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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 59 55
Rank change year-on-year -21 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,287 958 1,326
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 3.93% 3.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.40% 11.57% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 650 953
10th Percentile £329 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £607 £625
90th Percentile £718 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 7 24
10th Percentile £19.25 £39.05 £27.95
25th Percentile £47.53 £51.63 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +61.49% -32.92%
75th Percentile £74.26 £141.48 £58.49
90th Percentile £82.10 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £57.11 £59.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year -3.20% +46.58% -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 11,292 8,280 11,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 33.97% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,403 5,727 8,077
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -3.15% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.08% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 195 475
10th Percentile £37.25 £28.27 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.13 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £85.00 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -10 563 £550 +6.28% 114
North of England +7 258 £460 -1.08% 54
South East -10 248 £515 -10.43% 123
North West +18 141 £458 -0.97% 34
Yorkshire -6 116 £485 -3.05% 14
South West -20 94 £438 -25.21% 44
Midlands -63 71 £469 +1.90% 30
West Midlands -67 52 £481 +4.57% 15
East of England -44 38 £507 -7.82% 26
East Midlands -28 18 £408 -11.30% 15
North East -23 3 £375 +7.14% 7
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
1 150 (11.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 137 (10.64%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.95%) Confluence
4 23 (1.79%) IIS
5 15 (1.17%) Skype for Business
6 11 (0.85%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.078%) CMS
11 1 (0.078%) MTS
11 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
Applications
1 34 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 686 (53.30%) Azure
2 309 (24.01%) Entra ID
3 270 (20.98%) AWS
4 251 (19.50%) Microsoft 365
5 148 (11.50%) GCP
6 137 (10.64%) GitHub
7 133 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
8 110 (8.55%) Power Platform
9 95 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
10 90 (6.99%) OneDrive
11 75 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
12 62 (4.82%) Microsoft Purview
13 59 (4.58%) PaaS
14 53 (4.12%) Microsoft Copilot
15 51 (3.96%) Azure AKS
16 46 (3.57%) IaaS
17 45 (3.50%) Power Automate
18 39 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
19 37 (2.87%) SaaS
20 35 (2.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 164 (12.74%) DNS
2 129 (10.02%) Firewall
3 93 (7.23%) DHCP
4 72 (5.59%) VPN
5 50 (3.89%) Network Security
6 42 (3.26%) WAN
7 40 (3.11%) Kerberos
8 38 (2.95%) TCP/IP
9 31 (2.41%) LAN
10 24 (1.86%) SAN
11 23 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (1.55%) SMTP
13 19 (1.48%) VLAN
14 18 (1.40%) SSL
15 17 (1.32%) SNMP
16 16 (1.24%) Skype
17 15 (1.17%) NAS
18 12 (0.93%) DKIM
18 12 (0.93%) Unified Communications
18 12 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (11.34%) SQL Server
2 69 (5.36%) Power BI
3 38 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.09%) Metadata
8 14 (1.09%) MySQL
9 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.85%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.78%) Delta Lake
11 10 (0.78%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.78%) Relational Database
11 10 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (0.70%) Db2
12 9 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.70%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.62%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 85 (6.60%) Jenkins
2 79 (6.14%) Git
3 61 (4.74%) JIRA
4 53 (4.12%) GitLab
5 17 (1.32%) MSI
6 10 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.78%) InstallShield
6 10 (0.78%) Postman
7 9 (0.70%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.70%) Selenium
8 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.47%) JMeter
9 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.39%) Appium
10 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.31%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.31%) JUnit
12 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 335 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 174 (13.52%) Finance
3 153 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 79 (6.14%) Documentation Skills
6 70 (5.44%) Banking
7 42 (3.26%) Legal
8 24 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 23 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.40%) Front Office
11 15 (1.17%) Law
12 12 (0.93%) Military
13 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.70%) Publishing
15 9 (0.70%) Retail
16 7 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
18 4 (0.31%) Local Government
18 4 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 147 (11.42%) Architect
2 123 (9.56%) Senior
3 103 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 95 (7.38%) Azure Engineer
5 86 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 81 (6.29%) Security Engineer
7 71 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 62 (4.82%) Support Engineer
9 54 (4.20%) Developer
10 39 (3.03%) Consultant
11 38 (2.95%) CyberArk Architect
12 36 (2.80%) Analyst
13 33 (2.56%) Lead
14 32 (2.49%) Platform Engineer
15 31 (2.41%) Administrator
16 30 (2.33%) Desktop Engineer
17 29 (2.25%) PowerShell Engineer
18 28 (2.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
19 26 (2.02%) Automation Engineer
19 26 (2.02%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (10.96%) REST
2 118 (9.17%) LDAP
3 86 (6.68%) Microsoft Graph
4 55 (4.27%) OAuth
5 54 (4.20%) .NET
6 53 (4.12%) SOAP
7 46 (3.57%) SAML
8 39 (3.03%) YAML
9 38 (2.95%) JSON
9 38 (2.95%) SailPoint
10 35 (2.72%) ARM Templates
11 30 (2.33%) OpenID
12 29 (2.25%) Web Services
13 24 (1.86%) OAuth2
14 22 (1.71%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.40%) React
16 17 (1.32%) Kafka
17 15 (1.17%) AngularJS
18 14 (1.09%) Middleware
19 13 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 96 (7.46%) Onboarding
2 86 (6.68%) Security Posture
3 82 (6.37%) Replication
4 75 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
5 71 (5.52%) Cloud Native
6 57 (4.43%) Clustering
7 53 (4.12%) PKI
8 51 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 45 (3.50%) Management Information System
10 39 (3.03%) Data Centre
11 25 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
12 24 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.55%) Product Ownership
14 19 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
15 18 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
15 18 (1.40%) Public Cloud
16 15 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 563 (43.75%) Windows
2 254 (19.74%) Linux
3 234 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 59 (4.58%) Windows 10
5 55 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (3.50%) Unix
7 28 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (2.02%) AIX
9 23 (1.79%) Mac OS
10 20 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 18 (1.40%) Ubuntu
12 17 (1.32%) VMS
13 15 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
14 13 (1.01%) Apple iOS
14 13 (1.01%) Windows 7
15 11 (0.85%) Android
16 8 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
17 7 (0.54%) CentOS
18 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
18 4 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (26.18%) DevOps
2 319 (24.79%) CI/CD
3 281 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
4 233 (18.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 169 (13.13%) Agile
6 165 (12.82%) SIEM
7 160 (12.43%) Migration
8 151 (11.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 139 (10.80%) Task Automation
10 131 (10.18%) Identity Access Management
10 131 (10.18%) ITIL
10 131 (10.18%) Runbook
11 130 (10.10%) ITSM
12 125 (9.71%) Disaster Recovery
13 119 (9.25%) Observability
14 118 (9.17%) High Availability
15 116 (9.01%) Analytics
16 115 (8.94%) Root Cause Analysis
17 114 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
18 112 (8.70%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 558 (43.36%) Python
2 253 (19.66%) Bash
3 212 (16.47%) SQL
4 99 (7.69%) C#
5 72 (5.59%) Bicep
6 64 (4.97%) JavaScript
7 54 (4.20%) Java
8 52 (4.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.71%) VBScript
11 18 (1.40%) Search Processing Language
11 18 (1.40%) TypeScript
12 16 (1.24%) Perl
13 14 (1.09%) Go
13 14 (1.09%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.01%) VB
15 12 (0.93%) Groovy
16 9 (0.70%) BeanShell
17 8 (0.62%) C++
18 6 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 496 (38.54%) Security Cleared
2 372 (28.90%) SC Cleared
3 121 (9.40%) Degree
4 111 (8.62%) DV Cleared
5 95 (7.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.29%) Azure Certification
7 77 (5.98%) CISSP
8 47 (3.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 34 (2.64%) CISM
10 33 (2.56%) MCSE
11 32 (2.49%) MCSA
12 31 (2.41%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.55%) VCAP
14 19 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (1.09%) CEH
17 12 (0.93%) GIAC
18 10 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
19 8 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 89 (6.92%) GDPR
3 85 (6.60%) NIST
4 30 (2.33%) QA
5 25 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 22 (1.71%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.48%) SLA
8 15 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (1.17%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.85%) FINRA
9 11 (0.85%) MiFID
9 11 (0.85%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.62%) NCSC
10 8 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.39%) GRC
12 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 441 (34.27%) Active Directory
2 151 (11.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (9.63%) Docker
4 76 (5.91%) Virtual Machines
5 66 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 61 (4.74%) vSphere
7 59 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
8 42 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (2.33%) BitLocker
10 23 (1.79%) VMware NSX
11 21 (1.63%) Microsoft App-V
12 19 (1.48%) Firmware
13 18 (1.40%) KVM
14 10 (0.78%) vCloud
15 6 (0.47%) Squid
16 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.23%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.23%) Postfix
17 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 296 (23.00%) Terraform
2 174 (13.52%) Ansible
3 169 (13.13%) Kubernetes
4 149 (11.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 89 (6.92%) SCCM
6 68 (5.28%) vCenter Server
7 57 (4.43%) Grafana
8 56 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 47 (3.65%) Prometheus
10 44 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
11 25 (1.94%) Progress Chef
11 25 (1.94%) Puppet
12 23 (1.79%) SCOM
13 20 (1.55%) Nagios
14 19 (1.48%) vRealize
15 18 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
15 18 (1.40%) Tivoli
15 18 (1.40%) ZABBIX
16 16 (1.24%) Netcool
17 15 (1.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 603 (46.85%) Microsoft
2 196 (15.23%) VMware
3 96 (7.46%) CyberArk
4 91 (7.07%) ServiceNow
5 78 (6.06%) BeyondTrust
6 72 (5.59%) Splunk
7 66 (5.13%) Google
8 61 (4.74%) Oracle
9 57 (4.43%) Citrix
10 55 (4.27%) Cisco
11 47 (3.65%) Red Hat
12 36 (2.80%) Centrify
13 31 (2.41%) BMC
13 31 (2.41%) SolarWinds
14 30 (2.33%) IBM
15 26 (2.02%) Remedy
16 25 (1.94%) Databricks
17 24 (1.86%) Okta
18 23 (1.79%) HP
19 21 (1.63%) Qualys