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 17 July 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 17 July 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 -23 555 £538 +2.38% 84
South East -14 288 £525 -8.70% 87
North of England +7 260 £454 +2.02% 51
North West +18 152 £452 +0.95% 31
Yorkshire -3 105 £460 +9.85% 11
South West -16 102 £450 -21.74% 26
Midlands -73 67 £500 +8.70% 34
West Midlands -78 47 £500 +8.70% 19
East of England -49 39 £507 -7.82% 25
East Midlands -13 19 £469 -1.32% 15
North East -33 5 £238 -32.14% 10
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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
1 133 (10.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 129 (9.77%) SharePoint
3 45 (3.41%) Confluence
4 20 (1.51%) IIS
5 12 (0.91%) Skype for Business
6 10 (0.76%) Apache
7 8 (0.61%) nginx
8 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.23%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.076%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.076%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 25 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.076%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.15%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.076%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.076%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 718 (54.35%) Azure
2 332 (25.13%) Entra ID
3 284 (21.50%) AWS
4 226 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
5 158 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
6 154 (11.66%) GitHub
7 127 (9.61%) GCP
8 118 (8.93%) Power Platform
9 107 (8.10%) GitHub Actions
10 91 (6.89%) Azure Monitor
11 79 (5.98%) OneDrive
12 60 (4.54%) Azure AKS
13 58 (4.39%) PaaS
14 57 (4.31%) SaaS
15 54 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
16 45 (3.41%) IaaS
16 45 (3.41%) Microsoft Copilot
17 44 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
18 40 (3.03%) Power Automate
19 37 (2.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 187 (14.16%) DNS
2 162 (12.26%) Firewall
3 106 (8.02%) DHCP
4 74 (5.60%) VPN
5 66 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 56 (4.24%) Network Security
7 43 (3.26%) WAN
8 33 (2.50%) Kerberos
9 30 (2.27%) LAN
9 30 (2.27%) SAN
10 27 (2.04%) VLAN
11 23 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (1.44%) SSL
13 18 (1.36%) VSAN
14 17 (1.29%) NAS
14 17 (1.29%) SNMP
15 14 (1.06%) Skype
15 14 (1.06%) SMTP
16 13 (0.98%) Internet
16 13 (0.98%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (13.32%) SQL Server
2 77 (5.83%) Power BI
3 43 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 16 (1.21%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.21%) MySQL
9 15 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 13 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (0.91%) Metadata
13 11 (0.83%) Big Data
14 10 (0.76%) NoSQL
15 9 (0.68%) Db2
15 9 (0.68%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 108 (8.18%) Jenkins
2 100 (7.57%) Git
3 71 (5.37%) JIRA
4 56 (4.24%) GitLab
5 24 (1.82%) MSI
6 11 (0.83%) Selenium
7 10 (0.76%) InstallShield
7 10 (0.76%) Postman
8 9 (0.68%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.53%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.45%) JMeter
12 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.38%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.30%) Appium
13 4 (0.30%) Jaeger
13 4 (0.30%) MSBuild
General
1 302 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 210 (15.90%) Finance
3 171 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 79 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
6 76 (5.75%) Banking
7 35 (2.65%) Legal
8 22 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 21 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.29%) Front Office
11 15 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 13 (0.98%) Military
13 12 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.76%) Law
15 9 (0.68%) Retail
16 6 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.45%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.38%) Back Office
18 4 (0.30%) Local Government
18 4 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 146 (11.05%) Senior
2 124 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 123 (9.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 110 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 86 (6.51%) Architect
6 82 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 78 (5.90%) Security Engineer
8 72 (5.45%) Support Engineer
9 52 (3.94%) Developer
10 47 (3.56%) Analyst
11 46 (3.48%) Consultant
12 38 (2.88%) Lead
13 36 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (2.65%) IT Engineer
15 33 (2.50%) Administrator
16 31 (2.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 30 (2.27%) PowerShell Engineer
18 29 (2.20%) DBA
18 29 (2.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 28 (2.12%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (8.63%) REST
2 78 (5.90%) LDAP
3 77 (5.83%) Microsoft Graph
4 62 (4.69%) .NET
5 55 (4.16%) OAuth
6 50 (3.79%) JSON
7 45 (3.41%) SailPoint
8 43 (3.26%) SAML
9 42 (3.18%) ARM Templates
10 41 (3.10%) YAML
11 34 (2.57%) OpenID
12 32 (2.42%) Web Services
13 29 (2.20%) OAuth2
14 24 (1.82%) .NET Framework
15 23 (1.74%) Kafka
16 21 (1.59%) SOAP
17 19 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
18 16 (1.21%) XML
19 15 (1.14%) React
20 12 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.63%) Onboarding
2 85 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 81 (6.13%) Replication
4 68 (5.15%) Security Posture
5 64 (4.84%) PKI
6 59 (4.47%) Clustering
7 47 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 44 (3.33%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (3.33%) Management Information System
9 33 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
10 25 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.82%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.67%) Product Ownership
14 21 (1.59%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (1.21%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 596 (45.12%) Windows
2 293 (22.18%) Linux
3 241 (18.24%) Windows Server
4 73 (5.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (4.47%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.48%) Unix
7 26 (1.97%) AIX
8 25 (1.89%) Ubuntu
8 25 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (1.67%) Mac OS
10 18 (1.36%) Apple iOS
10 18 (1.36%) VMS
10 18 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (1.14%) CentOS
12 13 (0.98%) Android
12 13 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.76%) Windows 7
14 7 (0.53%) Rocky
15 5 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (26.95%) DevOps
2 340 (25.74%) CI/CD
3 290 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 264 (19.98%) Problem-Solving
5 191 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 182 (13.78%) Agile
7 169 (12.79%) Migration
8 161 (12.19%) ITIL
9 157 (11.88%) Runbook
10 155 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 132 (9.99%) Identity Access Management
11 132 (9.99%) SIEM
12 131 (9.92%) ITSM
13 124 (9.39%) Disaster Recovery
14 122 (9.24%) Analytics
15 121 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
16 118 (8.93%) High Availability
17 116 (8.78%) Observability
18 114 (8.63%) AI
19 112 (8.48%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 603 (45.65%) Python
2 300 (22.71%) Bash
3 236 (17.87%) SQL
4 89 (6.74%) C#
5 85 (6.43%) Bicep
6 58 (4.39%) JavaScript
7 53 (4.01%) Java
8 35 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (1.97%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.67%) VBScript
11 21 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 20 (1.51%) Perl
12 20 (1.51%) Search Processing Language
13 17 (1.29%) Groovy
14 13 (0.98%) Go
14 13 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.91%) C++
16 11 (0.83%) BeanShell
17 10 (0.76%) VB
18 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 468 (35.43%) Security Cleared
2 340 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 133 (10.07%) Degree
4 128 (9.69%) DV Cleared
5 92 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 86 (6.51%) Azure Certification
7 77 (5.83%) CISSP
8 49 (3.71%) AWS Certification
9 42 (3.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 33 (2.50%) CISM
11 27 (2.04%) MCSE
12 24 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.67%) MCSA
14 20 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (1.44%) VCAP
16 13 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 8 (0.61%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 91 (6.89%) NIST
3 59 (4.47%) GDPR
4 33 (2.50%) QA
5 31 (2.35%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.12%) SLA
7 18 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 15 (1.14%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.76%) NCSC
10 10 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.76%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.38%) GRC
11 5 (0.38%) GxP
12 4 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 3 (0.23%) FINRA
13 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 420 (31.79%) Active Directory
2 160 (12.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (10.30%) Docker
4 85 (6.43%) Virtual Machines
5 71 (5.37%) Hyper-V
6 63 (4.77%) VMware ESXi
7 59 (4.47%) vSphere
8 42 (3.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 33 (2.50%) VMware NSX
10 26 (1.97%) BitLocker
11 20 (1.51%) Microsoft App-V
12 19 (1.44%) Firmware
13 15 (1.14%) vCloud
14 14 (1.06%) KVM
15 5 (0.38%) Squid
15 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.23%) NFS
17 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
17 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 355 (26.87%) Terraform
2 213 (16.12%) Ansible
3 193 (14.61%) Kubernetes
4 160 (12.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 86 (6.51%) SCCM
6 69 (5.22%) vCenter Server
7 63 (4.77%) Grafana
8 53 (4.01%) Prometheus
9 39 (2.95%) Puppet
10 38 (2.88%) Progress Chef
11 37 (2.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 36 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
13 35 (2.65%) SCOM
14 21 (1.59%) Nagios
14 21 (1.59%) Packer
15 20 (1.51%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.36%) Tivoli
16 18 (1.36%) vRealize
17 17 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
18 16 (1.21%) Netcool
Vendors
1 615 (46.56%) Microsoft
2 208 (15.75%) VMware
3 118 (8.93%) ServiceNow
4 79 (5.98%) Google
5 78 (5.90%) CyberArk
6 74 (5.60%) Splunk
7 70 (5.30%) Oracle
8 59 (4.47%) Cisco
9 49 (3.71%) Citrix
10 48 (3.63%) BeyondTrust
11 47 (3.56%) Red Hat
12 40 (3.03%) BMC
13 39 (2.95%) SolarWinds
14 37 (2.80%) Remedy
15 32 (2.42%) IBM
16 28 (2.12%) HP
17 27 (2.04%) Databricks
18 24 (1.82%) NetApp
18 24 (1.82%) Okta
19 21 (1.59%) Qualys