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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 53 58
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,268 958 1,251
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 3.94% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.55% 11.65% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 659 895
10th Percentile £350 £353 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £623 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -0.48% -2.10% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 11 26
10th Percentile £27.02 £17.00 £27.90
25th Percentile £50.75 £18.62 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.14% -27.50% -33.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.86 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.30 £200.00 £71.22
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £23.77 £40.00
% change year-on-year +169.56% -40.58% -33.22%

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 10,978 8,221 10,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.19% 33.77% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,289 5,685 7,931
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £652
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 214 441
10th Percentile £42.44 £25.25 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.65 £48.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% +1.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -0.33%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -18 539 £550 +4.76% 112
South East 0 250 £511 -11.09% 117
North of England -7 222 £482 +2.55% 57
North West +8 132 £491 +5.51% 34
South West -14 107 £473 -19.10% 30
Yorkshire -24 87 £458 -3.68% 12
Midlands -67 81 £456 -8.75% 31
West Midlands -60 60 £485 -3.19% 17
East of England -9 42 £507 -7.82% 27
East Midlands -27 20 £418 -12.11% 14
North East -19 5 £438 -5.91% 11
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
1 152 (11.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 123 (9.70%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.31%) Confluence
4 16 (1.26%) IIS
5 12 (0.95%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.71%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.079%) MTS
Applications
1 38 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.079%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.079%) Actimize
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 666 (52.52%) Azure
2 287 (22.63%) Entra ID
3 243 (19.16%) Microsoft 365
4 241 (19.01%) AWS
5 136 (10.73%) GCP
6 129 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (9.62%) GitHub
8 89 (7.02%) Power Platform
9 82 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
10 77 (6.07%) OneDrive
11 76 (5.99%) Azure Monitor
12 59 (4.65%) PaaS
13 58 (4.57%) Microsoft Purview
14 54 (4.26%) Azure AKS
14 54 (4.26%) IaaS
15 40 (3.15%) Azure Key Vault
15 40 (3.15%) Microsoft Copilot
16 39 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
17 37 (2.92%) SaaS
18 35 (2.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 172 (13.56%) DNS
2 141 (11.12%) Firewall
3 107 (8.44%) DHCP
4 80 (6.31%) VPN
5 60 (4.73%) Network Security
6 46 (3.63%) TCP/IP
7 40 (3.15%) Kerberos
7 40 (3.15%) WAN
8 38 (3.00%) LAN
9 32 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (2.13%) VLAN
11 21 (1.66%) SMTP
12 18 (1.42%) SAN
13 17 (1.34%) SNMP
14 15 (1.18%) DKIM
14 15 (1.18%) DMARC
15 14 (1.10%) SSL
16 13 (1.03%) HTTP
16 13 (1.03%) Skype
17 12 (0.95%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (9.23%) SQL Server
2 54 (4.26%) Power BI
3 40 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (1.42%) Metadata
7 17 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 13 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (0.95%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.79%) Delta Lake
11 10 (0.79%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.79%) MySQL
12 9 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.71%) Relational Database
12 9 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (0.55%) DB2
14 7 (0.55%) Spark SQL
15 6 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 78 (6.15%) Git
2 77 (6.07%) Jenkins
3 64 (5.05%) GitLab
4 62 (4.89%) JIRA
5 20 (1.58%) MSI
6 13 (1.03%) Artifactory
7 10 (0.79%) InstallShield
8 9 (0.71%) Selenium
9 8 (0.63%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.55%) AdminStudio
10 7 (0.55%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.55%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.39%) Appium
12 5 (0.39%) Postman
13 4 (0.32%) Jaeger
13 4 (0.32%) JUnit
14 3 (0.24%) Chocolatey
14 3 (0.24%) Spinnaker
General
1 371 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 176 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
3 141 (11.12%) Finance
4 118 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 87 (6.86%) Documentation Skills
6 60 (4.73%) Banking
7 47 (3.71%) Legal
8 19 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.34%) Front Office
11 13 (1.03%) Military
11 13 (1.03%) Retail
12 9 (0.71%) Law
12 9 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.71%) Publishing
13 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.39%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.39%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (13.25%) Architect
2 129 (10.17%) Senior
3 101 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
4 98 (7.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 75 (5.91%) Security Engineer
6 71 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 71 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 50 (3.94%) Developer
8 47 (3.71%) Support Engineer
9 41 (3.23%) Consultant
10 40 (3.15%) Analyst
11 37 (2.92%) CyberArk Architect
11 37 (2.92%) Lead
11 37 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (2.37%) SIEM Engineer
13 27 (2.13%) Microsoft Engineer
13 27 (2.13%) Windows Engineer
14 26 (2.05%) Administrator
14 26 (2.05%) PowerShell Engineer
15 25 (1.97%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (12.38%) REST
2 123 (9.70%) LDAP
3 76 (5.99%) Microsoft Graph
4 62 (4.89%) SOAP
5 54 (4.26%) JSON
6 52 (4.10%) .NET
7 51 (4.02%) OAuth
8 44 (3.47%) SAML
9 34 (2.68%) SailPoint
10 32 (2.52%) ARM Templates
11 28 (2.21%) OpenID
12 26 (2.05%) Web Services
12 26 (2.05%) YAML
13 23 (1.81%) .NET Framework
14 18 (1.42%) Kafka
14 18 (1.42%) OAuth2
15 16 (1.26%) Node.js
16 15 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (1.18%) React
17 14 (1.10%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 86 (6.78%) Onboarding
2 85 (6.70%) Replication
3 80 (6.31%) Security Posture
4 70 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.81%) PKI
6 56 (4.42%) Clustering
7 50 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 46 (3.63%) Cloud Native
9 34 (2.68%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.52%) Management Information System
11 26 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.58%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
15 15 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.03%) BYOD
16 13 (1.03%) Operational Technology
17 11 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 526 (41.48%) Windows
2 221 (17.43%) Linux
3 213 (16.80%) Windows Server
4 55 (4.34%) Windows 10
5 39 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (2.68%) Unix
7 27 (2.13%) Mac OS
8 24 (1.89%) AIX
9 23 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (1.26%) VMS
11 15 (1.18%) Android
11 15 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 14 (1.10%) Ubuntu
13 12 (0.95%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.79%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
16 5 (0.39%) CentOS
17 3 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (24.05%) DevOps
2 288 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
3 276 (21.77%) CI/CD
4 216 (17.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 186 (14.67%) Agile
6 177 (13.96%) SIEM
7 150 (11.83%) Migration
8 141 (11.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 131 (10.33%) ITIL
10 129 (10.17%) Task Automation
11 124 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
12 115 (9.07%) Analytics
13 113 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
14 112 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (8.83%) ITSM
15 109 (8.60%) RBAC
16 108 (8.52%) Identity Access Management
17 107 (8.44%) High Availability
18 106 (8.36%) Runbook
19 105 (8.28%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 543 (42.82%) Python
2 225 (17.74%) Bash
3 178 (14.04%) SQL
4 99 (7.81%) C#
5 72 (5.68%) JavaScript
6 68 (5.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 63 (4.97%) Bicep
8 47 (3.71%) Java
9 24 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.50%) VBScript
11 17 (1.34%) Search Processing Language
12 16 (1.26%) Go
12 16 (1.26%) Perl
13 15 (1.18%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.87%) VB
15 10 (0.79%) BeanShell
15 10 (0.79%) Groovy
16 7 (0.55%) C++
16 7 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 516 (40.69%) Security Cleared
2 398 (31.39%) SC Cleared
3 112 (8.83%) Degree
4 109 (8.60%) DV Cleared
5 95 (7.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (6.15%) CISSP
7 69 (5.44%) Azure Certification
8 48 (3.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 46 (3.63%) CISM
10 30 (2.37%) MCSE
11 28 (2.21%) MCSA
12 23 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.58%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.58%) CEH
14 19 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.42%) VCAP
16 16 (1.26%) GIAC
17 15 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
18 12 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
19 8 (0.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.44%) GDPR
2 105 (8.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 86 (6.78%) NIST
4 32 (2.52%) QA
5 29 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.50%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 16 (1.26%) SLA
9 14 (1.10%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.95%) MiFID
11 11 (0.87%) FINRA
11 11 (0.87%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.79%) NCSC
13 5 (0.39%) GRC
13 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.16%) GxP
16 2 (0.16%) ISA99
16 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 423 (33.36%) Active Directory
2 141 (11.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (8.99%) Docker
4 70 (5.52%) Hyper-V
5 67 (5.28%) Virtual Machines
6 53 (4.18%) vSphere
7 44 (3.47%) VMware ESXi
8 33 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 25 (1.97%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.42%) Firmware
10 18 (1.42%) KVM
11 17 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
12 13 (1.03%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.39%) Squid
14 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.16%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.16%) UAG
14 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 277 (21.85%) Terraform
2 159 (12.54%) Kubernetes
3 153 (12.07%) Ansible
4 144 (11.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 92 (7.26%) SCCM
6 56 (4.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 55 (4.34%) vCenter Server
8 45 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
9 44 (3.47%) Grafana
10 39 (3.08%) Prometheus
11 23 (1.81%) Nagios
12 22 (1.74%) vRealize
13 20 (1.58%) Puppet
14 19 (1.50%) SCOM
15 18 (1.42%) Progress Chef
15 18 (1.42%) ZABBIX
16 17 (1.34%) Tivoli
17 16 (1.26%) Netcool
18 15 (1.18%) PowerCLI
19 14 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 585 (46.14%) Microsoft
2 186 (14.67%) VMware
3 97 (7.65%) CyberArk
4 80 (6.31%) ServiceNow
5 78 (6.15%) BeyondTrust
6 69 (5.44%) Splunk
7 59 (4.65%) Citrix
8 47 (3.71%) Cisco
9 46 (3.63%) Oracle
10 44 (3.47%) Google
11 36 (2.84%) Centrify
11 36 (2.84%) SolarWinds
12 31 (2.44%) Red Hat
13 29 (2.29%) BMC
14 26 (2.05%) Databricks
14 26 (2.05%) IBM
15 23 (1.81%) Veeam
16 21 (1.66%) Okta
17 20 (1.58%) HP
18 19 (1.50%) Dynatrace