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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 55 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,309 974 1,157
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.60% 3.84% 3.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.22% 11.40% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 655 817
10th Percentile £355 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.85%
75th Percentile £621 £633 £638
90th Percentile £738 £720 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 17 39
10th Percentile £35.41 £17.00 £21.76
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year +30.87% +40.77% -28.23%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.44 £67.31
90th Percentile £83.78 £112.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £36.79 £40.31
% change year-on-year +101.85% -8.73% -26.71%

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 10,709 8,545 10,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.49% 33.69% 29.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,151 5,637 7,840
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.45% -5.43%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £663
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 210 467
10th Percentile £41.45 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £69.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.92
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.34%

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

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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 5 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 5 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 5 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 -20 547 £545 +0.46% 176
South East -3 244 £500 -13.04% 133
North of England -2 220 £482 +2.55% 62
South West +7 148 £556 -3.26% 45
North West +3 121 £496 +6.14% 28
Yorkshire -22 89 £471 -0.84% 23
Midlands -52 83 £463 -7.50% 43
West Midlands -56 56 £475 -5.19% 20
East of England -6 31 £525 -8.70% 39
East Midlands -18 27 £449 -3.03% 23
North East -7 15 £550 +20.35% 12
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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UK

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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
1 209 (15.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 160 (12.22%) SharePoint
3 58 (4.43%) Confluence
4 37 (2.83%) Skype for Business
5 13 (0.99%) Apache
6 8 (0.61%) IIS
7 6 (0.46%) Mattermost
8 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.15%) WordPress
10 1 (0.076%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.076%) nginx
10 1 (0.076%) SAS
10 1 (0.076%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.076%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
Applications
1 44 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.076%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 11 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.076%) Actimize
5 1 (0.076%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 647 (49.43%) Azure
2 321 (24.52%) Entra ID
3 300 (22.92%) Microsoft 365
4 226 (17.27%) AWS
5 140 (10.70%) GCP
6 131 (10.01%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (9.09%) GitHub
8 90 (6.88%) OneDrive
9 81 (6.19%) Power Platform
10 79 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (4.89%) Microsoft Purview
12 63 (4.81%) IaaS
13 59 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
14 58 (4.43%) PaaS
15 50 (3.82%) Azure Sentinel
15 50 (3.82%) SaaS
16 42 (3.21%) Serverless
17 39 (2.98%) Azure Key Vault
18 38 (2.90%) Azure AKS
19 37 (2.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 208 (15.89%) DNS
2 169 (12.91%) Firewall
3 135 (10.31%) DHCP
4 73 (5.58%) VPN
5 69 (5.27%) TCP/IP
6 58 (4.43%) Network Security
7 42 (3.21%) Kerberos
7 42 (3.21%) LAN
8 40 (3.06%) Skype
9 39 (2.98%) WAN
10 31 (2.37%) VLAN
11 30 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (1.45%) DKIM
12 19 (1.45%) DMARC
12 19 (1.45%) SMTP
13 18 (1.38%) SAN
13 18 (1.38%) Unified Communications
14 17 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
15 16 (1.22%) Wireshark
16 14 (1.07%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 52 (3.97%) Power BI
3 30 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.68%) Metadata
4 22 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.22%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.84%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.61%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.61%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.61%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.53%) Delta Lake
10 7 (0.53%) MySQL
10 7 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.46%) DB2
12 5 (0.38%) Spark SQL
12 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 82 (6.26%) JIRA
2 81 (6.19%) Git
2 81 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 71 (5.42%) GitLab
4 15 (1.15%) Artifactory
4 15 (1.15%) MSI
5 11 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 10 (0.76%) Metasploit
7 9 (0.69%) Burp Suite
8 8 (0.61%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.53%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.46%) InstallShield
10 6 (0.46%) Selenium
11 5 (0.38%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.38%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.31%) Gradle
12 4 (0.31%) MSTest
12 4 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 454 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 216 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
3 156 (11.92%) Finance
4 119 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 85 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
6 61 (4.66%) Banking
7 59 (4.51%) Legal
8 19 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.30%) Front Office
10 15 (1.15%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.07%) Retail
12 13 (0.99%) Military
13 12 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.69%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.69%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.69%) Publishing
15 7 (0.53%) Law
15 7 (0.53%) Marketing
15 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (13.29%) Architect
2 114 (8.71%) Senior
3 85 (6.49%) Azure Engineer
4 84 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 74 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 72 (5.50%) Security Engineer
7 69 (5.27%) Support Engineer
8 64 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
9 60 (4.58%) Consultant
10 57 (4.35%) Analyst
11 56 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 55 (4.20%) Developer
13 42 (3.21%) Microsoft Engineer
14 37 (2.83%) CyberArk Architect
15 35 (2.67%) Lead
16 30 (2.29%) Administrator
16 30 (2.29%) SIEM Engineer
17 28 (2.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 25 (1.91%) IT Engineer
19 24 (1.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (12.61%) REST
2 117 (8.94%) LDAP
3 77 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 64 (4.89%) OAuth
5 62 (4.74%) SAML
6 61 (4.66%) SOAP
7 55 (4.20%) JSON
8 43 (3.28%) .NET
9 40 (3.06%) OpenID
10 33 (2.52%) ARM Templates
11 31 (2.37%) SailPoint
12 29 (2.22%) OAuth2
13 22 (1.68%) Web Services
14 21 (1.60%) YAML
15 20 (1.53%) .NET Framework
15 20 (1.53%) Middleware
16 19 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (1.38%) XML
18 17 (1.30%) AngularJS
19 14 (1.07%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.34%) Security Posture
2 80 (6.11%) Replication
3 78 (5.96%) Onboarding
4 71 (5.42%) PKI
5 66 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (3.59%) Data Centre
6 47 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (3.44%) Cloud Native
8 37 (2.83%) Clustering
8 37 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.52%) Management Information System
10 27 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (2.06%) Product Ownership
11 20 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.30%) Private Cloud
14 16 (1.22%) BYOD
15 15 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
16 14 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
17 13 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 497 (37.97%) Windows
2 225 (17.19%) Linux
3 209 (15.97%) Windows Server
4 76 (5.81%) Windows 10
5 42 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (2.22%) Mac OS
7 23 (1.76%) Unix
8 20 (1.53%) Android
9 18 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (1.22%) VMS
11 15 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.84%) AIX
12 11 (0.84%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.76%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.76%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.69%) Kali Linux
14 9 (0.69%) Solaris
15 7 (0.53%) CentOS
16 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (25.29%) DevOps
2 319 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
3 276 (21.08%) CI/CD
4 208 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 202 (15.43%) Agile
6 169 (12.91%) SIEM
7 161 (12.30%) Migration
8 149 (11.38%) ITIL
9 143 (10.92%) Task Automation
10 142 (10.85%) Cybersecurity
11 125 (9.55%) Identity Access Management
11 125 (9.55%) ITSM
12 123 (9.40%) RBAC
13 121 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 119 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 106 (8.10%) High Availability
16 104 (7.94%) Analytics
17 103 (7.87%) Incident Response
18 102 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
19 100 (7.64%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 550 (42.02%) Python
2 243 (18.56%) Bash
3 157 (11.99%) SQL
4 95 (7.26%) C#
5 78 (5.96%) Kusto Query Language
6 73 (5.58%) JavaScript
7 52 (3.97%) Bicep
8 49 (3.74%) Java
9 32 (2.44%) Perl
10 21 (1.60%) VBScript
11 16 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.15%) Go
13 14 (1.07%) BeanShell
14 13 (0.99%) VB
15 10 (0.76%) Groovy
16 7 (0.53%) PHP
16 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.53%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 560 (42.78%) Security Cleared
2 440 (33.61%) SC Cleared
3 124 (9.47%) Degree
4 118 (9.01%) DV Cleared
5 107 (8.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 82 (6.26%) CISSP
7 64 (4.89%) Azure Certification
8 44 (3.36%) CISM
9 41 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 30 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.99%) CEH
11 26 (1.99%) MCSE
12 25 (1.91%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.68%) CCNA
13 22 (1.68%) CCNP
13 22 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
14 21 (1.60%) MCSA
15 18 (1.38%) GIAC
16 16 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (9.85%) GDPR
2 115 (8.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (5.58%) NIST
4 28 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 25 (1.91%) QA
6 18 (1.38%) SLA
7 15 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.15%) MiFID
8 12 (0.92%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.84%) FINRA
9 11 (0.84%) NCSC
9 11 (0.84%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.69%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.38%) PSD2
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) EMIR
15 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.15%) GxP
15 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 483 (36.90%) Active Directory
2 141 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (9.47%) Docker
4 60 (4.58%) Hyper-V
5 47 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (2.60%) vSphere
8 25 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (1.30%) BitLocker
9 17 (1.30%) KVM
10 13 (0.99%) Firmware
11 12 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.53%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.38%) NFS
14 5 (0.38%) Squid
15 3 (0.23%) Snort
16 2 (0.15%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 265 (20.24%) Terraform
2 150 (11.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 140 (10.70%) Kubernetes
4 137 (10.47%) Ansible
5 109 (8.33%) SCCM
6 89 (6.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 67 (5.12%) Single Sign-On
8 43 (3.28%) vCenter Server
9 38 (2.90%) Grafana
10 35 (2.67%) Prometheus
11 26 (1.99%) SCOM
12 23 (1.76%) vRealize
13 18 (1.38%) Kibana
14 15 (1.15%) WSUS
15 12 (0.92%) Istio
15 12 (0.92%) Nessus
16 11 (0.84%) Puppet
17 10 (0.76%) Progress Chef
18 9 (0.69%) HP SiteScope
18 9 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 624 (47.67%) Microsoft
2 195 (14.90%) VMware
3 91 (6.95%) CyberArk
4 68 (5.19%) Citrix
4 68 (5.19%) ServiceNow
5 66 (5.04%) BeyondTrust
6 65 (4.97%) Splunk
7 53 (4.05%) Cisco
8 44 (3.36%) Google
9 43 (3.28%) Red Hat
10 38 (2.90%) Oracle
11 34 (2.60%) Centrify
12 28 (2.14%) Okta
13 27 (2.06%) Veeam
14 25 (1.91%) SolarWinds
15 23 (1.76%) Atlassian
15 23 (1.76%) Databricks
16 18 (1.38%) Qualys
16 18 (1.38%) Zscaler
17 17 (1.30%) Tanium