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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 67 52
Rank change year-on-year -14 -15 +7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,439 1,026 1,246
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.15% 3.72% 3.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.04% 11.32% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 647 893
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £619
90th Percentile £708 £677 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 15 16
10th Percentile £21.88 £44.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £43.81 £45.38 £45.46
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £65.69
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -1.05% +32.09%
75th Percentile £75.00 £78.98 £74.11
90th Percentile £91.50 £85.00 £74.72
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £69.69
% change year-on-year -0.57% -8.88% +16.15%

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 11,950 9,065 10,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.18% 32.85% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,760 6,202 7,534
10th Percentile £363 £344 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £762 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £535
% change year-on-year +2.99% -6.07% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 255 347
10th Percentile £30.98 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £37.13 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £80.00 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 August 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 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in England

PowerShell
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 August 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 -6 635 £540 +5.37% 129
South East -8 311 £527 -8.30% 117
North of England +23 258 £483 +8.05% 64
North West +36 165 £475 +2.70% 44
South West -8 114 £490 -6.67% 34
Yorkshire -15 81 £508 +23.03% 13
Midlands -84 59 £500 +5.26% 44
East of England -38 51 £507 -7.82% 32
West Midlands -90 39 £513 +7.89% 28
East Midlands -14 19 £475 +5.56% 16
North East - 13 £500 - 8
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
1 122 (8.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 119 (8.27%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.47%) Confluence
4 23 (1.60%) IIS
5 20 (1.39%) Skype for Business
6 17 (1.18%) Apache
7 12 (0.83%) nginx
8 10 (0.69%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
10 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.28%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 31 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.069%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (3.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.42%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.069%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.069%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.069%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.069%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.069%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.069%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.069%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.069%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.069%) Summit
6 1 (0.069%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 798 (55.46%) Azure
2 350 (24.32%) Entra ID
3 340 (23.63%) AWS
4 222 (15.43%) Microsoft 365
5 212 (14.73%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (12.79%) GitHub
7 141 (9.80%) GCP
8 128 (8.90%) Azure Monitor
9 127 (8.83%) Power Platform
10 120 (8.34%) GitHub Actions
11 86 (5.98%) Azure AKS
12 64 (4.45%) OneDrive
13 62 (4.31%) SaaS
14 60 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
15 52 (3.61%) PaaS
16 49 (3.41%) IaaS
17 48 (3.34%) Azure Sentinel
17 48 (3.34%) Microsoft Purview
18 45 (3.13%) OpenShift
19 44 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 222 (15.43%) DNS
2 204 (14.18%) Firewall
3 130 (9.03%) DHCP
4 98 (6.81%) VPN
5 97 (6.74%) TCP/IP
6 75 (5.21%) Network Security
7 42 (2.92%) WAN
8 34 (2.36%) SAN
8 34 (2.36%) VLAN
9 30 (2.08%) VSAN
10 24 (1.67%) SSL
11 22 (1.53%) Skype
12 21 (1.46%) LAN
13 19 (1.32%) NAS
13 19 (1.32%) SSH
14 18 (1.25%) SD-WAN
14 18 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (1.18%) SNMP
16 15 (1.04%) SMTP
17 13 (0.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (12.65%) SQL Server
2 86 (5.98%) Power BI
3 43 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (1.39%) Big Data
8 18 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (1.18%) MySQL
10 16 (1.11%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 15 (1.04%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.04%) Relational Database
12 14 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (0.97%) Metadata
13 10 (0.69%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 130 (9.03%) Jenkins
2 113 (7.85%) Git
3 84 (5.84%) GitLab
4 76 (5.28%) JIRA
5 28 (1.95%) MSI
6 15 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (0.76%) Selenium
9 10 (0.69%) Artifactory
10 9 (0.63%) AdminStudio
10 9 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (0.63%) InstallShield
11 8 (0.56%) Postman
11 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.42%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.42%) JMeter
12 6 (0.42%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.35%) MSBuild
13 5 (0.35%) Robot Framework
14 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 347 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 248 (17.23%) Finance
3 194 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 88 (6.12%) Banking
6 83 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.02%) Legal
8 23 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.32%) Front Office
10 18 (1.25%) Military
11 17 (1.18%) Aerospace
12 14 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 14 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.76%) Law
15 10 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.69%) Retail
16 8 (0.56%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.42%) Local Government
17 6 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 164 (11.40%) Senior
2 161 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 148 (10.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 133 (9.24%) Azure Engineer
5 98 (6.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 93 (6.46%) Architect
7 88 (6.12%) Support Engineer
8 78 (5.42%) Security Engineer
9 59 (4.10%) Lead
10 57 (3.96%) Developer
11 55 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
12 52 (3.61%) Analyst
12 52 (3.61%) Consultant
13 40 (2.78%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 38 (2.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 36 (2.50%) IT Engineer
16 34 (2.36%) Administrator
17 33 (2.29%) PowerShell Engineer
18 30 (2.08%) DBA
18 30 (2.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (31.97%) Terraform
2 132 (9.17%) REST
3 76 (5.28%) .NET
3 76 (5.28%) ARM Templates
4 60 (4.17%) Microsoft Graph
5 57 (3.96%) OAuth
6 55 (3.82%) LDAP
7 50 (3.47%) YAML
8 49 (3.41%) JSON
9 45 (3.13%) SailPoint
9 45 (3.13%) SAML
10 41 (2.85%) OpenID
11 33 (2.29%) OAuth2
11 33 (2.29%) Web Services
12 30 (2.08%) Kafka
13 26 (1.81%) .NET Framework
13 26 (1.81%) SOAP
14 21 (1.46%) React
15 17 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (0.90%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 129 (8.96%) Onboarding
2 98 (6.81%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 75 (5.21%) PKI
5 71 (4.93%) Security Posture
6 64 (4.45%) Clustering
7 63 (4.38%) Replication
8 59 (4.10%) Management Information System
9 55 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
10 54 (3.75%) Data Centre
11 31 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
12 26 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.81%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.74%) CMDB
14 24 (1.67%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
15 22 (1.53%) Product Ownership
16 17 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 699 (48.58%) Windows
2 370 (25.71%) Linux
3 293 (20.36%) Windows Server
4 87 (6.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 81 (5.63%) Windows 10
6 43 (2.99%) Unix
7 31 (2.15%) Ubuntu
8 28 (1.95%) Mac OS
9 24 (1.67%) Apple iOS
9 24 (1.67%) CentOS
10 22 (1.53%) Windows 7
10 22 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (1.46%) VMS
12 20 (1.39%) AIX
13 18 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
14 17 (1.18%) Android
15 10 (0.69%) Rocky
16 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (30.58%) DevOps
2 419 (29.12%) CI/CD
3 386 (26.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 293 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
5 244 (16.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 200 (13.90%) Agile
7 196 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 192 (13.34%) ITIL
9 183 (12.72%) Runbook
10 177 (12.30%) Migration
11 172 (11.95%) ITSM
12 160 (11.12%) Analytics
13 146 (10.15%) Disaster Recovery
13 146 (10.15%) Observability
14 145 (10.08%) Cybersecurity
14 145 (10.08%) Identity Access Management
15 143 (9.94%) Cloud Security
16 142 (9.87%) Platform Engineering
17 140 (9.73%) AI
18 139 (9.66%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 680 (47.26%) Python
2 375 (26.06%) Bash
3 248 (17.23%) SQL
4 139 (9.66%) Bicep
5 98 (6.81%) C#
6 84 (5.84%) Java
7 70 (4.86%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.08%) VBScript
9 27 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 25 (1.74%) Search Processing Language
11 24 (1.67%) Perl
12 21 (1.46%) T-SQL
13 20 (1.39%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.25%) Groovy
15 17 (1.18%) Shell Script
15 17 (1.18%) VB
16 14 (0.97%) Go
17 13 (0.90%) BeanShell
18 12 (0.83%) C++
19 9 (0.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 524 (36.41%) Security Cleared
2 362 (25.16%) SC Cleared
3 171 (11.88%) DV Cleared
4 161 (11.19%) Degree
5 113 (7.85%) Azure Certification
6 97 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (6.05%) CISSP
8 65 (4.52%) AWS Certification
9 40 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 32 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (2.15%) CISM
11 31 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.74%) MCSE
13 22 (1.53%) VCAP
14 20 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.25%) MCSA
16 17 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 16 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 12 (0.83%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (6.88%) NIST
3 49 (3.41%) GDPR
4 44 (3.06%) QA
5 35 (2.43%) SLA
6 33 (2.29%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.11%) NCSC
8 16 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.97%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.63%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.42%) GxP
13 5 (0.35%) GRC
14 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 3 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
15 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 454 (31.55%) Active Directory
2 191 (13.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 174 (12.09%) Docker
4 81 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
5 73 (5.07%) Hyper-V
6 70 (4.86%) vSphere
7 69 (4.79%) VMware ESXi
8 50 (3.47%) VMware NSX
9 46 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 32 (2.22%) BitLocker
11 20 (1.39%) vCloud
12 19 (1.32%) Firmware
12 19 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.35%) Squid
14 5 (0.35%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.21%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.21%) NFS
15 3 (0.21%) Postfix
15 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 268 (18.62%) Ansible
2 259 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 181 (12.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 119 (8.27%) SCCM
5 81 (5.63%) Grafana
6 67 (4.66%) vCenter Server
7 65 (4.52%) Prometheus
8 54 (3.75%) Progress Chef
9 51 (3.54%) SCOM
10 44 (3.06%) Puppet
11 31 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (1.67%) Packer
13 21 (1.46%) Nagios
14 20 (1.39%) ZABBIX
15 18 (1.25%) Tivoli
15 18 (1.25%) WMI
16 17 (1.18%) vRealize
16 17 (1.18%) VxRail
17 16 (1.11%) NetBackup
17 16 (1.11%) Netcool
Vendors
1 672 (46.70%) Microsoft
2 259 (18.00%) VMware
3 144 (10.01%) ServiceNow
4 96 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 95 (6.60%) Splunk
6 87 (6.05%) Google
7 77 (5.35%) Oracle
8 59 (4.10%) Cisco
9 54 (3.75%) BMC
10 53 (3.68%) BeyondTrust
11 52 (3.61%) Red Hat
12 51 (3.54%) Remedy
13 46 (3.20%) Citrix
14 44 (3.06%) Databricks
15 35 (2.43%) SolarWinds
16 27 (1.88%) HP
16 27 (1.88%) IBM
16 27 (1.88%) NetApp
17 25 (1.74%) Dynatrace
18 23 (1.60%) CrowdStrike