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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 60 54
Rank change year-on-year -25 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,306 1,054 1,360
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 3.90% 3.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.88% 11.70% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 696 970
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £421 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -6.46%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 9 29
10th Percentile £19.25 £26.96 £33.23
25th Percentile £33.70 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +44.84% -27.06%
75th Percentile £67.84 £82.96 £68.00
90th Percentile £75.81 £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 12,004 9,012 11,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.78% 33.34% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,827 6,215 8,231
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 £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £737 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 229 471
10th Percentile £34.57 £28.36 £35.58
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £78.96 £75.00
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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -25 552 £539 +2.62% 109
South East -14 275 £525 -8.70% 109
North of England +4 267 £458 +2.35% 62
North West +21 152 £452 +0.95% 36
Yorkshire -3 113 £500 +11.11% 14
South West -8 103 £450 -21.74% 35
Midlands -75 64 £500 +8.70% 31
West Midlands -86 45 £500 +8.70% 17
East of England -57 37 £507 -7.82% 24
East Midlands -14 18 £438 -7.89% 14
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 (10.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 130 (9.95%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.14%) Confluence
4 20 (1.53%) IIS
5 14 (1.07%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.69%) Apache
7 7 (0.54%) nginx
8 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
11 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.077%) Camunda
Applications
1 28 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.077%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (2.30%) 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 (0.077%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.077%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.077%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 702 (53.75%) Azure
2 329 (25.19%) Entra ID
3 272 (20.83%) AWS
4 228 (17.46%) Microsoft 365
5 149 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
6 148 (11.33%) GitHub
7 123 (9.42%) GCP
8 116 (8.88%) Power Platform
9 104 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
10 89 (6.81%) Azure Monitor
11 82 (6.28%) OneDrive
12 60 (4.59%) Azure AKS
13 58 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
14 57 (4.36%) PaaS
15 54 (4.13%) SaaS
16 48 (3.68%) Microsoft Copilot
17 43 (3.29%) IaaS
18 40 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
19 38 (2.91%) Power Automate
20 36 (2.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 188 (14.40%) DNS
2 149 (11.41%) Firewall
3 108 (8.27%) DHCP
4 76 (5.82%) VPN
5 57 (4.36%) TCP/IP
6 55 (4.21%) Network Security
7 49 (3.75%) WAN
8 37 (2.83%) Kerberos
9 35 (2.68%) LAN
10 29 (2.22%) SAN
11 27 (2.07%) VLAN
12 26 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (1.53%) SSL
14 17 (1.30%) NAS
14 17 (1.30%) SNMP
15 16 (1.23%) Skype
16 15 (1.15%) VSAN
17 14 (1.07%) SD-WAN
17 14 (1.07%) SMTP
18 13 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (13.09%) SQL Server
2 73 (5.59%) Power BI
3 44 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.23%) MySQL
8 15 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 14 (1.07%) Relational Database
10 13 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (0.84%) Metadata
11 11 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (0.77%) NoSQL
13 9 (0.69%) Big Data
13 9 (0.69%) Db2
13 9 (0.69%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 104 (7.96%) Jenkins
2 95 (7.27%) Git
3 65 (4.98%) JIRA
4 53 (4.06%) GitLab
5 23 (1.76%) MSI
6 11 (0.84%) Selenium
7 10 (0.77%) InstallShield
7 10 (0.77%) Postman
8 9 (0.69%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.46%) JMeter
12 5 (0.38%) Appium
12 5 (0.38%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.31%) Jaeger
13 4 (0.31%) MSBuild
General
1 305 (23.35%) Social Skills
2 206 (15.77%) Finance
3 164 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 79 (6.05%) Documentation Skills
6 76 (5.82%) Banking
7 40 (3.06%) Legal
8 23 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 21 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.38%) Front Office
11 14 (1.07%) Financial Institution
12 12 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.84%) Military
14 10 (0.77%) Law
14 10 (0.77%) Retail
15 7 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.38%) Back Office
16 5 (0.38%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.31%) Local Government
17 4 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 139 (10.64%) Senior
2 118 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 114 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 106 (8.12%) Azure Engineer
5 92 (7.04%) Architect
6 78 (5.97%) Security Engineer
7 75 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
8 73 (5.59%) Support Engineer
9 52 (3.98%) Developer
10 48 (3.68%) Analyst
11 47 (3.60%) Consultant
12 37 (2.83%) Lead
13 35 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
14 34 (2.60%) IT Engineer
15 31 (2.37%) Administrator
15 31 (2.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 29 (2.22%) PowerShell Engineer
17 28 (2.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 27 (2.07%) Automation Engineer
18 27 (2.07%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (8.50%) REST
2 83 (6.36%) Microsoft Graph
3 81 (6.20%) LDAP
4 58 (4.44%) .NET
4 58 (4.44%) OAuth
5 48 (3.68%) JSON
6 47 (3.60%) SAML
7 40 (3.06%) SailPoint
7 40 (3.06%) YAML
8 38 (2.91%) ARM Templates
9 33 (2.53%) OpenID
10 30 (2.30%) Web Services
11 28 (2.14%) OAuth2
12 23 (1.76%) .NET Framework
12 23 (1.76%) Kafka
13 21 (1.61%) SOAP
14 19 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (1.15%) XML
16 13 (1.00%) React
17 12 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.27%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.36%) Replication
3 82 (6.28%) Cloud Native
4 65 (4.98%) Security Posture
5 59 (4.52%) PKI
6 54 (4.13%) Clustering
7 48 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 44 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (3.22%) Management Information System
10 41 (3.14%) Data Centre
11 33 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.68%) Public Cloud
15 20 (1.53%) Product Ownership
16 18 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.30%) Data Structures
18 16 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
19 15 (1.15%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 585 (44.79%) Windows
2 282 (21.59%) Linux
3 238 (18.22%) Windows Server
4 67 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (4.67%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.52%) Unix
7 26 (1.99%) AIX
8 25 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 23 (1.76%) Ubuntu
10 22 (1.68%) Mac OS
11 18 (1.38%) Apple iOS
11 18 (1.38%) VMS
12 16 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 14 (1.07%) Android
14 13 (1.00%) CentOS
14 13 (1.00%) Windows 7
14 13 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.46%) Rocky
16 5 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
16 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (26.80%) DevOps
2 335 (25.65%) CI/CD
3 278 (21.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 266 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
5 181 (13.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 169 (12.94%) Agile
7 162 (12.40%) Migration
8 156 (11.94%) ITIL
9 154 (11.79%) Runbook
10 147 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 132 (10.11%) Identity Access Management
11 132 (10.11%) SIEM
12 123 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
12 123 (9.42%) ITSM
13 120 (9.19%) Analytics
13 120 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
13 120 (9.19%) Observability
14 119 (9.11%) High Availability
15 114 (8.73%) AI
16 112 (8.58%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 589 (45.10%) Python
2 288 (22.05%) Bash
3 228 (17.46%) SQL
4 89 (6.81%) C#
5 83 (6.36%) Bicep
6 56 (4.29%) JavaScript
7 52 (3.98%) Java
8 40 (3.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (1.99%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.91%) VBScript
11 20 (1.53%) Search Processing Language
11 20 (1.53%) TypeScript
12 19 (1.45%) Perl
13 17 (1.30%) Groovy
14 13 (1.00%) Go
14 13 (1.00%) VB
15 12 (0.92%) C++
15 12 (0.92%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.84%) BeanShell
17 7 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 459 (35.15%) Security Cleared
2 335 (25.65%) SC Cleared
3 128 (9.80%) Degree
4 122 (9.34%) DV Cleared
5 92 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.20%) Azure Certification
7 78 (5.97%) CISSP
8 43 (3.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 40 (3.06%) AWS Certification
10 33 (2.53%) CISM
11 27 (2.07%) MCSE
12 24 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.68%) MCSA
14 20 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (1.23%) VCAP
17 13 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.69%) GIAC
19 8 (0.61%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (6.89%) NIST
3 69 (5.28%) GDPR
4 30 (2.30%) QA
5 29 (2.22%) Data Quality
6 26 (1.99%) SLA
7 23 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 15 (1.15%) HIPAA
9 14 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.77%) NCSC
11 10 (0.77%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.46%) FINRA
12 6 (0.46%) MiFID
13 5 (0.38%) GRC
14 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.23%) GxP
15 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 414 (31.70%) Active Directory
2 154 (11.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (9.72%) Docker
4 83 (6.36%) Virtual Machines
5 67 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 61 (4.67%) VMware ESXi
7 56 (4.29%) vSphere
8 41 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 29 (2.22%) BitLocker
9 29 (2.22%) VMware NSX
10 20 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
11 19 (1.45%) Firmware
12 15 (1.15%) KVM
13 14 (1.07%) vCloud
14 5 (0.38%) Squid
14 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.23%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.23%) NFS
16 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 343 (26.26%) Terraform
2 198 (15.16%) Ansible
3 183 (14.01%) Kubernetes
4 158 (12.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 88 (6.74%) SCCM
6 67 (5.13%) vCenter Server
7 59 (4.52%) Grafana
8 49 (3.75%) Prometheus
9 44 (3.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 41 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
11 33 (2.53%) Progress Chef
11 33 (2.53%) Puppet
12 31 (2.37%) SCOM
13 21 (1.61%) Nagios
14 20 (1.53%) ZABBIX
15 19 (1.45%) Packer
15 19 (1.45%) vRealize
16 18 (1.38%) Tivoli
17 17 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
18 16 (1.23%) Netcool
Vendors
1 612 (46.86%) Microsoft
2 199 (15.24%) VMware
3 115 (8.81%) ServiceNow
4 78 (5.97%) CyberArk
5 77 (5.90%) Splunk
6 74 (5.67%) Google
7 68 (5.21%) Oracle
8 57 (4.36%) Cisco
9 50 (3.83%) Citrix
10 48 (3.68%) BeyondTrust
11 45 (3.45%) Red Hat
12 39 (2.99%) SolarWinds
13 37 (2.83%) BMC
14 34 (2.60%) Remedy
15 31 (2.37%) IBM
16 28 (2.14%) Okta
17 27 (2.07%) Databricks
17 27 (2.07%) HP
18 22 (1.68%) NetApp
19 20 (1.53%) Bloomberg