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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 62 53
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,319 1,039 1,330
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 3.81% 3.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.12% 11.53% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 674 953
10th Percentile £320 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £619
90th Percentile £691 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.39% -1.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 14 21
10th Percentile £19.25 £45.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £33.70 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -12.35%
75th Percentile £68.50 £84.49 £74.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £165.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £63.50 £55.50
% change year-on-year -17.32% +14.42% -7.67%

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 11,861 9,013 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.45% 33.07% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,696 6,195 7,904
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -4.63% -0.91%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 228 408
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £35.37
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.97 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% +3.09%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -19 554 £530 +0.95% 117
South East -13 294 £525 -8.70% 100
North of England +9 258 £454 +2.02% 58
North West +18 152 £453 +1.29% 36
Yorkshire -7 102 £455 +8.54% 14
South West -13 102 £450 -21.74% 29
Midlands -67 63 £500 +11.11% 33
West Midlands -76 43 £500 +9.89% 19
East of England -51 39 £507 -7.82% 26
East Midlands -12 19 £469 +4.17% 14
North East -37 6 £238 -32.14% 9
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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
1 130 (9.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 129 (9.78%) SharePoint
3 44 (3.34%) Confluence
4 20 (1.52%) IIS
5 11 (0.83%) Apache
5 11 (0.83%) Skype for Business
6 8 (0.61%) nginx
7 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.23%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.076%) CMS
11 1 (0.076%) MTS
Applications
1 23 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.076%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (2.58%) 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 (0.076%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.076%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.076%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 728 (55.19%) Azure
2 337 (25.55%) Entra ID
3 289 (21.91%) AWS
4 222 (16.83%) Microsoft 365
5 160 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
6 153 (11.60%) GitHub
7 132 (10.01%) GCP
8 116 (8.79%) Power Platform
9 108 (8.19%) GitHub Actions
10 101 (7.66%) Azure Monitor
11 78 (5.91%) OneDrive
12 64 (4.85%) Azure AKS
13 58 (4.40%) SaaS
14 57 (4.32%) PaaS
15 53 (4.02%) Microsoft Purview
16 48 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 45 (3.41%) IaaS
18 44 (3.34%) Microsoft Copilot
19 41 (3.11%) Azure Sentinel
20 39 (2.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 190 (14.40%) DNS
2 170 (12.89%) Firewall
3 107 (8.11%) DHCP
4 82 (6.22%) VPN
5 77 (5.84%) TCP/IP
6 57 (4.32%) Network Security
7 42 (3.18%) WAN
8 30 (2.27%) SAN
9 29 (2.20%) LAN
10 28 (2.12%) VLAN
11 27 (2.05%) Kerberos
12 23 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (1.44%) SSL
14 18 (1.36%) SSH
14 18 (1.36%) VSAN
15 17 (1.29%) NAS
15 17 (1.29%) SNMP
16 14 (1.06%) SMTP
17 13 (0.99%) Internet
17 13 (0.99%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (13.57%) SQL Server
2 75 (5.69%) Power BI
3 42 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.21%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.21%) MySQL
8 15 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (1.06%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 12 (0.91%) Metadata
12 11 (0.83%) Big Data
13 10 (0.76%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.68%) Db2
14 9 (0.68%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 108 (8.19%) Jenkins
2 101 (7.66%) Git
3 73 (5.53%) JIRA
4 55 (4.17%) GitLab
5 24 (1.82%) MSI
6 11 (0.83%) Selenium
7 10 (0.76%) InstallShield
7 10 (0.76%) Postman
8 9 (0.68%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.45%) JMeter
11 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.38%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.30%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 298 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 215 (16.30%) Finance
3 168 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 80 (6.07%) Documentation Skills
6 76 (5.76%) Banking
7 31 (2.35%) Legal
8 22 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 21 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.36%) Front Office
11 16 (1.21%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.14%) Military
13 12 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.76%) Law
15 9 (0.68%) Retail
16 6 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.45%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.38%) Back Office
17 5 (0.38%) Local Government
17 5 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (11.60%) Senior
2 131 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 128 (9.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 113 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
5 83 (6.29%) Architect
5 83 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 81 (6.14%) Security Engineer
7 74 (5.61%) Support Engineer
8 52 (3.94%) Developer
9 46 (3.49%) Analyst
10 45 (3.41%) Consultant
11 41 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (2.96%) Lead
13 37 (2.81%) IT Engineer
14 33 (2.50%) Administrator
15 31 (2.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 31 (2.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 30 (2.27%) PowerShell Engineer
17 29 (2.20%) DBA
17 29 (2.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (8.57%) REST
2 76 (5.76%) Microsoft Graph
3 72 (5.46%) LDAP
4 63 (4.78%) .NET
5 51 (3.87%) ARM Templates
6 49 (3.71%) JSON
7 48 (3.64%) OAuth
8 45 (3.41%) SailPoint
9 42 (3.18%) YAML
10 36 (2.73%) SAML
11 34 (2.58%) OpenID
12 32 (2.43%) Web Services
13 29 (2.20%) OAuth2
14 24 (1.82%) .NET Framework
15 23 (1.74%) Kafka
16 21 (1.59%) SOAP
17 17 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
18 16 (1.21%) XML
19 15 (1.14%) React
20 12 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 119 (9.02%) Onboarding
2 88 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.46%) Replication
4 69 (5.23%) Security Posture
5 64 (4.85%) PKI
6 56 (4.25%) Clustering
7 54 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 50 (3.79%) Management Information System
9 44 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
10 43 (3.26%) Data Centre
11 33 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (1.82%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.59%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.59%) Product Ownership
16 18 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
16 18 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.29%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 600 (45.49%) Windows
2 308 (23.35%) Linux
3 244 (18.50%) Windows Server
4 76 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (4.47%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.49%) Unix
7 27 (2.05%) Ubuntu
8 26 (1.97%) AIX
9 24 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (1.74%) Mac OS
11 19 (1.44%) VMS
12 17 (1.29%) Apple iOS
12 17 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (1.21%) CentOS
14 14 (1.06%) Android
15 12 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
16 8 (0.61%) Windows 7
17 7 (0.53%) Rocky
18 5 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
18 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (27.82%) DevOps
2 348 (26.38%) CI/CD
3 301 (22.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 263 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
5 202 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 183 (13.87%) Agile
7 168 (12.74%) Migration
8 165 (12.51%) ITIL
9 157 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 157 (11.90%) Runbook
10 132 (10.01%) ITSM
11 130 (9.86%) Analytics
11 130 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
11 130 (9.86%) SIEM
12 123 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
12 123 (9.33%) Observability
13 118 (8.95%) Disaster Recovery
14 115 (8.72%) Cloud Security
15 114 (8.64%) AI
15 114 (8.64%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 609 (46.17%) Python
2 315 (23.88%) Bash
3 232 (17.59%) SQL
4 100 (7.58%) Bicep
5 89 (6.75%) C#
6 57 (4.32%) Java
7 56 (4.25%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (1.97%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.59%) VBScript
12 20 (1.52%) Perl
12 20 (1.52%) Search Processing Language
13 17 (1.29%) Groovy
14 13 (0.99%) Go
14 13 (0.99%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.91%) C++
16 11 (0.83%) BeanShell
17 9 (0.68%) VB
18 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 459 (34.80%) Security Cleared
2 322 (24.41%) SC Cleared
3 138 (10.46%) Degree
4 136 (10.31%) DV Cleared
5 91 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 91 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (5.91%) CISSP
7 52 (3.94%) AWS Certification
8 39 (2.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 34 (2.58%) CISM
10 25 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.82%) MCSE
12 21 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (1.44%) MCSA
15 16 (1.21%) VCAP
16 13 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.68%) A+ Certification
17 9 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (6.82%) NIST
3 51 (3.87%) GDPR
4 34 (2.58%) QA
5 30 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 30 (2.27%) SLA
6 14 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 12 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.76%) NCSC
9 10 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.38%) GRC
11 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.30%) GxP
12 3 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.15%) FINRA
System Software
1 427 (32.37%) Active Directory
2 156 (11.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (10.61%) Docker
4 85 (6.44%) Virtual Machines
5 71 (5.38%) Hyper-V
6 60 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
7 56 (4.25%) vSphere
8 42 (3.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 33 (2.50%) VMware NSX
10 24 (1.82%) BitLocker
11 20 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
12 19 (1.44%) Firmware
13 15 (1.14%) vCloud
14 14 (1.06%) KVM
15 5 (0.38%) Squid
15 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.23%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.23%) NFS
16 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 369 (27.98%) Terraform
2 215 (16.30%) Ansible
3 198 (15.01%) Kubernetes
4 167 (12.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 90 (6.82%) SCCM
6 66 (5.00%) vCenter Server
7 63 (4.78%) Grafana
8 52 (3.94%) Prometheus
9 40 (3.03%) Progress Chef
10 39 (2.96%) Puppet
11 35 (2.65%) SCOM
12 30 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 30 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
13 21 (1.59%) Nagios
13 21 (1.59%) Packer
14 20 (1.52%) ZABBIX
15 18 (1.36%) Tivoli
15 18 (1.36%) vRealize
16 17 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
17 16 (1.21%) Netcool
Vendors
1 612 (46.40%) Microsoft
2 206 (15.62%) VMware
3 118 (8.95%) ServiceNow
4 80 (6.07%) CyberArk
4 80 (6.07%) Google
5 74 (5.61%) Splunk
6 71 (5.38%) Oracle
7 57 (4.32%) Cisco
8 51 (3.87%) Red Hat
9 50 (3.79%) BeyondTrust
10 48 (3.64%) Citrix
11 40 (3.03%) BMC
11 40 (3.03%) SolarWinds
12 38 (2.88%) Remedy
13 33 (2.50%) IBM
14 29 (2.20%) HP
15 28 (2.12%) Databricks
16 25 (1.90%) NetApp
17 22 (1.67%) Qualys
18 21 (1.59%) Dynatrace