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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 69 58
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,448 995 1,192
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 3.58% 3.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.07% 10.90% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 620 839
10th Percentile £331 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £619
90th Percentile £710 £660 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 13 16
10th Percentile £31.42 £44.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £48.00 £45.00 £45.46
Median hourly rate £63.48 £63.50 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% +8.57% -2.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £74.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £83.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £63.93
% change year-on-year -0.57% -0.68% +6.18%

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 11,994 9,132 10,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.90% 32.88% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,749 6,167 7,323
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.47% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 260 308
10th Percentile £26.85 £31.25 £30.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.44 £49.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.88 £79.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -23 630 £550 +7.84% 516
South East -2 308 £538 -1.38% 198
North of England +45 276 £483 +10.40% 177
North West +44 172 £473 +5.70% 99
South West -11 102 £613 +22.50% 78
Yorkshire +3 90 £518 +25.64% 50
East of England -34 59 £507 -7.82% 62
Midlands -92 57 £500 +5.26% 94
West Midlands -83 43 £500 +5.26% 50
North East -33 15 £500 - 30
East Midlands -27 14 £500 +9.29% 44
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
1 120 (8.29%) SharePoint
2 117 (8.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (3.11%) Confluence
4 23 (1.59%) IIS
5 21 (1.45%) Skype for Business
6 19 (1.31%) Apache
7 14 (0.97%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.97%) nginx
8 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.14%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.069%) Camunda
12 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.069%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (3.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.35%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.35%) Summit
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.069%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.069%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 801 (55.32%) Azure
2 377 (26.04%) Entra ID
3 317 (21.89%) AWS
4 223 (15.40%) Microsoft 365
5 211 (14.57%) Azure DevOps
6 178 (12.29%) GitHub
7 143 (9.88%) GCP
8 126 (8.70%) Power Platform
9 123 (8.49%) Azure Monitor
10 107 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
11 86 (5.94%) Azure AKS
12 64 (4.42%) SaaS
13 63 (4.35%) OneDrive
14 58 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
15 53 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 49 (3.38%) IaaS
17 47 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
18 45 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
19 44 (3.04%) OpenShift
20 43 (2.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 234 (16.16%) DNS
2 218 (15.06%) Firewall
3 139 (9.60%) DHCP
4 108 (7.46%) TCP/IP
4 108 (7.46%) VPN
5 85 (5.87%) Network Security
6 40 (2.76%) WAN
7 39 (2.69%) VLAN
8 34 (2.35%) SAN
9 29 (2.00%) VSAN
10 27 (1.86%) SSL
11 24 (1.66%) Skype
12 22 (1.52%) SSH
13 20 (1.38%) LAN
14 19 (1.31%) SD-WAN
15 18 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
16 17 (1.17%) NAS
17 16 (1.10%) HTTP
17 16 (1.10%) Kerberos
18 15 (1.04%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (11.81%) SQL Server
2 85 (5.87%) Power BI
3 34 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 33 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (1.45%) Big Data
7 18 (1.24%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.24%) MySQL
7 18 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (1.10%) Metadata
9 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 14 (0.97%) Relational Database
11 13 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.83%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.76%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (0.62%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.48%) Apache Hive
16 7 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 117 (8.08%) Jenkins
2 113 (7.80%) Git
3 81 (5.59%) GitLab
4 70 (4.83%) JIRA
5 33 (2.28%) MSI
6 16 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 14 (0.97%) Artifactory
8 13 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.62%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.55%) Postman
12 7 (0.48%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.41%) JMeter
13 6 (0.41%) Selenium
13 6 (0.41%) Snyk
14 5 (0.35%) AdminStudio
14 5 (0.35%) InstallShield
14 5 (0.35%) MSBuild
14 5 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 370 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 263 (18.16%) Finance
3 204 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 91 (6.28%) Banking
6 78 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.86%) Legal
8 23 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 23 (1.59%) Military
9 21 (1.45%) Aerospace
10 17 (1.17%) Front Office
11 14 (0.97%) Law
12 13 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 13 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.76%) Back Office
14 10 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.62%) Local Government
16 8 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 156 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 154 (10.64%) Senior
3 150 (10.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 138 (9.53%) Azure Engineer
5 107 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 91 (6.28%) Support Engineer
7 90 (6.22%) Architect
8 89 (6.15%) Security Engineer
9 67 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
10 65 (4.49%) Lead
11 53 (3.66%) Analyst
12 50 (3.45%) Consultant
13 48 (3.31%) Developer
14 44 (3.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 41 (2.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 37 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
16 37 (2.56%) IT Engineer
17 35 (2.42%) DBA
18 33 (2.28%) Administrator
19 30 (2.07%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (32.80%) Terraform
2 122 (8.43%) REST
3 88 (6.08%) ARM Templates
4 67 (4.63%) OAuth
5 65 (4.49%) LDAP
6 60 (4.14%) .NET
7 57 (3.94%) JSON
8 53 (3.66%) SAML
9 51 (3.52%) OpenID
10 49 (3.38%) YAML
11 48 (3.31%) Microsoft Graph
12 44 (3.04%) SailPoint
13 39 (2.69%) OAuth2
14 26 (1.80%) Kafka
15 24 (1.66%) React
15 24 (1.66%) Web Services
16 17 (1.17%) SOAP
16 17 (1.17%) Software Packaging
17 16 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
18 13 (0.90%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 133 (9.19%) Onboarding
2 97 (6.70%) Cloud Native
3 77 (5.32%) Security Posture
4 74 (5.11%) PKI
5 72 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 65 (4.49%) Management Information System
8 63 (4.35%) Replication
9 61 (4.21%) Clustering
10 60 (4.14%) Data Centre
11 36 (2.49%) Linux Command Line
12 28 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.86%) Public Cloud
14 26 (1.80%) CMDB
15 24 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
15 24 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
15 24 (1.66%) Product Ownership
16 23 (1.59%) Data Structures
17 18 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
18 17 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 711 (49.10%) Windows
2 374 (25.83%) Linux
3 309 (21.34%) Windows Server
4 92 (6.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 87 (6.01%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.18%) Unix
7 37 (2.56%) Ubuntu
8 30 (2.07%) CentOS
9 28 (1.93%) Apple iOS
10 26 (1.80%) Mac OS
11 23 (1.59%) Windows 7
11 23 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (1.52%) VMS
13 19 (1.31%) Android
14 15 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (0.83%) Rocky
16 11 (0.76%) AIX
17 10 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
18 9 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
19 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (30.18%) DevOps
2 431 (29.77%) CI/CD
3 420 (29.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 303 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
5 242 (16.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 225 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 211 (14.57%) ITIL
8 200 (13.81%) Agile
9 192 (13.26%) Runbook
10 185 (12.78%) Migration
11 184 (12.71%) ITSM
12 171 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
13 164 (11.33%) AI
14 157 (10.84%) Analytics
15 153 (10.57%) Identity Access Management
16 148 (10.22%) Cloud Security
16 148 (10.22%) Platform Engineering
16 148 (10.22%) Root Cause Analysis
17 147 (10.15%) RBAC
18 146 (10.08%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 685 (47.31%) Python
2 386 (26.66%) Bash
3 235 (16.23%) SQL
4 158 (10.91%) Bicep
5 94 (6.49%) Java
6 79 (5.46%) C#
7 65 (4.49%) JavaScript
8 27 (1.86%) VBScript
9 24 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 24 (1.66%) Perl
10 23 (1.59%) T-SQL
11 22 (1.52%) Groovy
11 22 (1.52%) TypeScript
12 20 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 19 (1.31%) Search Processing Language
14 17 (1.17%) VB
15 16 (1.10%) Go
16 13 (0.90%) BeanShell
16 13 (0.90%) Korn
17 11 (0.76%) C++
Qualifications
1 538 (37.15%) Security Cleared
2 371 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 183 (12.64%) DV Cleared
4 171 (11.81%) Degree
5 132 (9.12%) Azure Certification
6 109 (7.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 88 (6.08%) CISSP
8 65 (4.49%) AWS Certification
9 39 (2.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 32 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.93%) CISM
13 27 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 27 (1.86%) MCSE
14 24 (1.66%) VCAP
15 22 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.17%) MCSA
17 16 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 16 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
18 13 (0.90%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (8.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 103 (7.11%) NIST
3 40 (2.76%) GDPR
4 38 (2.62%) QA
5 35 (2.42%) SLA
6 29 (2.00%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 14 (0.97%) NCSC
10 12 (0.83%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.76%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.41%) GxP
13 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.14%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 476 (32.87%) Active Directory
2 196 (13.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 178 (12.29%) Docker
4 96 (6.63%) Virtual Machines
5 83 (5.73%) Hyper-V
6 70 (4.83%) vSphere
7 69 (4.77%) VMware ESXi
8 53 (3.66%) Virtual Desktop
9 50 (3.45%) VMware NSX
10 28 (1.93%) BitLocker
11 24 (1.66%) vCloud
12 17 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
13 15 (1.04%) Firmware
14 10 (0.69%) NFS
15 9 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
16 6 (0.41%) Squid
17 4 (0.28%) Dovecot
17 4 (0.28%) Postfix
17 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
18 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 270 (18.65%) Ansible
2 266 (18.37%) Kubernetes
3 199 (13.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 133 (9.19%) SCCM
5 79 (5.46%) Grafana
6 70 (4.83%) vCenter Server
7 64 (4.42%) SCOM
8 61 (4.21%) Prometheus
9 53 (3.66%) Progress Chef
10 41 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
11 39 (2.69%) Puppet
12 24 (1.66%) Packer
13 19 (1.31%) WMI
14 17 (1.17%) NetBackup
14 17 (1.17%) VxRail
15 16 (1.10%) vRealize
16 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Clustering
16 14 (0.97%) Nagios
17 13 (0.90%) ZABBIX
18 12 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 708 (48.90%) Microsoft
2 260 (17.96%) VMware
3 148 (10.22%) ServiceNow
4 100 (6.91%) CyberArk
5 95 (6.56%) Splunk
6 86 (5.94%) Google
7 72 (4.97%) Oracle
8 60 (4.14%) Cisco
9 59 (4.07%) BeyondTrust
10 54 (3.73%) Red Hat
11 50 (3.45%) Remedy
12 47 (3.25%) BMC
13 42 (2.90%) Citrix
13 42 (2.90%) Databricks
14 30 (2.07%) SolarWinds
15 27 (1.86%) Dynatrace
16 24 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
17 23 (1.59%) Qualys
18 22 (1.52%) NetApp
18 22 (1.52%) Veeam