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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,298 992 1,186
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 4.02% 3.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.22% 11.89% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 666 838
10th Percentile £354 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -0.42% -0.69%
75th Percentile £622 £628 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 18 33
10th Percentile £35.41 £17.00 £21.06
25th Percentile £55.00 £22.43 £37.08
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.87% +41.86% -28.78%
75th Percentile £78.13 £81.60 £46.86
90th Percentile £83.78 £138.40 £76.11
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.73% +6.25% -27.27%

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 10,624 8,346 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.08% 33.83% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,070 5,588 7,910
10th Percentile £352 £359 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.43%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 213 460
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £77.35 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.80%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -21 534 £550 +2.33% 137
South East -3 246 £500 -13.04% 116
North of England -5 223 £475 +1.06% 59
South West +9 150 £553 -3.91% 53
North West +1 126 £469 -0.17% 27
Yorkshire -23 90 £471 -5.80% 20
Midlands -61 78 £450 -10.00% 43
West Midlands -67 57 £475 -5.00% 23
East of England -13 30 £500 -9.09% 44
East Midlands -28 21 £427 -7.73% 20
North East -13 12 £550 +20.35% 13
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
1 198 (15.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 153 (11.79%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.24%) Confluence
4 29 (2.23%) Skype for Business
5 13 (1.00%) Apache
6 11 (0.85%) IIS
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.15%) WordPress
9 1 (0.077%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.077%) SAS
9 1 (0.077%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.077%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 37 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 5 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.077%) Actimize
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.077%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 643 (49.54%) Azure
2 321 (24.73%) Entra ID
3 280 (21.57%) Microsoft 365
4 232 (17.87%) AWS
5 136 (10.48%) GCP
6 134 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (9.17%) GitHub
8 84 (6.47%) Power Platform
9 81 (6.24%) OneDrive
10 78 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
11 68 (5.24%) Azure Monitor
12 63 (4.85%) IaaS
12 63 (4.85%) Microsoft Purview
13 56 (4.31%) PaaS
14 49 (3.78%) Azure Sentinel
15 47 (3.62%) SaaS
16 43 (3.31%) Serverless
17 42 (3.24%) Azure Key Vault
18 37 (2.85%) PowerApps
19 35 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 207 (15.95%) DNS
2 169 (13.02%) Firewall
3 136 (10.48%) DHCP
4 74 (5.70%) VPN
5 70 (5.39%) TCP/IP
6 58 (4.47%) Network Security
7 43 (3.31%) LAN
8 40 (3.08%) Kerberos
8 40 (3.08%) WAN
9 32 (2.47%) Skype
9 32 (2.47%) VLAN
10 30 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (1.46%) DKIM
11 19 (1.46%) DMARC
11 19 (1.46%) SMTP
12 18 (1.39%) SAN
13 17 (1.31%) Software-Defined Networking
14 15 (1.16%) Wireshark
15 14 (1.08%) SSL
15 14 (1.08%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 52 (4.01%) Power BI
3 27 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (1.54%) Metadata
6 18 (1.39%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.85%) Relational Database
10 10 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.69%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.62%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.62%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.54%) Delta Lake
13 7 (0.54%) MySQL
13 7 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.46%) DB2
15 5 (0.39%) Spark SQL
15 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 82 (6.32%) Git
2 81 (6.24%) JIRA
3 78 (6.01%) Jenkins
4 67 (5.16%) GitLab
5 16 (1.23%) MSI
6 13 (1.00%) Artifactory
7 11 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.77%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.69%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.69%) Selenium
10 8 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.39%) Appium
13 5 (0.39%) InstallShield
14 4 (0.31%) JUnit
14 4 (0.31%) MSTest
14 4 (0.31%) Postman
14 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 431 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 220 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 141 (10.86%) Finance
4 116 (8.94%) Public Sector
5 88 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
6 61 (4.70%) Banking
7 59 (4.55%) Legal
8 18 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.31%) Front Office
10 14 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.08%) Retail
11 13 (1.00%) Military
12 11 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.69%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.69%) Publishing
14 8 (0.62%) Law
15 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.46%) Electronics
16 6 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 174 (13.41%) Architect
2 120 (9.24%) Senior
3 90 (6.93%) Azure Engineer
4 80 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 77 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (5.39%) Security Engineer
6 70 (5.39%) Support Engineer
7 61 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
8 56 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 56 (4.31%) Consultant
9 52 (4.01%) Developer
10 46 (3.54%) Analyst
11 43 (3.31%) Microsoft Engineer
12 37 (2.85%) CyberArk Architect
13 35 (2.70%) Lead
14 30 (2.31%) Administrator
14 30 (2.31%) SIEM Engineer
15 27 (2.08%) Windows Engineer
16 26 (2.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 25 (1.93%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (13.48%) REST
2 116 (8.94%) LDAP
3 78 (6.01%) Microsoft Graph
4 63 (4.85%) OAuth
4 63 (4.85%) SOAP
5 58 (4.47%) SAML
6 55 (4.24%) JSON
7 48 (3.70%) .NET
8 37 (2.85%) OpenID
9 34 (2.62%) ARM Templates
10 33 (2.54%) SailPoint
11 28 (2.16%) OAuth2
12 24 (1.85%) YAML
13 23 (1.77%) .NET Framework
13 23 (1.77%) Web Services
14 21 (1.62%) Middleware
15 19 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (1.31%) XML
17 16 (1.23%) AngularJS
18 14 (1.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.55%) Security Posture
2 81 (6.24%) Onboarding
3 76 (5.86%) Replication
4 70 (5.39%) PKI
5 66 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 47 (3.62%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.31%) Cloud Native
9 39 (3.00%) Clustering
10 37 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (2.31%) Management Information System
12 27 (2.08%) Product Ownership
13 26 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.31%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.23%) BYOD
17 15 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
18 14 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
18 14 (1.08%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 509 (39.21%) Windows
2 223 (17.18%) Linux
3 219 (16.87%) Windows Server
4 72 (5.55%) Windows 10
5 43 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.85%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.69%) Unix
8 19 (1.46%) Android
8 19 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (1.16%) AIX
12 14 (1.08%) VMS
13 11 (0.85%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.77%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.69%) Apple iOS
15 9 (0.69%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.54%) CentOS
16 7 (0.54%) Solaris
17 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (24.96%) DevOps
2 314 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
3 277 (21.34%) CI/CD
4 208 (16.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 204 (15.72%) Agile
6 168 (12.94%) SIEM
7 158 (12.17%) Migration
8 145 (11.17%) Task Automation
9 142 (10.94%) ITIL
10 140 (10.79%) Cybersecurity
11 129 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 124 (9.55%) Identity Access Management
12 124 (9.55%) RBAC
13 122 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 119 (9.17%) ITSM
15 110 (8.47%) Analytics
16 109 (8.40%) High Availability
17 108 (8.32%) Disaster Recovery
18 106 (8.17%) Incident Response
19 96 (7.40%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 550 (42.37%) Python
2 241 (18.57%) Bash
3 151 (11.63%) SQL
4 93 (7.16%) C#
5 77 (5.93%) Kusto Query Language
6 60 (4.62%) JavaScript
7 55 (4.24%) Bicep
8 49 (3.78%) Java
9 32 (2.47%) Perl
10 22 (1.69%) VBScript
11 16 (1.23%) BeanShell
11 16 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 14 (1.08%) Go
13 13 (1.00%) VB
14 7 (0.54%) PHP
14 7 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.54%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.39%) Groovy
16 5 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 554 (42.68%) Security Cleared
2 441 (33.98%) SC Cleared
3 121 (9.32%) Degree
4 118 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 106 (8.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 84 (6.47%) CISSP
7 62 (4.78%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.54%) CISM
9 32 (2.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 29 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (2.00%) CEH
12 24 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.85%) MCSE
13 22 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.62%) MCSA
15 20 (1.54%) CCNA
15 20 (1.54%) CCNP
16 17 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (1.31%) GIAC
17 14 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (9.32%) GDPR
2 107 (8.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 71 (5.47%) NIST
4 31 (2.39%) QA
5 29 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.39%) SLA
7 15 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.16%) MiFID
8 13 (1.00%) Data Quality
9 12 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.85%) FINRA
10 11 (0.85%) NCSC
10 11 (0.85%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.69%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.39%) PSD2
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) EMIR
14 3 (0.23%) GRC
15 2 (0.15%) GxP
15 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 469 (36.13%) Active Directory
2 140 (10.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 116 (8.94%) Docker
4 63 (4.85%) Hyper-V
5 51 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (3.00%) vSphere
7 34 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
9 18 (1.39%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.31%) KVM
11 14 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
12 13 (1.00%) Firmware
13 10 (0.77%) VMware NSX
14 9 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.31%) NFS
16 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.23%) Squid
17 2 (0.15%) Sendmail
17 2 (0.15%) Snort
17 2 (0.15%) UAG
Systems Management
1 265 (20.42%) Terraform
2 145 (11.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 141 (10.86%) Ansible
4 131 (10.09%) Kubernetes
5 101 (7.78%) SCCM
6 88 (6.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 65 (5.01%) Single Sign-On
8 44 (3.39%) vCenter Server
9 38 (2.93%) Grafana
10 35 (2.70%) Prometheus
11 18 (1.39%) SCOM
12 17 (1.31%) Kibana
13 15 (1.16%) WSUS
14 13 (1.00%) vRealize
15 12 (0.92%) PowerCLI
15 12 (0.92%) Progress Chef
15 12 (0.92%) Puppet
16 11 (0.85%) Istio
16 11 (0.85%) Nagios
16 11 (0.85%) Nessus
Vendors
1 610 (47.00%) Microsoft
2 189 (14.56%) VMware
3 93 (7.16%) CyberArk
4 69 (5.32%) Citrix
5 67 (5.16%) BeyondTrust
5 67 (5.16%) ServiceNow
6 55 (4.24%) Splunk
7 46 (3.54%) Cisco
8 44 (3.39%) Red Hat
9 42 (3.24%) Google
9 42 (3.24%) Oracle
10 35 (2.70%) Centrify
11 28 (2.16%) SolarWinds
12 27 (2.08%) Okta
12 27 (2.08%) Veeam
13 24 (1.85%) Databricks
14 23 (1.77%) Atlassian
15 17 (1.31%) Qualys
16 16 (1.23%) NetApp
16 16 (1.23%) SAP