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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 53 60
Rank change year-on-year -26 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,223 927 1,232
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 3.83% 3.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.30% 11.34% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 644 887
10th Percentile £335 £350 £350
25th Percentile £424 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +0.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £623 £625
90th Percentile £718 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 8 21
10th Percentile £23.13 £16.93 £37.63
25th Percentile £50.75 £19.43 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £41.75 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.22% +3.73% -32.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £112.22 £46.39
90th Percentile £83.30 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £24.66 £40.25
% change year-on-year +156.02% -38.73% -32.92%

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 10,826 8,172 10,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.58% 33.77% 29.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,151 5,672 7,859
10th Percentile £353 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 212 443
10th Percentile £41.94 £26.34 £37.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.97 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -24 509 £550 +4.76% 132
South East -7 251 £515 -10.43% 128
North of England -3 228 £460 -1.08% 82
North West +17 134 £465 -0.09% 51
South West -13 98 £438 -25.37% 46
Yorkshire -20 92 £460 -8.00% 17
Midlands -59 73 £463 -1.07% 32
West Midlands -57 56 £480 +4.35% 12
East of England -30 39 £507 -7.82% 28
East Midlands -28 16 £380 -20.00% 20
North East -16 4 £400 +14.29% 14
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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
1 139 (11.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 123 (10.06%) SharePoint
3 37 (3.03%) Confluence
4 19 (1.55%) IIS
5 13 (1.06%) Skype for Business
6 10 (0.82%) Apache
7 5 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.25%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.082%) MTS
10 1 (0.082%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.082%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.65%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.082%) Actimize
5 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.082%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 655 (53.56%) Azure
2 277 (22.65%) Entra ID
3 252 (20.61%) AWS
4 224 (18.32%) Microsoft 365
5 136 (11.12%) GCP
6 134 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
7 127 (10.38%) GitHub
8 97 (7.93%) Power Platform
9 87 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
10 81 (6.62%) OneDrive
11 75 (6.13%) Azure Monitor
12 59 (4.82%) PaaS
13 54 (4.42%) Azure AKS
13 54 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
14 45 (3.68%) Microsoft Copilot
15 40 (3.27%) IaaS
16 39 (3.19%) Azure Key Vault
17 36 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
18 35 (2.86%) Power Automate
19 34 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 158 (12.92%) DNS
2 126 (10.30%) Firewall
3 94 (7.69%) DHCP
4 69 (5.64%) VPN
5 58 (4.74%) Network Security
6 43 (3.52%) TCP/IP
7 40 (3.27%) Kerberos
8 36 (2.94%) WAN
9 30 (2.45%) LAN
10 24 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (1.72%) SMTP
11 21 (1.72%) VLAN
12 18 (1.47%) SAN
13 17 (1.39%) SNMP
14 16 (1.31%) SSL
15 14 (1.14%) HTTP
16 13 (1.06%) Skype
17 12 (0.98%) NAS
17 12 (0.98%) Unified Communications
17 12 (0.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (10.47%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.07%) Power BI
3 42 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.23%) Metadata
8 12 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.90%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.90%) MySQL
10 10 (0.82%) Delta Lake
10 10 (0.82%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.65%) DB2
12 8 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (0.57%) Spark SQL
14 6 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 80 (6.54%) Jenkins
2 79 (6.46%) Git
3 62 (5.07%) GitLab
4 56 (4.58%) JIRA
5 20 (1.64%) MSI
6 11 (0.90%) InstallShield
7 10 (0.82%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.74%) Robot Framework
8 9 (0.74%) Selenium
9 8 (0.65%) AdminStudio
9 8 (0.65%) Postman
10 7 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.57%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.41%) Appium
12 5 (0.41%) JMeter
13 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.33%) Jaeger
13 4 (0.33%) JUnit
14 3 (0.25%) Spinnaker
General
1 343 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 155 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
3 138 (11.28%) Finance
4 107 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 80 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
6 59 (4.82%) Banking
7 43 (3.52%) Legal
8 20 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.23%) Front Office
11 13 (1.06%) Military
12 10 (0.82%) Law
12 10 (0.82%) Retail
13 9 (0.74%) Publishing
14 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.41%) Marketing
17 4 (0.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 147 (12.02%) Architect
2 121 (9.89%) Senior
3 96 (7.85%) Azure Engineer
4 95 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 73 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 73 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 73 (5.97%) Security Engineer
6 49 (4.01%) Support Engineer
7 47 (3.84%) Developer
8 41 (3.35%) Analyst
9 37 (3.03%) CyberArk Architect
10 36 (2.94%) Consultant
11 35 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
12 32 (2.62%) Lead
13 28 (2.29%) Desktop Engineer
14 27 (2.21%) PowerShell Engineer
15 25 (2.04%) Automation Engineer
16 24 (1.96%) Microsoft Engineer
16 24 (1.96%) SIEM Engineer
16 24 (1.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (11.20%) REST
2 123 (10.06%) LDAP
3 78 (6.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 58 (4.74%) SOAP
5 53 (4.33%) .NET
6 50 (4.09%) OAuth
7 43 (3.52%) SAML
8 39 (3.19%) JSON
9 36 (2.94%) SailPoint
10 33 (2.70%) ARM Templates
11 32 (2.62%) YAML
12 27 (2.21%) OpenID
12 27 (2.21%) Web Services
13 22 (1.80%) .NET Framework
14 19 (1.55%) OAuth2
15 18 (1.47%) Kafka
16 16 (1.31%) React
17 15 (1.23%) AngularJS
17 15 (1.23%) Node.js
18 14 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.79%) Onboarding
1 83 (6.79%) Replication
2 74 (6.05%) Security Posture
3 69 (5.64%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (4.66%) Clustering
5 52 (4.25%) Cloud Native
6 49 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 48 (3.92%) PKI
8 34 (2.78%) Management Information System
9 33 (2.70%) Data Centre
10 22 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.55%) Product Ownership
13 18 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
15 14 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
16 12 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.90%) Operational Technology
17 11 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 516 (42.19%) Windows
2 224 (18.32%) Linux
3 211 (17.25%) Windows Server
4 53 (4.33%) Windows 10
5 37 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (2.94%) Unix
7 26 (2.13%) AIX
7 26 (2.13%) Mac OS
8 23 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (1.39%) VMS
11 13 (1.06%) Ubuntu
12 12 (0.98%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
13 11 (0.90%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.74%) Android
15 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.33%) CentOS
17 3 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (25.43%) DevOps
2 293 (23.96%) CI/CD
3 278 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 219 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 169 (13.82%) SIEM
6 165 (13.49%) Agile
7 143 (11.69%) Migration
8 136 (11.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 126 (10.30%) Task Automation
10 119 (9.73%) Identity Access Management
11 118 (9.65%) ITIL
12 117 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
13 115 (9.40%) Analytics
13 115 (9.40%) ITSM
14 114 (9.32%) Runbook
15 109 (8.91%) High Availability
16 108 (8.83%) Observability
16 108 (8.83%) Root Cause Analysis
17 107 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
18 102 (8.34%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 541 (44.24%) Python
2 237 (19.38%) Bash
3 188 (15.37%) SQL
4 99 (8.09%) C#
5 68 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 66 (5.40%) Bicep
7 58 (4.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 45 (3.68%) Java
9 24 (1.96%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.47%) Search Processing Language
10 18 (1.47%) VBScript
11 16 (1.31%) Go
11 16 (1.31%) TypeScript
12 15 (1.23%) Perl
13 11 (0.90%) Groovy
13 11 (0.90%) VB
14 8 (0.65%) BeanShell
14 8 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.57%) C++
15 7 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 496 (40.56%) Security Cleared
2 371 (30.34%) SC Cleared
3 110 (8.99%) DV Cleared
4 102 (8.34%) Degree
5 85 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 71 (5.81%) Azure Certification
7 68 (5.56%) CISSP
8 44 (3.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 37 (3.03%) CISM
10 27 (2.21%) MCSE
11 26 (2.13%) MCSA
12 23 (1.88%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (1.47%) VCAP
15 16 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (1.31%) CEH
16 15 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
17 12 (0.98%) GIAC
18 11 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
19 8 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (8.01%) GDPR
2 93 (7.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 79 (6.46%) NIST
4 31 (2.53%) QA
5 26 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 20 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (1.23%) SLA
9 14 (1.14%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.98%) MiFID
11 11 (0.90%) FINRA
12 9 (0.74%) NCSC
12 9 (0.74%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.57%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.41%) GRC
15 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
17 2 (0.16%) GxP
17 2 (0.16%) ISA99
17 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 415 (33.93%) Active Directory
2 142 (11.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (10.06%) Docker
4 69 (5.64%) Hyper-V
5 67 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
6 52 (4.25%) vSphere
7 47 (3.84%) VMware ESXi
8 36 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 25 (2.04%) BitLocker
10 20 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
11 19 (1.55%) Firmware
12 18 (1.47%) KVM
12 18 (1.47%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.41%) Squid
13 5 (0.41%) vCloud
14 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 277 (22.65%) Terraform
2 165 (13.49%) Kubernetes
3 159 (13.00%) Ansible
4 133 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 81 (6.62%) SCCM
6 58 (4.74%) vCenter Server
7 56 (4.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 48 (3.92%) Grafana
9 41 (3.35%) Prometheus
9 41 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (1.88%) Nagios
11 22 (1.80%) Puppet
12 19 (1.55%) Progress Chef
12 19 (1.55%) SCOM
12 19 (1.55%) vRealize
13 18 (1.47%) ZABBIX
14 17 (1.39%) Tivoli
15 16 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
15 16 (1.31%) Netcool
16 13 (1.06%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 563 (46.03%) Microsoft
2 186 (15.21%) VMware
3 91 (7.44%) CyberArk
4 81 (6.62%) ServiceNow
5 79 (6.46%) BeyondTrust
6 71 (5.81%) Splunk
7 49 (4.01%) Citrix
8 48 (3.92%) Oracle
9 46 (3.76%) Google
10 43 (3.52%) Cisco
11 36 (2.94%) Centrify
12 33 (2.70%) SolarWinds
13 31 (2.53%) Red Hat
14 30 (2.45%) BMC
15 26 (2.13%) Databricks
15 26 (2.13%) IBM
16 22 (1.80%) Dynatrace
17 21 (1.72%) HP
17 21 (1.72%) Remedy
18 19 (1.55%) Okta