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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 66 53
Rank change year-on-year -21 -13 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,327 1,016 1,296
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 3.69% 3.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.08% 11.25% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 656 937
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £423 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +2.46% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 15 17
10th Percentile £19.25 £45.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £33.70 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.84% +16.21%
75th Percentile £74.26 £83.98 £74.00
90th Percentile £90.53 £154.00 £74.66
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £63.50 £65.69
% change year-on-year -13.39% -3.33% +9.48%

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 11,972 9,029 10,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.41% 32.81% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,774 6,240 7,683
10th Percentile £363 £350 £354
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £768 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 228 370
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £31.16
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +5.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.16 £83.42 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

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 31 July 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 31 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 31 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 -17 571 £536 +4.13% 165
South East -10 293 £537 -6.70% 110
North of England +7 238 £454 +1.51% 69
North West +12 143 £450 +0.56% 43
South West -6 110 £490 -14.78% 43
Yorkshire -19 87 £458 +2.01% 17
Midlands -75 61 £500 +11.11% 41
East of England -44 43 £507 -7.82% 32
West Midlands -89 41 £500 +8.70% 21
East Midlands -9 19 £469 +4.17% 20
North East -35 9 £394 +12.50% 11
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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
1 123 (9.27%) SharePoint
2 121 (9.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (3.54%) Confluence
4 21 (1.58%) IIS
5 13 (0.98%) Apache
6 12 (0.90%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.75%) nginx
8 5 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.30%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 24 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.075%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (3.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.30%) Remedy AR System
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.075%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.075%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.075%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.075%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.075%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.075%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 731 (55.09%) Azure
2 324 (24.42%) Entra ID
3 301 (22.68%) AWS
4 215 (16.20%) Microsoft 365
5 180 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
6 167 (12.58%) GitHub
7 136 (10.25%) GCP
8 119 (8.97%) Power Platform
9 115 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
10 105 (7.91%) Azure Monitor
11 72 (5.43%) OneDrive
12 71 (5.35%) Azure AKS
13 55 (4.14%) PaaS
13 55 (4.14%) SaaS
14 52 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 52 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
15 46 (3.47%) IaaS
16 45 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
17 43 (3.24%) Azure Sentinel
18 40 (3.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 186 (14.02%) DNS
2 173 (13.04%) Firewall
3 102 (7.69%) DHCP
4 85 (6.41%) VPN
5 84 (6.33%) TCP/IP
6 61 (4.60%) Network Security
7 38 (2.86%) WAN
8 32 (2.41%) SAN
9 28 (2.11%) VLAN
10 24 (1.81%) VSAN
11 22 (1.66%) SSL
12 21 (1.58%) LAN
13 19 (1.43%) SSH
14 17 (1.28%) NAS
14 17 (1.28%) SNMP
15 15 (1.13%) SD-WAN
16 14 (1.06%) Skype
16 14 (1.06%) SMTP
16 14 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
17 13 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 81 (6.10%) Power BI
3 40 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.28%) MySQL
8 17 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (1.21%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (1.21%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.21%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.06%) Big Data
11 13 (0.98%) Metadata
11 13 (0.98%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.75%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 117 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 107 (8.06%) Git
3 71 (5.35%) JIRA
4 67 (5.05%) GitLab
5 24 (1.81%) MSI
6 13 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.83%) Selenium
9 10 (0.75%) InstallShield
9 10 (0.75%) Postman
10 9 (0.68%) AdminStudio
10 9 (0.68%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (0.60%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.53%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.45%) JMeter
14 5 (0.38%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.38%) MSBuild
14 5 (0.38%) Robot Framework
15 4 (0.30%) Jaeger
General
1 308 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 218 (16.43%) Finance
3 177 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.99%) Public Sector
5 77 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
6 76 (5.73%) Banking
7 33 (2.49%) Legal
8 22 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.43%) Front Office
10 16 (1.21%) Military
11 15 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 15 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.75%) Law
14 8 (0.60%) Retail
15 7 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.45%) Marketing
17 5 (0.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 157 (11.83%) Senior
2 140 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 139 (10.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 116 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
5 83 (6.25%) Architect
6 82 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 80 (6.03%) Security Engineer
8 70 (5.28%) Support Engineer
9 56 (4.22%) Developer
10 50 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (3.54%) Consultant
12 46 (3.47%) Analyst
13 44 (3.32%) Lead
14 36 (2.71%) Administrator
15 34 (2.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 34 (2.56%) IT Engineer
16 30 (2.26%) PowerShell Engineer
17 29 (2.19%) Automation Engineer
17 29 (2.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (9.04%) REST
2 75 (5.65%) .NET
3 66 (4.97%) Microsoft Graph
4 54 (4.07%) ARM Templates
5 52 (3.92%) JSON
5 52 (3.92%) OAuth
6 50 (3.77%) LDAP
7 45 (3.39%) SailPoint
8 44 (3.32%) YAML
9 41 (3.09%) SAML
10 40 (3.01%) OpenID
11 33 (2.49%) Web Services
12 31 (2.34%) OAuth2
13 28 (2.11%) .NET Framework
14 23 (1.73%) Kafka
14 23 (1.73%) SOAP
15 18 (1.36%) React
16 17 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
17 16 (1.21%) XML
18 12 (0.90%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.42%) Onboarding
2 93 (7.01%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.35%) PKI
4 70 (5.28%) Security Posture
5 60 (4.52%) Replication
6 58 (4.37%) Clustering
7 57 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 53 (3.99%) Management Information System
9 51 (3.84%) Data Centre
10 47 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.88%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.58%) Product Ownership
15 20 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
16 19 (1.43%) CMDB
16 19 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
17 18 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 625 (47.10%) Windows
2 329 (24.79%) Linux
3 259 (19.52%) Windows Server
4 81 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (4.45%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.47%) Unix
7 28 (2.11%) Ubuntu
8 23 (1.73%) AIX
8 23 (1.73%) Mac OS
8 23 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (1.43%) Apple iOS
9 19 (1.43%) CentOS
10 18 (1.36%) VMS
11 17 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (1.13%) Android
13 10 (0.75%) Rocky
13 10 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.68%) Windows 7
15 6 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
16 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (28.94%) DevOps
2 363 (27.35%) CI/CD
3 324 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 265 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
5 220 (16.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 183 (13.79%) Agile
7 169 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 169 (12.74%) Migration
8 166 (12.51%) ITIL
9 163 (12.28%) Runbook
10 143 (10.78%) ITSM
11 137 (10.32%) Identity Access Management
12 135 (10.17%) Analytics
13 134 (10.10%) SIEM
14 131 (9.87%) Observability
15 126 (9.50%) AI
16 125 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
17 122 (9.19%) Cloud Security
17 122 (9.19%) Disaster Recovery
18 120 (9.04%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 629 (47.40%) Python
2 335 (25.24%) Bash
3 236 (17.78%) SQL
4 115 (8.67%) Bicep
5 101 (7.61%) C#
6 63 (4.75%) Java
7 62 (4.67%) JavaScript
8 29 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (1.96%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.73%) Perl
11 22 (1.66%) VBScript
12 21 (1.58%) Search Processing Language
13 20 (1.51%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.43%) Groovy
15 14 (1.06%) Go
16 13 (0.98%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.90%) C++
18 11 (0.83%) BeanShell
19 10 (0.75%) VB
20 7 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 467 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 327 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 147 (11.08%) Degree
4 144 (10.85%) DV Cleared
5 100 (7.54%) Azure Certification
6 96 (7.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 76 (5.73%) CISSP
8 55 (4.14%) AWS Certification
9 42 (3.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 30 (2.26%) CISM
11 28 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (1.81%) MCSE
14 21 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (1.51%) VCAP
16 18 (1.36%) MCSA
17 14 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
18 11 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 10 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 10 (0.75%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 91 (6.86%) NIST
3 48 (3.62%) GDPR
4 40 (3.01%) QA
5 33 (2.49%) Data Quality
6 30 (2.26%) SLA
7 14 (1.06%) HIPAA
8 13 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.83%) NCSC
9 11 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.45%) GxP
12 5 (0.38%) GRC
13 4 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 419 (31.57%) Active Directory
2 165 (12.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 152 (11.45%) Docker
4 83 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 69 (5.20%) Hyper-V
6 60 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
7 59 (4.45%) vSphere
8 41 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
8 41 (3.09%) VMware NSX
9 24 (1.81%) BitLocker
10 20 (1.51%) Microsoft App-V
11 17 (1.28%) Firmware
12 16 (1.21%) vCloud
13 8 (0.60%) KVM
14 5 (0.38%) Squid
14 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.23%) NFS
15 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 397 (29.92%) Terraform
2 238 (17.94%) Ansible
3 222 (16.73%) Kubernetes
4 165 (12.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 93 (7.01%) SCCM
6 67 (5.05%) Grafana
7 63 (4.75%) vCenter Server
8 56 (4.22%) Prometheus
9 43 (3.24%) Progress Chef
10 41 (3.09%) Puppet
11 39 (2.94%) SCOM
12 28 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (1.73%) Packer
14 21 (1.58%) Nagios
15 20 (1.51%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.36%) Tivoli
16 18 (1.36%) vRealize
17 16 (1.21%) Netcool
18 15 (1.13%) VxRail
19 14 (1.06%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 609 (45.89%) Microsoft
2 221 (16.65%) VMware
3 126 (9.50%) ServiceNow
4 86 (6.48%) Google
5 82 (6.18%) CyberArk
6 78 (5.88%) Splunk
7 76 (5.73%) Oracle
8 57 (4.30%) Cisco
9 52 (3.92%) BeyondTrust
9 52 (3.92%) Red Hat
10 48 (3.62%) Citrix
11 47 (3.54%) BMC
12 45 (3.39%) Remedy
13 37 (2.79%) SolarWinds
14 32 (2.41%) Databricks
15 30 (2.26%) IBM
16 28 (2.11%) HP
16 28 (2.11%) NetApp
17 24 (1.81%) Dynatrace
18 21 (1.58%) CrowdStrike