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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 58 53
Rank change year-on-year -26 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,267 987 1,364
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 3.96% 3.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.98% 11.69% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 660 978
10th Percentile £337 £328 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 8 26
10th Percentile £19.25 £25.95 £30.71
25th Percentile £35.91 £41.56 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.25 £42.05
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +52.81% -29.93%
75th Percentile £68.17 £112.22 £65.62
90th Percentile £76.94 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £59.00 £42.05
% change year-on-year -8.90% +40.33% -30.33%

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 11,542 8,446 11,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.72% 33.92% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,549 5,868 8,200
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -3.35% -3.93%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 196 497
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.09 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.33% -10.60% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +3.22%

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 20 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 20 June 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 20 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 -18 551 £550 +7.32% 93
North of England +2 257 £466 +0.22% 64
South East -17 252 £525 -8.70% 126
North West +11 143 £453 -1.52% 48
Yorkshire -6 114 £500 - 13
South West -19 96 £441 -24.89% 28
Midlands -73 62 £485 +5.43% 27
West Midlands -74 47 £493 +7.07% 13
East of England -53 36 £507 -7.82% 25
East Midlands -21 14 £438 -7.89% 14
North East -34 2 £275 -21.43% 4
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
1 153 (12.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (11.13%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.24%) Confluence
4 20 (1.58%) IIS
5 14 (1.10%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.24%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.079%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.079%) CMS
11 1 (0.079%) MTS
11 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.079%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 35 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.079%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (1.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.63%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 674 (53.20%) Azure
2 316 (24.94%) Entra ID
3 254 (20.05%) AWS
4 240 (18.94%) Microsoft 365
5 137 (10.81%) GitHub
6 133 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (10.18%) GCP
8 111 (8.76%) Power Platform
9 94 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
10 91 (7.18%) OneDrive
11 78 (6.16%) Azure Monitor
12 62 (4.89%) Microsoft Purview
13 57 (4.50%) PaaS
14 56 (4.42%) Microsoft Copilot
15 52 (4.10%) Azure AKS
16 44 (3.47%) IaaS
17 42 (3.31%) SaaS
18 40 (3.16%) Power Automate
19 36 (2.84%) PowerApps
20 35 (2.76%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 163 (12.87%) DNS
2 130 (10.26%) Firewall
3 94 (7.42%) DHCP
4 74 (5.84%) VPN
5 48 (3.79%) WAN
6 43 (3.39%) Network Security
7 39 (3.08%) Kerberos
8 38 (3.00%) TCP/IP
9 35 (2.76%) LAN
10 25 (1.97%) SAN
10 25 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (1.66%) VLAN
12 17 (1.34%) SNMP
12 17 (1.34%) SSL
13 16 (1.26%) NAS
13 16 (1.26%) SMTP
14 15 (1.18%) Skype
15 14 (1.10%) Unified Communications
16 13 (1.03%) SD-WAN
17 12 (0.95%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (12.08%) SQL Server
2 70 (5.52%) Power BI
3 39 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.18%) Metadata
9 14 (1.10%) MySQL
10 12 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 12 (0.95%) MongoDB
10 12 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (0.87%) Relational Database
12 10 (0.79%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (0.71%) Db2
13 9 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.63%) Delta Lake
14 8 (0.63%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 85 (6.71%) Jenkins
2 78 (6.16%) Git
3 58 (4.58%) JIRA
4 48 (3.79%) GitLab
5 20 (1.58%) MSI
6 10 (0.79%) InstallShield
6 10 (0.79%) Postman
7 9 (0.71%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.71%) Selenium
8 7 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.55%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.47%) JMeter
9 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.39%) Appium
10 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.32%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.24%) JUnit
General
1 310 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 190 (15.00%) Finance
3 154 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 75 (5.92%) Documentation Skills
6 68 (5.37%) Banking
7 39 (3.08%) Legal
8 23 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.50%) Front Office
10 13 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 12 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (0.87%) Law
12 11 (0.87%) Military
13 9 (0.71%) Retail
14 8 (0.63%) Publishing
15 7 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.39%) Back Office
16 5 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 127 (10.02%) Senior
2 124 (9.79%) Architect
3 109 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 97 (7.66%) Cloud Engineer
5 96 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
6 77 (6.08%) Security Engineer
7 63 (4.97%) Support Engineer
8 61 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 57 (4.50%) Developer
10 44 (3.47%) Analyst
11 42 (3.31%) Consultant
12 31 (2.45%) Lead
13 30 (2.37%) Desktop Engineer
13 30 (2.37%) Platform Engineer
14 29 (2.29%) Administrator
14 29 (2.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 29 (2.29%) PowerShell Engineer
15 27 (2.13%) IT Engineer
16 26 (2.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 25 (1.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (9.71%) REST
2 101 (7.97%) LDAP
3 86 (6.79%) Microsoft Graph
4 57 (4.50%) OAuth
5 53 (4.18%) .NET
6 46 (3.63%) JSON
6 46 (3.63%) SAML
7 41 (3.24%) SailPoint
8 38 (3.00%) SOAP
9 37 (2.92%) YAML
10 33 (2.60%) ARM Templates
11 31 (2.45%) OpenID
12 30 (2.37%) Web Services
13 27 (2.13%) OAuth2
14 23 (1.82%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.42%) Kafka
16 15 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
17 14 (1.10%) React
17 14 (1.10%) XML
18 11 (0.87%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.97%) Onboarding
2 79 (6.24%) Security Posture
3 76 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 75 (5.92%) Replication
5 57 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
5 57 (4.50%) PKI
6 52 (4.10%) Clustering
7 51 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 44 (3.47%) Management Information System
9 40 (3.16%) Data Centre
10 28 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
11 23 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.66%) Product Ownership
13 19 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.42%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (1.18%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 554 (43.73%) Windows
2 253 (19.97%) Linux
3 223 (17.60%) Windows Server
4 56 (4.42%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (3.55%) Unix
7 26 (2.05%) AIX
8 25 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (1.50%) Mac OS
10 17 (1.34%) Ubuntu
10 17 (1.34%) VMS
10 17 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (1.18%) Apple iOS
12 13 (1.03%) Android
12 13 (1.03%) Windows 7
12 13 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.63%) CentOS
14 7 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (25.41%) DevOps
2 309 (24.39%) CI/CD
3 269 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
4 237 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 164 (12.94%) Agile
6 163 (12.87%) Migration
7 161 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 140 (11.05%) ITIL
9 138 (10.89%) SIEM
10 136 (10.73%) Runbook
11 127 (10.02%) ITSM
12 125 (9.87%) Identity Access Management
13 121 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (9.55%) Task Automation
14 119 (9.39%) High Availability
15 118 (9.31%) Disaster Recovery
16 115 (9.08%) Observability
17 111 (8.76%) RBAC
18 109 (8.60%) Analytics
18 109 (8.60%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 550 (43.41%) Python
2 247 (19.49%) Bash
3 214 (16.89%) SQL
4 92 (7.26%) C#
5 74 (5.84%) Bicep
6 59 (4.66%) JavaScript
7 51 (4.03%) Java
8 45 (3.55%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (2.05%) T-SQL
10 24 (1.89%) VBScript
11 22 (1.74%) Perl
12 19 (1.50%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.42%) Search Processing Language
14 13 (1.03%) VB
15 12 (0.95%) C++
15 12 (0.95%) Groovy
16 11 (0.87%) BeanShell
16 11 (0.87%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.79%) Go
18 7 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 457 (36.07%) Security Cleared
2 335 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.87%) Degree
4 112 (8.84%) DV Cleared
5 93 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (6.16%) Azure Certification
7 74 (5.84%) CISSP
8 44 (3.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 36 (2.84%) AWS Certification
10 34 (2.68%) MCSE
11 33 (2.60%) CISM
12 30 (2.37%) MCSA
13 21 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
15 16 (1.26%) VCAP
16 12 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (0.63%) CCNA
17 8 (0.63%) CEH
17 8 (0.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (8.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 87 (6.87%) NIST
3 75 (5.92%) GDPR
4 27 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 26 (2.05%) QA
6 24 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 18 (1.42%) SLA
8 16 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (1.18%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.87%) FINRA
10 11 (0.87%) MiFID
10 11 (0.87%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.63%) NCSC
13 5 (0.39%) GRC
14 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
16 2 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 425 (33.54%) Active Directory
2 141 (11.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 112 (8.84%) Docker
4 74 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
5 61 (4.81%) Hyper-V
6 57 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
7 55 (4.34%) vSphere
8 44 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (2.45%) BitLocker
10 24 (1.89%) VMware NSX
11 21 (1.66%) Microsoft App-V
12 20 (1.58%) Firmware
13 18 (1.42%) KVM
14 11 (0.87%) vCloud
15 5 (0.39%) Squid
16 4 (0.32%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.24%) Postfix
17 3 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 296 (23.36%) Terraform
2 174 (13.73%) Ansible
3 154 (12.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 153 (12.08%) Kubernetes
5 84 (6.63%) SCCM
6 64 (5.05%) vCenter Server
7 53 (4.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 52 (4.10%) Grafana
9 43 (3.39%) Prometheus
10 42 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
11 30 (2.37%) Progress Chef
12 29 (2.29%) Puppet
13 23 (1.82%) SCOM
14 20 (1.58%) Nagios
14 20 (1.58%) vRealize
15 19 (1.50%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.42%) Tivoli
17 17 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
18 16 (1.26%) Netcool
18 16 (1.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 599 (47.28%) Microsoft
2 184 (14.52%) VMware
3 100 (7.89%) ServiceNow
4 86 (6.79%) CyberArk
5 68 (5.37%) Splunk
6 64 (5.05%) BeyondTrust
6 64 (5.05%) Google
7 62 (4.89%) Oracle
8 53 (4.18%) Cisco
9 52 (4.10%) Citrix
10 43 (3.39%) Red Hat
11 36 (2.84%) SolarWinds
12 33 (2.60%) BMC
13 30 (2.37%) IBM
14 28 (2.21%) Remedy
15 27 (2.13%) Okta
16 24 (1.89%) HP
17 23 (1.82%) Databricks
18 21 (1.66%) Centrify
19 20 (1.58%) Qualys