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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 69 57
Rank change year-on-year -11 -12 +3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,451 1,002 1,181
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.15% 3.61% 3.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.13% 11.05% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 627 833
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £614
90th Percentile £707 £661 £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 15
10th Percentile £31.42 £44.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £48.00 £45.00 £42.17
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 £69.38
% change year-on-year -0.57% -8.47% +15.22%

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 11,959 9,070 10,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.94% 32.67% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,738 6,143 7,288
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 260 304
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £30.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +0.78%
75th Percentile £70.50 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £79.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 16 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 16 September 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 16 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 -24 631 £550 +7.84% 589
South East -4 301 £538 -2.27% 217
North of England +42 273 £485 +12.46% 209
North West +44 167 £472 +5.47% 114
South West -11 108 £563 +8.17% 100
Yorkshire +4 92 £518 +25.45% 63
Midlands -78 61 £500 +5.26% 117
East of England -28 60 £507 -7.82% 74
West Midlands -83 44 £505 +6.32% 67
East Midlands -16 16 £500 +9.29% 50
North East -29 15 £500 - 34
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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
1 121 (8.34%) SharePoint
2 117 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (3.10%) Confluence
4 25 (1.72%) IIS
5 21 (1.45%) Skype for Business
6 20 (1.38%) Apache
7 14 (0.96%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.96%) nginx
8 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
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 (3.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.34%) 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
1 799 (55.07%) Azure
2 368 (25.36%) Entra ID
3 320 (22.05%) AWS
4 227 (15.64%) Microsoft 365
5 212 (14.61%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (12.41%) GitHub
7 139 (9.58%) GCP
8 130 (8.96%) Power Platform
9 122 (8.41%) Azure Monitor
10 108 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
11 86 (5.93%) Azure AKS
12 65 (4.48%) SaaS
13 64 (4.41%) OneDrive
14 57 (3.93%) Azure Sentinel
15 53 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 48 (3.31%) IaaS
17 47 (3.24%) Microsoft Copilot
18 46 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
19 44 (3.03%) PaaS
20 43 (2.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 233 (16.06%) DNS
2 211 (14.54%) Firewall
3 139 (9.58%) DHCP
4 105 (7.24%) TCP/IP
5 103 (7.10%) VPN
6 80 (5.51%) Network Security
7 39 (2.69%) WAN
8 38 (2.62%) VLAN
9 34 (2.34%) SAN
10 29 (2.00%) VSAN
11 26 (1.79%) SSL
12 24 (1.65%) Skype
13 20 (1.38%) SSH
14 19 (1.31%) LAN
14 19 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (1.24%) SD-WAN
16 17 (1.17%) HTTP
16 17 (1.17%) NAS
17 15 (1.03%) Kerberos
18 14 (0.96%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (11.85%) SQL Server
2 88 (6.06%) Power BI
3 35 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (1.45%) Big Data
7 19 (1.31%) MySQL
8 18 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (1.24%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 14 (0.96%) Metadata
11 14 (0.96%) MongoDB
12 13 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.76%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (0.69%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.48%) Apache Hive
15 7 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 117 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 110 (7.58%) Git
3 82 (5.65%) GitLab
4 71 (4.89%) JIRA
5 31 (2.14%) MSI
6 15 (1.03%) Artifactory
7 14 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (0.62%) AdminStudio
9 9 (0.62%) InstallShield
9 9 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.62%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (0.55%) Postman
11 7 (0.48%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.41%) JMeter
12 6 (0.41%) Selenium
13 5 (0.34%) MSBuild
13 5 (0.34%) Snyk
13 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 372 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 262 (18.06%) Finance
3 202 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.72%) Public Sector
5 88 (6.06%) Banking
6 80 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (1.93%) Legal
8 23 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 22 (1.52%) Military
10 21 (1.45%) Aerospace
11 17 (1.17%) Front Office
12 13 (0.90%) Law
12 13 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (0.83%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.76%) Back Office
14 11 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (0.69%) Local Government
15 10 (0.69%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 157 (10.82%) Senior
2 154 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 148 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 135 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
5 111 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 90 (6.20%) Support Engineer
7 89 (6.13%) Architect
8 87 (6.00%) Security Engineer
9 65 (4.48%) Lead
9 65 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
10 53 (3.65%) Analyst
10 53 (3.65%) Consultant
11 48 (3.31%) Developer
12 45 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 39 (2.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 38 (2.62%) IT Engineer
15 36 (2.48%) Automation Engineer
15 36 (2.48%) DBA
16 35 (2.41%) Administrator
17 29 (2.00%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 470 (32.39%) Terraform
2 123 (8.48%) REST
3 86 (5.93%) ARM Templates
4 67 (4.62%) OAuth
5 65 (4.48%) LDAP
6 63 (4.34%) .NET
7 56 (3.86%) JSON
8 53 (3.65%) SAML
9 51 (3.51%) OpenID
10 49 (3.38%) Microsoft Graph
11 48 (3.31%) YAML
12 45 (3.10%) SailPoint
13 39 (2.69%) OAuth2
14 26 (1.79%) Kafka
15 24 (1.65%) React
15 24 (1.65%) Web Services
16 18 (1.24%) SOAP
16 18 (1.24%) Software Packaging
17 16 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
18 14 (0.96%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 130 (8.96%) Onboarding
2 98 (6.75%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.17%) Security Posture
4 74 (5.10%) PKI
5 73 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 65 (4.48%) Management Information System
7 65 (4.48%) Replication
8 61 (4.20%) Clustering
9 59 (4.07%) Data Centre
10 36 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
11 29 (2.00%) Product Ownership
12 28 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.86%) CMDB
14 25 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (1.72%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.65%) Data Structures
15 24 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
17 16 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 712 (49.07%) Windows
2 369 (25.43%) Linux
3 310 (21.36%) Windows Server
4 91 (6.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 86 (5.93%) Windows 10
6 45 (3.10%) Unix
7 36 (2.48%) Ubuntu
8 29 (2.00%) Apple iOS
8 29 (2.00%) CentOS
9 27 (1.86%) Mac OS
10 23 (1.59%) Windows 7
10 23 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (1.52%) VMS
12 20 (1.38%) Android
13 15 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
14 12 (0.83%) AIX
14 12 (0.83%) Rocky
15 10 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
16 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (30.60%) DevOps
2 427 (29.43%) CI/CD
3 412 (28.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 302 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
5 238 (16.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 223 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 209 (14.40%) ITIL
8 206 (14.20%) Agile
9 191 (13.16%) Runbook
10 182 (12.54%) ITSM
10 182 (12.54%) Migration
11 169 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
12 163 (11.23%) AI
13 159 (10.96%) Analytics
14 150 (10.34%) Identity Access Management
15 147 (10.13%) Root Cause Analysis
16 146 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
17 145 (9.99%) SIEM
18 143 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
18 143 (9.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 682 (47.00%) Python
2 380 (26.19%) Bash
3 240 (16.54%) SQL
4 155 (10.68%) Bicep
5 95 (6.55%) Java
6 81 (5.58%) C#
7 71 (4.89%) JavaScript
8 29 (2.00%) VBScript
9 24 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
9 24 (1.65%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.59%) Perl
10 23 (1.59%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.38%) Groovy
11 20 (1.38%) Search Processing Language
12 19 (1.31%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.17%) VB
14 14 (0.96%) BeanShell
15 13 (0.90%) Go
15 13 (0.90%) Korn
16 12 (0.83%) C++
Qualifications
1 540 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 371 (25.57%) SC Cleared
3 182 (12.54%) DV Cleared
4 170 (11.72%) Degree
5 127 (8.75%) Azure Certification
6 109 (7.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 88 (6.06%) CISSP
8 65 (4.48%) AWS Certification
9 42 (2.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.93%) CISM
13 27 (1.86%) MCSE
14 26 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
15 23 (1.59%) VCAP
16 21 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.17%) MCSA
18 16 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 16 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
19 13 (0.90%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (7.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 101 (6.96%) NIST
3 40 (2.76%) GDPR
4 37 (2.55%) QA
5 35 (2.41%) SLA
6 28 (1.93%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (1.03%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.96%) NCSC
11 11 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.76%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.41%) GxP
13 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.14%) GRC
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 473 (32.60%) Active Directory
2 193 (13.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 177 (12.20%) Docker
4 95 (6.55%) Virtual Machines
5 82 (5.65%) Hyper-V
6 68 (4.69%) VMware ESXi
7 67 (4.62%) vSphere
8 52 (3.58%) Virtual Desktop
9 49 (3.38%) VMware NSX
10 29 (2.00%) BitLocker
11 24 (1.65%) vCloud
12 15 (1.03%) Firmware
12 15 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (0.69%) NFS
14 9 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.41%) Squid
16 4 (0.28%) Dovecot
16 4 (0.28%) Postfix
16 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 269 (18.54%) Ansible
2 264 (18.19%) Kubernetes
3 202 (13.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 134 (9.24%) SCCM
5 78 (5.38%) Grafana
6 69 (4.76%) vCenter Server
7 64 (4.41%) SCOM
8 61 (4.20%) Prometheus
9 53 (3.65%) Progress Chef
10 41 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
11 39 (2.69%) Puppet
12 25 (1.72%) Packer
13 19 (1.31%) vRealize
13 19 (1.31%) WMI
14 17 (1.17%) NetBackup
14 17 (1.17%) VxRail
15 15 (1.03%) Nagios
16 14 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
16 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
16 14 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 705 (48.59%) Microsoft
2 261 (17.99%) VMware
3 150 (10.34%) ServiceNow
4 100 (6.89%) CyberArk
5 93 (6.41%) Splunk
6 86 (5.93%) Google
7 74 (5.10%) Oracle
8 60 (4.14%) Cisco
9 59 (4.07%) BeyondTrust
10 55 (3.79%) Red Hat
11 50 (3.45%) Remedy
12 47 (3.24%) BMC
13 42 (2.89%) Databricks
14 38 (2.62%) Citrix
15 30 (2.07%) SolarWinds
16 25 (1.72%) Qualys
17 24 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
17 24 (1.65%) Dynatrace
18 23 (1.59%) NetApp
18 23 (1.59%) Okta