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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 53 68
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,286 986 1,181
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.98% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.18% 11.75% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 668 828
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 17 36
10th Percentile £35.41 £17.00 £21.41
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £37.49
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.87% +40.98% -29.79%
75th Percentile £78.13 £77.50 £53.66
90th Percentile £83.78 £147.20 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £36.79 £40.25
% change year-on-year +101.85% -8.60% -26.82%

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 10,554 8,390 11,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.16% 33.89% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,040 5,609 7,932
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £660
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 216 470
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.20 £85.00 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.80%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -25 526 £550 +2.33% 125
South East +1 247 £503 -12.61% 123
North of England -5 219 £475 +1.06% 63
South West +5 145 £560 -2.61% 44
North West +3 121 £483 +2.70% 32
Yorkshire -22 90 £460 -8.00% 22
Midlands -55 83 £463 -7.50% 33
West Midlands -62 57 £475 -5.09% 17
East of England -14 30 £500 -13.04% 34
East Midlands -21 26 £449 -3.03% 16
North East -12 13 £550 +20.35% 10
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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UK

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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
1 199 (15.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 153 (11.90%) SharePoint
3 57 (4.43%) Confluence
4 31 (2.41%) Skype for Business
5 13 (1.01%) Apache
6 8 (0.62%) IIS
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.16%) Mattermost
8 2 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.078%) SAS
9 1 (0.078%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.078%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 39 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.078%) Actimize
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.078%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 639 (49.69%) Azure
2 324 (25.19%) Entra ID
3 289 (22.47%) Microsoft 365
4 231 (17.96%) AWS
5 140 (10.89%) GCP
6 132 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
7 118 (9.18%) GitHub
8 83 (6.45%) OneDrive
9 82 (6.38%) Power Platform
10 77 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (4.98%) Microsoft Purview
12 63 (4.90%) IaaS
13 59 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
14 56 (4.35%) PaaS
15 49 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
16 46 (3.58%) SaaS
17 43 (3.34%) Serverless
18 40 (3.11%) Azure Key Vault
19 38 (2.95%) PowerApps
20 36 (2.80%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 202 (15.71%) DNS
2 167 (12.99%) Firewall
3 133 (10.34%) DHCP
4 73 (5.68%) VPN
5 69 (5.37%) TCP/IP
6 57 (4.43%) Network Security
7 42 (3.27%) LAN
8 40 (3.11%) Kerberos
9 39 (3.03%) WAN
10 34 (2.64%) Skype
11 32 (2.49%) VLAN
12 30 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (1.48%) DKIM
13 19 (1.48%) DMARC
13 19 (1.48%) SAN
14 17 (1.32%) SMTP
14 17 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
15 15 (1.17%) Wireshark
16 14 (1.09%) Unified Communications
17 13 (1.01%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 51 (3.97%) Power BI
3 29 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.56%) Metadata
6 19 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (0.86%) Relational Database
11 10 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.70%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.62%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.54%) Delta Lake
14 7 (0.54%) MySQL
14 7 (0.54%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.47%) DB2
16 5 (0.39%) Spark SQL
16 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 82 (6.38%) JIRA
2 80 (6.22%) Git
3 77 (5.99%) Jenkins
4 68 (5.29%) GitLab
5 16 (1.24%) MSI
6 14 (1.09%) Artifactory
7 11 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.78%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.54%) Selenium
12 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.39%) InstallShield
14 4 (0.31%) Appium
14 4 (0.31%) MSTest
14 4 (0.31%) Postman
14 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.23%) Jaeger
General
1 436 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 218 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 147 (11.43%) Finance
4 114 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 84 (6.53%) Documentation Skills
6 60 (4.67%) Banking
7 58 (4.51%) Legal
8 18 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.32%) Front Office
10 15 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.09%) Retail
12 13 (1.01%) Military
13 11 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.70%) Publishing
15 8 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.62%) Law
16 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 174 (13.53%) Architect
2 114 (8.86%) Senior
3 86 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
4 76 (5.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 75 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 70 (5.44%) Security Engineer
7 69 (5.37%) Support Engineer
8 62 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
9 56 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (4.28%) Consultant
11 52 (4.04%) Developer
12 49 (3.81%) Analyst
13 42 (3.27%) Microsoft Engineer
14 37 (2.88%) CyberArk Architect
15 35 (2.72%) Lead
16 31 (2.41%) SIEM Engineer
17 30 (2.33%) Administrator
18 28 (2.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
19 26 (2.02%) IT Engineer
20 24 (1.87%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (13.22%) REST
2 116 (9.02%) LDAP
3 77 (5.99%) Microsoft Graph
4 63 (4.90%) SOAP
5 61 (4.74%) OAuth
6 58 (4.51%) SAML
7 55 (4.28%) JSON
8 43 (3.34%) .NET
9 37 (2.88%) OpenID
10 32 (2.49%) ARM Templates
10 32 (2.49%) SailPoint
11 28 (2.18%) OAuth2
12 23 (1.79%) YAML
13 22 (1.71%) Web Services
14 20 (1.56%) .NET Framework
14 20 (1.56%) Middleware
15 19 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (1.32%) XML
17 16 (1.24%) AngularJS
18 14 (1.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.45%) Security Posture
2 81 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 77 (5.99%) Replication
4 69 (5.37%) PKI
5 65 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 46 (3.58%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.34%) Cloud Native
9 37 (2.88%) Clustering
9 37 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (2.33%) Management Information System
11 27 (2.10%) Product Ownership
12 26 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.32%) Private Cloud
15 16 (1.24%) BYOD
16 14 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
17 12 (0.93%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 499 (38.80%) Windows
2 223 (17.34%) Linux
3 212 (16.49%) Windows Server
4 72 (5.60%) Windows 10
5 42 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (2.18%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.71%) Unix
8 19 (1.48%) Android
8 19 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (1.09%) AIX
11 14 (1.09%) VMS
12 11 (0.86%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.78%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.70%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.70%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.54%) CentOS
15 7 (0.54%) Solaris
16 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (24.96%) DevOps
2 312 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
3 272 (21.15%) CI/CD
4 205 (15.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 201 (15.63%) Agile
6 169 (13.14%) SIEM
7 156 (12.13%) Migration
8 144 (11.20%) ITIL
9 143 (11.12%) Cybersecurity
10 141 (10.96%) Task Automation
11 125 (9.72%) Identity Access Management
12 122 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 121 (9.41%) ITSM
14 120 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 120 (9.33%) RBAC
15 106 (8.24%) Analytics
15 106 (8.24%) High Availability
16 101 (7.85%) Disaster Recovery
16 101 (7.85%) Incident Response
17 94 (7.31%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 539 (41.91%) Python
2 243 (18.90%) Bash
3 153 (11.90%) SQL
4 91 (7.08%) C#
5 77 (5.99%) Kusto Query Language
6 60 (4.67%) JavaScript
7 52 (4.04%) Bicep
8 47 (3.65%) Java
9 31 (2.41%) Perl
10 22 (1.71%) VBScript
11 16 (1.24%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.17%) BeanShell
13 14 (1.09%) Go
14 13 (1.01%) VB
15 7 (0.54%) PHP
15 7 (0.54%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.54%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.39%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 549 (42.69%) Security Cleared
2 436 (33.90%) SC Cleared
3 121 (9.41%) Degree
4 117 (9.10%) DV Cleared
5 106 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 84 (6.53%) CISSP
7 63 (4.90%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.58%) CISM
9 32 (2.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 28 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (2.02%) CEH
12 24 (1.87%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.87%) MCSE
13 22 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.63%) MCSA
15 19 (1.48%) CCNA
15 19 (1.48%) CCNP
16 17 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (1.32%) GIAC
17 15 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (9.80%) GDPR
2 111 (8.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 72 (5.60%) NIST
4 29 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 26 (2.02%) QA
6 18 (1.40%) SLA
7 15 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.17%) MiFID
8 12 (0.93%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.86%) FINRA
9 11 (0.86%) NCSC
9 11 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.78%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.39%) PSD2
12 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.23%) EMIR
13 3 (0.23%) GRC
14 2 (0.16%) GxP
14 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 477 (37.09%) Active Directory
2 141 (10.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 116 (9.02%) Docker
4 61 (4.74%) Hyper-V
5 48 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
6 36 (2.80%) vSphere
7 34 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (1.32%) BitLocker
9 17 (1.32%) KVM
10 13 (1.01%) Firmware
10 13 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.54%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.31%) NFS
14 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.23%) Squid
15 2 (0.16%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.16%) Snort
15 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 261 (20.30%) Terraform
2 150 (11.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 139 (10.81%) Ansible
4 134 (10.42%) Kubernetes
5 104 (8.09%) SCCM
6 88 (6.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 66 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
8 43 (3.34%) vCenter Server
9 38 (2.95%) Grafana
10 35 (2.72%) Prometheus
11 21 (1.63%) SCOM
12 17 (1.32%) Kibana
13 13 (1.01%) vRealize
13 13 (1.01%) WSUS
14 12 (0.93%) Puppet
15 11 (0.86%) Istio
15 11 (0.86%) Nessus
15 11 (0.86%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.78%) Nagios
17 9 (0.70%) Nmap
Vendors
1 612 (47.59%) Microsoft
2 188 (14.62%) VMware
3 93 (7.23%) CyberArk
4 69 (5.37%) Citrix
5 67 (5.21%) BeyondTrust
6 66 (5.13%) ServiceNow
7 58 (4.51%) Splunk
8 48 (3.73%) Cisco
9 42 (3.27%) Red Hat
10 41 (3.19%) Google
11 39 (3.03%) Oracle
12 35 (2.72%) Centrify
13 28 (2.18%) Okta
14 27 (2.10%) Veeam
15 26 (2.02%) SolarWinds
16 24 (1.87%) Atlassian
17 23 (1.79%) Databricks
18 17 (1.32%) Qualys
19 16 (1.24%) Dynatrace
19 16 (1.24%) SAP