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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 59 55
Rank change year-on-year -27 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,287 1,041 1,347
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.90% 3.92% 3.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.88% 11.67% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 853 686 962
10th Percentile £327 £325 £350
25th Percentile £423 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -6.04%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 8 29
10th Percentile £19.25 £25.95 £33.23
25th Percentile £29.42 £41.56 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £64.25 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% +46.56% -27.06%
75th Percentile £67.84 £112.22 £68.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £63.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -17.32% +44.84% -29.12%

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 11,829 8,921 11,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.66% 33.57% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,700 6,151 8,217
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 219 479
10th Percentile £34.91 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.55 £80.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 7 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

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 7 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 7 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 -26 548 £550 +4.76% 113
South East -16 271 £525 -8.70% 106
North of England +10 266 £458 +0.66% 75
North West +21 152 £452 +0.89% 47
Yorkshire -4 112 £500 +5.53% 16
South West -15 94 £445 -22.61% 46
Midlands -73 64 £500 +8.70% 37
West Midlands -81 45 £500 +8.70% 21
East of England -51 36 £507 -7.82% 26
East Midlands -15 18 £438 -7.89% 16
North East -34 4 £238 -32.14% 14
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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
1 139 (10.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 131 (10.18%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.03%) Confluence
4 20 (1.55%) IIS
5 14 (1.09%) Skype for Business
6 8 (0.62%) Apache
7 6 (0.47%) nginx
8 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.078%) CMS
12 1 (0.078%) MTS
12 1 (0.078%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 28 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.078%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.078%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 690 (53.61%) Azure
2 320 (24.86%) Entra ID
3 262 (20.36%) AWS
4 227 (17.64%) Microsoft 365
5 147 (11.42%) GitHub
6 146 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (9.56%) GCP
8 116 (9.01%) Power Platform
9 105 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
10 86 (6.68%) Azure Monitor
11 83 (6.45%) OneDrive
12 59 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
13 58 (4.51%) Azure AKS
13 58 (4.51%) PaaS
14 54 (4.20%) SaaS
15 49 (3.81%) Microsoft Copilot
16 44 (3.42%) IaaS
17 40 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
18 38 (2.95%) Power Automate
19 36 (2.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 178 (13.83%) DNS
2 137 (10.64%) Firewall
3 102 (7.93%) DHCP
4 77 (5.98%) VPN
5 51 (3.96%) Network Security
6 50 (3.89%) WAN
7 47 (3.65%) TCP/IP
8 39 (3.03%) Kerberos
9 36 (2.80%) LAN
10 28 (2.18%) SAN
11 26 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (1.94%) VLAN
13 20 (1.55%) SSL
14 17 (1.32%) NAS
14 17 (1.32%) SNMP
15 16 (1.24%) Skype
16 15 (1.17%) SMTP
17 14 (1.09%) SD-WAN
18 13 (1.01%) Internet
18 13 (1.01%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.98%) SQL Server
2 73 (5.67%) Power BI
3 43 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.24%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.24%) MySQL
8 14 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.01%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.85%) Metadata
10 11 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (0.78%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.70%) Db2
12 9 (0.70%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.62%) Big Data
13 8 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.47%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 102 (7.93%) Jenkins
2 89 (6.92%) Git
3 61 (4.74%) JIRA
4 54 (4.20%) GitLab
5 22 (1.71%) MSI
6 11 (0.85%) Selenium
7 10 (0.78%) InstallShield
7 10 (0.78%) Postman
8 9 (0.70%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.47%) JMeter
10 6 (0.47%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.39%) Appium
11 5 (0.39%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.31%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.31%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.23%) TestNG
General
1 296 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 202 (15.70%) Finance
3 158 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 76 (5.91%) Documentation Skills
6 74 (5.75%) Banking
7 41 (3.19%) Legal
8 23 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 22 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.40%) Front Office
11 13 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 12 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.85%) Military
14 10 (0.78%) Law
14 10 (0.78%) Retail
15 6 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.39%) Back Office
17 4 (0.31%) Local Government
17 4 (0.31%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 136 (10.57%) Senior
2 114 (8.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 109 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 104 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
5 97 (7.54%) Architect
6 78 (6.06%) Security Engineer
7 72 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (5.52%) Support Engineer
9 52 (4.04%) Developer
10 47 (3.65%) Analyst
11 46 (3.57%) Consultant
12 36 (2.80%) Lead
13 33 (2.56%) IT Engineer
14 32 (2.49%) Platform Engineer
15 31 (2.41%) Administrator
16 30 (2.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 29 (2.25%) PowerShell Engineer
18 27 (2.10%) Automation Engineer
18 27 (2.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 27 (2.10%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (8.47%) REST
2 84 (6.53%) Microsoft Graph
3 82 (6.37%) LDAP
4 59 (4.58%) OAuth
5 57 (4.43%) .NET
6 48 (3.73%) JSON
6 48 (3.73%) SAML
7 41 (3.19%) SailPoint
8 38 (2.95%) ARM Templates
8 38 (2.95%) YAML
9 33 (2.56%) OpenID
10 30 (2.33%) Web Services
11 28 (2.18%) OAuth2
12 23 (1.79%) .NET Framework
12 23 (1.79%) Kafka
13 21 (1.63%) SOAP
14 19 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (1.17%) XML
16 13 (1.01%) React
17 12 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 103 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.45%) Replication
3 80 (6.22%) Cloud Native
4 64 (4.97%) Security Posture
5 56 (4.35%) PKI
6 55 (4.27%) Clustering
7 48 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 44 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (3.19%) Management Information System
10 36 (2.80%) Data Centre
11 30 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.63%) Public Cloud
15 19 (1.48%) Product Ownership
16 18 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
17 17 (1.32%) Data Structures
18 16 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
19 15 (1.17%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 570 (44.29%) Windows
2 268 (20.82%) Linux
3 235 (18.26%) Windows Server
4 65 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (4.43%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.57%) Unix
7 26 (2.02%) AIX
7 26 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (1.71%) Ubuntu
9 20 (1.55%) Mac OS
10 18 (1.40%) VMS
11 17 (1.32%) Apple iOS
11 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (1.01%) Windows 7
12 13 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (0.93%) Android
13 12 (0.93%) CentOS
14 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.39%) Rocky
16 4 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (26.73%) DevOps
2 322 (25.02%) CI/CD
3 266 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 257 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
5 174 (13.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 168 (13.05%) Agile
7 163 (12.67%) Migration
8 154 (11.97%) ITIL
9 148 (11.50%) Runbook
10 142 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 126 (9.79%) Identity Access Management
11 126 (9.79%) SIEM
12 121 (9.40%) Disaster Recovery
13 119 (9.25%) ITSM
14 118 (9.17%) High Availability
14 118 (9.17%) Observability
15 116 (9.01%) Analytics
16 113 (8.78%) AI
16 113 (8.78%) RBAC
17 109 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 573 (44.52%) Python
2 274 (21.29%) Bash
3 228 (17.72%) SQL
4 89 (6.92%) C#
5 82 (6.37%) Bicep
6 56 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 51 (3.96%) Java
8 40 (3.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.94%) VBScript
11 20 (1.55%) TypeScript
12 19 (1.48%) Search Processing Language
13 18 (1.40%) Perl
14 16 (1.24%) Groovy
15 13 (1.01%) Go
15 13 (1.01%) VB
16 12 (0.93%) C++
17 11 (0.85%) BeanShell
17 11 (0.85%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 453 (35.20%) Security Cleared
2 331 (25.72%) SC Cleared
3 126 (9.79%) Degree
4 117 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 91 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 80 (6.22%) Azure Certification
7 78 (6.06%) CISSP
8 42 (3.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 37 (2.87%) AWS Certification
10 33 (2.56%) CISM
11 27 (2.10%) MCSE
12 24 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.71%) MCSA
14 20 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (1.09%) VCAP
17 13 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.70%) GIAC
19 8 (0.62%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (6.99%) NIST
3 70 (5.44%) GDPR
4 30 (2.33%) QA
5 29 (2.25%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 22 (1.71%) SLA
8 15 (1.17%) HIPAA
9 14 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.85%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.78%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.70%) NCSC
13 6 (0.47%) FINRA
13 6 (0.47%) MiFID
14 5 (0.39%) GRC
15 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
17 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
17 2 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 405 (31.47%) Active Directory
2 146 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (9.40%) Docker
4 82 (6.37%) Virtual Machines
5 61 (4.74%) VMware ESXi
6 60 (4.66%) Hyper-V
7 54 (4.20%) vSphere
8 40 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (2.33%) BitLocker
10 25 (1.94%) VMware NSX
11 21 (1.63%) Microsoft App-V
12 19 (1.48%) Firmware
13 15 (1.17%) KVM
14 14 (1.09%) vCloud
15 5 (0.39%) Squid
15 5 (0.39%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.23%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.23%) NFS
17 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 329 (25.56%) Terraform
2 189 (14.69%) Ansible
3 175 (13.60%) Kubernetes
4 156 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 86 (6.68%) SCCM
6 67 (5.21%) vCenter Server
7 57 (4.43%) Grafana
8 47 (3.65%) Prometheus
9 46 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 42 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
11 34 (2.64%) Puppet
12 33 (2.56%) Progress Chef
13 30 (2.33%) SCOM
14 21 (1.63%) Nagios
15 20 (1.55%) vRealize
15 20 (1.55%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.40%) Tivoli
17 17 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
17 17 (1.32%) Packer
18 16 (1.24%) Netcool
Vendors
1 607 (47.16%) Microsoft
2 189 (14.69%) VMware
3 110 (8.55%) ServiceNow
4 74 (5.75%) Google
4 74 (5.75%) Splunk
5 71 (5.52%) CyberArk
6 66 (5.13%) Oracle
7 56 (4.35%) Cisco
8 50 (3.89%) Citrix
9 46 (3.57%) BeyondTrust
10 44 (3.42%) Red Hat
11 38 (2.95%) SolarWinds
12 36 (2.80%) BMC
13 33 (2.56%) Remedy
14 31 (2.41%) IBM
15 29 (2.25%) Okta
16 27 (2.10%) HP
17 26 (2.02%) Databricks
18 21 (1.63%) NetApp
19 20 (1.55%) Bloomberg