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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 56 67
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,282 964 1,160
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 3.77% 3.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.22% 11.23% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 649 822
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile £624 £626 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 17 40
10th Percentile £34.58 £17.00 £21.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £37.49
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year +30.87% +40.88% -26.76%
75th Percentile £78.75 £74.44 £53.66
90th Percentile £83.80 £112.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £36.79 £40.28
% change year-on-year +101.85% -8.66% -26.76%

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 10,495 8,582 10,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.76% 33.55% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,020 5,594 7,901
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 207 463
10th Percentile £41.28 £25.26 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.55 £42.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.31
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -21 540 £545 +1.40% 140
South East +3 241 £500 -13.04% 124
North of England -3 208 £488 +3.72% 71
South West +12 144 £560 -2.61% 41
North West +1 112 £469 -0.17% 34
Yorkshire -16 85 £494 +4.50% 24
Midlands -46 84 £464 -7.25% 42
West Midlands -53 57 £475 -5.00% 21
East of England -3 30 £525 +7.69% 35
East Midlands -16 27 £449 -3.03% 21
North East -11 16 £550 +20.35% 13
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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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
1 196 (15.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 154 (12.01%) SharePoint
3 59 (4.60%) Confluence
4 39 (3.04%) Skype for Business
5 13 (1.01%) Apache
6 8 (0.62%) IIS
6 8 (0.62%) Mattermost
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.23%) nginx
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.078%) SAS
9 1 (0.078%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 48 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.16%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.078%) Actimize
5 1 (0.078%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 628 (48.99%) Azure
2 305 (23.79%) Entra ID
3 286 (22.31%) Microsoft 365
4 222 (17.32%) AWS
5 135 (10.53%) GCP
6 116 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (7.96%) GitHub
8 91 (7.10%) OneDrive
9 80 (6.24%) Power Platform
10 63 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
10 63 (4.91%) IaaS
10 63 (4.91%) Microsoft Purview
11 52 (4.06%) Azure Monitor
12 51 (3.98%) SaaS
13 50 (3.90%) Azure Sentinel
13 50 (3.90%) PaaS
14 43 (3.35%) Serverless
15 39 (3.04%) PowerApps
16 37 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
17 36 (2.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 210 (16.38%) DNS
2 171 (13.34%) Firewall
3 136 (10.61%) DHCP
4 73 (5.69%) VPN
5 69 (5.38%) TCP/IP
6 58 (4.52%) Network Security
7 42 (3.28%) Kerberos
7 42 (3.28%) LAN
7 42 (3.28%) Skype
8 38 (2.96%) WAN
9 31 (2.42%) VLAN
10 30 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (1.56%) Unified Communications
12 19 (1.48%) DKIM
12 19 (1.48%) DMARC
12 19 (1.48%) SMTP
13 17 (1.33%) SAN
13 17 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
14 16 (1.25%) HTTP
14 16 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.24%) SQL Server
2 49 (3.82%) Power BI
3 32 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (1.72%) Metadata
6 21 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.86%) Relational Database
10 10 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.62%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.55%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.55%) MySQL
12 7 (0.55%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.47%) DB2
13 6 (0.47%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.39%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 82 (6.40%) JIRA
2 76 (5.93%) Git
3 74 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 68 (5.30%) GitLab
5 15 (1.17%) Artifactory
5 15 (1.17%) MSI
6 12 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.78%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
9 8 (0.62%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.47%) InstallShield
10 6 (0.47%) Postman
10 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.39%) Gradle
11 5 (0.39%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.39%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.39%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.31%) MSTest
12 4 (0.31%) Vagrant
General
1 459 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 216 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
3 159 (12.40%) Finance
4 117 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 83 (6.47%) Documentation Skills
6 59 (4.60%) Banking
7 58 (4.52%) Legal
8 19 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.33%) Front Office
10 16 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.09%) Military
11 14 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.01%) Retail
13 9 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.70%) Publishing
14 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.55%) Law
14 7 (0.55%) Marketing
14 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 172 (13.42%) Architect
2 116 (9.05%) Senior
3 82 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 81 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
5 71 (5.54%) Security Engineer
6 66 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 66 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
7 65 (5.07%) Support Engineer
8 60 (4.68%) Consultant
9 59 (4.60%) Analyst
10 54 (4.21%) Developer
11 51 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
12 41 (3.20%) Microsoft Engineer
13 37 (2.89%) CyberArk Architect
14 34 (2.65%) SIEM Engineer
15 33 (2.57%) Lead
16 28 (2.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 27 (2.11%) Administrator
18 25 (1.95%) IT Engineer
19 24 (1.87%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (12.25%) REST
2 119 (9.28%) LDAP
3 68 (5.30%) Microsoft Graph
4 65 (5.07%) OAuth
5 63 (4.91%) SAML
6 58 (4.52%) JSON
7 51 (3.98%) SOAP
8 40 (3.12%) OpenID
9 35 (2.73%) .NET
10 32 (2.50%) ARM Templates
11 30 (2.34%) SailPoint
12 28 (2.18%) OAuth2
13 21 (1.64%) XML
14 20 (1.56%) YAML
15 19 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.48%) Middleware
16 17 (1.33%) AngularJS
17 15 (1.17%) HTML
17 15 (1.17%) Node.js
18 13 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 80 (6.24%) Security Posture
2 79 (6.16%) Replication
3 77 (6.01%) Onboarding
4 70 (5.46%) PKI
5 65 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (3.59%) Data Centre
6 46 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 43 (3.35%) Cloud Native
8 33 (2.57%) Clustering
8 33 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 33 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.87%) Product Ownership
11 18 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.33%) Private Cloud
13 16 (1.25%) BYOD
14 15 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.01%) Operational Technology
15 13 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 485 (37.83%) Windows
2 227 (17.71%) Linux
3 207 (16.15%) Windows Server
4 74 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 41 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (2.18%) Mac OS
7 24 (1.87%) Unix
8 21 (1.64%) Android
8 21 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (1.40%) VMS
9 18 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (0.94%) Ubuntu
12 11 (0.86%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.78%) Solaris
13 10 (0.78%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.70%) AIX
14 9 (0.70%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.47%) CentOS
16 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (24.65%) DevOps
2 314 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
3 268 (20.90%) CI/CD
4 204 (15.91%) Agile
5 198 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 173 (13.49%) SIEM
7 160 (12.48%) Migration
8 149 (11.62%) ITIL
9 138 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
10 134 (10.45%) Task Automation
11 126 (9.83%) ITSM
12 121 (9.44%) RBAC
13 120 (9.36%) Identity Access Management
14 113 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 106 (8.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 104 (8.11%) Incident Response
17 102 (7.96%) Change Management
18 100 (7.80%) Disaster Recovery
19 99 (7.72%) High Availability
19 99 (7.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 539 (42.04%) Python
2 234 (18.25%) Bash
3 153 (11.93%) SQL
4 87 (6.79%) C#
5 74 (5.77%) Kusto Query Language
6 72 (5.62%) JavaScript
7 51 (3.98%) Java
8 45 (3.51%) Bicep
9 33 (2.57%) Perl
10 21 (1.64%) VBScript
11 16 (1.25%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.17%) Go
13 14 (1.09%) BeanShell
14 13 (1.01%) VB
15 12 (0.94%) Groovy
16 8 (0.62%) PHP
16 8 (0.62%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 4 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 543 (42.36%) Security Cleared
2 428 (33.39%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.75%) Degree
4 113 (8.81%) DV Cleared
5 108 (8.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 83 (6.47%) CISSP
7 61 (4.76%) Azure Certification
8 44 (3.43%) CISM
9 41 (3.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (2.11%) CEH
11 27 (2.11%) MCSE
12 25 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (1.87%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.79%) CCNA
14 23 (1.79%) CCNP
15 21 (1.64%) MCSA
16 20 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
17 19 (1.48%) GIAC
18 16 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (9.91%) GDPR
2 115 (8.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (5.69%) NIST
4 28 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (1.64%) QA
6 15 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.17%) MiFID
6 15 (1.17%) SLA
7 12 (0.94%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.86%) FINRA
8 11 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.78%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.70%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.62%) NCSC
12 5 (0.39%) PSD2
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) GRC
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
15 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 474 (36.97%) Active Directory
2 138 (10.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.36%) Docker
4 57 (4.45%) Hyper-V
5 46 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (3.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (2.57%) vSphere
8 23 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (1.25%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.25%) KVM
10 12 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.86%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (0.78%) Firmware
13 7 (0.55%) Squid
14 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
15 5 (0.39%) NFS
16 4 (0.31%) DFS Replication
17 3 (0.23%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.23%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 256 (19.97%) Terraform
2 145 (11.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 130 (10.14%) Kubernetes
4 129 (10.06%) Ansible
5 109 (8.50%) SCCM
6 89 (6.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 68 (5.30%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (3.20%) vCenter Server
9 36 (2.81%) Grafana
10 33 (2.57%) Prometheus
11 30 (2.34%) SCOM
12 23 (1.79%) vRealize
13 19 (1.48%) Kibana
14 16 (1.25%) WSUS
15 13 (1.01%) HP SiteScope
15 13 (1.01%) Nessus
16 10 (0.78%) Istio
16 10 (0.78%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.78%) Puppet
17 9 (0.70%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 608 (47.43%) Microsoft
2 189 (14.74%) VMware
3 93 (7.25%) CyberArk
4 67 (5.23%) Splunk
5 66 (5.15%) BeyondTrust
5 66 (5.15%) ServiceNow
6 63 (4.91%) Citrix
7 53 (4.13%) Cisco
8 45 (3.51%) Google
9 42 (3.28%) Red Hat
10 38 (2.96%) Oracle
11 34 (2.65%) Centrify
12 28 (2.18%) Okta
12 28 (2.18%) Veeam
13 25 (1.95%) SolarWinds
14 23 (1.79%) Atlassian
14 23 (1.79%) Databricks
15 18 (1.40%) Qualys
15 18 (1.40%) Tanium
16 17 (1.33%) Dynatrace