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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 70 60
Rank change year-on-year -12 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,473 1,020 1,160
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.16% 3.64% 3.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.17% 11.06% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 639 801
10th Percentile £332 £342 £330
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £628 £588 £619
90th Percentile £713 £669 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 15 19
10th Percentile £31.42 £44.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £48.00 £45.38 £46.88
Median hourly rate £63.48 £63.00 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +7.71% -2.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £74.22
90th Percentile £92.11 £81.00 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £63.93
% change year-on-year -0.57% -0.68% +6.18%

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 12,100 9,219 10,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.00% 32.94% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,827 6,192 7,110
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 264 300
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.88 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 2 October 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

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 2 October 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 2 October 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 -13 636 £550 +7.32% 583
South East -4 315 £534 +1.62% 231
North of England +45 285 £479 +12.59% 196
North West +45 172 £456 +4.23% 109
South West -14 106 £650 +25.00% 100
Yorkshire +15 96 £519 +23.94% 57
Midlands -85 61 £500 +5.26% 110
East of England -41 51 £507 -7.82% 73
West Midlands -71 44 £510 +7.37% 63
North East -30 18 £500 - 31
East Midlands -19 17 £500 +9.29% 47
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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
1 122 (8.28%) SharePoint
2 118 (8.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 51 (3.46%) Confluence
4 26 (1.77%) IIS
5 23 (1.56%) Apache
6 21 (1.43%) Skype for Business
7 16 (1.09%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.95%) nginx
9 8 (0.54%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.27%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
14 1 (0.068%) Camunda
14 1 (0.068%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.068%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 43 (2.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.34%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.34%) Summit
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.068%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.068%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.068%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.068%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.068%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.068%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.068%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.068%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 822 (55.80%) Azure
2 402 (27.29%) Entra ID
3 322 (21.86%) AWS
4 242 (16.43%) Microsoft 365
5 216 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
6 181 (12.29%) GitHub
7 151 (10.25%) GCP
8 125 (8.49%) Power Platform
9 123 (8.35%) Azure Monitor
10 106 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
11 83 (5.63%) Azure AKS
12 67 (4.55%) SaaS
13 62 (4.21%) Azure Sentinel
14 61 (4.14%) OneDrive
15 59 (4.01%) IaaS
16 50 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
17 49 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
17 49 (3.33%) PaaS
18 47 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
19 44 (2.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 233 (15.82%) DNS
2 208 (14.12%) Firewall
3 140 (9.50%) DHCP
4 105 (7.13%) TCP/IP
5 104 (7.06%) VPN
6 84 (5.70%) Network Security
7 37 (2.51%) WAN
8 35 (2.38%) VLAN
9 33 (2.24%) SAN
10 26 (1.77%) SSL
11 24 (1.63%) Skype
11 24 (1.63%) SSH
12 22 (1.49%) VSAN
13 20 (1.36%) LAN
14 19 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (1.09%) Kerberos
15 16 (1.09%) NAS
15 16 (1.09%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.95%) HTTP
16 14 (0.95%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (11.74%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.63%) Power BI
3 34 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 33 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 22 (1.49%) Big Data
7 20 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.29%) Metadata
8 19 (1.29%) MySQL
9 18 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 15 (1.02%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.02%) Relational Database
12 14 (0.95%) NoSQL
13 13 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.61%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.54%) Apache Hive
16 6 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 115 (7.81%) Git
1 115 (7.81%) Jenkins
2 79 (5.36%) GitLab
3 74 (5.02%) JIRA
4 35 (2.38%) MSI
5 14 (0.95%) Artifactory
5 14 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.54%) Postman
9 8 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.48%) Snyk
11 6 (0.41%) JMeter
12 5 (0.34%) AdminStudio
12 5 (0.34%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.34%) MSBuild
12 5 (0.34%) Selenium
13 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
General
1 376 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 274 (18.60%) Finance
3 203 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (7.47%) Public Sector
5 92 (6.25%) Banking
6 79 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.97%) Legal
8 24 (1.63%) Military
9 22 (1.49%) Aerospace
10 20 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 18 (1.22%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.09%) Law
13 14 (0.95%) Front Office
14 11 (0.75%) Back Office
14 11 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.61%) Local Government
17 8 (0.54%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 163 (11.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 158 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
3 154 (10.45%) Senior
4 143 (9.71%) Azure Engineer
5 111 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 94 (6.38%) Support Engineer
7 89 (6.04%) Security Engineer
8 88 (5.97%) Architect
9 68 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
10 62 (4.21%) Lead
11 50 (3.39%) Analyst
11 50 (3.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 49 (3.33%) Developer
13 47 (3.19%) Consultant
14 45 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 38 (2.58%) Automation Engineer
16 37 (2.51%) DBA
17 36 (2.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
18 35 (2.38%) IT Engineer
19 32 (2.17%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 482 (32.72%) Terraform
2 133 (9.03%) REST
3 87 (5.91%) ARM Templates
4 68 (4.62%) OAuth
5 65 (4.41%) LDAP
6 64 (4.34%) JSON
7 60 (4.07%) .NET
8 55 (3.73%) SAML
9 53 (3.60%) YAML
10 52 (3.53%) OpenID
11 51 (3.46%) Microsoft Graph
12 42 (2.85%) OAuth2
13 41 (2.78%) SailPoint
14 26 (1.77%) Kafka
14 26 (1.77%) Web Services
15 25 (1.70%) React
16 19 (1.29%) Middleware
17 16 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
17 16 (1.09%) Software Packaging
18 15 (1.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.50%) Onboarding
2 97 (6.59%) Cloud Native
3 82 (5.57%) Security Posture
4 78 (5.30%) Enterprise Software
5 77 (5.23%) PKI
6 68 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 65 (4.41%) Data Centre
8 64 (4.34%) Management Information System
9 62 (4.21%) Replication
10 54 (3.67%) Clustering
11 33 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
12 31 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (1.90%) CMDB
14 27 (1.83%) Public Cloud
15 25 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
16 23 (1.56%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
16 23 (1.56%) Product Ownership
17 20 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
18 17 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 720 (48.88%) Windows
2 378 (25.66%) Linux
3 318 (21.59%) Windows Server
4 95 (6.45%) Windows 10
5 89 (6.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (3.19%) Unix
7 36 (2.44%) Ubuntu
8 31 (2.10%) Apple iOS
8 31 (2.10%) CentOS
9 27 (1.83%) Mac OS
10 23 (1.56%) Windows 7
10 23 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (1.36%) Android
12 19 (1.29%) VMS
13 16 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
14 12 (0.81%) Rocky
15 9 (0.61%) AIX
15 9 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
15 9 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
15 9 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (30.21%) CI/CD
2 443 (30.07%) DevOps
3 433 (29.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 305 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
5 248 (16.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 228 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 213 (14.46%) ITIL
8 202 (13.71%) Runbook
9 195 (13.24%) Agile
10 191 (12.97%) Migration
11 187 (12.70%) ITSM
12 179 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
13 169 (11.47%) AI
14 161 (10.93%) Analytics
15 154 (10.45%) Identity Access Management
16 152 (10.32%) Cloud Security
17 151 (10.25%) Root Cause Analysis
18 147 (9.98%) Disaster Recovery
18 147 (9.98%) SIEM
18 147 (9.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 692 (46.98%) Python
2 388 (26.34%) Bash
3 235 (15.95%) SQL
4 163 (11.07%) Bicep
5 92 (6.25%) Java
6 79 (5.36%) C#
7 64 (4.34%) JavaScript
8 27 (1.83%) VBScript
9 26 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
10 24 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.56%) Perl
11 23 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 22 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 21 (1.43%) Groovy
14 17 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
14 17 (1.15%) VB
15 16 (1.09%) Go
16 14 (0.95%) Korn
17 13 (0.88%) BeanShell
18 12 (0.81%) C++
Qualifications
1 541 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 377 (25.59%) SC Cleared
3 182 (12.36%) DV Cleared
4 170 (11.54%) Degree
5 127 (8.62%) Azure Certification
6 107 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 85 (5.77%) CISSP
8 63 (4.28%) AWS Certification
9 34 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 32 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (1.77%) MCSE
14 25 (1.70%) CISM
15 22 (1.49%) VCAP
16 20 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 16 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
19 15 (1.02%) MCSA
20 13 (0.88%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (6.92%) NIST
3 36 (2.44%) QA
4 35 (2.38%) SLA
5 32 (2.17%) GDPR
6 27 (1.83%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.95%) NCSC
11 13 (0.88%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.41%) GxP
14 4 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 3 (0.20%) Accessibility
15 3 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
15 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.14%) GRC
16 2 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 500 (33.94%) Active Directory
2 195 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 175 (11.88%) Docker
4 100 (6.79%) Virtual Machines
5 81 (5.50%) Hyper-V
6 65 (4.41%) vSphere
7 64 (4.34%) VMware ESXi
8 61 (4.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 47 (3.19%) VMware NSX
10 30 (2.04%) BitLocker
11 24 (1.63%) vCloud
12 17 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
13 12 (0.81%) Firmware
14 10 (0.68%) NFS
14 10 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.34%) Squid
16 4 (0.27%) Dovecot
16 4 (0.27%) Postfix
16 4 (0.27%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 268 (18.19%) Kubernetes
2 265 (17.99%) Ansible
3 212 (14.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 135 (9.16%) SCCM
5 77 (5.23%) Grafana
6 64 (4.34%) SCOM
6 64 (4.34%) vCenter Server
7 61 (4.14%) Prometheus
8 50 (3.39%) Progress Chef
9 41 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (2.31%) Puppet
11 24 (1.63%) Packer
12 21 (1.43%) WMI
13 17 (1.15%) NetBackup
14 14 (0.95%) VxRail
15 12 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
15 12 (0.81%) Nagios
16 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Clustering
16 11 (0.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 738 (50.10%) Microsoft
2 255 (17.31%) VMware
3 150 (10.18%) ServiceNow
4 108 (7.33%) CyberArk
5 95 (6.45%) Google
6 93 (6.31%) Splunk
7 69 (4.68%) Oracle
8 59 (4.01%) BeyondTrust
9 57 (3.87%) Cisco
10 52 (3.53%) Red Hat
11 47 (3.19%) Remedy
12 43 (2.92%) BMC
12 43 (2.92%) Citrix
13 42 (2.85%) Databricks
14 30 (2.04%) Dynatrace
14 30 (2.04%) SolarWinds
15 25 (1.70%) Qualys
15 25 (1.70%) Veeam
16 24 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
17 23 (1.56%) Okta