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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 54 63
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,287 967 1,205
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.28% 3.96% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.78% 11.71% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 666 866
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -2.06% -0.91%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £638
90th Percentile £740 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 12 26
10th Percentile £39.27 £17.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £19.43 £37.63
Median hourly rate £67.70 £41.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% +4.38% -31.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £78.87 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.45 £188.30 £58.94
UK median hourly rate £67.70 £24.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +174.53% -38.35% -30.23%

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 10,922 8,256 10,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.82% 33.83% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,297 5,690 7,869
10th Percentile £355 £361 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 211 430
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.26 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.38% -2.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 16 April 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

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 16 April 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 16 April 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 -26 526 £550 +4.76% 108
South East -4 243 £510 -11.30% 99
North of England +1 230 £500 +6.38% 56
North West +14 134 £525 +12.90% 31
South West -5 132 £525 -10.26% 40
Yorkshire -25 91 £460 -5.64% 15
Midlands -65 80 £463 -7.50% 32
West Midlands -60 60 £485 -3.00% 17
East of England -11 43 £507 -6.11% 37
East Midlands -31 19 £418 -12.11% 15
North East -12 10 £550 +18.28% 10
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
1 164 (12.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 127 (9.87%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.20%) Confluence
4 17 (1.32%) Skype for Business
5 14 (1.09%) IIS
6 9 (0.70%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) NetWeaver
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 (0.078%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 37 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.078%) Actimize
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.078%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 647 (50.27%) Azure
2 286 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 250 (19.43%) Microsoft 365
4 232 (18.03%) AWS
5 133 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (10.10%) GCP
7 117 (9.09%) GitHub
8 85 (6.60%) Power Platform
9 80 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
10 77 (5.98%) OneDrive
11 74 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
12 64 (4.97%) IaaS
13 60 (4.66%) PaaS
14 57 (4.43%) Microsoft Purview
15 45 (3.50%) Azure AKS
16 43 (3.34%) Serverless
17 41 (3.19%) Azure Key Vault
17 41 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
18 40 (3.11%) SaaS
19 35 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 194 (15.07%) DNS
2 161 (12.51%) Firewall
3 117 (9.09%) DHCP
4 81 (6.29%) VPN
5 60 (4.66%) Network Security
6 56 (4.35%) TCP/IP
7 42 (3.26%) LAN
8 41 (3.19%) WAN
9 38 (2.95%) Kerberos
10 35 (2.72%) VLAN
11 34 (2.64%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (1.55%) SMTP
13 19 (1.48%) Skype
14 18 (1.40%) SAN
15 16 (1.24%) SSL
16 15 (1.17%) DKIM
16 15 (1.17%) DMARC
16 15 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
17 13 (1.01%) VSAN
17 13 (1.01%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 51 (3.96%) Power BI
3 36 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.48%) Metadata
7 18 (1.40%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.85%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.78%) Delta Lake
10 10 (0.78%) MySQL
11 9 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.62%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.54%) DB2
13 7 (0.54%) Spark SQL
13 7 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 80 (6.22%) Git
2 74 (5.75%) Jenkins
2 74 (5.75%) JIRA
3 66 (5.13%) GitLab
4 14 (1.09%) MSI
5 12 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 9 (0.70%) Selenium
6 9 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.62%) InstallShield
7 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.39%) AdminStudio
10 5 (0.39%) Appium
11 4 (0.31%) JUnit
11 4 (0.31%) MSTest
11 4 (0.31%) Postman
11 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.23%) Jaeger
General
1 373 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 193 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (10.49%) Finance
4 111 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 88 (6.84%) Documentation Skills
6 60 (4.66%) Banking
7 56 (4.35%) Legal
8 19 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.09%) Front Office
11 13 (1.01%) Retail
12 12 (0.93%) Military
13 9 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.70%) Publishing
14 8 (0.62%) Law
15 7 (0.54%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.39%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.39%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 178 (13.83%) Architect
2 124 (9.63%) Senior
3 98 (7.61%) Azure Engineer
4 88 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 74 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (5.36%) Security Engineer
7 63 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 57 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
8 57 (4.43%) Support Engineer
9 52 (4.04%) Developer
10 44 (3.42%) Analyst
10 44 (3.42%) Consultant
11 37 (2.87%) CyberArk Architect
12 36 (2.80%) Lead
13 31 (2.41%) Microsoft Engineer
14 30 (2.33%) SIEM Engineer
15 29 (2.25%) Administrator
15 29 (2.25%) IT Engineer
16 26 (2.02%) Software Engineer
16 26 (2.02%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (13.68%) REST
2 113 (8.78%) LDAP
3 77 (5.98%) Microsoft Graph
4 60 (4.66%) SOAP
5 58 (4.51%) JSON
6 55 (4.27%) .NET
7 54 (4.20%) OAuth
8 50 (3.89%) SAML
9 37 (2.87%) ARM Templates
10 30 (2.33%) OpenID
11 28 (2.18%) .NET Framework
11 28 (2.18%) YAML
12 27 (2.10%) SailPoint
13 23 (1.79%) OAuth2
14 20 (1.55%) Web Services
15 17 (1.32%) Node.js
16 16 (1.24%) Kafka
17 14 (1.09%) AngularJS
17 14 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
17 14 (1.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.29%) Replication
2 78 (6.06%) Security Posture
3 75 (5.83%) Onboarding
4 73 (5.67%) PKI
5 64 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 48 (3.73%) Clustering
8 42 (3.26%) Cloud Native
8 42 (3.26%) Data Centre
9 35 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (2.64%) Product Ownership
11 31 (2.41%) Management Information System
12 23 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
16 17 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.32%) Private Cloud
17 13 (1.01%) BYOD
18 12 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 536 (41.65%) Windows
2 227 (17.64%) Linux
2 227 (17.64%) Windows Server
3 62 (4.82%) Windows 10
4 49 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (2.41%) Unix
6 27 (2.10%) Mac OS
7 20 (1.55%) AIX
8 19 (1.48%) Android
9 18 (1.40%) VMS
10 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (1.01%) Apple iOS
11 13 (1.01%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.47%) CentOS
15 3 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
15 3 (0.23%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (24.32%) DevOps
2 300 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
3 268 (20.82%) CI/CD
4 209 (16.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 208 (16.16%) Agile
6 175 (13.60%) SIEM
7 156 (12.12%) Migration
8 139 (10.80%) Task Automation
9 137 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 136 (10.57%) ITIL
11 126 (9.79%) Cybersecurity
11 126 (9.79%) ITSM
12 118 (9.17%) Identity Access Management
13 117 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (9.01%) Disaster Recovery
15 113 (8.78%) RBAC
16 108 (8.39%) Analytics
17 106 (8.24%) Incident Response
18 104 (8.08%) High Availability
19 102 (7.93%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 546 (42.42%) Python
2 240 (18.65%) Bash
3 166 (12.90%) SQL
4 98 (7.61%) C#
5 72 (5.59%) JavaScript
5 72 (5.59%) Kusto Query Language
6 61 (4.74%) Bicep
7 42 (3.26%) Java
8 27 (2.10%) Perl
9 23 (1.79%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.55%) VBScript
11 14 (1.09%) Go
12 13 (1.01%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
13 11 (0.85%) VB
14 9 (0.70%) BeanShell
15 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.54%) PHP
16 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 546 (42.42%) Security Cleared
2 427 (33.18%) SC Cleared
3 117 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 115 (8.94%) Degree
5 97 (7.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 72 (5.59%) CISSP
7 67 (5.21%) Azure Certification
8 39 (3.03%) CISM
8 39 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 24 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (1.71%) MCSE
11 21 (1.63%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.63%) MCSA
12 20 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.48%) CEH
14 17 (1.32%) GIAC
15 16 (1.24%) CCNA
16 13 (1.01%) CCNP
16 13 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.85%) GDPR
2 97 (7.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 79 (6.14%) NIST
4 32 (2.49%) QA
5 26 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 20 (1.55%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 16 (1.24%) SLA
9 12 (0.93%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.93%) MiFID
10 11 (0.85%) FINRA
11 10 (0.78%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.70%) NCSC
13 7 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.31%) GRC
15 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.16%) GxP
16 2 (0.16%) ISA99
16 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 439 (34.11%) Active Directory
2 142 (11.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (9.17%) Docker
4 70 (5.44%) Hyper-V
5 57 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
6 47 (3.65%) vSphere
7 38 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
8 30 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 25 (1.94%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.40%) Firmware
11 17 (1.32%) KVM
12 13 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
12 13 (1.01%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.31%) Squid
13 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.16%) NFS
14 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.16%) UAG
14 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 269 (20.90%) Terraform
2 149 (11.58%) Kubernetes
3 145 (11.27%) Ansible
4 142 (11.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 92 (7.15%) SCCM
6 76 (5.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 56 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
8 51 (3.96%) vCenter Server
9 38 (2.95%) Grafana
10 33 (2.56%) Prometheus
11 20 (1.55%) vRealize
12 19 (1.48%) Puppet
12 19 (1.48%) SCOM
13 17 (1.32%) Nagios
13 17 (1.32%) Progress Chef
14 15 (1.17%) PowerCLI
15 14 (1.09%) Kibana
16 13 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
16 13 (1.01%) WSUS
17 12 (0.93%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 588 (45.69%) Microsoft
2 192 (14.92%) VMware
3 95 (7.38%) CyberArk
4 73 (5.67%) BeyondTrust
5 72 (5.59%) ServiceNow
6 66 (5.13%) Citrix
7 61 (4.74%) Splunk
8 47 (3.65%) Cisco
9 45 (3.50%) Oracle
9 45 (3.50%) Red Hat
10 44 (3.42%) Google
11 36 (2.80%) Centrify
12 31 (2.41%) SolarWinds
13 29 (2.25%) Databricks
14 24 (1.86%) Veeam
15 23 (1.79%) Atlassian
15 23 (1.79%) Okta
16 22 (1.71%) IBM
17 21 (1.63%) BMC
18 18 (1.40%) Qualys