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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 62 56
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 +16
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,172 1,078 1,488
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.90% 3.46% 3.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.07% 10.71% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 720 1,047
10th Percentile £351 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £663
90th Percentile £725 £701 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 40
10th Percentile £44.13 £23.80 £18.20
25th Percentile £45.94 £48.75 £30.44
Median hourly rate £64.07 £58.49 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% +20.85% -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £74.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £60.00 £48.40
% change year-on-year +5.84% +23.96% -12.00%

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 9,712 10,063 12,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.32% 32.33% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,471 6,557 9,144
10th Percentile £350 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 250 421
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £32.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +7.44% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

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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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 -9 518 £525 -4.55% 308
South East +1 190 £513 -10.87% 189
South West +27 138 £560 +5.66% 69
North of England -17 120 £473 -0.51% 72
Midlands -7 115 £475 -5.00% 80
West Midlands -8 89 £475 -8.65% 46
East of England +22 62 £550 +57.14% 48
North West -19 59 £448 -5.79% 38
Yorkshire -24 52 £473 -0.51% 22
East Midlands +5 26 £450 - 34
North East -9 13 £550 +20.35% 12
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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
1 182 (15.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (9.64%) SharePoint
3 63 (5.38%) Confluence
4 41 (3.50%) Skype for Business
5 16 (1.37%) Apache
6 15 (1.28%) Mattermost
7 14 (1.19%) nginx
8 8 (0.68%) IIS
9 4 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.26%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.085%) CMS
12 1 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2010
12 1 (0.085%) HCL Domino
12 1 (0.085%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.085%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.085%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.085%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 39 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.085%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.085%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.085%) Eikon
2 1 (0.085%) Endur
2 1 (0.085%) Eze OMS
2 1 (0.085%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.085%) Findur
2 1 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.085%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 506 (43.17%) Azure
2 260 (22.18%) Microsoft 365
3 229 (19.54%) Entra ID
4 203 (17.32%) AWS
5 109 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (8.53%) GCP
7 94 (8.02%) GitHub
8 69 (5.89%) Power Platform
9 61 (5.20%) IaaS
10 56 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (4.52%) OneDrive
12 51 (4.35%) SaaS
13 50 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
14 46 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
14 46 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
15 44 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 43 (3.67%) Microsoft Purview
17 40 (3.41%) Amazon S3
18 38 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
18 38 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 201 (17.15%) Firewall
2 186 (15.87%) DNS
3 88 (7.51%) DHCP
4 66 (5.63%) Network Security
5 58 (4.95%) VPN
6 55 (4.69%) TCP/IP
7 44 (3.75%) Skype
7 44 (3.75%) SMTP
8 43 (3.67%) HTTP
9 31 (2.65%) FTP
10 29 (2.47%) SSH
11 28 (2.39%) VLAN
12 27 (2.30%) SAN
13 25 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
14 19 (1.62%) LAN
14 19 (1.62%) WAN
14 19 (1.62%) Wireshark
15 18 (1.54%) SSL
16 15 (1.28%) Unified Communications
17 13 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 45 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
2 45 (3.84%) Power BI
3 34 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.19%) Metadata
6 13 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.51%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.43%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.34%) MySQL
13 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 105 (8.96%) Jenkins
2 98 (8.36%) JIRA
3 79 (6.74%) Git
4 54 (4.61%) GitLab
5 24 (2.05%) MSI
5 24 (2.05%) Vagrant
6 22 (1.88%) Artifactory
7 16 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.85%) InstallShield
10 9 (0.77%) AdminStudio
10 9 (0.77%) Metasploit
11 8 (0.68%) Burp Suite
11 8 (0.68%) Maven
12 7 (0.60%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.51%) Postman
14 5 (0.43%) GCC
14 5 (0.43%) Gradle
15 4 (0.34%) Cucumber
General
1 392 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 181 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
3 180 (15.36%) Finance
4 119 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 59 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
6 56 (4.78%) Banking
7 38 (3.24%) Legal
8 25 (2.13%) Games
9 23 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.71%) Front Office
11 19 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.62%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.45%) Marketing
14 16 (1.37%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.28%) Electronics
16 11 (0.94%) Law
17 10 (0.85%) Retail
18 9 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
19 8 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 106 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
2 99 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 97 (8.28%) Architect
4 95 (8.11%) Analyst
5 85 (7.25%) Senior
6 68 (5.80%) Security Engineer
7 66 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
8 64 (5.46%) Consultant
9 63 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 52 (4.44%) Developer
11 51 (4.35%) Support Engineer
12 36 (3.07%) Administrator
13 35 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
14 32 (2.73%) Lead
14 32 (2.73%) Windows Engineer
15 29 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
16 28 (2.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 28 (2.39%) SOC Analyst
17 26 (2.22%) Microsoft Engineer
17 26 (2.22%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (9.64%) REST
2 58 (4.95%) JSON
3 53 (4.52%) LDAP
4 52 (4.44%) OAuth
5 48 (4.10%) SAML
6 41 (3.50%) OpenID
7 37 (3.16%) ARM Templates
8 33 (2.82%) .NET
8 33 (2.82%) Middleware
9 29 (2.47%) SailPoint
10 27 (2.30%) Microsoft Graph
11 26 (2.22%) FIX Protocol
11 26 (2.22%) OAuth2
11 26 (2.22%) YAML
12 23 (1.96%) XML
13 22 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (1.37%) React
15 15 (1.28%) HTML
16 13 (1.11%) CSS
17 12 (1.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (5.80%) PKI
2 55 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.52%) Replication
4 40 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.99%) Security Posture
6 33 (2.82%) Cloud Native
7 32 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
10 26 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (2.22%) Private Cloud
11 23 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
14 19 (1.62%) Product Ownership
15 14 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
16 12 (1.02%) CMDB
16 12 (1.02%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 481 (41.04%) Windows
2 261 (22.27%) Linux
3 168 (14.33%) Windows Server
4 78 (6.66%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.52%) Mac OS
6 50 (4.27%) Android
7 38 (3.24%) VMS
8 35 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (2.05%) Amazon Linux
10 23 (1.96%) Unix
11 20 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (1.54%) Apple iOS
13 17 (1.45%) Ubuntu
14 15 (1.28%) CentOS
15 13 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.94%) Solaris
17 10 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
18 8 (0.68%) Kali Linux
19 5 (0.43%) Windows 7
20 3 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (27.47%) DevOps
2 247 (21.08%) CI/CD
3 242 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
4 211 (18.00%) Agile
5 199 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 176 (15.02%) Migration
7 145 (12.37%) ITIL
8 135 (11.52%) Cybersecurity
9 132 (11.26%) SIEM
10 115 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 114 (9.73%) Identity Access Management
12 109 (9.30%) Configuration Management
13 103 (8.79%) Incident Response
14 101 (8.62%) Task Automation
15 100 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 99 (8.45%) RBAC
17 92 (7.85%) Platform Engineering
18 89 (7.59%) Change Management
18 89 (7.59%) Cloud Security
19 88 (7.51%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 515 (43.94%) Python
2 224 (19.11%) Bash
3 161 (13.74%) SQL
4 70 (5.97%) Java
5 69 (5.89%) JavaScript
6 67 (5.72%) C#
7 45 (3.84%) Kusto Query Language
8 42 (3.58%) Bicep
9 39 (3.33%) Perl
10 35 (2.99%) Groovy
11 28 (2.39%) VBScript
12 17 (1.45%) Go
13 15 (1.28%) C++
14 13 (1.11%) BeanShell
15 10 (0.85%) C
15 10 (0.85%) PHP
15 10 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.85%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.85%) VB
16 7 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 425 (36.26%) Security Cleared
2 322 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 116 (9.90%) DV Cleared
4 111 (9.47%) Degree
5 86 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 72 (6.14%) CISSP
7 55 (4.69%) Azure Certification
8 32 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (2.56%) AWS Certification
9 30 (2.56%) CISM
9 30 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
10 29 (2.47%) CEH
11 26 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 24 (2.05%) CCNA
12 24 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (1.88%) CCNP
14 19 (1.62%) GCIH
15 17 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
16 16 (1.37%) GIAC
16 16 (1.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (9.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 94 (8.02%) GDPR
3 77 (6.57%) NIST
4 27 (2.30%) HIPAA
5 18 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 17 (1.45%) QA
6 17 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.28%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.19%) SLA
9 9 (0.77%) NCSC
10 8 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.43%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.43%) PSD2
12 4 (0.34%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.26%) EMIR
13 3 (0.26%) ITGC
13 3 (0.26%) MiFID
14 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.085%) FISMA
System Software
1 427 (36.43%) Active Directory
2 126 (10.75%) Docker
3 124 (10.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (3.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 29 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.88%) DFS Replication
7 19 (1.62%) Virtual Servers
8 16 (1.37%) Hyper-V
8 16 (1.37%) Squid
9 13 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 13 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (1.11%) vSphere
10 12 (1.02%) Dovecot
10 12 (1.02%) Postfix
11 11 (0.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 9 (0.77%) Firmware
12 9 (0.77%) VMware NSX
13 8 (0.68%) NFS
14 7 (0.60%) BitLocker
15 4 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 236 (20.14%) Terraform
2 158 (13.48%) SCCM
3 140 (11.95%) Ansible
4 138 (11.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 102 (8.70%) Kubernetes
6 56 (4.78%) Single Sign-On
7 53 (4.52%) Grafana
8 51 (4.35%) Prometheus
9 45 (3.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 36 (3.07%) SCOM
11 27 (2.30%) vRealize
12 23 (1.96%) WSUS
13 21 (1.79%) HP SiteScope
13 21 (1.79%) Kibana
14 19 (1.62%) Nessus
14 19 (1.62%) Proxmox
15 18 (1.54%) ITRS Geneos
16 17 (1.45%) vCenter Server
17 15 (1.28%) NetBackup
18 14 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 531 (45.31%) Microsoft
2 178 (15.19%) VMware
3 115 (9.81%) Splunk
4 89 (7.59%) Cisco
5 86 (7.34%) ServiceNow
6 63 (5.38%) Citrix
6 63 (5.38%) CyberArk
7 48 (4.10%) Red Hat
8 40 (3.41%) Google
8 40 (3.41%) Oracle
9 34 (2.90%) CrowdStrike
10 29 (2.47%) Atlassian
11 28 (2.39%) BeyondTrust
11 28 (2.39%) Meraki
12 25 (2.13%) SAP
13 23 (1.96%) Veeam
14 22 (1.88%) Okta
14 22 (1.88%) Remedy
15 21 (1.79%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.71%) Solace
738 PowerShell jobs in England