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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 52 67
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,306 994 1,176
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 4.06% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.25% 11.98% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 677 833
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -1.60%
75th Percentile £621 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 16 33
10th Percentile £35.41 £17.00 £21.06
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £37.08
Median hourly rate £74.26 £55.62 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.51% +39.06% -28.78%
75th Percentile £78.13 £90.22 £46.86
90th Percentile £83.78 £156.00 £73.48
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £31.08 £40.00
% change year-on-year +138.93% -22.30% -27.27%

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 10,659 8,295 10,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.86% 33.85% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,088 5,593 7,919
10th Percentile £351 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.44%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 216 449
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.22 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £76.40 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -20 536 £550 +4.76% 115
South East -3 247 £505 -12.17% 94
North of England -5 222 £485 +3.14% 53
South West +4 156 £550 -5.98% 41
North West +2 128 £496 +5.57% 28
Yorkshire -24 88 £482 -3.60% 13
Midlands -59 77 £463 -2.63% 42
West Midlands -59 57 £485 -3.00% 22
East of England -11 31 £500 -7.41% 35
East Midlands -36 19 £418 -7.22% 20
North East -12 11 £550 +20.35% 13
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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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
1 198 (15.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 153 (11.72%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.29%) Confluence
4 28 (2.14%) Skype for Business
5 14 (1.07%) IIS
6 13 (1.00%) Apache
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.15%) WordPress
9 1 (0.077%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.077%) SAS
9 1 (0.077%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.077%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 37 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 6 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.077%) Actimize
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.077%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 650 (49.77%) Azure
2 320 (24.50%) Entra ID
3 280 (21.44%) Microsoft 365
4 232 (17.76%) AWS
5 134 (10.26%) GCP
6 133 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (9.11%) GitHub
8 86 (6.58%) Power Platform
9 81 (6.20%) OneDrive
10 78 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
11 72 (5.51%) Azure Monitor
12 65 (4.98%) Microsoft Purview
13 63 (4.82%) IaaS
14 56 (4.29%) PaaS
15 48 (3.68%) Azure Sentinel
16 47 (3.60%) SaaS
17 43 (3.29%) Serverless
18 41 (3.14%) Azure Key Vault
19 37 (2.83%) PowerApps
20 35 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 207 (15.85%) DNS
2 168 (12.86%) Firewall
3 135 (10.34%) DHCP
4 77 (5.90%) VPN
5 70 (5.36%) TCP/IP
6 60 (4.59%) Network Security
7 43 (3.29%) LAN
8 40 (3.06%) WAN
9 39 (2.99%) Kerberos
10 32 (2.45%) VLAN
11 31 (2.37%) Skype
12 30 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
13 21 (1.61%) SMTP
14 18 (1.38%) DKIM
14 18 (1.38%) DMARC
14 18 (1.38%) SAN
15 17 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
16 15 (1.15%) Wireshark
17 14 (1.07%) SSL
17 14 (1.07%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 53 (4.06%) Power BI
3 29 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.45%) Metadata
7 18 (1.38%) Data Lake
8 16 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 10 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.69%) Delta Lake
12 9 (0.69%) MongoDB
13 8 (0.61%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.61%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.54%) MySQL
14 7 (0.54%) Spark SQL
14 7 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.46%) DB2
16 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 83 (6.36%) JIRA
2 81 (6.20%) Git
3 77 (5.90%) Jenkins
4 66 (5.05%) GitLab
5 15 (1.15%) MSI
6 14 (1.07%) Artifactory
7 11 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.77%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.69%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.69%) Selenium
10 8 (0.61%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.61%) InstallShield
11 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.38%) Appium
12 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.31%) AdminStudio
13 4 (0.31%) JUnit
13 4 (0.31%) MSTest
13 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 429 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 222 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (10.34%) Finance
4 119 (9.11%) Public Sector
5 90 (6.89%) Documentation Skills
6 60 (4.59%) Legal
7 56 (4.29%) Banking
8 20 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.30%) Front Office
10 14 (1.07%) Retail
11 13 (1.00%) Military
12 12 (0.92%) Investment Banking
13 11 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.69%) Publishing
15 8 (0.61%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.61%) Law
16 7 (0.54%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.46%) Electronics
17 6 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 174 (13.32%) Architect
2 122 (9.34%) Senior
3 91 (6.97%) Azure Engineer
4 83 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 72 (5.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (5.36%) Security Engineer
6 70 (5.36%) Support Engineer
7 61 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
8 59 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 57 (4.36%) Consultant
10 50 (3.83%) Developer
11 46 (3.52%) Analyst
12 43 (3.29%) Microsoft Engineer
13 37 (2.83%) CyberArk Architect
14 36 (2.76%) Lead
15 31 (2.37%) Administrator
16 30 (2.30%) SIEM Engineer
17 26 (1.99%) IT Engineer
17 26 (1.99%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 26 (1.99%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (13.63%) REST
2 114 (8.73%) LDAP
3 81 (6.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 63 (4.82%) SOAP
5 61 (4.67%) OAuth
6 57 (4.36%) JSON
7 56 (4.29%) SAML
8 49 (3.75%) .NET
9 36 (2.76%) OpenID
10 34 (2.60%) ARM Templates
10 34 (2.60%) SailPoint
11 28 (2.14%) OAuth2
12 26 (1.99%) .NET Framework
13 24 (1.84%) YAML
14 21 (1.61%) Web Services
15 19 (1.45%) Middleware
16 18 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
17 17 (1.30%) XML
18 14 (1.07%) AngularJS
18 14 (1.07%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.36%) Security Posture
2 82 (6.28%) Onboarding
3 76 (5.82%) Replication
4 73 (5.59%) PKI
5 68 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 48 (3.68%) Data Centre
8 40 (3.06%) Clustering
9 38 (2.91%) Cloud Native
10 37 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (2.45%) Product Ownership
12 31 (2.37%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.30%) Private Cloud
17 16 (1.23%) BYOD
18 15 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
19 14 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
20 13 (1.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 514 (39.36%) Windows
2 225 (17.23%) Linux
3 224 (17.15%) Windows Server
4 70 (5.36%) Windows 10
5 42 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.76%) Mac OS
7 21 (1.61%) Unix
8 19 (1.45%) Android
8 19 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.30%) AIX
11 16 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 14 (1.07%) VMS
13 11 (0.84%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.77%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.69%) Apple iOS
15 9 (0.69%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.54%) CentOS
16 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
17 6 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (25.11%) DevOps
2 319 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
3 273 (20.90%) CI/CD
4 208 (15.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 206 (15.77%) Agile
6 169 (12.94%) SIEM
7 160 (12.25%) Migration
8 145 (11.10%) Task Automation
9 143 (10.95%) ITIL
10 141 (10.80%) Cybersecurity
11 131 (10.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 127 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 126 (9.65%) Identity Access Management
14 120 (9.19%) ITSM
14 120 (9.19%) RBAC
15 114 (8.73%) High Availability
16 113 (8.65%) Disaster Recovery
16 113 (8.65%) Incident Response
17 109 (8.35%) Analytics
18 100 (7.66%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 555 (42.50%) Python
2 239 (18.30%) Bash
3 149 (11.41%) SQL
4 91 (6.97%) C#
5 76 (5.82%) Kusto Query Language
6 61 (4.67%) JavaScript
7 56 (4.29%) Bicep
8 50 (3.83%) Java
9 32 (2.45%) Perl
10 20 (1.53%) VBScript
11 18 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 17 (1.30%) BeanShell
13 13 (1.00%) Go
13 13 (1.00%) VB
14 7 (0.54%) PHP
14 7 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
14 7 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.54%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 568 (43.49%) Security Cleared
2 448 (34.30%) SC Cleared
3 121 (9.26%) Degree
3 121 (9.26%) DV Cleared
4 104 (7.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 83 (6.36%) CISSP
6 62 (4.75%) Azure Certification
7 47 (3.60%) CISM
8 32 (2.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 28 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.99%) CEH
11 23 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.76%) MCSE
12 22 (1.68%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.53%) MCSA
14 19 (1.45%) CCNA
14 19 (1.45%) CCNP
15 18 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (1.23%) GIAC
17 13 (1.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (9.04%) GDPR
2 108 (8.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (5.74%) NIST
4 34 (2.60%) QA
5 28 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.38%) SLA
7 15 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.15%) Data Quality
7 15 (1.15%) MiFID
8 13 (1.00%) NCSC
9 12 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.84%) FINRA
10 11 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.38%) PSD2
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.31%) GRC
14 3 (0.23%) EMIR
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 469 (35.91%) Active Directory
2 139 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (8.73%) Docker
4 65 (4.98%) Hyper-V
5 49 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (2.99%) vSphere
7 35 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (1.45%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.30%) KVM
11 14 (1.07%) Microsoft App-V
12 13 (1.00%) Firmware
13 10 (0.77%) VMware NSX
14 8 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.31%) NFS
16 3 (0.23%) Squid
17 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
17 2 (0.15%) Snort
17 2 (0.15%) UAG
Systems Management
1 266 (20.37%) Terraform
2 148 (11.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 145 (11.10%) Ansible
4 131 (10.03%) Kubernetes
5 99 (7.58%) SCCM
6 87 (6.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 66 (5.05%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (3.45%) vCenter Server
9 39 (2.99%) Grafana
10 36 (2.76%) Prometheus
11 18 (1.38%) SCOM
12 16 (1.23%) Kibana
13 14 (1.07%) WSUS
14 13 (1.00%) Nagios
14 13 (1.00%) Puppet
15 12 (0.92%) PowerCLI
15 12 (0.92%) Progress Chef
15 12 (0.92%) vRealize
16 11 (0.84%) Istio
16 11 (0.84%) Nessus
Vendors
1 610 (46.71%) Microsoft
2 186 (14.24%) VMware
3 91 (6.97%) CyberArk
4 70 (5.36%) Citrix
5 69 (5.28%) ServiceNow
6 68 (5.21%) BeyondTrust
7 57 (4.36%) Splunk
8 47 (3.60%) Cisco
9 43 (3.29%) Red Hat
10 40 (3.06%) Google
11 39 (2.99%) Oracle
12 35 (2.68%) Centrify
13 29 (2.22%) SolarWinds
14 28 (2.14%) Okta
15 26 (1.99%) Veeam
16 23 (1.76%) Atlassian
16 23 (1.76%) Databricks
17 18 (1.38%) NetApp
18 17 (1.30%) IBM
18 17 (1.30%) Qualys