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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 58 56
Rank change year-on-year -27 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,274 1,026 1,347
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.90% 3.93% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.87% 11.67% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 674 966
10th Percentile £332 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £698 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 8 29
10th Percentile £19.08 £25.95 £33.23
25th Percentile £27.97 £41.56 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £64.25 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% +46.56% -26.93%
75th Percentile £67.84 £112.22 £68.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £63.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -17.32% +44.84% -27.78%

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 11,725 8,789 11,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.70% 33.68% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,633 6,064 8,224
10th Percentile £360 £352 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% -3.70% -2.70%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.26% -2.60% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 216 481
10th Percentile £35.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.84 £36.19 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £81.48 £77.50
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

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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 3 July 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

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 -25 549 £550 +4.76% 128
North of England +6 265 £458 +1.78% 73
South East -16 261 £525 -8.70% 105
North West +17 152 £452 +0.89% 46
Yorkshire -6 112 £500 +5.26% 15
South West -12 94 £445 -22.61% 48
Midlands -76 61 £500 +8.70% 34
West Midlands -82 43 £500 +8.70% 22
East of England -47 35 £507 -7.82% 23
East Midlands -15 17 £469 -1.32% 12
North East -35 3 £238 -32.14% 15
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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
1 138 (10.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 128 (10.05%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.98%) Confluence
4 20 (1.57%) IIS
5 14 (1.10%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.24%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.078%) Camunda
11 1 (0.078%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 29 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (2.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.16%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.078%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 685 (53.77%) Azure
2 316 (24.80%) Entra ID
3 262 (20.57%) AWS
4 222 (17.43%) Microsoft 365
5 144 (11.30%) GitHub
6 143 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (9.81%) GCP
8 115 (9.03%) Power Platform
9 102 (8.01%) GitHub Actions
10 85 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
11 81 (6.36%) OneDrive
12 59 (4.63%) Microsoft Purview
13 58 (4.55%) Azure AKS
14 57 (4.47%) PaaS
15 52 (4.08%) SaaS
16 48 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
17 44 (3.45%) IaaS
18 40 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
19 38 (2.98%) Power Automate
20 36 (2.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 175 (13.74%) DNS
2 134 (10.52%) Firewall
3 99 (7.77%) DHCP
4 75 (5.89%) VPN
5 51 (4.00%) Network Security
6 50 (3.92%) WAN
7 44 (3.45%) TCP/IP
8 39 (3.06%) Kerberos
9 36 (2.83%) LAN
10 28 (2.20%) SAN
11 26 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (1.81%) VLAN
13 20 (1.57%) SSL
14 17 (1.33%) NAS
14 17 (1.33%) SNMP
15 16 (1.26%) Skype
16 15 (1.18%) SMTP
17 14 (1.10%) SD-WAN
18 13 (1.02%) Internet
18 13 (1.02%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (13.03%) SQL Server
2 72 (5.65%) Power BI
3 43 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.26%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.26%) MySQL
8 14 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.86%) Metadata
10 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (0.78%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.71%) Db2
12 9 (0.71%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.63%) Big Data
13 8 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 100 (7.85%) Jenkins
2 89 (6.99%) Git
3 58 (4.55%) JIRA
4 52 (4.08%) GitLab
5 22 (1.73%) MSI
6 10 (0.78%) InstallShield
6 10 (0.78%) Postman
6 10 (0.78%) Selenium
7 9 (0.71%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.47%) JMeter
9 6 (0.47%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.39%) Appium
10 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.39%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.31%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 294 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 199 (15.62%) Finance
3 157 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 76 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
6 74 (5.81%) Banking
7 38 (2.98%) Legal
8 23 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 22 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.41%) Front Office
11 13 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 12 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.78%) Law
13 10 (0.78%) Military
13 10 (0.78%) Retail
14 6 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.39%) Back Office
15 5 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.31%) Local Government
16 4 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 133 (10.44%) Senior
2 113 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 108 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 102 (8.01%) Azure Engineer
5 100 (7.85%) Architect
6 79 (6.20%) Security Engineer
7 72 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (5.34%) Support Engineer
9 52 (4.08%) Developer
10 47 (3.69%) Analyst
11 45 (3.53%) Consultant
12 35 (2.75%) Lead
13 32 (2.51%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (2.43%) Administrator
15 30 (2.35%) IT Engineer
16 29 (2.28%) PowerShell Engineer
17 28 (2.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 27 (2.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 27 (2.12%) Desktop Engineer
19 26 (2.04%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (8.71%) REST
2 85 (6.67%) LDAP
3 83 (6.51%) Microsoft Graph
4 59 (4.63%) OAuth
5 57 (4.47%) .NET
6 48 (3.77%) JSON
6 48 (3.77%) SAML
7 41 (3.22%) SailPoint
8 38 (2.98%) ARM Templates
8 38 (2.98%) YAML
9 33 (2.59%) OpenID
10 30 (2.35%) Web Services
11 28 (2.20%) OAuth2
12 24 (1.88%) SOAP
13 23 (1.81%) .NET Framework
13 23 (1.81%) Kafka
14 17 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (1.18%) XML
16 13 (1.02%) React
17 12 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.93%) Onboarding
2 81 (6.36%) Replication
3 80 (6.28%) Cloud Native
4 67 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 55 (4.32%) PKI
6 54 (4.24%) Clustering
7 49 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 47 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (3.22%) Management Information System
10 37 (2.90%) Data Centre
11 30 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.65%) Public Cloud
15 19 (1.49%) Product Ownership
16 18 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
17 17 (1.33%) Data Structures
18 16 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
19 15 (1.18%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 560 (43.96%) Windows
2 264 (20.72%) Linux
3 230 (18.05%) Windows Server
4 63 (4.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (4.32%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.61%) Unix
7 26 (2.04%) AIX
7 26 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (1.73%) Ubuntu
9 20 (1.57%) Mac OS
10 18 (1.41%) VMS
11 17 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (1.26%) Apple iOS
13 13 (1.02%) Windows 7
13 13 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
14 11 (0.86%) Android
14 11 (0.86%) CentOS
15 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (26.69%) DevOps
2 317 (24.88%) CI/CD
3 263 (20.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 258 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
5 172 (13.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 166 (13.03%) Agile
7 164 (12.87%) Migration
8 150 (11.77%) ITIL
9 144 (11.30%) Runbook
10 142 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 128 (10.05%) SIEM
12 125 (9.81%) Identity Access Management
13 120 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
13 120 (9.42%) High Availability
14 118 (9.26%) ITSM
15 116 (9.11%) Analytics
15 116 (9.11%) Observability
16 113 (8.87%) AI
17 112 (8.79%) RBAC
18 109 (8.56%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 569 (44.66%) Python
2 270 (21.19%) Bash
3 227 (17.82%) SQL
4 89 (6.99%) C#
5 81 (6.36%) Bicep
6 55 (4.32%) JavaScript
7 50 (3.92%) Java
8 41 (3.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.12%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.96%) VBScript
11 19 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 18 (1.41%) Perl
12 18 (1.41%) Search Processing Language
13 16 (1.26%) Groovy
14 13 (1.02%) VB
15 12 (0.94%) C++
16 11 (0.86%) BeanShell
16 11 (0.86%) Go
16 11 (0.86%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 449 (35.24%) Security Cleared
2 331 (25.98%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.81%) Degree
4 113 (8.87%) DV Cleared
5 89 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 79 (6.20%) Azure Certification
7 78 (6.12%) CISSP
8 42 (3.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 37 (2.90%) AWS Certification
10 33 (2.59%) CISM
11 28 (2.20%) MCSE
12 24 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (1.81%) MCSA
14 20 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (1.10%) VCAP
17 13 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.71%) GIAC
19 8 (0.63%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (8.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (7.06%) NIST
3 70 (5.49%) GDPR
4 29 (2.28%) QA
5 28 (2.20%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 21 (1.65%) SLA
8 15 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (1.18%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.63%) NCSC
12 6 (0.47%) FINRA
12 6 (0.47%) MiFID
13 5 (0.39%) GRC
14 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
16 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 403 (31.63%) Active Directory
2 143 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (9.26%) Docker
4 82 (6.44%) Virtual Machines
5 61 (4.79%) Hyper-V
6 60 (4.71%) VMware ESXi
7 54 (4.24%) vSphere
8 40 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (2.35%) BitLocker
10 24 (1.88%) VMware NSX
11 21 (1.65%) Microsoft App-V
12 19 (1.49%) Firmware
13 16 (1.26%) KVM
14 13 (1.02%) vCloud
15 5 (0.39%) Squid
15 5 (0.39%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.24%) Postfix
17 3 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 326 (25.59%) Terraform
2 187 (14.68%) Ansible
3 173 (13.58%) Kubernetes
4 152 (11.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 84 (6.59%) SCCM
6 65 (5.10%) vCenter Server
7 55 (4.32%) Grafana
8 47 (3.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 45 (3.53%) Prometheus
10 42 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
11 32 (2.51%) Puppet
12 31 (2.43%) Progress Chef
13 28 (2.20%) SCOM
14 21 (1.65%) Nagios
15 20 (1.57%) vRealize
15 20 (1.57%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.41%) Tivoli
17 17 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
18 16 (1.26%) Netcool
18 16 (1.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 602 (47.25%) Microsoft
2 184 (14.44%) VMware
3 106 (8.32%) ServiceNow
4 74 (5.81%) CyberArk
5 73 (5.73%) Google
6 71 (5.57%) Splunk
7 67 (5.26%) Oracle
8 56 (4.40%) Cisco
9 50 (3.92%) Citrix
10 49 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
11 44 (3.45%) Red Hat
12 38 (2.98%) SolarWinds
13 35 (2.75%) BMC
14 31 (2.43%) Remedy
15 30 (2.35%) IBM
16 29 (2.28%) Okta
17 26 (2.04%) Databricks
17 26 (2.04%) HP
18 20 (1.57%) Bloomberg
18 20 (1.57%) NetApp