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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 67 57
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 0
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,461 1,018 1,199
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.15% 3.66% 3.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.14% 11.15% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 635 848
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 £619
90th Percentile £706 £672 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 14 15
10th Percentile £31.42 £44.13 £23.80
25th Percentile £48.00 £45.19 £42.17
Median hourly rate £63.48 £64.25 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +9.85% -2.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £74.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £84.39 £74.26
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -0.57% +2.42% +3.33%

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 12,038 9,131 10,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.95% 32.82% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,784 6,184 7,375
10th Percentile £363 £349 £354
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 265 303
10th Percentile £28.40 £31.25 £30.65
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -15 637 £550 +8.37% 197
South East -6 304 £538 -2.27% 118
North of England +36 269 £486 +12.75% 93
North West +45 168 £475 +6.15% 58
South West -13 114 £550 +4.76% 37
Yorkshire +7 88 £518 +25.45% 22
Midlands -81 61 £500 +5.26% 70
East of England -38 60 £507 -7.82% 43
West Midlands -85 43 £505 +6.32% 40
East Midlands -13 17 £500 +11.11% 30
North East -37 14 £500 - 14
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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
1 121 (8.28%) Microsoft Exchange
1 121 (8.28%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.15%) Confluence
3 28 (1.92%) IIS
4 21 (1.44%) Skype for Business
5 20 (1.37%) Apache
6 14 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.96%) nginx
7 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.27%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.14%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.068%) Camunda
11 1 (0.068%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (1.98%) 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 (0.068%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (3.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Front Arena
4 4 (0.27%) Summit
5 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.068%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.068%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.068%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.068%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.068%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.068%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 801 (54.83%) Azure
2 358 (24.50%) Entra ID
3 325 (22.25%) AWS
4 224 (15.33%) Microsoft 365
5 217 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (12.32%) GitHub
7 139 (9.51%) GCP
8 132 (9.03%) Power Platform
9 128 (8.76%) Azure Monitor
10 109 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
11 86 (5.89%) Azure AKS
12 65 (4.45%) SaaS
13 64 (4.38%) OneDrive
14 55 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 54 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
16 49 (3.35%) IaaS
16 49 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
17 44 (3.01%) OpenShift
17 44 (3.01%) PaaS
18 43 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 235 (16.08%) DNS
2 211 (14.44%) Firewall
3 141 (9.65%) DHCP
4 102 (6.98%) TCP/IP
4 102 (6.98%) VPN
5 80 (5.48%) Network Security
6 39 (2.67%) WAN
7 38 (2.60%) VLAN
8 34 (2.33%) SAN
9 30 (2.05%) VSAN
10 25 (1.71%) SSL
11 24 (1.64%) Skype
12 20 (1.37%) SSH
13 19 (1.30%) LAN
14 18 (1.23%) SD-WAN
14 18 (1.23%) SMTP
14 18 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (1.16%) HTTP
15 17 (1.16%) NAS
16 14 (0.96%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (12.05%) SQL Server
2 91 (6.23%) Power BI
3 37 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (1.51%) Big Data
7 19 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 19 (1.30%) MySQL
8 18 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 14 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (0.96%) Metadata
10 14 (0.96%) MongoDB
11 12 (0.82%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (0.68%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.48%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 118 (8.08%) Jenkins
2 109 (7.46%) Git
3 84 (5.75%) GitLab
4 71 (4.86%) JIRA
5 31 (2.12%) MSI
6 14 (0.96%) Artifactory
6 14 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 12 (0.82%) 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
10 7 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.41%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.41%) JMeter
11 6 (0.41%) Selenium
12 5 (0.34%) MSBuild
12 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
General
1 369 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 265 (18.14%) Finance
3 203 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.67%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.09%) Banking
6 82 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.98%) Legal
8 23 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 21 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 21 (1.44%) Military
10 17 (1.16%) Front Office
11 13 (0.89%) Law
12 12 (0.82%) Financial Institution
12 12 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.75%) Back Office
14 10 (0.68%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.55%) Local Government
15 8 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 161 (11.02%) Senior
2 160 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 148 (10.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 136 (9.31%) Azure Engineer
5 109 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 91 (6.23%) Support Engineer
7 89 (6.09%) Architect
8 88 (6.02%) Security Engineer
9 66 (4.52%) Lead
10 62 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
11 52 (3.56%) Analyst
11 52 (3.56%) Consultant
12 48 (3.29%) Developer
13 45 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 39 (2.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 39 (2.67%) IT Engineer
15 36 (2.46%) DBA
16 35 (2.40%) Administrator
17 32 (2.19%) Automation Engineer
18 30 (2.05%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (32.03%) Terraform
2 126 (8.62%) REST
3 85 (5.82%) ARM Templates
4 66 (4.52%) .NET
5 64 (4.38%) LDAP
6 61 (4.18%) OAuth
7 57 (3.90%) JSON
8 52 (3.56%) Microsoft Graph
9 49 (3.35%) SAML
10 47 (3.22%) YAML
11 46 (3.15%) OpenID
12 45 (3.08%) SailPoint
13 37 (2.53%) OAuth2
14 27 (1.85%) Kafka
15 24 (1.64%) React
15 24 (1.64%) Web Services
16 18 (1.23%) SOAP
17 17 (1.16%) .NET Framework
18 16 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
18 16 (1.10%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 129 (8.83%) Onboarding
2 99 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.20%) PKI
4 73 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 71 (4.86%) Security Posture
6 65 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
6 65 (4.45%) Replication
7 64 (4.38%) Management Information System
8 63 (4.31%) Clustering
9 59 (4.04%) Data Centre
10 36 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
11 27 (1.85%) Product Ownership
11 27 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.78%) CMDB
13 25 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (1.64%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.64%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
17 16 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 718 (49.14%) Windows
2 373 (25.53%) Linux
3 315 (21.56%) Windows Server
4 91 (6.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 83 (5.68%) Windows 10
6 45 (3.08%) Unix
7 36 (2.46%) Ubuntu
8 29 (1.98%) CentOS
9 28 (1.92%) Apple iOS
10 26 (1.78%) Mac OS
11 23 (1.57%) Windows 7
11 23 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (1.51%) VMS
13 19 (1.30%) Android
14 15 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
15 14 (0.96%) AIX
16 12 (0.82%) Rocky
17 11 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
18 9 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
18 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (30.66%) DevOps
2 425 (29.09%) CI/CD
3 406 (27.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 306 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
5 240 (16.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 223 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 209 (14.31%) ITIL
8 208 (14.24%) Agile
9 192 (13.14%) Runbook
10 182 (12.46%) ITSM
11 179 (12.25%) Migration
12 164 (11.23%) Cybersecurity
13 160 (10.95%) Analytics
14 157 (10.75%) AI
15 149 (10.20%) Root Cause Analysis
16 148 (10.13%) Disaster Recovery
17 147 (10.06%) Identity Access Management
17 147 (10.06%) Observability
18 145 (9.92%) SIEM
19 144 (9.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 689 (47.16%) Python
2 379 (25.94%) Bash
3 243 (16.63%) SQL
4 154 (10.54%) Bicep
5 94 (6.43%) Java
6 82 (5.61%) C#
7 71 (4.86%) JavaScript
8 29 (1.98%) VBScript
9 26 (1.78%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 23 (1.57%) Perl
11 22 (1.51%) Search Processing Language
11 22 (1.51%) TypeScript
12 20 (1.37%) Groovy
13 18 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 17 (1.16%) VB
15 14 (0.96%) BeanShell
16 13 (0.89%) Go
17 12 (0.82%) C++
18 11 (0.75%) Korn
Qualifications
1 551 (37.71%) Security Cleared
2 377 (25.80%) SC Cleared
3 188 (12.87%) DV Cleared
4 171 (11.70%) Degree
5 124 (8.49%) Azure Certification
6 107 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (5.95%) CISSP
8 65 (4.45%) AWS Certification
9 42 (2.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.98%) CISM
12 26 (1.78%) MCSE
13 25 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (1.57%) VCAP
15 21 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.16%) MCSA
17 16 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 16 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
18 13 (0.89%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (7.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 103 (7.05%) NIST
3 41 (2.81%) GDPR
4 40 (2.74%) QA
5 35 (2.40%) SLA
6 31 (2.12%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.10%) NCSC
10 15 (1.03%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (0.75%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.75%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.41%) GxP
13 4 (0.27%) 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
1 467 (31.96%) Active Directory
2 198 (13.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 178 (12.18%) Docker
4 94 (6.43%) Virtual Machines
5 86 (5.89%) Hyper-V
6 71 (4.86%) VMware ESXi
7 69 (4.72%) vSphere
8 51 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 51 (3.49%) VMware NSX
9 31 (2.12%) BitLocker
10 24 (1.64%) vCloud
11 17 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
12 15 (1.03%) Firmware
13 10 (0.68%) NFS
14 9 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.41%) Squid
16 5 (0.34%) Terminal Services
17 4 (0.27%) Dovecot
17 4 (0.27%) Postfix
18 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 268 (18.34%) Ansible
2 263 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 196 (13.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 133 (9.10%) SCCM
5 79 (5.41%) Grafana
6 70 (4.79%) vCenter Server
7 64 (4.38%) SCOM
8 62 (4.24%) Prometheus
9 52 (3.56%) Progress Chef
10 40 (2.74%) Puppet
11 36 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (1.71%) Packer
13 19 (1.30%) vRealize
13 19 (1.30%) WMI
14 17 (1.16%) Nagios
14 17 (1.16%) NetBackup
14 17 (1.16%) VxRail
15 16 (1.10%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
16 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 698 (47.78%) Microsoft
2 268 (18.34%) VMware
3 150 (10.27%) ServiceNow
4 98 (6.71%) CyberArk
5 97 (6.64%) Splunk
6 86 (5.89%) Google
7 75 (5.13%) Oracle
8 62 (4.24%) Cisco
9 57 (3.90%) BeyondTrust
10 56 (3.83%) Red Hat
11 51 (3.49%) Remedy
12 50 (3.42%) BMC
13 45 (3.08%) Databricks
14 41 (2.81%) Citrix
15 31 (2.12%) SolarWinds
16 26 (1.78%) Qualys
17 25 (1.71%) NetApp
18 24 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
18 24 (1.64%) Dynatrace
19 23 (1.57%) Okta