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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 53 66
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,315 993 1,156
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 4.09% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.28% 12.09% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 674 817
10th Percentile £338 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -0.70% -2.27%
75th Percentile £622 £626 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £548
% change year-on-year - -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 14 30
10th Percentile £34.58 £17.00 £20.57
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £36.90
Median hourly rate £74.26 £49.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.27% +24.38% -30.23%
75th Percentile £78.75 £74.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.80 £164.89 £68.64
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +156.07% -27.50% -28.78%

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 10,708 8,211 10,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.55% 33.82% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,126 5,591 7,883
10th Percentile £353 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -2.33% -5.70%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £774
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 472 215 441
10th Percentile £41.62 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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

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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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -22 545 £550 +4.76% 123
South East -4 240 £505 -12.17% 97
North of England -2 226 £485 +3.14% 66
South West +1 152 £525 -10.26% 60
North West +10 133 £500 +7.53% 35
Yorkshire -26 87 £460 -8.00% 16
Midlands -62 81 £456 -3.95% 45
West Midlands -58 60 £485 -3.00% 29
East of England -18 34 £500 -5.66% 34
East Midlands -29 20 £418 -9.73% 16
North East -11 11 £550 +19.57% 15
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
1 185 (14.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 140 (10.65%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.26%) Confluence
4 23 (1.75%) Skype for Business
5 15 (1.14%) IIS
6 14 (1.06%) Apache
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
8 2 (0.15%) WordPress
9 1 (0.076%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 36 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
1 8 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.076%) Actimize
5 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.076%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 660 (50.19%) Azure
2 306 (23.27%) Entra ID
3 269 (20.46%) Microsoft 365
4 240 (18.25%) AWS
5 138 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (10.19%) GCP
7 123 (9.35%) GitHub
8 83 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
8 83 (6.31%) Power Platform
9 79 (6.01%) OneDrive
10 72 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
11 63 (4.79%) IaaS
12 59 (4.49%) Microsoft Purview
13 57 (4.33%) PaaS
14 45 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
14 45 (3.42%) SaaS
15 43 (3.27%) Serverless
16 41 (3.12%) Azure Key Vault
17 39 (2.97%) Azure AKS
18 36 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 202 (15.36%) DNS
2 170 (12.93%) Firewall
3 130 (9.89%) DHCP
4 84 (6.39%) VPN
5 68 (5.17%) TCP/IP
6 60 (4.56%) Network Security
7 43 (3.27%) LAN
8 41 (3.12%) WAN
9 37 (2.81%) Kerberos
10 33 (2.51%) VLAN
11 31 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (1.98%) Skype
13 19 (1.44%) SAN
14 18 (1.37%) DKIM
14 18 (1.37%) DMARC
14 18 (1.37%) SMTP
15 16 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
16 15 (1.14%) SSL
17 14 (1.06%) WebEx
18 12 (0.91%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.77%) SQL Server
2 49 (3.73%) Power BI
3 28 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 18 (1.37%) Metadata
7 15 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (0.76%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.68%) Delta Lake
11 8 (0.61%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.61%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.53%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.53%) Spark SQL
13 6 (0.46%) DB2
13 6 (0.46%) MySQL
13 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 85 (6.46%) JIRA
2 84 (6.39%) Jenkins
3 83 (6.31%) Git
4 74 (5.63%) GitLab
5 15 (1.14%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.06%) MSI
7 11 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.68%) InstallShield
9 9 (0.68%) Selenium
10 8 (0.61%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.61%) Metasploit
11 7 (0.53%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.53%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.38%) AdminStudio
13 5 (0.38%) Appium
14 4 (0.30%) JUnit
14 4 (0.30%) MSTest
14 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 423 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 214 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
3 147 (11.18%) Finance
4 119 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.77%) Documentation Skills
6 61 (4.64%) Banking
7 58 (4.41%) Legal
8 21 (1.60%) Front Office
9 20 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.06%) Retail
12 13 (0.99%) Military
13 9 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.68%) Publishing
14 8 (0.61%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.61%) Law
15 7 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.46%) Electronics
16 6 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 176 (13.38%) Architect
2 126 (9.58%) Senior
3 93 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
4 85 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 80 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 67 (5.10%) Security Engineer
7 65 (4.94%) Support Engineer
8 63 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
9 60 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 56 (4.26%) Consultant
11 50 (3.80%) Developer
12 49 (3.73%) Analyst
13 38 (2.89%) Microsoft Engineer
14 37 (2.81%) CyberArk Architect
15 36 (2.74%) Lead
16 30 (2.28%) IT Engineer
16 30 (2.28%) SIEM Engineer
17 28 (2.13%) Administrator
18 26 (1.98%) Windows Engineer
19 25 (1.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (13.92%) REST
2 113 (8.59%) LDAP
3 78 (5.93%) Microsoft Graph
4 66 (5.02%) SOAP
5 59 (4.49%) JSON
6 57 (4.33%) OAuth
7 52 (3.95%) SAML
8 50 (3.80%) .NET
9 40 (3.04%) ARM Templates
10 33 (2.51%) OpenID
11 28 (2.13%) OAuth2
11 28 (2.13%) SailPoint
11 28 (2.13%) YAML
12 26 (1.98%) .NET Framework
13 21 (1.60%) Web Services
14 20 (1.52%) Middleware
15 18 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (1.29%) XML
17 15 (1.14%) Kafka
17 15 (1.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.16%) Onboarding
2 80 (6.08%) Security Posture
3 78 (5.93%) Replication
4 74 (5.63%) PKI
5 69 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 46 (3.50%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.27%) Clustering
9 41 (3.12%) Cloud Native
10 37 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (2.51%) Product Ownership
12 29 (2.21%) Management Information System
13 26 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.29%) Private Cloud
17 16 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
18 14 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
19 13 (0.99%) BYOD
20 12 (0.91%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 533 (40.53%) Windows
2 232 (17.64%) Linux
3 230 (17.49%) Windows Server
4 68 (5.17%) Windows 10
5 47 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.83%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.67%) Unix
8 19 (1.44%) Android
8 19 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (1.37%) AIX
9 18 (1.37%) VMS
9 18 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.99%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.76%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.68%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.53%) CentOS
14 7 (0.53%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (25.55%) DevOps
2 317 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
3 283 (21.52%) CI/CD
4 216 (16.43%) Agile
4 216 (16.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 170 (12.93%) SIEM
6 162 (12.32%) Migration
7 148 (11.25%) ITIL
8 143 (10.87%) Task Automation
9 136 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
10 132 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 130 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (9.20%) Identity Access Management
13 120 (9.13%) RBAC
14 119 (9.05%) ITSM
15 118 (8.97%) Disaster Recovery
16 114 (8.67%) High Availability
17 113 (8.59%) Incident Response
18 109 (8.29%) Analytics
19 103 (7.83%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 568 (43.19%) Python
2 244 (18.56%) Bash
3 156 (11.86%) SQL
4 95 (7.22%) C#
5 75 (5.70%) Kusto Query Language
6 68 (5.17%) JavaScript
7 60 (4.56%) Bicep
8 48 (3.65%) Java
9 31 (2.36%) Perl
10 22 (1.67%) VBScript
11 20 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 13 (0.99%) Go
13 12 (0.91%) BeanShell
13 12 (0.91%) VB
14 9 (0.68%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
16 7 (0.53%) PHP
16 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 564 (42.89%) Security Cleared
2 440 (33.46%) SC Cleared
3 120 (9.13%) DV Cleared
4 118 (8.97%) Degree
5 101 (7.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (5.93%) CISSP
7 65 (4.94%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.50%) CISM
9 37 (2.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 25 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.83%) CEH
12 23 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.67%) MCSA
13 22 (1.67%) MCSE
14 20 (1.52%) AWS Certification
15 18 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (1.22%) GIAC
17 15 (1.14%) CCNA
17 15 (1.14%) CCNP
18 13 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.75%) GDPR
2 100 (7.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (5.78%) NIST
4 34 (2.59%) QA
5 29 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.37%) SLA
7 15 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 15 (1.14%) MiFID
8 11 (0.84%) FINRA
8 11 (0.84%) NCSC
8 11 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.76%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.38%) PSD2
11 4 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.30%) GRC
12 3 (0.23%) EMIR
12 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 457 (34.75%) Active Directory
2 140 (10.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (9.20%) Docker
4 69 (5.25%) Hyper-V
5 53 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (3.19%) vSphere
7 35 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 33 (2.51%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (1.52%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.29%) KVM
11 14 (1.06%) Firmware
12 13 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
12 13 (0.99%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.30%) NFS
15 3 (0.23%) Squid
16 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.15%) Sendmail
16 2 (0.15%) Snort
16 2 (0.15%) UAG
Systems Management
1 274 (20.84%) Terraform
2 156 (11.86%) Ansible
3 147 (11.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 139 (10.57%) Kubernetes
5 96 (7.30%) SCCM
6 83 (6.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 64 (4.87%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (3.57%) vCenter Server
9 43 (3.27%) Grafana
10 39 (2.97%) Prometheus
11 19 (1.44%) vRealize
12 18 (1.37%) Puppet
12 18 (1.37%) SCOM
13 17 (1.29%) Progress Chef
14 16 (1.22%) Kibana
14 16 (1.22%) WSUS
15 15 (1.14%) PowerCLI
16 14 (1.06%) Nagios
17 11 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
17 11 (0.84%) Nessus
Vendors
1 601 (45.70%) Microsoft
2 193 (14.68%) VMware
3 91 (6.92%) CyberArk
4 73 (5.55%) ServiceNow
5 70 (5.32%) Citrix
6 68 (5.17%) BeyondTrust
7 58 (4.41%) Splunk
8 47 (3.57%) Cisco
9 45 (3.42%) Red Hat
10 40 (3.04%) Google
11 39 (2.97%) Oracle
12 35 (2.66%) Centrify
13 29 (2.21%) SolarWinds
14 27 (2.05%) Databricks
14 27 (2.05%) Okta
15 24 (1.83%) Veeam
16 23 (1.75%) Atlassian
17 19 (1.44%) IBM
17 19 (1.44%) Qualys
18 18 (1.37%) NetApp