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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 71 61
Rank change year-on-year -9 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,504 1,018 1,122
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.23% 3.65% 3.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.38% 11.19% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 633 769
10th Percentile £331 £343 £325
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £588 £622
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 15 20
10th Percentile £21.66 £44.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £43.81 £45.38 £47.81
Median hourly rate £67.00 £63.00 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.35% +7.71% -2.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £74.11
90th Percentile £92.11 £81.00 £78.70
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £63.50 £58.49
% change year-on-year -0.03% +8.57% -2.69%

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 12,147 9,101 10,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.09% 32.61% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,851 6,093 6,876
10th Percentile £363 £346 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.91% -3.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 264 289
10th Percentile £22.60 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £48.82 £42.25 £47.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.60 £78.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 13 October 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 13 October 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 October 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 -7 657 £550 +7.58% 471
South East -1 320 £538 +4.88% 166
North of England +44 286 £476 +12.00% 156
North West +40 171 £454 +5.33% 80
South West -20 111 £613 +19.75% 83
Yorkshire +19 97 £519 +23.94% 53
Midlands -76 60 £500 +5.26% 81
East of England -43 52 £507 -7.82% 56
West Midlands -81 44 £500 +5.26% 51
North East -29 19 £500 -16.67% 24
East Midlands -19 16 £500 +9.29% 30
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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
1 123 (8.18%) SharePoint
2 118 (7.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 51 (3.39%) Confluence
4 26 (1.73%) IIS
5 25 (1.66%) Apache
6 21 (1.40%) Skype for Business
7 17 (1.13%) Apache Spark
8 15 (1.00%) nginx
9 8 (0.53%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.33%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.27%) CMS
11 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
14 1 (0.066%) MTS
14 1 (0.066%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.066%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.066%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 41 (2.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.53%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.33%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.33%) Summit
4 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.066%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.066%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.066%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.066%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.066%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.066%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.066%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 853 (56.72%) Azure
2 430 (28.59%) Entra ID
3 324 (21.54%) AWS
4 248 (16.49%) Microsoft 365
5 222 (14.76%) Azure DevOps
6 185 (12.30%) GitHub
7 158 (10.51%) GCP
8 131 (8.71%) Azure Monitor
9 124 (8.24%) Power Platform
10 108 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
11 87 (5.78%) Azure AKS
12 72 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
13 66 (4.39%) SaaS
14 63 (4.19%) IaaS
14 63 (4.19%) OneDrive
15 53 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 49 (3.26%) Microsoft Copilot
16 49 (3.26%) PaaS
17 48 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
18 44 (2.93%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 248 (16.49%) DNS
2 223 (14.83%) Firewall
3 151 (10.04%) DHCP
4 115 (7.65%) TCP/IP
5 110 (7.31%) VPN
6 91 (6.05%) Network Security
7 38 (2.53%) VLAN
8 37 (2.46%) WAN
9 36 (2.39%) SAN
10 27 (1.80%) SSL
11 25 (1.66%) SSH
12 24 (1.60%) Skype
13 21 (1.40%) VSAN
14 20 (1.33%) LAN
15 18 (1.20%) NAS
16 17 (1.13%) Kerberos
17 16 (1.06%) SD-WAN
17 16 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
18 14 (0.93%) Internet
18 14 (0.93%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (11.04%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.59%) Power BI
3 34 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 29 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 23 (1.53%) Big Data
8 21 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 19 (1.26%) Metadata
10 18 (1.20%) MySQL
10 18 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 15 (1.00%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.00%) Relational Database
13 14 (0.93%) NoSQL
14 13 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.60%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (0.53%) Apache Hive
17 7 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 129 (8.58%) Git
2 126 (8.38%) Jenkins
3 83 (5.52%) GitLab
4 75 (4.99%) JIRA
5 35 (2.33%) MSI
6 16 (1.06%) Artifactory
7 15 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 14 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.66%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.66%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.53%) Postman
10 8 (0.53%) Snyk
11 6 (0.40%) JMeter
11 6 (0.40%) MSBuild
12 5 (0.33%) AdminStudio
12 5 (0.33%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.33%) Selenium
13 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
General
1 388 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 292 (19.41%) Finance
3 202 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 97 (6.45%) Banking
6 74 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (1.99%) Legal
8 26 (1.73%) Military
9 23 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 21 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 17 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.06%) Law
13 15 (1.00%) Front Office
14 14 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.73%) Back Office
15 11 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.66%) Local Government
17 9 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 8 (0.53%) Marketing
19 7 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 171 (11.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 162 (10.77%) Cloud Engineer
2 162 (10.77%) Senior
3 157 (10.44%) Azure Engineer
4 124 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 94 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 92 (6.12%) Security Engineer
7 88 (5.85%) Architect
8 73 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
9 64 (4.26%) Lead
10 54 (3.59%) Consultant
11 52 (3.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 49 (3.26%) Analyst
13 48 (3.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 48 (3.19%) Developer
14 42 (2.79%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
15 39 (2.59%) DBA
16 36 (2.39%) IT Engineer
17 35 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
18 33 (2.19%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (33.31%) Terraform
2 139 (9.24%) REST
3 93 (6.18%) ARM Templates
4 75 (4.99%) OAuth
5 65 (4.32%) LDAP
6 62 (4.12%) JSON
7 61 (4.06%) SAML
8 60 (3.99%) .NET
9 57 (3.79%) OpenID
10 53 (3.52%) YAML
11 49 (3.26%) Microsoft Graph
12 44 (2.93%) OAuth2
13 42 (2.79%) SailPoint
14 28 (1.86%) Kafka
15 26 (1.73%) React
15 26 (1.73%) Web Services
16 19 (1.26%) Middleware
17 17 (1.13%) Software Packaging
18 15 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
18 15 (1.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 145 (9.64%) Onboarding
2 100 (6.65%) Cloud Native
3 85 (5.65%) Security Posture
4 84 (5.59%) Enterprise Software
4 84 (5.59%) PKI
5 76 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 67 (4.45%) Data Centre
7 64 (4.26%) Replication
8 62 (4.12%) Management Information System
9 55 (3.66%) Clustering
10 33 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
11 30 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.86%) CMDB
12 28 (1.86%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
14 23 (1.53%) Product Ownership
15 22 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
15 22 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (1.40%) Data Structures
17 18 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 724 (48.14%) Windows
2 386 (25.66%) Linux
3 323 (21.48%) Windows Server
4 96 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 89 (5.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (2.66%) Unix
7 36 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 31 (2.06%) CentOS
9 29 (1.93%) Apple iOS
10 26 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
11 25 (1.66%) macOS
12 23 (1.53%) Windows 7
13 20 (1.33%) Android
14 18 (1.20%) VMS
14 18 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (0.80%) Rocky
16 9 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
16 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
17 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
18 7 (0.47%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (31.25%) DevOps
2 462 (30.72%) CI/CD
3 447 (29.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 307 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 261 (17.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 232 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 224 (14.89%) ITIL
8 205 (13.63%) Runbook
9 199 (13.23%) Agile
10 197 (13.10%) Migration
11 194 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
12 180 (11.97%) ITSM
13 173 (11.50%) AI
14 165 (10.97%) Analytics
14 165 (10.97%) Identity Access Management
15 161 (10.70%) Platform Engineering
16 158 (10.51%) Root Cause Analysis
17 157 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
18 156 (10.37%) Disaster Recovery
19 153 (10.17%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 694 (46.14%) Python
2 403 (26.80%) Bash
3 234 (15.56%) SQL
4 175 (11.64%) Bicep
5 95 (6.32%) Java
6 76 (5.05%) C#
7 62 (4.12%) JavaScript
8 28 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (1.80%) VBScript
10 24 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 24 (1.60%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.53%) Groovy
11 23 (1.53%) Perl
12 22 (1.46%) TypeScript
13 17 (1.13%) VB
14 15 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
15 14 (0.93%) Go
15 14 (0.93%) Korn
16 13 (0.86%) BeanShell
17 10 (0.66%) C++
Qualifications
1 549 (36.50%) Security Cleared
2 379 (25.20%) SC Cleared
3 188 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 167 (11.10%) Degree
5 121 (8.05%) Azure Certification
6 104 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (5.78%) CISSP
8 65 (4.32%) AWS Certification
9 32 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 27 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.80%) CISM
13 25 (1.66%) MCSE
14 22 (1.46%) VCAP
15 19 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
17 15 (1.00%) MCSA
18 13 (0.86%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 95 (6.32%) NIST
3 35 (2.33%) QA
3 35 (2.33%) SLA
4 31 (2.06%) GDPR
5 29 (1.93%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 18 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.86%) NCSC
10 7 (0.47%) GxP
11 6 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 3 (0.20%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.13%) SOC 1
System Software
1 513 (34.11%) Active Directory
2 194 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 188 (12.50%) Docker
4 105 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
5 79 (5.25%) Hyper-V
6 65 (4.32%) vSphere
7 64 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 64 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
8 47 (3.13%) VMware NSX
9 27 (1.80%) BitLocker
10 24 (1.60%) vCloud
11 17 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (0.73%) Firmware
12 11 (0.73%) NFS
13 10 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.33%) Squid
15 4 (0.27%) Dovecot
15 4 (0.27%) Postfix
15 4 (0.27%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 283 (18.82%) Kubernetes
2 277 (18.42%) Ansible
3 217 (14.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 136 (9.04%) SCCM
5 79 (5.25%) Grafana
6 64 (4.26%) vCenter Server
7 62 (4.12%) Prometheus
7 62 (4.12%) SCOM
8 52 (3.46%) Progress Chef
9 47 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
10 35 (2.33%) Puppet
11 23 (1.53%) Packer
12 21 (1.40%) WMI
13 16 (1.06%) NetBackup
14 15 (1.00%) VxRail
15 12 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
17 10 (0.66%) Nagios
18 9 (0.60%) vMotion
18 9 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 776 (51.60%) Microsoft
2 253 (16.82%) VMware
3 154 (10.24%) ServiceNow
4 102 (6.78%) CyberArk
5 97 (6.45%) Google
6 90 (5.98%) Splunk
7 63 (4.19%) Oracle
8 54 (3.59%) Cisco
9 53 (3.52%) Red Hat
10 52 (3.46%) BeyondTrust
11 45 (2.99%) Citrix
11 45 (2.99%) Databricks
11 45 (2.99%) Remedy
12 40 (2.66%) BMC
13 32 (2.13%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.93%) CrowdStrike
15 27 (1.80%) SolarWinds
16 25 (1.66%) Okta
16 25 (1.66%) Qualys
17 23 (1.53%) NetApp