PowerShell Contracts in England

Windows PowerShell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 53 63
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 997 1,341 1,646
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.91% 3.61% 3.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.58% 11.76% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 962 1,157
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £688 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 22
10th Percentile £25.95 £33.23 £27.07
25th Percentile £41.56 £40.00 £50.50
Median hourly rate £64.25 £43.84 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.56% -26.93% +19.52%
75th Percentile £112.22 £68.00 £68.81
90th Percentile £200.00 £74.44 £84.64
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £43.84 £60.70
% change year-on-year +44.84% -27.78% +19.56%

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 8,609 11,407 16,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.74% 30.72% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,946 8,152 11,744
10th Percentile £355 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -0.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 484 408
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.60 £27.00
25th Percentile £36.13 £50.47 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £82.96 £75.88 £80.41
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% +17.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in England.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in England.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

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 30 June 2025. 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 -25 429 £520 -0.95% 1,216
South East +2 181 £575 +4.55% 420
North of England +6 117 £455 -9.00% 309
Midlands +9 86 £460 -0.54% 191
South West -1 75 £575 -4.17% 143
West Midlands +12 69 £460 +2.22% 118
East of England +68 67 £550 +37.50% 177
North West +7 60 £448 -1.92% 167
Yorkshire +12 56 £488 -12.56% 129
East Midlands -2 17 £500 +5.26% 73
North East -5 1 £350 -26.32% 14
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 110 (11.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (8.53%) SharePoint
3 31 (3.11%) Confluence
4 26 (2.61%) IIS
5 22 (2.21%) IBM Domino
6 20 (2.01%) Skype for Business
7 12 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 9 (0.90%) Apache
8 9 (0.90%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.50%) SharePoint 2010
11 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.40%) nginx
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.10%) DataSynapse
13 1 (0.10%) IBM Notes
13 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 30 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.70%) InfoPath
4 6 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.10%) Endur
3 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.10%) Findur
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 473 (47.44%) Azure
2 202 (20.26%) AWS
3 173 (17.35%) Microsoft 365
4 146 (14.64%) Entra ID
5 133 (13.34%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (8.12%) GCP
7 70 (7.02%) GitHub
8 58 (5.82%) Power Platform
9 55 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
10 51 (5.12%) IaaS
11 48 (4.81%) Azure Sentinel
12 47 (4.71%) Azure AKS
12 47 (4.71%) SaaS
13 46 (4.61%) PaaS
14 36 (3.61%) OneDrive
14 36 (3.61%) Serverless
15 31 (3.11%) OpenShift
16 30 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (2.91%) Power Automate
18 24 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 167 (16.75%) Firewall
2 159 (15.95%) DNS
3 67 (6.72%) DHCP
4 54 (5.42%) VPN
5 49 (4.91%) Network Security
6 45 (4.51%) SMTP
7 38 (3.81%) TCP/IP
8 37 (3.71%) SAN
9 33 (3.31%) HTTP
10 25 (2.51%) Skype
11 24 (2.41%) Cisco IOS
12 23 (2.31%) WAN
13 21 (2.11%) SSL
13 21 (2.11%) VLAN
14 15 (1.50%) LAN
15 14 (1.40%) FTP
16 13 (1.30%) Unified Communications
17 12 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
17 12 (1.20%) NAS
17 12 (1.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.52%) SQL Server
2 41 (4.11%) Power BI
3 34 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (2.11%) Big Data
6 19 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (1.81%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.60%) Oracle Database
8 16 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.80%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.80%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.70%) Redis
12 6 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.60%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.40%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.40%) MySQL
14 3 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 95 (9.53%) Git
2 80 (8.02%) Jenkins
3 57 (5.72%) JIRA
4 44 (4.41%) GitLab
5 30 (3.01%) MSI
6 22 (2.21%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.11%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.30%) Artifactory
8 13 (1.30%) Selenium
9 11 (1.10%) Vagrant
10 10 (1.00%) Maven
10 10 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
10 10 (1.00%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.70%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.60%) JUnit
13 4 (0.40%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.40%) Snyk
14 3 (0.30%) Chocolatey
General
1 278 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 183 (18.36%) Finance
3 98 (9.83%) Public Sector
4 92 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (4.91%) Telecoms
6 46 (4.61%) Banking
7 41 (4.11%) Manufacturing
8 40 (4.01%) Marketing
9 39 (3.91%) Electronics
10 23 (2.31%) Games
11 20 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.71%) Legal
14 13 (1.30%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.10%) Law
16 10 (1.00%) Military
16 10 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.70%) Back Office
17 7 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (0.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 108 (10.83%) Architect
2 94 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 89 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 74 (7.42%) Analyst
5 71 (7.12%) Senior
6 65 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
7 59 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
8 45 (4.51%) Support Engineer
9 40 (4.01%) Windows Engineer
10 39 (3.91%) Developer
10 39 (3.91%) Lead
11 37 (3.71%) Security Engineer
12 36 (3.61%) Consultant
13 31 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 28 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
15 26 (2.61%) Active Directory Architect
16 24 (2.41%) Desktop Engineer
17 22 (2.21%) Infrastructure Specialist
18 20 (2.01%) Automation Engineer
18 20 (2.01%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.32%) .NET
2 49 (4.91%) REST
3 28 (2.81%) ARM Templates
4 22 (2.21%) SAML
5 21 (2.11%) OAuth
5 21 (2.11%) OpenID
5 21 (2.11%) YAML
6 20 (2.01%) .NET Core
6 20 (2.01%) JSON
7 19 (1.91%) SailPoint
7 19 (1.91%) SOAP
8 17 (1.71%) Middleware
8 17 (1.71%) React
8 17 (1.71%) Software Packaging
9 16 (1.60%) Web Services
10 15 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (1.50%) LDAP
11 12 (1.20%) HTML
11 12 (1.20%) XML
12 11 (1.10%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.72%) PKI
2 31 (3.11%) Data Centre
3 30 (3.01%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
6 25 (2.51%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.31%) Clustering
7 23 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
8 22 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 18 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.81%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.71%) Replication
12 16 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.30%) Private Cloud
14 10 (1.00%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
16 7 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 503 (50.45%) Windows
2 231 (23.17%) Windows Server
3 190 (19.06%) Linux
4 94 (9.43%) Windows 10
5 48 (4.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (3.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 36 (3.61%) Android
8 30 (3.01%) Mac OS
8 30 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (1.50%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (1.40%) VMS
11 12 (1.20%) Unix
12 11 (1.10%) Windows 7
12 11 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
13 10 (1.00%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
15 7 (0.70%) CentOS
16 6 (0.60%) Solaris
17 3 (0.30%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (27.98%) DevOps
2 242 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
3 215 (21.56%) Agile
4 170 (17.05%) CI/CD
5 150 (15.05%) Migration
6 142 (14.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 137 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 97 (9.73%) Identity Access Management
9 91 (9.13%) Configuration Management
10 90 (9.03%) SIEM
11 89 (8.93%) ITIL
12 80 (8.02%) Containerisation
13 74 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
14 71 (7.12%) Deployment Automation
15 69 (6.92%) Task Automation
15 69 (6.92%) Test Automation
16 68 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
17 67 (6.72%) Cloud Security
18 62 (6.22%) High Availability
19 55 (5.52%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 367 (36.81%) Python
2 188 (18.86%) Bash
3 170 (17.05%) SQL
4 115 (11.53%) C#
5 64 (6.42%) Java
6 58 (5.82%) Bicep
7 57 (5.72%) JavaScript
8 32 (3.21%) Perl
9 22 (2.21%) VBScript
10 19 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
11 16 (1.60%) C++
11 16 (1.60%) Groovy
12 15 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.30%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.30%) VB
14 12 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.20%) TypeScript
15 10 (1.00%) Go
16 9 (0.90%) PHP
17 8 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 349 (35.01%) Security Cleared
2 207 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 133 (13.34%) DV Cleared
4 81 (8.12%) Degree
5 52 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (4.41%) Azure Certification
7 38 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (3.11%) CISSP
9 27 (2.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 20 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.81%) CEH
12 15 (1.50%) CCNP
12 15 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
13 13 (1.30%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.20%) CISM
14 12 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.20%) VCAP
15 10 (1.00%) MCSE
15 10 (1.00%) OCA
15 10 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.62%) GDPR
2 37 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (3.41%) NIST
4 33 (3.31%) HIPAA
5 25 (2.51%) QA
6 14 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.30%) SLA
8 10 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.60%) NCSC
10 3 (0.30%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) EMIR
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 352 (35.31%) Active Directory
2 125 (12.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (9.73%) Docker
4 46 (4.61%) Hyper-V
5 39 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
7 32 (3.21%) vSphere
8 31 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 24 (2.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 24 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
10 22 (2.21%) Microsoft App-V
11 17 (1.71%) BitLocker
12 16 (1.60%) VMware NSX
13 12 (1.20%) XenDesktop
14 10 (1.00%) Terminal Services
15 8 (0.80%) XenApp
16 5 (0.50%) DFS Replication
17 4 (0.40%) Platform Symphony
18 3 (0.30%) NFS
18 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 219 (21.97%) Terraform
2 192 (19.26%) Ansible
3 136 (13.64%) SCCM
4 128 (12.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 127 (12.74%) Kubernetes
6 61 (6.12%) Puppet
7 47 (4.71%) WSUS
8 38 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (3.61%) Grafana
9 36 (3.61%) vCenter Server
10 34 (3.41%) Progress Chef
11 23 (2.31%) Prometheus
12 19 (1.91%) SCOM
13 14 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (1.10%) Nessus
15 10 (1.00%) PowerCLI
15 10 (1.00%) vMotion
15 10 (1.00%) vRealize
15 10 (1.00%) WMI
16 9 (0.90%) Kibana
Vendors
1 452 (45.34%) Microsoft
2 179 (17.95%) VMware
3 89 (8.93%) Splunk
4 83 (8.32%) Cisco
5 63 (6.32%) ServiceNow
6 50 (5.02%) Oracle
7 46 (4.61%) Citrix
7 46 (4.61%) SAP
8 44 (4.41%) Red Hat
9 39 (3.91%) Google
10 32 (3.21%) Dell
11 31 (3.11%) CyberArk
12 25 (2.51%) HP
12 25 (2.51%) NetApp
13 21 (2.11%) Meraki
14 20 (2.01%) Okta
15 18 (1.81%) Databricks
16 16 (1.60%) SolarWinds
17 14 (1.40%) Atlassian
18 13 (1.30%) Veeam