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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 58 54
Rank change year-on-year -21 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,277 937 1,320
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.06% 3.91% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.49% 11.48% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 640 950
10th Percentile £326 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £429 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £614 £625
90th Percentile £718 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 7 25
10th Percentile £19.25 £39.05 £29.33
25th Percentile £48.64 £51.63 £40.00
Median hourly rate £61.73 £65.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +61.49% -32.92%
75th Percentile £74.26 £141.48 £58.49
90th Percentile £82.25 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £54.50 £40.25
% change year-on-year +1.83% +35.40% -32.92%

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 11,114 8,160 11,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.60% 34.02% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,306 5,650 7,993
10th Percentile £358 £359 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -4.09%
75th Percentile £613 £641 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 197 468
10th Percentile £37.25 £28.32 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -13 547 £550 +5.26% 144
North of England +10 261 £460 -1.08% 68
South East -9 240 £515 -10.43% 128
North West +20 146 £456 -1.94% 42
Yorkshire -11 112 £485 -3.05% 16
South West -16 98 £428 -26.84% 49
Midlands -62 72 £475 +4.40% 38
West Midlands -66 53 £485 +6.59% 20
East of England -41 41 £507 -7.82% 34
East Midlands -24 18 £408 -11.30% 18
North East -24 5 £400 +14.29% 10
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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
1 147 (11.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 134 (10.49%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.05%) Confluence
4 24 (1.88%) IIS
5 15 (1.17%) Skype for Business
6 11 (0.86%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.078%) CMS
11 1 (0.078%) MTS
11 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
Applications
1 35 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 680 (53.25%) Azure
2 301 (23.57%) Entra ID
3 267 (20.91%) AWS
4 240 (18.79%) Microsoft 365
5 146 (11.43%) GCP
6 137 (10.73%) GitHub
7 134 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
8 108 (8.46%) Power Platform
9 94 (7.36%) GitHub Actions
10 89 (6.97%) OneDrive
11 75 (5.87%) Azure Monitor
12 62 (4.86%) Microsoft Purview
13 57 (4.46%) PaaS
14 51 (3.99%) Microsoft Copilot
15 49 (3.84%) Azure AKS
16 43 (3.37%) Power Automate
17 42 (3.29%) IaaS
18 38 (2.98%) Azure Key Vault
19 37 (2.90%) SaaS
20 36 (2.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 162 (12.69%) DNS
2 129 (10.10%) Firewall
3 90 (7.05%) DHCP
4 69 (5.40%) VPN
5 60 (4.70%) Network Security
6 41 (3.21%) WAN
7 40 (3.13%) Kerberos
8 36 (2.82%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.35%) LAN
10 24 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.80%) SAN
12 21 (1.64%) SMTP
13 19 (1.49%) SSL
14 18 (1.41%) VLAN
15 17 (1.33%) SNMP
16 16 (1.25%) Skype
17 15 (1.17%) HTTP
18 14 (1.10%) NAS
19 12 (0.94%) DKIM
19 12 (0.94%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (11.12%) SQL Server
2 68 (5.32%) Power BI
3 38 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.10%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.10%) MySQL
8 13 (1.02%) Metadata
9 12 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.86%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.78%) Delta Lake
11 10 (0.78%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.78%) Relational Database
11 10 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (0.70%) DB2
12 9 (0.70%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 87 (6.81%) Jenkins
2 79 (6.19%) Git
3 62 (4.86%) JIRA
4 57 (4.46%) GitLab
5 17 (1.33%) MSI
6 10 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.78%) InstallShield
6 10 (0.78%) Postman
7 9 (0.70%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.70%) Selenium
8 8 (0.63%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.47%) JMeter
11 5 (0.39%) Appium
11 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.31%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.31%) JUnit
13 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 335 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 167 (13.08%) Finance
3 157 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (7.99%) Public Sector
5 73 (5.72%) Documentation Skills
6 67 (5.25%) Banking
7 42 (3.29%) Legal
8 23 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.17%) Front Office
10 15 (1.17%) Law
11 10 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 10 (0.78%) Military
11 10 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.70%) Publishing
12 9 (0.70%) Retail
13 7 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.39%) Marketing
16 4 (0.31%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 148 (11.59%) Architect
2 122 (9.55%) Senior
3 97 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 96 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
5 83 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 83 (6.50%) Security Engineer
6 71 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 59 (4.62%) Support Engineer
8 53 (4.15%) Developer
9 38 (2.98%) Consultant
9 38 (2.98%) CyberArk Architect
10 36 (2.82%) Analyst
11 34 (2.66%) Lead
12 32 (2.51%) Desktop Engineer
12 32 (2.51%) Platform Engineer
13 30 (2.35%) Administrator
14 27 (2.11%) Automation Engineer
14 27 (2.11%) PowerShell Engineer
15 26 (2.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 26 (2.04%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (11.28%) REST
2 119 (9.32%) LDAP
3 86 (6.73%) Microsoft Graph
4 54 (4.23%) .NET
4 54 (4.23%) SOAP
5 53 (4.15%) OAuth
6 44 (3.45%) SAML
7 40 (3.13%) JSON
8 39 (3.05%) YAML
9 36 (2.82%) SailPoint
10 35 (2.74%) ARM Templates
11 28 (2.19%) OpenID
11 28 (2.19%) Web Services
12 22 (1.72%) .NET Framework
12 22 (1.72%) OAuth2
13 18 (1.41%) Kafka
14 17 (1.33%) React
15 16 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (1.17%) AngularJS
17 14 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 88 (6.89%) Onboarding
2 87 (6.81%) Security Posture
3 82 (6.42%) Replication
4 76 (5.95%) Enterprise Software
5 70 (5.48%) Cloud Native
6 61 (4.78%) Clustering
7 54 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 46 (3.60%) PKI
9 44 (3.45%) Management Information System
10 37 (2.90%) Data Centre
11 23 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
12 22 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.57%) Product Ownership
14 19 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
15 18 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.41%) Public Cloud
16 15 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 555 (43.46%) Windows
2 247 (19.34%) Linux
3 224 (17.54%) Windows Server
4 59 (4.62%) Windows 10
5 55 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (3.21%) Unix
7 28 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (2.04%) AIX
9 24 (1.88%) Mac OS
10 21 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 18 (1.41%) Ubuntu
11 18 (1.41%) VMS
12 14 (1.10%) Apple iOS
12 14 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (1.02%) Windows 7
14 11 (0.86%) Android
15 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.55%) CentOS
17 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
17 4 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (26.23%) DevOps
2 319 (24.98%) CI/CD
3 276 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
4 235 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 168 (13.16%) Agile
5 168 (13.16%) SIEM
6 154 (12.06%) Migration
7 142 (11.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 135 (10.57%) Task Automation
9 130 (10.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 128 (10.02%) Identity Access Management
10 128 (10.02%) ITIL
11 127 (9.95%) Runbook
12 120 (9.40%) ITSM
13 118 (9.24%) Analytics
13 118 (9.24%) Observability
14 117 (9.16%) High Availability
14 117 (9.16%) Root Cause Analysis
15 116 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 111 (8.69%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 559 (43.77%) Python
2 254 (19.89%) Bash
3 209 (16.37%) SQL
4 97 (7.60%) C#
5 73 (5.72%) Bicep
6 65 (5.09%) JavaScript
7 54 (4.23%) Java
7 54 (4.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 26 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 21 (1.64%) VBScript
10 18 (1.41%) Search Processing Language
11 17 (1.33%) TypeScript
12 16 (1.25%) Perl
13 15 (1.17%) Go
14 13 (1.02%) VB
15 12 (0.94%) Groovy
15 12 (0.94%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.70%) BeanShell
17 8 (0.63%) C++
18 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 491 (38.45%) Security Cleared
2 370 (28.97%) SC Cleared
3 115 (9.01%) Degree
4 110 (8.61%) DV Cleared
5 90 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 80 (6.26%) Azure Certification
7 76 (5.95%) CISSP
8 45 (3.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 33 (2.58%) CISM
10 32 (2.51%) MCSE
11 31 (2.43%) MCSA
12 30 (2.35%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.57%) VCAP
14 19 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (1.10%) CEH
17 12 (0.94%) GIAC
18 10 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
19 8 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (7.05%) GDPR
3 80 (6.26%) NIST
4 31 (2.43%) QA
5 25 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 21 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.49%) SLA
8 15 (1.17%) HIPAA
9 14 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.86%) FINRA
10 11 (0.86%) MiFID
10 11 (0.86%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.63%) NCSC
11 8 (0.63%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.39%) GRC
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 429 (33.59%) Active Directory
2 146 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 122 (9.55%) Docker
4 74 (5.79%) Virtual Machines
5 70 (5.48%) Hyper-V
6 59 (4.62%) vSphere
7 55 (4.31%) VMware ESXi
8 40 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 28 (2.19%) BitLocker
10 22 (1.72%) VMware NSX
11 19 (1.49%) Firmware
11 19 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
12 18 (1.41%) KVM
13 9 (0.70%) vCloud
14 6 (0.47%) Squid
15 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.23%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.23%) Postfix
16 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
17 2 (0.16%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 303 (23.73%) Terraform
2 173 (13.55%) Ansible
3 164 (12.84%) Kubernetes
4 148 (11.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 84 (6.58%) SCCM
6 64 (5.01%) vCenter Server
7 57 (4.46%) Grafana
8 56 (4.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 48 (3.76%) Prometheus
10 40 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (2.04%) Progress Chef
12 24 (1.88%) Puppet
13 23 (1.80%) Nagios
14 22 (1.72%) SCOM
15 18 (1.41%) Tivoli
15 18 (1.41%) vRealize
15 18 (1.41%) ZABBIX
16 17 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
17 16 (1.25%) Netcool
18 15 (1.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 594 (46.52%) Microsoft
2 189 (14.80%) VMware
3 93 (7.28%) CyberArk
4 88 (6.89%) ServiceNow
5 75 (5.87%) BeyondTrust
6 73 (5.72%) Splunk
7 61 (4.78%) Google
8 56 (4.39%) Oracle
9 54 (4.23%) Cisco
10 51 (3.99%) Citrix
11 46 (3.60%) Red Hat
12 36 (2.82%) Centrify
13 35 (2.74%) SolarWinds
14 31 (2.43%) BMC
15 30 (2.35%) IBM
16 25 (1.96%) Databricks
16 25 (1.96%) Remedy
17 24 (1.88%) Okta
18 21 (1.64%) Dynatrace
18 21 (1.64%) HP