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

 6 months to
29 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 72 59
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 0
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,452 991 1,164
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 3.60% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.07% 10.92% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 619 805
10th Percentile £332 £342 £327
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £619
90th Percentile £714 £664 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 14 19
10th Percentile £30.85 £44.13 £23.80
25th Percentile £46.95 £45.19 £46.88
Median hourly rate £65.24 £63.25 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% +8.14% -2.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.38 £74.22
90th Percentile £92.11 £82.00 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £63.31 £63.50 £63.93
% change year-on-year -0.30% -0.68% +6.37%

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 12,027 9,074 10,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.96% 32.93% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,798 6,118 7,066
10th Percentile £363 £350 £354
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.86% -3.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 258 300
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.81 £48.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.38 £67.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £77.00 £80.00
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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -19 629 £550 +7.32% 373
South East -3 313 £538 +2.38% 136
North of England +43 279 £480 +9.71% 161
North West +45 170 £472 +6.67% 91
South West -16 102 £631 +21.39% 70
Yorkshire +14 95 £518 +23.76% 49
Midlands -80 58 £500 +5.26% 101
East of England -40 52 £507 -7.82% 49
West Midlands -77 44 £510 +7.37% 59
North East -31 15 £500 - 23
East Midlands -24 14 £500 +9.29% 42
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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
1 122 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 117 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (3.31%) Confluence
4 23 (1.58%) IIS
5 21 (1.45%) Skype for Business
6 20 (1.38%) Apache
7 15 (1.03%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.96%) nginx
9 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
10 4 (0.28%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
13 1 (0.069%) Camunda
13 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.069%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (3.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.34%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.34%) Summit
4 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.069%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.069%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 803 (55.30%) Azure
2 391 (26.93%) Entra ID
3 317 (21.83%) AWS
4 237 (16.32%) Microsoft 365
5 210 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
6 179 (12.33%) GitHub
7 148 (10.19%) GCP
8 126 (8.68%) Power Platform
9 119 (8.20%) Azure Monitor
10 105 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
11 79 (5.44%) Azure AKS
12 65 (4.48%) SaaS
13 61 (4.20%) Azure Sentinel
13 61 (4.20%) OneDrive
14 52 (3.58%) IaaS
15 50 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
16 49 (3.37%) Microsoft Copilot
17 45 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
18 44 (3.03%) OpenShift
18 44 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (15.98%) DNS
2 208 (14.33%) Firewall
3 140 (9.64%) DHCP
4 106 (7.30%) VPN
5 103 (7.09%) TCP/IP
6 84 (5.79%) Network Security
7 37 (2.55%) WAN
8 35 (2.41%) VLAN
9 33 (2.27%) SAN
10 26 (1.79%) SSL
11 24 (1.65%) Skype
11 24 (1.65%) SSH
12 22 (1.52%) VSAN
13 20 (1.38%) LAN
14 19 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (1.10%) Kerberos
15 16 (1.10%) NAS
15 16 (1.10%) SD-WAN
16 15 (1.03%) SMTP
17 14 (0.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (11.71%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.79%) Power BI
3 34 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 32 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (1.45%) Big Data
6 18 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 18 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (1.17%) Metadata
7 17 (1.17%) MySQL
8 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 15 (1.03%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.90%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.69%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.62%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.48%) Apache Hive
14 7 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 113 (7.78%) Jenkins
2 111 (7.64%) Git
3 77 (5.30%) GitLab
4 71 (4.89%) JIRA
5 34 (2.34%) MSI
6 15 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 14 (0.96%) Artifactory
8 13 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (0.62%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.55%) Postman
11 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.41%) JMeter
12 6 (0.41%) Selenium
12 6 (0.41%) Snyk
13 5 (0.34%) AdminStudio
13 5 (0.34%) InstallShield
13 5 (0.34%) MSBuild
14 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 374 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 269 (18.53%) Finance
3 203 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (7.44%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.54%) Banking
6 79 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (1.93%) Legal
8 24 (1.65%) Military
9 22 (1.52%) Aerospace
10 21 (1.45%) Investment Banking
11 18 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.10%) Law
13 15 (1.03%) Front Office
14 12 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.76%) Back Office
16 10 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.69%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.62%) Local Government
18 8 (0.55%) Telecoms
19 7 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 160 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 154 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
2 154 (10.61%) Senior
3 138 (9.50%) Azure Engineer
4 108 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 94 (6.47%) Support Engineer
6 90 (6.20%) Security Engineer
7 89 (6.13%) Architect
8 66 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
9 63 (4.34%) Lead
10 51 (3.51%) Analyst
11 48 (3.31%) Developer
12 46 (3.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 46 (3.17%) Consultant
13 45 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 39 (2.69%) Automation Engineer
15 35 (2.41%) DBA
15 35 (2.41%) IT Engineer
16 32 (2.20%) Administrator
16 32 (2.20%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 470 (32.37%) Terraform
2 129 (8.88%) REST
3 84 (5.79%) ARM Templates
4 65 (4.48%) OAuth
5 64 (4.41%) LDAP
6 60 (4.13%) .NET
6 60 (4.13%) JSON
7 53 (3.65%) SAML
8 50 (3.44%) OpenID
9 49 (3.37%) Microsoft Graph
10 47 (3.24%) YAML
11 43 (2.96%) SailPoint
12 40 (2.75%) OAuth2
13 26 (1.79%) Kafka
14 24 (1.65%) React
15 23 (1.58%) Web Services
16 16 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
16 16 (1.10%) Middleware
16 16 (1.10%) Software Packaging
17 15 (1.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.64%) Onboarding
2 97 (6.68%) Cloud Native
3 80 (5.51%) Security Posture
4 77 (5.30%) PKI
5 75 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
6 69 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 64 (4.41%) Management Information System
8 62 (4.27%) Data Centre
9 60 (4.13%) Replication
10 56 (3.86%) Clustering
11 33 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
12 31 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.86%) CMDB
13 27 (1.86%) Public Cloud
14 25 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
15 24 (1.65%) Product Ownership
16 23 (1.58%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
17 20 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
18 17 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 706 (48.62%) Windows
2 373 (25.69%) Linux
3 310 (21.35%) Windows Server
4 91 (6.27%) Windows 10
5 88 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 48 (3.31%) Unix
7 35 (2.41%) Ubuntu
8 31 (2.13%) CentOS
9 29 (2.00%) Apple iOS
10 28 (1.93%) Mac OS
11 23 (1.58%) Windows 7
11 23 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 20 (1.38%) Android
13 18 (1.24%) VMS
14 16 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (0.83%) Rocky
16 10 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
17 9 (0.62%) AIX
17 9 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
17 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (29.82%) DevOps
2 432 (29.75%) CI/CD
3 420 (28.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 299 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
5 244 (16.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 224 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (14.46%) ITIL
8 197 (13.57%) Runbook
9 193 (13.29%) Agile
10 188 (12.95%) ITSM
11 187 (12.88%) Migration
12 172 (11.85%) Cybersecurity
13 165 (11.36%) AI
14 157 (10.81%) Analytics
15 153 (10.54%) Identity Access Management
16 150 (10.33%) Cloud Security
17 147 (10.12%) SIEM
18 145 (9.99%) Stakeholder Management
19 144 (9.92%) RBAC
20 143 (9.85%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 686 (47.25%) Python
2 381 (26.24%) Bash
3 228 (15.70%) SQL
4 159 (10.95%) Bicep
5 93 (6.40%) Java
6 80 (5.51%) C#
7 66 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 27 (1.86%) VBScript
9 26 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 25 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.58%) Perl
11 23 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 21 (1.45%) Groovy
12 21 (1.45%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.17%) Search Processing Language
13 17 (1.17%) VB
14 16 (1.10%) Go
15 14 (0.96%) Korn
16 13 (0.90%) BeanShell
17 12 (0.83%) C++
Qualifications
1 535 (36.85%) Security Cleared
2 370 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 183 (12.60%) DV Cleared
4 168 (11.57%) Degree
5 125 (8.61%) Azure Certification
6 107 (7.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (5.99%) CISSP
8 64 (4.41%) AWS Certification
9 34 (2.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (1.79%) CISM
13 26 (1.79%) MCSE
14 22 (1.52%) VCAP
15 20 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 16 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 16 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
17 15 (1.03%) MCSA
18 13 (0.90%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 101 (6.96%) NIST
3 38 (2.62%) QA
4 35 (2.41%) SLA
5 32 (2.20%) GDPR
6 27 (1.86%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.96%) NCSC
11 12 (0.83%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.62%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.41%) GxP
14 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
16 2 (0.14%) Accessibility
16 2 (0.14%) GRC
16 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 486 (33.47%) Active Directory
2 192 (13.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 174 (11.98%) Docker
4 98 (6.75%) Virtual Machines
5 78 (5.37%) Hyper-V
6 64 (4.41%) vSphere
7 62 (4.27%) VMware ESXi
8 56 (3.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 47 (3.24%) VMware NSX
10 31 (2.13%) BitLocker
11 24 (1.65%) vCloud
12 17 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
13 12 (0.83%) Firmware
14 10 (0.69%) NFS
15 9 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.34%) Squid
17 4 (0.28%) Dovecot
17 4 (0.28%) Postfix
17 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
18 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 263 (18.11%) Kubernetes
2 262 (18.04%) Ansible
3 205 (14.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 132 (9.09%) SCCM
5 77 (5.30%) Grafana
6 65 (4.48%) vCenter Server
7 64 (4.41%) SCOM
8 60 (4.13%) Prometheus
9 50 (3.44%) Progress Chef
10 40 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (2.41%) Puppet
12 24 (1.65%) Packer
13 21 (1.45%) WMI
14 17 (1.17%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.96%) VxRail
16 12 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
16 12 (0.83%) Nagios
17 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
17 11 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 726 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 252 (17.36%) VMware
3 150 (10.33%) ServiceNow
4 109 (7.51%) CyberArk
5 94 (6.47%) Google
6 93 (6.40%) Splunk
7 68 (4.68%) Oracle
8 61 (4.20%) BeyondTrust
9 58 (3.99%) Cisco
10 53 (3.65%) Red Hat
11 49 (3.37%) Remedy
12 44 (3.03%) BMC
13 40 (2.75%) Citrix
14 37 (2.55%) Databricks
15 30 (2.07%) Dynatrace
16 28 (1.93%) SolarWinds
17 24 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
18 23 (1.58%) Okta
18 23 (1.58%) Veeam
19 22 (1.52%) Qualys
933 PowerShell jobs in England