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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 69 57
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 +3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,444 998 1,187
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 3.62% 3.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.14% 11.08% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 623 839
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £613
90th Percentile £710 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 13 15
10th Percentile £31.42 £44.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £48.00 £45.00 £42.17
Median hourly rate £63.48 £63.50 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% +8.57% -2.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £74.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £83.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £69.38
% change year-on-year -0.57% -8.47% +15.22%

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 11,899 9,004 10,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.87% 32.67% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,690 6,101 7,349
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +3.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 259 307
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £30.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.92 £51.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £79.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -20 630 £550 +8.11% 455
South East -4 300 £538 -2.27% 177
North of England +36 269 £488 +13.04% 144
North West +38 166 £475 +7.34% 86
South West -10 110 £550 +5.77% 68
Yorkshire +13 89 £518 +25.45% 39
East of England -37 60 £507 -7.82% 59
Midlands -81 58 £500 +5.26% 84
West Midlands -82 41 £518 +8.95% 48
East Midlands -19 16 £500 +11.11% 36
North East -29 15 £500 - 20
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
1 120 (8.31%) SharePoint
2 117 (8.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (3.19%) Confluence
4 26 (1.80%) IIS
5 21 (1.45%) Skype for Business
6 20 (1.39%) Apache
7 14 (0.97%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.97%) nginx
8 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.14%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.069%) Camunda
12 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.069%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (3.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.35%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.35%) Summit
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.069%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.069%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 792 (54.85%) Azure
2 358 (24.79%) Entra ID
3 320 (22.16%) AWS
4 223 (15.44%) Microsoft 365
5 213 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
6 178 (12.33%) GitHub
7 138 (9.56%) GCP
8 128 (8.86%) Power Platform
9 121 (8.38%) Azure Monitor
10 108 (7.48%) GitHub Actions
11 86 (5.96%) Azure AKS
12 64 (4.43%) SaaS
13 63 (4.36%) OneDrive
14 55 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
15 54 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 48 (3.32%) IaaS
17 47 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
18 44 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
18 44 (3.05%) PaaS
19 43 (2.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 231 (16.00%) DNS
2 208 (14.40%) Firewall
3 139 (9.63%) DHCP
4 102 (7.06%) TCP/IP
5 101 (6.99%) VPN
6 79 (5.47%) Network Security
7 39 (2.70%) WAN
8 38 (2.63%) VLAN
9 34 (2.35%) SAN
10 29 (2.01%) VSAN
11 26 (1.80%) SSL
12 24 (1.66%) Skype
13 20 (1.39%) SSH
14 19 (1.32%) LAN
14 19 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (1.25%) SD-WAN
16 17 (1.18%) HTTP
16 17 (1.18%) NAS
17 14 (0.97%) Kerberos
17 14 (0.97%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (11.91%) SQL Server
2 88 (6.09%) Power BI
3 35 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (1.45%) Big Data
7 19 (1.32%) MySQL
8 18 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (1.04%) Relational Database
11 14 (0.97%) Metadata
11 14 (0.97%) MongoDB
12 13 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.76%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (0.69%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.48%) Apache Hive
15 7 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 116 (8.03%) Jenkins
2 108 (7.48%) Git
3 82 (5.68%) GitLab
4 72 (4.99%) JIRA
5 31 (2.15%) MSI
6 14 (0.97%) Artifactory
6 14 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (0.62%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.62%) InstallShield
8 9 (0.62%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (0.55%) Postman
9 8 (0.55%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.42%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.42%) JMeter
10 6 (0.42%) Selenium
11 5 (0.35%) MSBuild
11 5 (0.35%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 367 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 265 (18.35%) Finance
3 203 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 88 (6.09%) Banking
6 79 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.01%) Legal
8 23 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 22 (1.52%) Military
10 21 (1.45%) Aerospace
11 17 (1.18%) Front Office
12 13 (0.90%) Law
12 13 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (0.83%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.76%) Back Office
14 11 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (0.69%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.55%) Local Government
16 8 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 158 (10.94%) Senior
2 156 (10.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 147 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 135 (9.35%) Azure Engineer
5 110 (7.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 90 (6.23%) Support Engineer
7 89 (6.16%) Architect
8 87 (6.02%) Security Engineer
9 65 (4.50%) Lead
10 63 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
11 53 (3.67%) Analyst
12 52 (3.60%) Consultant
13 48 (3.32%) Developer
14 45 (3.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 39 (2.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 39 (2.70%) IT Engineer
16 36 (2.49%) DBA
17 35 (2.42%) Administrator
18 33 (2.29%) Automation Engineer
19 30 (2.08%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 469 (32.48%) Terraform
2 122 (8.45%) REST
3 86 (5.96%) ARM Templates
4 64 (4.43%) .NET
5 63 (4.36%) LDAP
6 61 (4.22%) OAuth
7 57 (3.95%) JSON
8 50 (3.46%) Microsoft Graph
9 49 (3.39%) SAML
10 48 (3.32%) YAML
11 46 (3.19%) OpenID
12 43 (2.98%) SailPoint
13 37 (2.56%) OAuth2
14 26 (1.80%) Kafka
15 24 (1.66%) React
16 23 (1.59%) Web Services
17 18 (1.25%) SOAP
18 16 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
18 16 (1.11%) Software Packaging
19 15 (1.04%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.80%) Onboarding
2 98 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.12%) PKI
4 73 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (5.06%) Security Posture
5 67 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
6 65 (4.50%) Management Information System
6 65 (4.50%) Replication
7 61 (4.22%) Clustering
8 60 (4.16%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.49%) Linux Command Line
10 29 (2.01%) Product Ownership
11 28 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.80%) CMDB
13 25 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
13 25 (1.73%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.66%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
17 16 (1.11%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 711 (49.24%) Windows
2 371 (25.69%) Linux
3 311 (21.54%) Windows Server
4 91 (6.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 83 (5.75%) Windows 10
6 45 (3.12%) Unix
7 36 (2.49%) Ubuntu
8 29 (2.01%) CentOS
9 28 (1.94%) Apple iOS
10 26 (1.80%) Mac OS
11 23 (1.59%) Windows 7
11 23 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (1.52%) VMS
13 19 (1.32%) Android
14 15 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
15 13 (0.90%) AIX
16 12 (0.83%) Rocky
17 10 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
18 9 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
18 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (30.54%) DevOps
2 423 (29.29%) CI/CD
3 408 (28.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 301 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
5 239 (16.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 221 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 207 (14.34%) ITIL
8 206 (14.27%) Agile
9 189 (13.09%) Runbook
10 182 (12.60%) Migration
11 181 (12.53%) ITSM
12 164 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
13 159 (11.01%) AI
14 155 (10.73%) Analytics
15 148 (10.25%) Root Cause Analysis
16 145 (10.04%) Disaster Recovery
16 145 (10.04%) Identity Access Management
17 144 (9.97%) Platform Engineering
18 142 (9.83%) Observability
18 142 (9.83%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 681 (47.16%) Python
2 378 (26.18%) Bash
3 242 (16.76%) SQL
4 152 (10.53%) Bicep
5 93 (6.44%) Java
6 81 (5.61%) C#
7 70 (4.85%) JavaScript
8 29 (2.01%) VBScript
9 26 (1.80%) T-SQL
10 24 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
11 23 (1.59%) Perl
12 22 (1.52%) TypeScript
13 21 (1.45%) Search Processing Language
14 20 (1.39%) Groovy
15 19 (1.32%) Shell Script
16 17 (1.18%) VB
17 13 (0.90%) BeanShell
17 13 (0.90%) Go
18 12 (0.83%) C++
18 12 (0.83%) Korn
Qualifications
1 543 (37.60%) Security Cleared
2 374 (25.90%) SC Cleared
3 182 (12.60%) DV Cleared
4 170 (11.77%) Degree
5 127 (8.80%) Azure Certification
6 109 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 86 (5.96%) CISSP
8 65 (4.50%) AWS Certification
9 42 (2.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (1.94%) CISM
12 26 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.80%) MCSE
13 23 (1.59%) VCAP
14 21 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (1.18%) MCSA
16 16 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 16 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (0.90%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (7.06%) NIST
3 40 (2.77%) GDPR
4 38 (2.63%) QA
5 35 (2.42%) SLA
6 30 (2.08%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.11%) NCSC
10 15 (1.04%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.76%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.42%) GxP
13 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 465 (32.20%) Active Directory
2 194 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 177 (12.26%) Docker
4 94 (6.51%) Virtual Machines
5 83 (5.75%) Hyper-V
6 68 (4.71%) VMware ESXi
7 67 (4.64%) vSphere
8 51 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
9 49 (3.39%) VMware NSX
10 29 (2.01%) BitLocker
11 24 (1.66%) vCloud
12 15 (1.04%) Firmware
12 15 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (0.69%) NFS
14 9 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.42%) Squid
16 4 (0.28%) Dovecot
16 4 (0.28%) Postfix
16 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 266 (18.42%) Ansible
2 264 (18.28%) Kubernetes
3 196 (13.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 134 (9.28%) SCCM
5 78 (5.40%) Grafana
6 68 (4.71%) vCenter Server
7 64 (4.43%) SCOM
8 61 (4.22%) Prometheus
9 52 (3.60%) Progress Chef
10 39 (2.70%) Puppet
11 38 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (1.73%) Packer
13 19 (1.32%) vRealize
13 19 (1.32%) WMI
14 17 (1.18%) NetBackup
14 17 (1.18%) VxRail
15 16 (1.11%) Nagios
16 15 (1.04%) ZABBIX
17 14 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
17 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 696 (48.20%) Microsoft
2 262 (18.14%) VMware
3 148 (10.25%) ServiceNow
4 97 (6.72%) CyberArk
5 94 (6.51%) Splunk
6 86 (5.96%) Google
7 74 (5.12%) Oracle
8 62 (4.29%) Cisco
9 56 (3.88%) BeyondTrust
10 55 (3.81%) Red Hat
11 50 (3.46%) Remedy
12 48 (3.32%) BMC
13 44 (3.05%) Databricks
14 38 (2.63%) Citrix
15 31 (2.15%) SolarWinds
16 25 (1.73%) Qualys
17 24 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
17 24 (1.66%) Dynatrace
18 23 (1.59%) NetApp
18 23 (1.59%) Okta