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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 65 53
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,427 1,016 1,264
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 3.67% 3.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.84% 11.23% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 646 909
10th Percentile £325 £323 £350
25th Percentile £425 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £619
90th Percentile £705 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +2.46% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 15 16
10th Percentile £21.88 £44.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £43.81 £45.38 £45.46
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £65.69
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -1.05% +27.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £78.98 £74.11
90th Percentile £91.50 £85.00 £74.72
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £69.69
% change year-on-year -0.57% -8.88% +16.15%

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 12,057 9,047 10,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.32% 32.68% 31.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,827 6,198 7,564
10th Percentile £363 £345 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £654
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £502 £533
% change year-on-year +2.64% -5.86% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 245 357
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.22
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £83.88 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +8.33%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -8 627 £538 +4.37% 378
South East -10 314 £527 -7.90% 156
North of England +26 256 £485 +8.50% 96
North West +27 163 £479 +4.02% 60
South West -9 114 £490 -14.78% 46
Yorkshire -14 82 £500 +21.21% 25
Midlands -80 58 £500 +6.67% 53
East of England -38 47 £507 -7.82% 41
West Midlands -83 39 £500 +5.26% 32
East Midlands -13 18 £450 - 21
North East - 12 £500 - 13
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
1 123 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 118 (8.27%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.50%) Confluence
4 23 (1.61%) IIS
5 20 (1.40%) Skype for Business
6 18 (1.26%) Apache
7 12 (0.84%) nginx
8 9 (0.63%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
10 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.28%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 29 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.070%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (3.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.42%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.070%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.070%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.070%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.070%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.070%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.070%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.070%) Summit
6 1 (0.070%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 786 (55.08%) Azure
2 345 (24.18%) Entra ID
3 336 (23.55%) AWS
4 220 (15.42%) Microsoft 365
5 200 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
6 178 (12.47%) GitHub
7 138 (9.67%) GCP
8 127 (8.90%) Power Platform
9 120 (8.41%) Azure Monitor
10 117 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
11 77 (5.40%) Azure AKS
12 66 (4.63%) OneDrive
13 63 (4.41%) SaaS
14 59 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 54 (3.78%) PaaS
16 51 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
17 49 (3.43%) Azure Sentinel
17 49 (3.43%) IaaS
18 46 (3.22%) Microsoft Copilot
18 46 (3.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 218 (15.28%) DNS
2 199 (13.95%) Firewall
3 124 (8.69%) DHCP
4 95 (6.66%) VPN
5 93 (6.52%) TCP/IP
6 69 (4.84%) Network Security
7 43 (3.01%) WAN
8 34 (2.38%) SAN
9 33 (2.31%) VLAN
10 29 (2.03%) VSAN
11 24 (1.68%) SSL
12 22 (1.54%) LAN
12 22 (1.54%) Skype
13 19 (1.33%) NAS
14 18 (1.26%) SD-WAN
14 18 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (1.19%) SNMP
15 17 (1.19%) SSH
16 15 (1.05%) SMTP
17 13 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 87 (6.10%) Power BI
3 43 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.33%) Big Data
8 18 (1.26%) MySQL
8 18 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 15 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (1.05%) Metadata
11 15 (1.05%) Relational Database
12 14 (0.98%) NoSQL
13 10 (0.70%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 126 (8.83%) Jenkins
2 107 (7.50%) Git
3 81 (5.68%) GitLab
4 76 (5.33%) JIRA
5 28 (1.96%) MSI
6 14 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (0.77%) Selenium
9 10 (0.70%) Artifactory
10 9 (0.63%) AdminStudio
10 9 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (0.63%) InstallShield
11 8 (0.56%) Postman
11 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.42%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.42%) JMeter
12 6 (0.42%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.35%) MSBuild
13 5 (0.35%) Robot Framework
14 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 340 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 240 (16.82%) Finance
3 190 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 84 (5.89%) Banking
6 82 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (2.31%) Legal
8 23 (1.61%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.33%) Front Office
10 17 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.19%) Military
11 15 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 14 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.77%) Law
15 10 (0.70%) Retail
16 9 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.56%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.42%) Local Government
18 6 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 164 (11.49%) Senior
2 159 (11.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 148 (10.37%) Cloud Engineer
4 126 (8.83%) Azure Engineer
5 89 (6.24%) Architect
5 89 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 83 (5.82%) Support Engineer
7 80 (5.61%) Security Engineer
8 59 (4.13%) Lead
9 57 (3.99%) Developer
10 53 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
11 52 (3.64%) Analyst
12 49 (3.43%) Consultant
13 39 (2.73%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (2.59%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.45%) Administrator
16 33 (2.31%) PowerShell Engineer
17 31 (2.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 31 (2.17%) DBA
18 30 (2.10%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (8.97%) REST
2 76 (5.33%) .NET
3 67 (4.70%) ARM Templates
4 62 (4.34%) Microsoft Graph
5 57 (3.99%) OAuth
6 53 (3.71%) LDAP
7 49 (3.43%) JSON
8 45 (3.15%) SailPoint
8 45 (3.15%) SAML
9 44 (3.08%) YAML
10 42 (2.94%) OpenID
11 33 (2.31%) OAuth2
11 33 (2.31%) Web Services
12 28 (1.96%) Kafka
13 26 (1.82%) .NET Framework
14 25 (1.75%) SOAP
15 21 (1.47%) React
16 16 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
17 12 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
17 12 (0.84%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 129 (9.04%) Onboarding
2 98 (6.87%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 74 (5.19%) PKI
4 72 (5.05%) Security Posture
5 63 (4.41%) Clustering
6 61 (4.27%) Replication
7 58 (4.06%) Management Information System
8 54 (3.78%) Data Centre
9 52 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
11 28 (1.96%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
13 25 (1.75%) CMDB
13 25 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.68%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (1.40%) Product Ownership
17 18 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
18 17 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 692 (48.49%) Windows
2 364 (25.51%) Linux
3 289 (20.25%) Windows Server
4 86 (6.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 76 (5.33%) Windows 10
6 44 (3.08%) Unix
7 30 (2.10%) Ubuntu
8 28 (1.96%) Mac OS
9 23 (1.61%) AIX
9 23 (1.61%) Apple iOS
9 23 (1.61%) CentOS
10 22 (1.54%) Windows 7
10 22 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (1.26%) VMS
11 18 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (1.19%) Android
13 10 (0.70%) Rocky
14 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
14 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (29.85%) DevOps
2 409 (28.66%) CI/CD
3 370 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 287 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
5 240 (16.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 192 (13.45%) Agile
7 188 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 186 (13.03%) ITIL
9 179 (12.54%) Migration
9 179 (12.54%) Runbook
10 169 (11.84%) ITSM
11 153 (10.72%) Analytics
12 145 (10.16%) Identity Access Management
13 142 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
14 141 (9.88%) Cloud Security
14 141 (9.88%) Observability
14 141 (9.88%) SIEM
15 140 (9.81%) Disaster Recovery
16 139 (9.74%) AI
17 138 (9.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 676 (47.37%) Python
2 368 (25.79%) Bash
3 246 (17.24%) SQL
4 129 (9.04%) Bicep
5 97 (6.80%) C#
6 78 (5.47%) Java
7 69 (4.84%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.10%) Kusto Query Language
9 29 (2.03%) VBScript
10 25 (1.75%) Search Processing Language
11 24 (1.68%) Perl
12 22 (1.54%) T-SQL
13 20 (1.40%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.26%) Groovy
15 17 (1.19%) VB
16 15 (1.05%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.98%) Go
18 12 (0.84%) BeanShell
18 12 (0.84%) C++
19 9 (0.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 519 (36.37%) Security Cleared
2 362 (25.37%) SC Cleared
3 166 (11.63%) DV Cleared
4 157 (11.00%) Degree
5 113 (7.92%) Azure Certification
6 97 (6.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (6.10%) CISSP
8 64 (4.48%) AWS Certification
9 41 (2.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 32 (2.24%) CISM
11 31 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.75%) MCSE
13 22 (1.54%) VCAP
14 20 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.26%) MCSA
16 16 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
16 16 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 15 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 12 (0.84%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 96 (6.73%) NIST
3 49 (3.43%) GDPR
4 41 (2.87%) QA
5 34 (2.38%) SLA
6 33 (2.31%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (1.05%) NCSC
10 14 (0.98%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.42%) GxP
14 5 (0.35%) GRC
15 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 3 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
16 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
17 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 447 (31.32%) Active Directory
2 187 (13.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 163 (11.42%) Docker
4 85 (5.96%) Virtual Machines
5 76 (5.33%) Hyper-V
6 67 (4.70%) VMware ESXi
6 67 (4.70%) vSphere
7 49 (3.43%) VMware NSX
8 47 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (2.24%) BitLocker
10 20 (1.40%) vCloud
11 19 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
12 17 (1.19%) Firmware
13 8 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.42%) KVM
15 5 (0.35%) Squid
15 5 (0.35%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.21%) NFS
16 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 448 (31.39%) Terraform
2 264 (18.50%) Ansible
3 246 (17.24%) Kubernetes
4 178 (12.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 114 (7.99%) SCCM
6 76 (5.33%) Grafana
7 68 (4.77%) vCenter Server
8 63 (4.41%) Prometheus
9 52 (3.64%) Progress Chef
10 50 (3.50%) SCOM
11 43 (3.01%) Puppet
12 30 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
13 24 (1.68%) Packer
14 21 (1.47%) Nagios
15 20 (1.40%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.26%) Tivoli
17 17 (1.19%) vRealize
17 17 (1.19%) VxRail
18 16 (1.12%) Netcool
18 16 (1.12%) WMI
Vendors
1 661 (46.32%) Microsoft
2 257 (18.01%) VMware
3 143 (10.02%) ServiceNow
4 94 (6.59%) CyberArk
5 92 (6.45%) Splunk
6 86 (6.03%) Google
7 76 (5.33%) Oracle
8 61 (4.27%) Cisco
9 54 (3.78%) Red Hat
10 53 (3.71%) BMC
11 52 (3.64%) BeyondTrust
11 52 (3.64%) Remedy
12 48 (3.36%) Citrix
13 40 (2.80%) Databricks
14 35 (2.45%) SolarWinds
15 30 (2.10%) IBM
16 28 (1.96%) NetApp
17 27 (1.89%) HP
18 24 (1.68%) Dynatrace
19 23 (1.61%) CrowdStrike