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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 -9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,326 1,002 1,156
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 4.06% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.36% 12.02% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 944 679 816
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £422 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £622 £626 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 14 30
10th Percentile £35.41 £17.00 £20.57
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £36.90
Median hourly rate £74.26 £49.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.27% +24.38% -30.23%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.78 £164.89 £68.64
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +156.07% -27.50% -28.78%

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 10,724 8,335 10,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.69% 33.76% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,149 5,641 7,882
10th Percentile £352 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -2.33% -5.70%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £774
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 218 442
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.05
25th Percentile £55.61 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -5.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -18 547 £550 +4.76% 126
South East -6 246 £505 -12.17% 100
North of England -4 224 £479 +1.81% 60
South West +6 157 £550 -5.98% 54
North West +9 129 £483 +3.25% 28
Yorkshire -30 89 £471 -5.80% 18
Midlands -60 81 £456 -3.95% 43
West Midlands -60 60 £485 -3.00% 26
East of England -12 34 £500 -7.41% 35
East Midlands -32 20 £418 -7.22% 17
North East -15 11 £550 +20.35% 15
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
1 195 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 151 (11.39%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.22%) Confluence
4 27 (2.04%) Skype for Business
5 15 (1.13%) IIS
6 14 (1.06%) Apache
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%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.15%) WordPress
9 1 (0.075%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.075%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.075%) SAS
9 1 (0.075%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.075%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.075%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 37 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.60%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 6 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.075%) Actimize
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.075%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 661 (49.85%) Azure
2 312 (23.53%) Entra ID
3 281 (21.19%) Microsoft 365
4 238 (17.95%) AWS
5 138 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
6 135 (10.18%) GCP
7 123 (9.28%) GitHub
8 89 (6.71%) Power Platform
9 83 (6.26%) GitHub Actions
10 80 (6.03%) OneDrive
11 72 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
12 63 (4.75%) IaaS
12 63 (4.75%) Microsoft Purview
13 57 (4.30%) PaaS
14 48 (3.62%) SaaS
15 47 (3.54%) Azure Sentinel
16 44 (3.32%) Serverless
17 41 (3.09%) Azure Key Vault
18 37 (2.79%) Azure AKS
18 37 (2.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 205 (15.46%) DNS
2 170 (12.82%) Firewall
3 135 (10.18%) DHCP
4 81 (6.11%) VPN
5 70 (5.28%) TCP/IP
6 60 (4.52%) Network Security
7 44 (3.32%) LAN
8 41 (3.09%) WAN
9 38 (2.87%) Kerberos
10 33 (2.49%) VLAN
11 31 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (2.26%) Skype
13 18 (1.36%) DKIM
13 18 (1.36%) DMARC
13 18 (1.36%) SMTP
14 17 (1.28%) SAN
14 17 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
15 15 (1.13%) Wireshark
16 14 (1.06%) SSL
16 14 (1.06%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.71%) SQL Server
2 55 (4.15%) Power BI
3 28 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.43%) Metadata
7 18 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (0.75%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.68%) Delta Lake
12 8 (0.60%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.60%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.53%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.53%) Spark SQL
13 7 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.45%) DB2
14 6 (0.45%) MySQL
15 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 84 (6.33%) JIRA
2 83 (6.26%) Git
3 82 (6.18%) Jenkins
4 72 (5.43%) GitLab
5 15 (1.13%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.06%) MSI
7 11 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.75%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.68%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.68%) InstallShield
9 9 (0.68%) Selenium
10 8 (0.60%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.53%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.45%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.38%) AdminStudio
13 5 (0.38%) Appium
14 4 (0.30%) JUnit
14 4 (0.30%) MSTest
14 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 433 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 222 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
3 144 (10.86%) Finance
4 124 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 90 (6.79%) Documentation Skills
6 61 (4.60%) Banking
7 59 (4.45%) Legal
8 21 (1.58%) Front Office
9 20 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.28%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.06%) Retail
12 13 (0.98%) Military
13 9 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.68%) Publishing
14 8 (0.60%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.60%) Law
15 7 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.45%) Electronics
16 6 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 175 (13.20%) Architect
2 124 (9.35%) Senior
3 92 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
4 86 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 79 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (5.28%) Security Engineer
7 68 (5.13%) Support Engineer
8 64 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
9 60 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (4.15%) Consultant
11 51 (3.85%) Developer
12 50 (3.77%) Analyst
13 41 (3.09%) Microsoft Engineer
14 37 (2.79%) CyberArk Architect
15 36 (2.71%) Lead
16 30 (2.26%) Administrator
16 30 (2.26%) SIEM Engineer
17 29 (2.19%) IT Engineer
18 26 (1.96%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 26 (1.96%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (13.73%) REST
2 114 (8.60%) LDAP
3 81 (6.11%) Microsoft Graph
4 66 (4.98%) SOAP
5 59 (4.45%) JSON
5 59 (4.45%) OAuth
6 54 (4.07%) SAML
7 50 (3.77%) .NET
8 38 (2.87%) ARM Templates
9 35 (2.64%) OpenID
10 28 (2.11%) SailPoint
11 27 (2.04%) OAuth2
11 27 (2.04%) YAML
12 26 (1.96%) .NET Framework
13 20 (1.51%) Web Services
14 19 (1.43%) Middleware
15 18 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (1.28%) XML
17 15 (1.13%) Node.js
18 14 (1.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.41%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.18%) Security Posture
3 74 (5.58%) PKI
3 74 (5.58%) Replication
4 68 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
5 56 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 47 (3.54%) Data Centre
7 41 (3.09%) Cloud Native
8 39 (2.94%) Clustering
9 37 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (2.49%) Product Ownership
11 30 (2.26%) Management Information System
12 26 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.28%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.13%) Enterprise Storage
17 14 (1.06%) BYOD
17 14 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
18 13 (0.98%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 527 (39.74%) Windows
2 229 (17.27%) Windows Server
3 228 (17.19%) Linux
4 69 (5.20%) Windows 10
5 44 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.81%) Mac OS
7 21 (1.58%) Unix
8 20 (1.51%) Android
9 19 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (1.28%) AIX
11 17 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 14 (1.06%) VMS
13 11 (0.83%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.75%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.75%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.68%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.53%) CentOS
16 7 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
17 6 (0.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (25.34%) DevOps
2 324 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
3 284 (21.42%) CI/CD
4 216 (16.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 214 (16.14%) Agile
6 171 (12.90%) SIEM
7 160 (12.07%) Migration
8 145 (10.94%) ITIL
9 143 (10.78%) Task Automation
10 137 (10.33%) Cybersecurity
11 136 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 130 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 122 (9.20%) Identity Access Management
14 120 (9.05%) ITSM
14 120 (9.05%) RBAC
15 115 (8.67%) Disaster Recovery
16 113 (8.52%) High Availability
16 113 (8.52%) Incident Response
17 110 (8.30%) Analytics
18 102 (7.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 571 (43.06%) Python
2 245 (18.48%) Bash
3 154 (11.61%) SQL
4 95 (7.16%) C#
5 75 (5.66%) Kusto Query Language
6 67 (5.05%) JavaScript
7 60 (4.52%) Bicep
8 50 (3.77%) Java
9 32 (2.41%) Perl
10 22 (1.66%) VBScript
11 19 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 13 (0.98%) BeanShell
12 13 (0.98%) Go
12 13 (0.98%) VB
13 9 (0.68%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.53%) PHP
14 7 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
14 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 573 (43.21%) Security Cleared
2 451 (34.01%) SC Cleared
3 122 (9.20%) DV Cleared
4 120 (9.05%) Degree
5 102 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 80 (6.03%) CISSP
7 64 (4.83%) Azure Certification
8 47 (3.54%) CISM
9 35 (2.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 27 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.96%) CEH
12 25 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (1.73%) MCSE
14 22 (1.66%) MCSA
15 20 (1.51%) AWS Certification
16 18 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
16 18 (1.36%) CCNA
16 18 (1.36%) CCNP
17 16 (1.21%) GIAC
18 13 (0.98%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (8.90%) GDPR
2 105 (7.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (5.73%) NIST
4 34 (2.56%) QA
5 30 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.36%) SLA
7 15 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.13%) Data Quality
7 15 (1.13%) MiFID
8 12 (0.90%) NCSC
8 12 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.83%) FINRA
9 11 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.75%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.38%) PSD2
12 4 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.30%) GRC
13 3 (0.23%) EMIR
13 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 463 (34.92%) Active Directory
2 138 (10.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (9.13%) Docker
4 68 (5.13%) Hyper-V
5 49 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (2.94%) vSphere
7 35 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (1.51%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.28%) KVM
11 13 (0.98%) Firmware
11 13 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (0.75%) VMware NSX
13 8 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.30%) NFS
15 3 (0.23%) Squid
16 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.15%) Snort
16 2 (0.15%) UAG
Systems Management
1 274 (20.66%) Terraform
2 152 (11.46%) Ansible
3 149 (11.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 139 (10.48%) Kubernetes
5 99 (7.47%) SCCM
6 85 (6.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 64 (4.83%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (3.39%) vCenter Server
9 43 (3.24%) Grafana
10 39 (2.94%) Prometheus
11 18 (1.36%) SCOM
12 17 (1.28%) Puppet
12 17 (1.28%) WSUS
13 16 (1.21%) Kibana
13 16 (1.21%) Progress Chef
13 16 (1.21%) vRealize
14 13 (0.98%) Nagios
15 12 (0.90%) PowerCLI
16 11 (0.83%) Istio
16 11 (0.83%) Nessus
Vendors
1 614 (46.30%) Microsoft
2 191 (14.40%) VMware
3 91 (6.86%) CyberArk
4 74 (5.58%) ServiceNow
5 72 (5.43%) Citrix
6 68 (5.13%) BeyondTrust
7 58 (4.37%) Splunk
8 50 (3.77%) Cisco
9 45 (3.39%) Red Hat
10 41 (3.09%) Google
11 38 (2.87%) Oracle
12 35 (2.64%) Centrify
13 29 (2.19%) SolarWinds
14 27 (2.04%) Okta
15 26 (1.96%) Databricks
15 26 (1.96%) Veeam
16 23 (1.73%) Atlassian
17 19 (1.43%) Qualys
18 18 (1.36%) NetApp
19 17 (1.28%) IBM