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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 56 54
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,263 934 1,303
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 3.92% 3.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.36% 11.55% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 643 942
10th Percentile £326 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £625
90th Percentile £716 £700 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 6 23
10th Percentile £19.25 £37.38 £37.63
25th Percentile £48.64 £49.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £61.73 £73.23 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +81.94% -32.92%
75th Percentile £74.26 £170.74 £52.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £31.08 £40.25
% change year-on-year +78.57% -22.78% -33.31%

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 11,122 8,087 11,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 33.93% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,297 5,623 8,012
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £417 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -2.75%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 185 454
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.27 £37.51
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.25 £49.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.75
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

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

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 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 28 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 -18 540 £550 +4.76% 112
North of England +1 247 £460 -1.08% 75
South East -10 241 £525 -8.70% 91
North West +17 140 £460 -1.08% 47
Yorkshire -17 104 £485 -3.05% 17
South West -9 101 £430 -26.81% 38
Midlands -61 71 £480 +4.35% 36
West Midlands -64 53 £500 +8.70% 18
East of England -34 41 £507 -7.82% 26
East Midlands -26 17 £380 -17.39% 18
North East -24 5 £400 +14.29% 11
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
1 144 (11.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 129 (10.21%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.85%) Confluence
4 23 (1.82%) IIS
5 15 (1.19%) Skype for Business
6 11 (0.87%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.40%) nginx
8 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.24%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.079%) CMS
11 1 (0.079%) MTS
Applications
1 35 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.079%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 677 (53.60%) Azure
2 297 (23.52%) Entra ID
3 263 (20.82%) AWS
4 234 (18.53%) Microsoft 365
5 139 (11.01%) GCP
6 137 (10.85%) Azure DevOps
7 131 (10.37%) GitHub
8 107 (8.47%) Power Platform
9 89 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
10 86 (6.81%) OneDrive
11 78 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
12 61 (4.83%) Microsoft Purview
13 57 (4.51%) PaaS
14 51 (4.04%) Microsoft Copilot
15 50 (3.96%) Azure AKS
16 42 (3.33%) IaaS
16 42 (3.33%) Power Automate
17 38 (3.01%) Azure Key Vault
18 37 (2.93%) Azure Sentinel
19 36 (2.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 159 (12.59%) DNS
2 125 (9.90%) Firewall
3 90 (7.13%) DHCP
4 68 (5.38%) VPN
5 58 (4.59%) Network Security
6 40 (3.17%) Kerberos
7 38 (3.01%) WAN
8 35 (2.77%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.38%) LAN
10 23 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.74%) SAN
12 21 (1.66%) SMTP
13 18 (1.43%) SSL
13 18 (1.43%) VLAN
14 17 (1.35%) SNMP
15 15 (1.19%) HTTP
15 15 (1.19%) Skype
16 14 (1.11%) NAS
17 12 (0.95%) VSAN
18 11 (0.87%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (10.85%) SQL Server
2 66 (5.23%) Power BI
3 40 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (1.11%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.11%) Metadata
7 14 (1.11%) MySQL
8 12 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.87%) Delta Lake
9 11 (0.87%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.79%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.71%) DB2
11 9 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.63%) Spark SQL
12 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 86 (6.81%) Jenkins
2 78 (6.18%) Git
3 61 (4.83%) GitLab
4 58 (4.59%) JIRA
5 17 (1.35%) MSI
6 10 (0.79%) InstallShield
6 10 (0.79%) Postman
7 9 (0.71%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.71%) Selenium
8 8 (0.63%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.48%) JMeter
11 5 (0.40%) Appium
11 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.32%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.32%) JUnit
13 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 332 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 156 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
2 156 (12.35%) Finance
3 106 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 74 (5.86%) Documentation Skills
5 66 (5.23%) Banking
6 42 (3.33%) Legal
7 22 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.19%) Front Office
9 14 (1.11%) Law
10 11 (0.87%) Military
11 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (0.71%) Publishing
11 9 (0.71%) Retail
12 8 (0.63%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.48%) Marketing
15 4 (0.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 146 (11.56%) Architect
2 121 (9.58%) Senior
3 98 (7.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 96 (7.60%) Azure Engineer
5 81 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 79 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 74 (5.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 56 (4.43%) Support Engineer
9 50 (3.96%) Developer
10 39 (3.09%) Analyst
11 38 (3.01%) CyberArk Architect
12 37 (2.93%) Consultant
13 34 (2.69%) Lead
14 32 (2.53%) Desktop Engineer
15 31 (2.45%) Platform Engineer
16 28 (2.22%) Automation Engineer
17 27 (2.14%) PowerShell Engineer
18 26 (2.06%) Administrator
18 26 (2.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 26 (2.06%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (11.24%) REST
2 119 (9.42%) LDAP
3 86 (6.81%) Microsoft Graph
4 55 (4.35%) SOAP
5 53 (4.20%) .NET
6 52 (4.12%) OAuth
7 43 (3.40%) SAML
8 40 (3.17%) JSON
9 39 (3.09%) YAML
10 37 (2.93%) SailPoint
11 35 (2.77%) ARM Templates
12 27 (2.14%) OpenID
13 26 (2.06%) Web Services
14 21 (1.66%) .NET Framework
14 21 (1.66%) OAuth2
15 19 (1.50%) Kafka
16 18 (1.43%) React
17 15 (1.19%) AngularJS
18 14 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
19 13 (1.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 88 (6.97%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.57%) Replication
3 81 (6.41%) Security Posture
4 74 (5.86%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (4.75%) Cloud Native
5 60 (4.75%) Clustering
6 54 (4.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (3.56%) PKI
8 40 (3.17%) Management Information System
9 38 (3.01%) Data Centre
10 23 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.58%) Product Ownership
13 19 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (1.50%) Enterprise Storage
14 18 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.27%) Public Cloud
16 13 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 542 (42.91%) Windows
2 236 (18.69%) Linux
3 220 (17.42%) Windows Server
4 59 (4.67%) Windows 10
5 48 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (3.09%) Unix
7 28 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (2.06%) AIX
9 25 (1.98%) Mac OS
10 21 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
11 18 (1.43%) Ubuntu
11 18 (1.43%) VMS
12 14 (1.11%) Apple iOS
12 14 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (1.03%) Windows 7
14 11 (0.87%) Android
15 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.55%) CentOS
17 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
17 4 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (25.57%) DevOps
2 307 (24.31%) CI/CD
3 274 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
4 231 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 166 (13.14%) SIEM
6 164 (12.98%) Agile
7 146 (11.56%) Migration
8 142 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 133 (10.53%) Task Automation
10 129 (10.21%) ITIL
11 127 (10.06%) Disaster Recovery
12 125 (9.90%) Identity Access Management
12 125 (9.90%) Runbook
13 120 (9.50%) Analytics
14 119 (9.42%) ITSM
15 118 (9.34%) Observability
16 115 (9.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 115 (9.11%) Root Cause Analysis
17 112 (8.87%) High Availability
18 111 (8.79%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 556 (44.02%) Python
2 246 (19.48%) Bash
3 196 (15.52%) SQL
4 95 (7.52%) C#
5 72 (5.70%) Bicep
6 66 (5.23%) JavaScript
7 56 (4.43%) Kusto Query Language
8 51 (4.04%) Java
9 24 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.66%) VBScript
11 19 (1.50%) TypeScript
12 18 (1.43%) Search Processing Language
13 17 (1.35%) Go
14 14 (1.11%) Perl
15 13 (1.03%) Groovy
16 12 (0.95%) VB
17 10 (0.79%) BeanShell
18 9 (0.71%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.63%) C++
20 7 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 491 (38.88%) Security Cleared
2 371 (29.37%) SC Cleared
3 114 (9.03%) Degree
4 111 (8.79%) DV Cleared
5 90 (7.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 76 (6.02%) Azure Certification
7 72 (5.70%) CISSP
8 43 (3.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 35 (2.77%) CISM
10 30 (2.38%) MCSE
11 29 (2.30%) MCSA
12 25 (1.98%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.58%) VCAP
14 17 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (1.19%) CEH
17 13 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.95%) GIAC
19 7 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 88 (6.97%) GDPR
3 79 (6.25%) NIST
4 30 (2.38%) QA
5 25 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 21 (1.66%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.50%) SLA
8 16 (1.27%) HIPAA
9 15 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.87%) FINRA
10 11 (0.87%) MiFID
10 11 (0.87%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.63%) NCSC
13 5 (0.40%) GRC
14 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.16%) SOC 1
System Software
1 428 (33.89%) Active Directory
2 144 (11.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (9.42%) Docker
4 72 (5.70%) Virtual Machines
5 70 (5.54%) Hyper-V
6 56 (4.43%) vSphere
7 52 (4.12%) VMware ESXi
8 40 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 28 (2.22%) BitLocker
10 21 (1.66%) VMware NSX
11 19 (1.50%) Firmware
11 19 (1.50%) Microsoft App-V
12 18 (1.43%) KVM
13 8 (0.63%) vCloud
14 6 (0.48%) Squid
15 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.24%) Postfix
16 3 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
17 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 298 (23.59%) Terraform
2 170 (13.46%) Ansible
3 162 (12.83%) Kubernetes
4 144 (11.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 81 (6.41%) SCCM
6 61 (4.83%) vCenter Server
7 57 (4.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 56 (4.43%) Grafana
9 47 (3.72%) Prometheus
10 42 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.90%) Puppet
12 23 (1.82%) Nagios
13 22 (1.74%) Progress Chef
14 19 (1.50%) SCOM
15 18 (1.43%) Tivoli
15 18 (1.43%) vRealize
15 18 (1.43%) ZABBIX
16 17 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
17 16 (1.27%) Netcool
18 15 (1.19%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 588 (46.56%) Microsoft
2 188 (14.89%) VMware
3 92 (7.28%) CyberArk
4 87 (6.89%) ServiceNow
5 75 (5.94%) BeyondTrust
6 72 (5.70%) Splunk
7 57 (4.51%) Google
8 53 (4.20%) Cisco
9 52 (4.12%) Oracle
10 49 (3.88%) Citrix
11 41 (3.25%) Red Hat
12 36 (2.85%) Centrify
13 33 (2.61%) SolarWinds
14 32 (2.53%) BMC
15 29 (2.30%) IBM
16 27 (2.14%) Databricks
17 24 (1.90%) Remedy
18 22 (1.74%) Dynatrace
18 22 (1.74%) Okta
19 21 (1.66%) HP