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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 54 56
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,217 935 1,244
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 3.85% 3.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.18% 11.42% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 650 900
10th Percentile £328 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £623 £625
90th Percentile £724 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 8 21
10th Percentile £22.49 £16.93 £37.63
25th Percentile £50.50 £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 £74.58 £112.22 £46.39
90th Percentile £82.63 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £60.93 £24.66 £40.25
% change year-on-year +147.08% -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 10,885 8,189 10,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.47% 33.72% 29.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,190 5,683 7,905
10th Percentile £355 £361 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.22%
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 529 210 447
10th Percentile £41.25 £27.40 £37.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.40 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.10 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% +2.85%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -21 514 £550 +4.76% 118
South East -11 239 £525 -8.70% 115
North of England +2 234 £469 +0.90% 81
North West +15 134 £472 +1.51% 51
Yorkshire -17 98 £460 -8.00% 18
South West -20 97 £434 -26.01% 38
Midlands -65 68 £463 -1.07% 37
West Midlands -56 51 £480 +4.35% 17
East of England -32 40 £507 -7.82% 24
East Midlands -29 16 £380 -20.00% 20
North East -20 4 £400 +14.29% 12
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
1 136 (11.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 122 (10.02%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.88%) Confluence
4 20 (1.64%) IIS
5 13 (1.07%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.74%) 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
10 1 (0.082%) CMS
10 1 (0.082%) MTS
10 1 (0.082%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.99%) 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 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.66%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 645 (53.00%) Azure
2 279 (22.93%) Entra ID
3 244 (20.05%) AWS
4 225 (18.49%) Microsoft 365
5 136 (11.18%) Azure DevOps
6 131 (10.76%) GCP
7 128 (10.52%) GitHub
8 100 (8.22%) Power Platform
9 86 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
10 82 (6.74%) OneDrive
11 76 (6.24%) Azure Monitor
12 57 (4.68%) PaaS
13 55 (4.52%) Azure AKS
13 55 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
14 48 (3.94%) Microsoft Copilot
15 40 (3.29%) IaaS
16 38 (3.12%) Azure Key Vault
17 37 (3.04%) Power Automate
18 36 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
19 35 (2.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 151 (12.41%) DNS
2 120 (9.86%) Firewall
3 88 (7.23%) DHCP
4 67 (5.51%) VPN
5 58 (4.77%) Network Security
6 40 (3.29%) Kerberos
7 37 (3.04%) WAN
8 36 (2.96%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.47%) LAN
10 24 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (1.73%) SMTP
12 19 (1.56%) VLAN
13 18 (1.48%) SAN
14 17 (1.40%) SNMP
15 16 (1.31%) SSL
16 15 (1.23%) HTTP
17 13 (1.07%) Skype
18 12 (0.99%) Unified Communications
19 11 (0.90%) DKIM
19 11 (0.90%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (10.60%) SQL Server
2 63 (5.18%) Power BI
3 41 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.07%) Metadata
8 12 (0.99%) 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 (0.66%) DB2
12 8 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (0.58%) Spark SQL
14 6 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 83 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 81 (6.66%) Git
3 62 (5.09%) GitLab
4 55 (4.52%) JIRA
5 19 (1.56%) MSI
6 11 (0.90%) InstallShield
7 10 (0.82%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.74%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.74%) Postman
8 9 (0.74%) Robot Framework
8 9 (0.74%) Selenium
9 7 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.58%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.49%) JMeter
11 5 (0.41%) Appium
12 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.33%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.33%) JUnit
13 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 325 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 152 (12.49%) Analytical Skills
3 138 (11.34%) Finance
4 108 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 71 (5.83%) Documentation Skills
6 59 (4.85%) Banking
7 42 (3.45%) Legal
8 20 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.23%) Front Office
11 11 (0.90%) Law
11 11 (0.90%) Military
11 11 (0.90%) Retail
12 9 (0.74%) Publishing
13 7 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.49%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.49%) Marketing
14 6 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 146 (12.00%) Architect
2 114 (9.37%) Senior
3 96 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
4 94 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 75 (6.16%) Security Engineer
6 73 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 72 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (4.19%) Support Engineer
9 48 (3.94%) Developer
10 40 (3.29%) Analyst
11 37 (3.04%) CyberArk Architect
12 36 (2.96%) Consultant
13 33 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
14 32 (2.63%) Lead
15 28 (2.30%) Desktop Engineer
16 27 (2.22%) PowerShell Engineer
17 25 (2.05%) Administrator
17 25 (2.05%) Automation Engineer
17 25 (2.05%) Software Engineer
17 25 (2.05%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (11.26%) REST
2 116 (9.53%) LDAP
3 83 (6.82%) Microsoft Graph
4 55 (4.52%) SOAP
5 51 (4.19%) .NET
6 49 (4.03%) OAuth
7 42 (3.45%) SAML
8 38 (3.12%) JSON
9 35 (2.88%) SailPoint
9 35 (2.88%) YAML
10 34 (2.79%) ARM Templates
11 26 (2.14%) OpenID
12 25 (2.05%) Web Services
13 20 (1.64%) .NET Framework
14 18 (1.48%) OAuth2
15 17 (1.40%) Kafka
15 17 (1.40%) React
16 15 (1.23%) AngularJS
16 15 (1.23%) Node.js
17 14 (1.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.82%) Replication
2 79 (6.49%) Onboarding
3 75 (6.16%) Security Posture
4 69 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (4.77%) Clustering
6 53 (4.35%) Cloud Native
7 51 (4.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 44 (3.62%) PKI
9 34 (2.79%) Management Information System
10 33 (2.71%) Data Centre
11 22 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
12 21 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (1.56%) Product Ownership
15 18 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
17 16 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
18 12 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
19 11 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
19 11 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 520 (42.73%) Windows
2 220 (18.08%) Linux
3 211 (17.34%) Windows Server
4 56 (4.60%) Windows 10
5 37 (3.04%) Unix
6 36 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (2.14%) AIX
7 26 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 24 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (1.40%) VMS
11 14 (1.15%) Ubuntu
12 13 (1.07%) Apple iOS
12 13 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
13 11 (0.90%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.66%) Android
14 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.33%) CentOS
16 3 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (25.39%) DevOps
2 290 (23.83%) CI/CD
3 267 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
4 219 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 163 (13.39%) Agile
6 159 (13.06%) SIEM
7 142 (11.67%) Migration
8 137 (11.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 128 (10.52%) Task Automation
10 120 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
10 120 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
11 119 (9.78%) Analytics
12 116 (9.53%) ITIL
12 116 (9.53%) Runbook
13 113 (9.29%) Observability
14 112 (9.20%) ITSM
15 110 (9.04%) High Availability
16 109 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 108 (8.87%) Root Cause Analysis
18 103 (8.46%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 532 (43.71%) Python
2 236 (19.39%) Bash
3 186 (15.28%) SQL
4 98 (8.05%) C#
5 67 (5.51%) Bicep
5 67 (5.51%) JavaScript
6 57 (4.68%) Kusto Query Language
7 44 (3.62%) Java
8 24 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 18 (1.48%) Search Processing Language
9 18 (1.48%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.48%) VBScript
10 16 (1.31%) Go
11 14 (1.15%) Perl
12 12 (0.99%) Groovy
13 10 (0.82%) VB
14 8 (0.66%) C++
14 8 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.58%) BeanShell
15 7 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 488 (40.10%) Security Cleared
2 366 (30.07%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.12%) DV Cleared
4 103 (8.46%) Degree
5 84 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 70 (5.75%) Azure Certification
7 61 (5.01%) CISSP
8 41 (3.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 31 (2.55%) CISM
10 28 (2.30%) MCSE
11 27 (2.22%) MCSA
12 21 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.56%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.56%) VCAP
14 16 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (1.23%) CEH
15 15 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (0.90%) GIAC
17 7 (0.58%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (7.15%) GDPR
2 86 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (6.08%) NIST
4 31 (2.55%) QA
5 26 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.56%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.40%) SLA
8 14 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (1.15%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.90%) FINRA
9 11 (0.90%) MiFID
10 9 (0.74%) NCSC
10 9 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.41%) GRC
13 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
15 2 (0.16%) ISA99
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 406 (33.36%) Active Directory
2 139 (11.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.86%) Docker
4 67 (5.51%) Hyper-V
4 67 (5.51%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (4.44%) vSphere
6 48 (3.94%) VMware ESXi
7 40 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (2.05%) BitLocker
9 19 (1.56%) Firmware
9 19 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
9 19 (1.56%) VMware NSX
10 18 (1.48%) KVM
11 6 (0.49%) Squid
11 6 (0.49%) vCloud
12 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
13 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 279 (22.93%) Terraform
2 164 (13.48%) Kubernetes
3 159 (13.06%) Ansible
4 137 (11.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 81 (6.66%) SCCM
6 58 (4.77%) vCenter Server
7 55 (4.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 50 (4.11%) Grafana
9 42 (3.45%) Prometheus
10 41 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.89%) Nagios
11 23 (1.89%) Puppet
12 19 (1.56%) Progress Chef
13 18 (1.48%) SCOM
13 18 (1.48%) Tivoli
13 18 (1.48%) vRealize
13 18 (1.48%) ZABBIX
14 17 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
15 16 (1.31%) Netcool
16 13 (1.07%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 562 (46.18%) Microsoft
2 182 (14.95%) VMware
3 86 (7.07%) CyberArk
4 81 (6.66%) ServiceNow
5 73 (6.00%) BeyondTrust
6 71 (5.83%) Splunk
7 50 (4.11%) Citrix
8 49 (4.03%) Google
9 48 (3.94%) Oracle
10 45 (3.70%) Cisco
11 36 (2.96%) Centrify
12 32 (2.63%) SolarWinds
13 31 (2.55%) Red Hat
14 30 (2.47%) BMC
15 28 (2.30%) Databricks
16 27 (2.22%) IBM
17 23 (1.89%) Dynatrace
18 22 (1.81%) HP
18 22 (1.81%) Remedy
19 19 (1.56%) Okta