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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 68 54
Rank change year-on-year -13 -14 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,432 1,023 1,235
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 3.71% 3.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.03% 11.34% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 647 871
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £591 £613
90th Percentile £706 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 15 15
10th Percentile £26.00 £44.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £43.81 £45.38 £42.17
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +4.84% +9.76%
75th Percentile £76.25 £78.98 £74.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £85.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £69.38
% change year-on-year -0.57% -8.47% +15.63%

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 11,900 9,021 10,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.03% 32.69% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,713 6,160 7,486
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +3.70% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 266 329
10th Percentile £29.99 £29.67 £31.25
25th Percentile £51.31 £41.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.38 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +5.11%

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 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in England

PowerShell
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 27 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in England

PowerShell
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 27 August 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 -1 634 £539 +5.12% 394
South East -9 300 £538 -6.52% 162
North of England +23 262 £475 +6.26% 123
North West +35 164 £455 -1.20% 80
South West -14 111 £495 -5.71% 68
Yorkshire -15 86 £500 +21.21% 29
Midlands -75 62 £500 +6.67% 77
East of England -41 50 £507 -7.82% 63
West Midlands -82 43 £505 +6.32% 50
East Midlands -10 18 £500 +11.11% 27
North East -30 13 £500 - 16
PowerShell
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
1 122 (8.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 117 (8.17%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.28%) Confluence
4 22 (1.54%) IIS
5 21 (1.47%) Skype for Business
6 19 (1.33%) Apache
7 14 (0.98%) nginx
8 11 (0.77%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.35%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.14%) CMS
13 2 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
13 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 30 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.070%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (3.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.42%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.070%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.070%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.070%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.070%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.070%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.070%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.070%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.070%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.070%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 793 (55.38%) Azure
2 352 (24.58%) Entra ID
3 330 (23.04%) AWS
4 225 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
5 213 (14.87%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (12.78%) GitHub
7 139 (9.71%) GCP
8 130 (9.08%) Azure Monitor
9 129 (9.01%) Power Platform
10 117 (8.17%) GitHub Actions
11 83 (5.80%) Azure AKS
12 64 (4.47%) OneDrive
13 63 (4.40%) SaaS
14 54 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 51 (3.56%) Azure Sentinel
16 49 (3.42%) PaaS
17 48 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
18 45 (3.14%) IaaS
19 43 (3.00%) OpenShift
20 42 (2.93%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 226 (15.78%) DNS
2 205 (14.32%) Firewall
3 134 (9.36%) DHCP
4 100 (6.98%) TCP/IP
5 98 (6.84%) VPN
6 76 (5.31%) Network Security
7 40 (2.79%) WAN
8 35 (2.44%) VLAN
9 33 (2.30%) SAN
10 30 (2.09%) VSAN
11 23 (1.61%) Skype
11 23 (1.61%) SSL
12 20 (1.40%) SSH
13 19 (1.33%) LAN
14 18 (1.26%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.19%) NAS
15 17 (1.19%) SMTP
15 17 (1.19%) SNMP
15 17 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
16 13 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (12.15%) SQL Server
2 88 (6.15%) Power BI
3 39 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (1.40%) Big Data
7 19 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.05%) MongoDB
11 14 (0.98%) Metadata
11 14 (0.98%) MySQL
11 14 (0.98%) Relational Database
12 13 (0.91%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.77%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 125 (8.73%) Jenkins
2 114 (7.96%) Git
3 83 (5.80%) GitLab
4 72 (5.03%) JIRA
5 30 (2.09%) MSI
6 14 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.70%) Artifactory
8 10 (0.70%) Selenium
9 9 (0.63%) AdminStudio
9 9 (0.63%) InstallShield
9 9 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (0.56%) Postman
11 6 (0.42%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.42%) JMeter
12 5 (0.35%) MSBuild
12 5 (0.35%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.28%) Robot Framework
General
1 348 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 251 (17.53%) Finance
3 196 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 88 (6.15%) Banking
6 85 (5.94%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.03%) Legal
8 23 (1.61%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.26%) Aerospace
9 18 (1.26%) Front Office
10 17 (1.19%) Military
11 13 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 13 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (0.77%) Law
12 11 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.63%) Retail
15 8 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.42%) Local Government
16 6 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 163 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 154 (10.75%) Senior
3 147 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 134 (9.36%) Azure Engineer
5 102 (7.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (6.08%) Support Engineer
7 86 (6.01%) Architect
8 75 (5.24%) Security Engineer
9 62 (4.33%) Lead
10 58 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
11 56 (3.91%) Developer
12 52 (3.63%) Consultant
13 51 (3.56%) Analyst
14 40 (2.79%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 38 (2.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 36 (2.51%) IT Engineer
17 35 (2.44%) Administrator
18 33 (2.30%) PowerShell Engineer
19 31 (2.16%) DBA
20 28 (1.96%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (31.84%) Terraform
2 132 (9.22%) REST
3 77 (5.38%) ARM Templates
4 75 (5.24%) .NET
5 59 (4.12%) Microsoft Graph
6 58 (4.05%) LDAP
6 58 (4.05%) OAuth
7 50 (3.49%) YAML
8 49 (3.42%) JSON
9 46 (3.21%) SailPoint
10 45 (3.14%) SAML
11 41 (2.86%) OpenID
12 33 (2.30%) OAuth2
13 32 (2.23%) Web Services
14 31 (2.16%) Kafka
15 27 (1.89%) SOAP
16 25 (1.75%) .NET Framework
17 21 (1.47%) React
18 17 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
19 15 (1.05%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.87%) Onboarding
2 94 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 72 (5.03%) PKI
5 65 (4.54%) Security Posture
6 61 (4.26%) Replication
7 60 (4.19%) Clustering
8 59 (4.12%) Management Information System
9 54 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (3.70%) Data Centre
11 32 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
12 26 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.82%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.75%) CMDB
13 25 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.68%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.54%) Product Ownership
16 21 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
17 17 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
18 16 (1.12%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 696 (48.60%) Windows
2 368 (25.70%) Linux
3 299 (20.88%) Windows Server
4 85 (5.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 80 (5.59%) Windows 10
6 44 (3.07%) Unix
7 35 (2.44%) Ubuntu
8 27 (1.89%) Mac OS
9 26 (1.82%) Apple iOS
9 26 (1.82%) CentOS
10 22 (1.54%) VMS
10 22 (1.54%) Windows 7
10 22 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (1.33%) AIX
12 18 (1.26%) Android
13 17 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
14 11 (0.77%) Rocky
15 10 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
16 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (30.66%) DevOps
2 418 (29.19%) CI/CD
3 390 (27.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 295 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
5 245 (17.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 205 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 200 (13.97%) Agile
8 191 (13.34%) ITIL
9 180 (12.57%) Runbook
10 171 (11.94%) ITSM
10 171 (11.94%) Migration
11 164 (11.45%) Analytics
12 147 (10.27%) Cybersecurity
13 146 (10.20%) Observability
14 144 (10.06%) Identity Access Management
15 143 (9.99%) Platform Engineering
16 142 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
17 141 (9.85%) AI
17 141 (9.85%) Cloud Security
18 135 (9.43%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 674 (47.07%) Python
2 371 (25.91%) Bash
3 246 (17.18%) SQL
4 141 (9.85%) Bicep
5 95 (6.63%) C#
6 88 (6.15%) Java
7 70 (4.89%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.09%) VBScript
9 28 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
10 25 (1.75%) Perl
10 25 (1.75%) Search Processing Language
11 21 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 20 (1.40%) Groovy
12 20 (1.40%) TypeScript
13 17 (1.19%) VB
14 15 (1.05%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.98%) BeanShell
16 12 (0.84%) C++
16 12 (0.84%) Go
17 9 (0.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 524 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 360 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 172 (12.01%) DV Cleared
4 157 (10.96%) Degree
5 115 (8.03%) Azure Certification
6 97 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 84 (5.87%) CISSP
8 64 (4.47%) AWS Certification
9 39 (2.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (2.09%) CISM
12 28 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (1.68%) MCSE
14 22 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (1.54%) VCAP
15 17 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
15 17 (1.19%) MCSA
16 16 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 16 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 12 (0.84%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 100 (6.98%) NIST
3 45 (3.14%) GDPR
3 45 (3.14%) QA
4 35 (2.44%) SLA
5 33 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 17 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (1.12%) NCSC
8 15 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.84%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.63%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.42%) GxP
13 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.21%) GRC
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 448 (31.28%) Active Directory
2 187 (13.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 173 (12.08%) Docker
4 83 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
5 75 (5.24%) Hyper-V
6 70 (4.89%) VMware ESXi
7 69 (4.82%) vSphere
8 50 (3.49%) VMware NSX
9 46 (3.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 32 (2.23%) BitLocker
11 22 (1.54%) vCloud
12 19 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
13 15 (1.05%) Firmware
14 9 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.42%) Squid
16 5 (0.35%) Terminal Services
17 4 (0.28%) Dovecot
17 4 (0.28%) Postfix
18 3 (0.21%) KVM
18 3 (0.21%) NFS
Systems Management
1 267 (18.65%) Ansible
2 256 (17.88%) Kubernetes
3 181 (12.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 124 (8.66%) SCCM
5 81 (5.66%) Grafana
6 67 (4.68%) vCenter Server
7 64 (4.47%) Prometheus
8 54 (3.77%) SCOM
9 53 (3.70%) Progress Chef
10 42 (2.93%) Puppet
11 32 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (1.89%) Packer
13 21 (1.47%) Nagios
14 20 (1.40%) ZABBIX
15 18 (1.26%) Tivoli
15 18 (1.26%) WMI
16 17 (1.19%) vRealize
16 17 (1.19%) VxRail
17 16 (1.12%) NetBackup
17 16 (1.12%) Netcool
Vendors
1 669 (46.72%) Microsoft
2 257 (17.95%) VMware
3 141 (9.85%) ServiceNow
4 97 (6.77%) CyberArk
4 97 (6.77%) Splunk
5 85 (5.94%) Google
6 78 (5.45%) Oracle
7 59 (4.12%) Cisco
8 55 (3.84%) BeyondTrust
9 52 (3.63%) BMC
10 50 (3.49%) Red Hat
11 49 (3.42%) Remedy
12 45 (3.14%) Databricks
13 44 (3.07%) Citrix
14 34 (2.37%) SolarWinds
15 27 (1.89%) HP
16 26 (1.82%) IBM
16 26 (1.82%) NetApp
17 24 (1.68%) Dynatrace
18 23 (1.61%) CrowdStrike