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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 59 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,278 968 1,217
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.70% 3.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.77% 11.06% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 646 873
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 45
10th Percentile £51.40 £17.00 £21.29
25th Percentile £61.08 £20.24 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £55.62 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +33.51% +26.89% -21.95%
75th Percentile £82.06 £67.17 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.98 £94.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £31.08 £43.84
% change year-on-year +138.93% -29.10% -20.30%

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 10,011 8,756 11,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.06% 33.43% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,664 5,611 8,137
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% -4.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 203 483
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.26
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.81
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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

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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 7 February 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 7 February 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 7 February 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 -16 557 £538 +2.33% 118
South East +8 226 £500 -13.04% 127
North of England -4 194 £479 +1.81% 100
South West +13 146 £560 -2.61% 45
North West +2 95 £458 -3.32% 58
Midlands -35 90 £475 -5.00% 50
Yorkshire -12 87 £500 +11.11% 29
West Midlands -37 67 £500 -2.44% 25
East of England -4 29 £525 +7.69% 29
East Midlands -17 23 £449 -3.03% 25
North East -9 17 £550 +20.35% 13
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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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
1 193 (15.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 149 (11.66%) SharePoint
3 58 (4.54%) Confluence
4 43 (3.36%) Skype for Business
5 13 (1.02%) Mattermost
6 12 (0.94%) Apache
7 7 (0.55%) IIS
7 7 (0.55%) nginx
8 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.23%) SAS
9 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.078%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.55%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.078%) Actimize
4 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.078%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 604 (47.26%) Azure
2 291 (22.77%) Entra ID
3 284 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 221 (17.29%) AWS
5 139 (10.88%) GCP
6 117 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (7.98%) GitHub
8 87 (6.81%) OneDrive
9 71 (5.56%) Power Platform
10 63 (4.93%) IaaS
11 58 (4.54%) Microsoft Purview
12 57 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
13 54 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
14 50 (3.91%) SaaS
15 49 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
16 42 (3.29%) Serverless
17 41 (3.21%) PaaS
18 37 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (2.90%) PowerApps
19 33 (2.58%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 208 (16.28%) DNS
2 172 (13.46%) Firewall
3 136 (10.64%) DHCP
4 70 (5.48%) TCP/IP
5 69 (5.40%) VPN
6 61 (4.77%) Network Security
7 46 (3.60%) Skype
8 42 (3.29%) Kerberos
9 36 (2.82%) LAN
10 34 (2.66%) WAN
11 31 (2.43%) VLAN
12 27 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (1.80%) SMTP
14 22 (1.72%) Unified Communications
15 21 (1.64%) HTTP
16 18 (1.41%) DKIM
16 18 (1.41%) DMARC
16 18 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
17 16 (1.25%) SAN
17 16 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 41 (3.21%) Power BI
3 30 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (1.64%) Metadata
6 17 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (1.10%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (0.86%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.55%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.47%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.39%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.31%) MySQL
12 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 80 (6.26%) Jenkins
1 80 (6.26%) JIRA
2 74 (5.79%) Git
3 69 (5.40%) GitLab
4 19 (1.49%) MSI
5 17 (1.33%) Artifactory
6 12 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (0.86%) InstallShield
8 10 (0.78%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.70%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.63%) Vagrant
11 7 (0.55%) AdminStudio
11 7 (0.55%) Postman
12 6 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.39%) Gradle
13 5 (0.39%) MSTest
13 5 (0.39%) Spinnaker
General
1 475 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 219 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 174 (13.62%) Finance
4 122 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 83 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
6 60 (4.69%) Banking
7 53 (4.15%) Legal
8 17 (1.33%) Investment Banking
8 17 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (1.25%) Front Office
10 15 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.10%) Military
12 12 (0.94%) Retail
13 10 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.70%) Marketing
14 9 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.63%) Electronics
15 8 (0.63%) Law
16 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 168 (13.15%) Architect
2 109 (8.53%) Senior
3 90 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 78 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
5 70 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
6 65 (5.09%) Analyst
7 64 (5.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 64 (5.01%) Security Engineer
8 62 (4.85%) Consultant
9 58 (4.54%) Support Engineer
10 56 (4.38%) Developer
11 39 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (3.05%) Microsoft Engineer
12 37 (2.90%) CyberArk Architect
13 33 (2.58%) Lead
14 32 (2.50%) SIEM Engineer
15 29 (2.27%) Windows Engineer
16 26 (2.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 26 (2.03%) Support Analyst
17 24 (1.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (12.13%) REST
2 123 (9.62%) LDAP
3 65 (5.09%) OAuth
4 63 (4.93%) Microsoft Graph
4 63 (4.93%) SAML
5 60 (4.69%) JSON
6 51 (3.99%) SOAP
7 40 (3.13%) OpenID
8 35 (2.74%) ARM Templates
9 33 (2.58%) .NET
10 31 (2.43%) SailPoint
11 29 (2.27%) OAuth2
12 22 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
12 22 (1.72%) XML
13 21 (1.64%) Middleware
14 19 (1.49%) YAML
15 18 (1.41%) AngularJS
16 16 (1.25%) HTML
16 16 (1.25%) Node.js
17 15 (1.17%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 78 (6.10%) Replication
2 74 (5.79%) Security Posture
3 67 (5.24%) Onboarding
4 64 (5.01%) PKI
5 63 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (3.68%) Data Centre
7 43 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 39 (3.05%) Cloud Native
9 32 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (2.43%) Management Information System
11 29 (2.27%) Clustering
12 25 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.72%) Product Ownership
14 19 (1.49%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
17 15 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
18 14 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
19 13 (1.02%) Cyber Security Posture
19 13 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 495 (38.73%) Windows
2 237 (18.54%) Linux
3 197 (15.41%) Windows Server
4 84 (6.57%) Windows 10
5 32 (2.50%) Mac OS
5 32 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.88%) Unix
7 21 (1.64%) Android
7 21 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (1.56%) VMS
9 18 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (1.02%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.86%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.78%) Solaris
12 10 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.70%) Kali Linux
14 8 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.39%) AIX
15 5 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (25.27%) DevOps
2 320 (25.04%) Problem-Solving
3 268 (20.97%) CI/CD
4 206 (16.12%) Agile
5 199 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 178 (13.93%) SIEM
7 152 (11.89%) Migration
8 150 (11.74%) ITIL
9 145 (11.35%) Cybersecurity
10 137 (10.72%) Task Automation
11 128 (10.02%) ITSM
12 123 (9.62%) Identity Access Management
12 123 (9.62%) RBAC
13 115 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 102 (7.98%) Incident Response
15 100 (7.82%) Change Management
15 100 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 100 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 98 (7.67%) Analytics
17 94 (7.36%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 546 (42.72%) Python
2 235 (18.39%) Bash
3 156 (12.21%) SQL
4 82 (6.42%) C#
5 75 (5.87%) JavaScript
6 74 (5.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 55 (4.30%) Java
8 41 (3.21%) Bicep
9 35 (2.74%) Perl
10 28 (2.19%) VBScript
11 17 (1.33%) Go
12 14 (1.10%) BeanShell
12 14 (1.10%) Groovy
13 13 (1.02%) VB
14 12 (0.94%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.63%) PHP
15 8 (0.63%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.39%) C++
16 5 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 538 (42.10%) Security Cleared
2 427 (33.41%) SC Cleared
3 117 (9.15%) Degree
4 113 (8.84%) DV Cleared
5 104 (8.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 79 (6.18%) CISSP
7 53 (4.15%) Azure Certification
8 43 (3.36%) CISM
9 41 (3.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
11 29 (2.27%) CEH
12 28 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (2.03%) MCSE
14 25 (1.96%) AWS Certification
15 23 (1.80%) CCNA
15 23 (1.80%) MCSA
16 21 (1.64%) CCNP
16 21 (1.64%) GIAC
17 18 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
18 13 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (9.55%) GDPR
2 112 (8.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (5.32%) NIST
4 28 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (1.64%) QA
6 15 (1.17%) MiFID
6 15 (1.17%) SLA
7 14 (1.10%) SOC 2
8 12 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.94%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.86%) FINRA
10 10 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.70%) NCSC
12 7 (0.55%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.39%) PSD2
14 3 (0.23%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
15 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 477 (37.32%) Active Directory
2 142 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (10.02%) Docker
4 48 (3.76%) Hyper-V
5 43 (3.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (2.50%) vSphere
8 20 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (1.25%) BitLocker
10 15 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 12 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (0.86%) KVM
12 11 (0.86%) Squid
13 8 (0.63%) DFS Replication
14 6 (0.47%) Dovecot
14 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.47%) Postfix
14 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
15 5 (0.39%) Firmware
15 5 (0.39%) NFS
Systems Management
1 248 (19.41%) Terraform
2 132 (10.33%) Ansible
3 131 (10.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 121 (9.47%) SCCM
5 119 (9.31%) Kubernetes
6 85 (6.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 67 (5.24%) Single Sign-On
8 40 (3.13%) SCOM
9 38 (2.97%) Grafana
10 36 (2.82%) Prometheus
10 36 (2.82%) vCenter Server
11 27 (2.11%) vRealize
12 24 (1.88%) Kibana
13 21 (1.64%) HP SiteScope
14 15 (1.17%) Proxmox
14 15 (1.17%) WSUS
15 14 (1.10%) Nessus
16 11 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
16 11 (0.86%) NetBackup
17 10 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 595 (46.56%) Microsoft
2 194 (15.18%) VMware
3 102 (7.98%) CyberArk
4 85 (6.65%) Splunk
5 69 (5.40%) BeyondTrust
6 66 (5.16%) ServiceNow
7 61 (4.77%) Citrix
8 56 (4.38%) Cisco
9 43 (3.36%) Google
10 35 (2.74%) Oracle
11 34 (2.66%) Centrify
11 34 (2.66%) Red Hat
12 32 (2.50%) Okta
13 30 (2.35%) Veeam
14 24 (1.88%) Atlassian
15 23 (1.80%) Databricks
15 23 (1.80%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.56%) Remedy
17 19 (1.49%) Tanium
18 17 (1.33%) CrowdStrike