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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 59 54
Rank change year-on-year -25 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,278 1,008 1,341
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 3.93% 3.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.91% 11.65% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 664 962
10th Percentile £326 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 8 29
10th Percentile £19.08 £25.95 £33.23
25th Percentile £27.97 £41.56 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £64.25 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% +46.56% -26.93%
75th Percentile £67.84 £112.22 £68.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £63.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -17.32% +44.84% -27.78%

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 11,717 8,649 11,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.73% 33.74% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,622 5,974 8,150
10th Percentile £360 £354 £350
25th Percentile £424 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £543
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.15% -2.25%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 213 484
10th Percentile £35.25 £28.18 £35.60
25th Percentile £55.25 £36.25 £50.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.02% +3.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £82.37 £75.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -23 547 £550 +4.76% 136
North of England +10 268 £460 +2.22% 72
South East -16 261 £525 -8.70% 117
North West +19 152 £452 +0.89% 44
Yorkshire -5 115 £500 +5.26% 16
South West -14 95 £441 -23.26% 47
Midlands -72 63 £500 +8.70% 34
West Midlands -71 45 £500 +8.70% 19
East of England -45 34 £507 -7.82% 26
East Midlands -13 17 £469 -1.32% 15
North East -30 3 £238 -32.14% 15
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
1 143 (11.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 132 (10.33%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.13%) Confluence
4 20 (1.56%) IIS
5 14 (1.10%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.078%) CMS
11 1 (0.078%) MTS
11 1 (0.078%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 30 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (2.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.23%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.078%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 687 (53.76%) Azure
2 319 (24.96%) Entra ID
3 262 (20.50%) AWS
4 229 (17.92%) Microsoft 365
5 146 (11.42%) GitHub
6 144 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (10.02%) GCP
8 115 (9.00%) Power Platform
9 102 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
10 86 (6.73%) OneDrive
11 84 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
12 61 (4.77%) Microsoft Purview
13 57 (4.46%) Azure AKS
13 57 (4.46%) PaaS
14 51 (3.99%) Microsoft Copilot
14 51 (3.99%) SaaS
15 44 (3.44%) IaaS
16 40 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
17 39 (3.05%) Power Automate
18 37 (2.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 172 (13.46%) DNS
2 135 (10.56%) Firewall
3 98 (7.67%) DHCP
4 75 (5.87%) VPN
5 51 (3.99%) Network Security
6 50 (3.91%) WAN
7 45 (3.52%) TCP/IP
8 39 (3.05%) Kerberos
9 36 (2.82%) LAN
10 27 (2.11%) SAN
11 26 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (1.72%) VLAN
13 20 (1.56%) SSL
14 17 (1.33%) NAS
14 17 (1.33%) SNMP
15 16 (1.25%) Skype
16 15 (1.17%) SMTP
17 14 (1.10%) SD-WAN
18 13 (1.02%) Internet
18 13 (1.02%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (12.99%) SQL Server
2 73 (5.71%) Power BI
3 42 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.25%) MySQL
8 14 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.86%) Metadata
10 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (0.78%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.70%) Db2
12 9 (0.70%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.55%) Big Data
14 7 (0.55%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 100 (7.82%) Jenkins
2 88 (6.89%) Git
3 60 (4.69%) JIRA
4 52 (4.07%) GitLab
5 22 (1.72%) MSI
6 10 (0.78%) InstallShield
6 10 (0.78%) Postman
6 10 (0.78%) Selenium
7 9 (0.70%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.47%) JMeter
9 6 (0.47%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.39%) Appium
10 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.39%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.31%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.23%) MSBuild
General
1 298 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 199 (15.57%) Finance
3 155 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (7.67%) Public Sector
5 76 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
6 73 (5.71%) Banking
7 40 (3.13%) Legal
8 23 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 22 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.41%) Front Office
11 13 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 12 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.86%) Military
14 10 (0.78%) Law
14 10 (0.78%) Retail
15 6 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.39%) Back Office
16 5 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.31%) Local Government
17 4 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 131 (10.25%) Senior
2 112 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 109 (8.53%) Architect
4 108 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 102 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
6 79 (6.18%) Security Engineer
7 71 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (5.32%) Support Engineer
9 52 (4.07%) Developer
10 46 (3.60%) Analyst
11 45 (3.52%) Consultant
12 33 (2.58%) Lead
13 32 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (2.43%) Administrator
15 30 (2.35%) IT Engineer
16 29 (2.27%) PowerShell Engineer
17 28 (2.19%) Desktop Engineer
17 28 (2.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 27 (2.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 25 (1.96%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (8.76%) REST
2 87 (6.81%) LDAP
3 86 (6.73%) Microsoft Graph
4 58 (4.54%) OAuth
5 57 (4.46%) .NET
6 48 (3.76%) JSON
7 47 (3.68%) SAML
8 40 (3.13%) SailPoint
9 38 (2.97%) ARM Templates
10 37 (2.90%) YAML
11 32 (2.50%) OpenID
12 30 (2.35%) Web Services
13 28 (2.19%) OAuth2
14 26 (2.03%) SOAP
15 23 (1.80%) .NET Framework
15 23 (1.80%) Kafka
16 16 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (1.17%) XML
18 13 (1.02%) React
19 12 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.82%) Onboarding
2 81 (6.34%) Cloud Native
3 80 (6.26%) Replication
4 69 (5.40%) Security Posture
5 55 (4.30%) PKI
6 54 (4.23%) Clustering
7 51 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 40 (3.13%) Management Information System
10 37 (2.90%) Data Centre
11 30 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.64%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.56%) Product Ownership
15 18 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (1.33%) Data Structures
17 15 (1.17%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 560 (43.82%) Windows
2 262 (20.50%) Linux
3 228 (17.84%) Windows Server
4 61 (4.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (4.30%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.60%) Unix
7 26 (2.03%) AIX
7 26 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (1.64%) Ubuntu
9 20 (1.56%) Mac OS
10 18 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (1.33%) VMS
12 16 (1.25%) Apple iOS
13 13 (1.02%) Windows 7
13 13 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
14 12 (0.94%) Android
15 10 (0.78%) CentOS
16 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
17 4 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (26.76%) DevOps
2 319 (24.96%) CI/CD
3 261 (20.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 257 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
5 169 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 167 (13.07%) Agile
7 165 (12.91%) Migration
8 150 (11.74%) ITIL
9 146 (11.42%) Runbook
10 138 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 130 (10.17%) SIEM
12 124 (9.70%) Identity Access Management
13 122 (9.55%) High Availability
14 121 (9.47%) Disaster Recovery
15 118 (9.23%) Observability
16 117 (9.15%) ITSM
17 115 (9.00%) Analytics
18 112 (8.76%) RBAC
19 110 (8.61%) AI
19 110 (8.61%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 567 (44.37%) Python
2 267 (20.89%) Bash
3 226 (17.68%) SQL
4 90 (7.04%) C#
5 80 (6.26%) Bicep
6 57 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.83%) Java
8 43 (3.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 28 (2.19%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.96%) VBScript
11 19 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 18 (1.41%) Perl
12 18 (1.41%) Search Processing Language
13 16 (1.25%) Groovy
14 13 (1.02%) VB
15 12 (0.94%) C++
16 11 (0.86%) BeanShell
16 11 (0.86%) Go
16 11 (0.86%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 451 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 334 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 127 (9.94%) Degree
4 111 (8.69%) DV Cleared
5 92 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.34%) Azure Certification
7 78 (6.10%) CISSP
8 43 (3.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 37 (2.90%) AWS Certification
10 33 (2.58%) CISM
11 29 (2.27%) MCSE
12 24 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.88%) MCSA
13 21 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (1.17%) VCAP
16 13 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.70%) GIAC
18 8 (0.63%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (8.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (7.04%) NIST
3 72 (5.63%) GDPR
4 29 (2.27%) QA
5 28 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (1.49%) SLA
8 15 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (1.17%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.63%) FINRA
11 8 (0.63%) MiFID
11 8 (0.63%) NCSC
12 5 (0.39%) GRC
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 406 (31.77%) Active Directory
2 142 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (9.23%) Docker
4 81 (6.34%) Virtual Machines
5 60 (4.69%) Hyper-V
6 58 (4.54%) VMware ESXi
7 55 (4.30%) vSphere
8 41 (3.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (2.35%) BitLocker
10 24 (1.88%) VMware NSX
11 21 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
12 19 (1.49%) Firmware
13 16 (1.25%) KVM
14 12 (0.94%) vCloud
15 5 (0.39%) Squid
15 5 (0.39%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.23%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.23%) NFS
17 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 323 (25.27%) Terraform
2 184 (14.40%) Ansible
3 172 (13.46%) Kubernetes
4 154 (12.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 83 (6.49%) SCCM
6 64 (5.01%) vCenter Server
7 55 (4.30%) Grafana
8 48 (3.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 46 (3.60%) Prometheus
10 42 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
11 31 (2.43%) Progress Chef
11 31 (2.43%) Puppet
12 26 (2.03%) SCOM
13 21 (1.64%) Nagios
14 20 (1.56%) vRealize
14 20 (1.56%) ZABBIX
15 18 (1.41%) Tivoli
16 17 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
17 16 (1.25%) Netcool
17 16 (1.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 608 (47.57%) Microsoft
2 183 (14.32%) VMware
3 106 (8.29%) ServiceNow
4 73 (5.71%) CyberArk
4 73 (5.71%) Google
5 71 (5.56%) Splunk
6 66 (5.16%) Oracle
7 56 (4.38%) Cisco
8 51 (3.99%) BeyondTrust
9 49 (3.83%) Citrix
10 44 (3.44%) Red Hat
11 37 (2.90%) SolarWinds
12 35 (2.74%) BMC
13 31 (2.43%) Remedy
14 30 (2.35%) IBM
15 28 (2.19%) Okta
16 26 (2.03%) Databricks
16 26 (2.03%) HP
17 21 (1.64%) Dynatrace
18 20 (1.56%) Qualys