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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 55 56
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,221 925 1,250
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 3.82% 3.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.21% 11.33% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 642 906
10th Percentile £326 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £432 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £623 £625
90th Percentile £723 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 7 21
10th Percentile £21.84 £18.84 £37.63
25th Percentile £50.25 £24.62 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% +35.40% -32.92%
75th Percentile £74.26 £141.48 £46.39
90th Percentile £82.25 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £26.83 £40.25
% change year-on-year +118.88% -33.34% -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 10,896 8,165 10,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.43% 33.72% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,183 5,667 7,919
10th Percentile £356 £361 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 206 446
10th Percentile £40.88 £28.09 £37.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £49.53
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.59
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.36
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.23% +2.73%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -19 516 £550 +4.76% 117
South East -7 243 £525 -8.70% 117
North of England +1 234 £472 +1.51% 80
North West +16 134 £472 +1.51% 52
Yorkshire -17 98 £471 -5.80% 16
South West -15 94 £428 -27.15% 39
Midlands -56 69 £469 +0.27% 37
West Midlands -58 52 £485 +5.43% 17
East of England -28 40 £507 -7.82% 25
East Midlands -27 16 £380 -20.00% 20
North East -20 4 £400 +14.29% 12
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
1 137 (11.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 123 (10.07%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.87%) Confluence
4 21 (1.72%) IIS
5 13 (1.06%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.74%) Apache
7 5 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.25%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.25%) nginx
8 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.082%) MTS
10 1 (0.082%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.082%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.66%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 649 (53.15%) Azure
2 280 (22.93%) Entra ID
3 248 (20.31%) AWS
4 226 (18.51%) Microsoft 365
5 135 (11.06%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (10.65%) GCP
7 129 (10.57%) GitHub
8 101 (8.27%) Power Platform
9 85 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
10 82 (6.72%) OneDrive
11 76 (6.22%) Azure Monitor
12 57 (4.67%) PaaS
13 56 (4.59%) Microsoft Purview
14 53 (4.34%) Azure AKS
15 49 (4.01%) Microsoft Copilot
16 41 (3.36%) IaaS
17 38 (3.11%) Azure Key Vault
17 38 (3.11%) Power Automate
18 36 (2.95%) Azure Sentinel
19 35 (2.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 153 (12.53%) DNS
2 122 (9.99%) Firewall
3 88 (7.21%) DHCP
4 67 (5.49%) VPN
5 58 (4.75%) Network Security
6 40 (3.28%) Kerberos
7 37 (3.03%) WAN
8 36 (2.95%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.46%) LAN
10 24 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (1.72%) SMTP
12 19 (1.56%) SAN
12 19 (1.56%) VLAN
13 17 (1.39%) SNMP
14 16 (1.31%) SSL
15 15 (1.23%) HTTP
16 13 (1.06%) Skype
17 12 (0.98%) NAS
17 12 (0.98%) Unified Communications
18 11 (0.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (10.65%) SQL Server
2 63 (5.16%) Power BI
3 41 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.06%) Metadata
8 12 (0.98%) MySQL
8 12 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.82%) Delta Lake
10 10 (0.82%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.66%) DB2
12 8 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (0.57%) Spark SQL
14 6 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 83 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 81 (6.63%) Git
3 62 (5.08%) GitLab
4 55 (4.50%) JIRA
5 19 (1.56%) MSI
6 11 (0.90%) InstallShield
7 9 (0.74%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.74%) Postman
7 9 (0.74%) Robot Framework
7 9 (0.74%) Selenium
8 7 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (0.57%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.49%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.49%) JMeter
10 5 (0.41%) Appium
11 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.33%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.33%) JUnit
12 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 323 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 151 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
3 140 (11.47%) Finance
4 107 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.73%) Documentation Skills
6 60 (4.91%) Banking
7 43 (3.52%) Legal
8 20 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.23%) Front Office
11 11 (0.90%) Law
11 11 (0.90%) Military
12 10 (0.82%) Retail
13 9 (0.74%) Publishing
14 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.49%) Marketing
15 6 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 146 (11.96%) Architect
2 115 (9.42%) Senior
3 96 (7.86%) Azure Engineer
4 95 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 77 (6.31%) Security Engineer
6 73 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 72 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (4.26%) Support Engineer
9 50 (4.10%) Developer
10 40 (3.28%) Analyst
11 38 (3.11%) CyberArk Architect
12 36 (2.95%) Consultant
13 32 (2.62%) Lead
14 31 (2.54%) Platform Engineer
15 28 (2.29%) Desktop Engineer
16 27 (2.21%) PowerShell Engineer
17 25 (2.05%) Administrator
17 25 (2.05%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 25 (2.05%) Software Engineer
17 25 (2.05%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (11.06%) REST
2 117 (9.58%) LDAP
3 83 (6.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 55 (4.50%) SOAP
5 51 (4.18%) .NET
6 49 (4.01%) OAuth
7 42 (3.44%) SAML
8 38 (3.11%) JSON
9 36 (2.95%) YAML
10 35 (2.87%) SailPoint
11 34 (2.78%) ARM Templates
12 26 (2.13%) OpenID
13 25 (2.05%) Web Services
14 20 (1.64%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.47%) OAuth2
16 17 (1.39%) Kafka
16 17 (1.39%) React
17 15 (1.23%) AngularJS
17 15 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
18 13 (1.06%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.72%) Replication
2 80 (6.55%) Onboarding
3 75 (6.14%) Security Posture
4 70 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (4.75%) Clustering
6 53 (4.34%) Cloud Native
7 51 (4.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 45 (3.69%) PKI
9 35 (2.87%) Data Centre
9 35 (2.87%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.56%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
16 12 (0.98%) Private Cloud
16 12 (0.98%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 522 (42.75%) Windows
2 221 (18.10%) Linux
3 211 (17.28%) Windows Server
4 56 (4.59%) Windows 10
5 37 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (3.03%) Unix
6 26 (2.13%) AIX
7 25 (2.05%) Mac OS
8 24 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (1.39%) VMS
11 15 (1.23%) Ubuntu
12 13 (1.06%) Apple iOS
12 13 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
13 11 (0.90%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.66%) Android
14 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.41%) CentOS
16 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (25.14%) DevOps
2 287 (23.51%) CI/CD
3 266 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
4 220 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 162 (13.27%) Agile
6 159 (13.02%) SIEM
7 143 (11.71%) Migration
8 137 (11.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 129 (10.57%) Task Automation
10 121 (9.91%) Disaster Recovery
11 120 (9.83%) Identity Access Management
12 118 (9.66%) Analytics
13 117 (9.58%) Runbook
14 116 (9.50%) ITIL
15 113 (9.25%) Observability
16 112 (9.17%) ITSM
17 109 (8.93%) High Availability
17 109 (8.93%) Root Cause Analysis
18 108 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
19 104 (8.52%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 534 (43.73%) Python
2 236 (19.33%) Bash
3 188 (15.40%) SQL
4 95 (7.78%) C#
5 67 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 65 (5.32%) Bicep
7 56 (4.59%) Kusto Query Language
8 44 (3.60%) Java
9 24 (1.97%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.56%) VBScript
11 18 (1.47%) Search Processing Language
11 18 (1.47%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.39%) Go
13 14 (1.15%) Perl
14 12 (0.98%) Groovy
15 10 (0.82%) VB
16 8 (0.66%) C++
16 8 (0.66%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.57%) BeanShell
17 7 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 489 (40.05%) Security Cleared
2 365 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.17%) DV Cleared
4 102 (8.35%) Degree
5 83 (6.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 68 (5.57%) Azure Certification
7 61 (5.00%) CISSP
8 41 (3.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 31 (2.54%) CISM
10 28 (2.29%) MCSE
11 27 (2.21%) MCSA
12 20 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.56%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.56%) VCAP
14 16 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (1.23%) CEH
15 15 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (0.90%) GIAC
17 7 (0.57%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (7.13%) GDPR
2 86 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (6.06%) NIST
4 30 (2.46%) QA
5 26 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.56%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.39%) SLA
8 14 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (1.15%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.90%) FINRA
9 11 (0.90%) MiFID
10 9 (0.74%) NCSC
10 9 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.57%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.41%) GRC
13 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
15 2 (0.16%) ISA99
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 410 (33.58%) Active Directory
2 139 (11.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (9.66%) Docker
4 68 (5.57%) Virtual Machines
5 67 (5.49%) Hyper-V
6 54 (4.42%) vSphere
7 49 (4.01%) VMware ESXi
8 40 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 25 (2.05%) BitLocker
10 20 (1.64%) VMware NSX
11 19 (1.56%) Firmware
11 19 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
12 18 (1.47%) KVM
13 7 (0.57%) vCloud
14 6 (0.49%) Squid
15 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
16 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 280 (22.93%) Terraform
2 161 (13.19%) Kubernetes
3 160 (13.10%) Ansible
4 138 (11.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 81 (6.63%) SCCM
6 59 (4.83%) vCenter Server
7 55 (4.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 52 (4.26%) Grafana
9 43 (3.52%) Prometheus
10 42 (3.44%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.97%) Puppet
12 23 (1.88%) Nagios
13 20 (1.64%) Progress Chef
14 19 (1.56%) SCOM
15 18 (1.47%) Tivoli
15 18 (1.47%) vRealize
15 18 (1.47%) ZABBIX
16 17 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
17 16 (1.31%) Netcool
18 13 (1.06%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 563 (46.11%) Microsoft
2 184 (15.07%) VMware
3 89 (7.29%) CyberArk
4 82 (6.72%) ServiceNow
5 74 (6.06%) BeyondTrust
6 73 (5.98%) Splunk
7 50 (4.10%) Citrix
7 50 (4.10%) Google
8 48 (3.93%) Oracle
9 47 (3.85%) Cisco
10 36 (2.95%) Centrify
11 32 (2.62%) SolarWinds
12 31 (2.54%) Red Hat
13 30 (2.46%) BMC
14 28 (2.29%) Databricks
14 28 (2.29%) IBM
15 22 (1.80%) HP
15 22 (1.80%) Remedy
16 21 (1.72%) Dynatrace
17 20 (1.64%) Okta