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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 57 56
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,267 969 1,338
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 3.96% 3.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.29% 11.64% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 660 959
10th Percentile £328 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £606 £625
90th Percentile £718 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 7 25
10th Percentile £19.25 £39.05 £29.33
25th Percentile £43.81 £51.63 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +61.49% -32.92%
75th Percentile £74.26 £141.48 £58.49
90th Percentile £77.50 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £59.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year -6.78% +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 11,223 8,326 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.57% 34.03% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,354 5,778 8,132
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -3.06% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 508 198 478
10th Percentile £36.43 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.06 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -5.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.23 £85.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 10 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 10 June 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 10 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 -21 555 £550 +6.80% 123
North of England +3 253 £469 +2.00% 62
South East -9 245 £525 -8.70% 130
North West +10 137 £460 +2.22% 41
Yorkshire -8 116 £485 -3.05% 15
South West -12 94 £441 -24.57% 43
Midlands -69 69 £469 +1.90% 36
West Midlands -65 50 £481 +4.57% 18
East of England -40 37 £507 -7.82% 30
East Midlands -27 18 £408 -11.30% 18
North East -22 2 £275 -21.43% 6
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
1 149 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 137 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.00%) Confluence
4 23 (1.82%) IIS
5 15 (1.18%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.24%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.24%) 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 (0.079%) CMS
11 1 (0.079%) MTS
11 1 (0.079%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 34 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.079%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.63%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 681 (53.75%) Azure
2 305 (24.07%) Entra ID
3 266 (20.99%) AWS
4 245 (19.34%) Microsoft 365
5 144 (11.37%) GCP
6 137 (10.81%) GitHub
7 134 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
8 110 (8.68%) Power Platform
9 95 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
10 89 (7.02%) OneDrive
11 75 (5.92%) Azure Monitor
12 62 (4.89%) Microsoft Purview
13 58 (4.58%) PaaS
14 53 (4.18%) Microsoft Copilot
15 51 (4.03%) Azure AKS
16 45 (3.55%) IaaS
16 45 (3.55%) Power Automate
17 39 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
18 37 (2.92%) SaaS
19 35 (2.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 159 (12.55%) DNS
2 124 (9.79%) Firewall
3 91 (7.18%) DHCP
4 68 (5.37%) VPN
5 42 (3.31%) WAN
6 41 (3.24%) Network Security
7 38 (3.00%) Kerberos
8 36 (2.84%) TCP/IP
9 31 (2.45%) LAN
10 24 (1.89%) SAN
11 23 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (1.50%) VLAN
13 17 (1.34%) SMTP
13 17 (1.34%) SNMP
14 16 (1.26%) Skype
14 16 (1.26%) SSL
15 15 (1.18%) NAS
16 12 (0.95%) DKIM
16 12 (0.95%) Unified Communications
16 12 (0.95%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (11.60%) SQL Server
2 69 (5.45%) Power BI
3 38 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.10%) Metadata
8 14 (1.10%) MySQL
9 12 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.87%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.79%) Delta Lake
11 10 (0.79%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.79%) Relational Database
11 10 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (0.71%) Db2
13 8 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.63%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 85 (6.71%) Jenkins
2 80 (6.31%) Git
3 61 (4.81%) JIRA
4 49 (3.87%) GitLab
5 17 (1.34%) MSI
6 10 (0.79%) InstallShield
6 10 (0.79%) Postman
7 9 (0.71%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.71%) Selenium
8 7 (0.55%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.47%) Artifactory
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 (0.32%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.32%) JUnit
12 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 329 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 174 (13.73%) Finance
3 152 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 80 (6.31%) Documentation Skills
6 69 (5.45%) Banking
7 42 (3.31%) Legal
8 24 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 23 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.42%) Front Office
11 15 (1.18%) Law
12 11 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.87%) Military
12 11 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.71%) Publishing
13 9 (0.71%) Retail
14 6 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.32%) Back Office
15 4 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 140 (11.05%) Architect
2 122 (9.63%) Senior
3 103 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 96 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
5 89 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 79 (6.24%) Security Engineer
7 68 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
8 62 (4.89%) Support Engineer
9 54 (4.26%) Developer
10 40 (3.16%) Consultant
11 38 (3.00%) Analyst
12 37 (2.92%) CyberArk Architect
13 32 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (2.45%) Administrator
14 31 (2.45%) Lead
15 30 (2.37%) Desktop Engineer
16 29 (2.29%) PowerShell Engineer
17 27 (2.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 27 (2.13%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 26 (2.05%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (10.66%) REST
2 114 (9.00%) LDAP
3 86 (6.79%) Microsoft Graph
4 55 (4.34%) OAuth
5 54 (4.26%) .NET
6 52 (4.10%) SOAP
7 46 (3.63%) SAML
8 38 (3.00%) JSON
8 38 (3.00%) SailPoint
8 38 (3.00%) YAML
9 35 (2.76%) ARM Templates
10 31 (2.45%) OpenID
11 30 (2.37%) Web Services
12 25 (1.97%) OAuth2
13 22 (1.74%) .NET Framework
14 18 (1.42%) React
15 17 (1.34%) Kafka
16 15 (1.18%) AngularJS
17 14 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
17 14 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 96 (7.58%) Onboarding
2 86 (6.79%) Security Posture
3 80 (6.31%) Replication
4 74 (5.84%) Cloud Native
4 74 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
5 55 (4.34%) Clustering
6 51 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 51 (4.03%) PKI
7 43 (3.39%) Management Information System
8 39 (3.08%) Data Centre
9 25 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
10 24 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (1.74%) Product Ownership
12 19 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (1.50%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
15 16 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 551 (43.49%) Windows
2 252 (19.89%) Linux
3 228 (18.00%) Windows Server
4 57 (4.50%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (3.63%) Unix
7 28 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (2.05%) AIX
9 21 (1.66%) Mac OS
10 20 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 18 (1.42%) Ubuntu
12 17 (1.34%) VMS
13 15 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
14 13 (1.03%) Apple iOS
14 13 (1.03%) Windows 7
15 11 (0.87%) Android
16 7 (0.55%) CentOS
16 7 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
17 4 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (26.20%) DevOps
2 314 (24.78%) CI/CD
3 278 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
4 237 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 165 (13.02%) Agile
6 162 (12.79%) Migration
7 155 (12.23%) SIEM
8 152 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 136 (10.73%) Task Automation
10 132 (10.42%) ITIL
11 131 (10.34%) ITSM
11 131 (10.34%) Runbook
12 128 (10.10%) Identity Access Management
13 123 (9.71%) Disaster Recovery
14 119 (9.39%) Observability
15 117 (9.23%) High Availability
16 113 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 113 (8.92%) Root Cause Analysis
17 110 (8.68%) Analytics
17 110 (8.68%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 552 (43.57%) Python
2 257 (20.28%) Bash
3 212 (16.73%) SQL
4 98 (7.73%) C#
5 72 (5.68%) Bicep
6 64 (5.05%) JavaScript
7 54 (4.26%) Java
8 47 (3.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.13%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.74%) VBScript
11 19 (1.50%) Perl
12 18 (1.42%) Search Processing Language
12 18 (1.42%) TypeScript
13 14 (1.10%) Go
13 14 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.03%) VB
15 12 (0.95%) Groovy
16 9 (0.71%) BeanShell
17 8 (0.63%) C++
18 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 486 (38.36%) Security Cleared
2 366 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 119 (9.39%) Degree
4 106 (8.37%) DV Cleared
5 99 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 79 (6.24%) Azure Certification
7 72 (5.68%) CISSP
8 48 (3.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 36 (2.84%) MCSE
10 34 (2.68%) AWS Certification
10 34 (2.68%) CISM
11 32 (2.53%) MCSA
12 20 (1.58%) VCAP
13 19 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (0.79%) CEH
18 8 (0.63%) CCNA
18 8 (0.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 87 (6.87%) NIST
3 83 (6.55%) GDPR
4 27 (2.13%) QA
5 24 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 22 (1.74%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.50%) SLA
8 15 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (1.18%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.87%) FINRA
9 11 (0.87%) MiFID
9 11 (0.87%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.63%) NCSC
10 8 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.39%) GRC
12 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 432 (34.10%) Active Directory
2 148 (11.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 122 (9.63%) Docker
4 76 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
5 64 (5.05%) Hyper-V
6 61 (4.81%) vSphere
7 58 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
8 42 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 29 (2.29%) BitLocker
10 23 (1.82%) VMware NSX
11 20 (1.58%) Microsoft App-V
12 19 (1.50%) Firmware
13 18 (1.42%) KVM
14 10 (0.79%) vCloud
15 6 (0.47%) Squid
16 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.24%) Postfix
17 3 (0.24%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 292 (23.05%) Terraform
2 170 (13.42%) Ansible
3 161 (12.71%) Kubernetes
4 146 (11.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 85 (6.71%) SCCM
6 66 (5.21%) vCenter Server
7 57 (4.50%) Grafana
8 54 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 47 (3.71%) Prometheus
10 43 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
11 29 (2.29%) Progress Chef
12 28 (2.21%) Puppet
13 22 (1.74%) SCOM
14 20 (1.58%) vRealize
15 19 (1.50%) Nagios
16 18 (1.42%) Tivoli
16 18 (1.42%) ZABBIX
17 17 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
18 16 (1.26%) Netcool
18 16 (1.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 596 (47.04%) Microsoft
2 191 (15.07%) VMware
3 94 (7.42%) CyberArk
4 89 (7.02%) ServiceNow
5 78 (6.16%) BeyondTrust
6 70 (5.52%) Splunk
7 64 (5.05%) Google
8 61 (4.81%) Oracle
9 53 (4.18%) Cisco
9 53 (4.18%) Citrix
10 43 (3.39%) Red Hat
11 35 (2.76%) Centrify
12 33 (2.60%) SolarWinds
13 31 (2.45%) BMC
14 30 (2.37%) IBM
15 26 (2.05%) Remedy
16 25 (1.97%) Databricks
17 23 (1.82%) HP
17 23 (1.82%) Okta
18 21 (1.66%) Dynatrace