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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 58
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,265 964 1,249
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 3.96% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.52% 11.73% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 667 894
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £437 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £623 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.10% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 11 26
10th Percentile £26.80 £17.00 £27.90
25th Percentile £51.25 £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 £83.38 £200.00 £71.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £23.77 £40.00
% change year-on-year +173.48% -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 10,982 8,215 10,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.24% 33.76% 29.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 5,683 7,932
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 £650
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 532 214 439
10th Percentile £42.63 £25.25 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.65 £48.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +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

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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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -22 539 £550 +4.76% 100
South East -7 246 £510 -11.30% 104
North of England -10 222 £483 +2.77% 51
North West +5 131 £496 +6.71% 30
South West -17 107 £453 -22.52% 32
Yorkshire -30 88 £460 -3.16% 10
Midlands -58 82 £463 -5.13% 33
West Midlands -57 61 £493 -1.60% 15
East of England -20 42 £507 -7.82% 26
East Midlands -24 20 £418 -12.11% 18
North East -17 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
1 157 (12.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 124 (9.80%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.32%) Confluence
4 16 (1.26%) IIS
5 13 (1.03%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.71%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) 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%) Tomcat
Applications
1 39 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.11%) 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
1 663 (52.41%) Azure
2 289 (22.85%) Entra ID
3 246 (19.45%) Microsoft 365
4 239 (18.89%) AWS
5 132 (10.43%) GCP
6 129 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (9.64%) GitHub
8 90 (7.11%) Power Platform
9 83 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
10 77 (6.09%) OneDrive
11 75 (5.93%) Azure Monitor
12 60 (4.74%) Microsoft Purview
13 59 (4.66%) PaaS
14 54 (4.27%) Azure AKS
14 54 (4.27%) IaaS
15 41 (3.24%) Azure Key Vault
16 40 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
16 40 (3.16%) Microsoft Copilot
17 37 (2.92%) Serverless
18 36 (2.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 172 (13.60%) DNS
2 139 (10.99%) Firewall
3 107 (8.46%) DHCP
4 81 (6.40%) VPN
5 59 (4.66%) Network Security
6 46 (3.64%) TCP/IP
7 41 (3.24%) WAN
8 39 (3.08%) Kerberos
8 39 (3.08%) LAN
9 32 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (2.13%) VLAN
11 21 (1.66%) SMTP
12 19 (1.50%) SAN
13 15 (1.19%) DKIM
13 15 (1.19%) DMARC
13 15 (1.19%) Skype
14 14 (1.11%) SNMP
14 14 (1.11%) SSL
15 13 (1.03%) HTTP
15 13 (1.03%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (9.17%) SQL Server
2 55 (4.35%) Power BI
3 40 (3.16%) 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 14 (1.11%) 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
11 10 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.71%) Relational Database
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 80 (6.32%) Git
2 77 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 65 (5.14%) GitLab
4 63 (4.98%) JIRA
5 20 (1.58%) MSI
6 12 (0.95%) Artifactory
7 10 (0.79%) InstallShield
8 9 (0.71%) Selenium
8 9 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.63%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.63%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.55%) AdminStudio
10 7 (0.55%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.40%) Appium
12 5 (0.40%) Postman
13 4 (0.32%) Jaeger
13 4 (0.32%) JUnit
14 3 (0.24%) Chocolatey
14 3 (0.24%) Spinnaker
General
1 368 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 177 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
3 142 (11.23%) Finance
4 117 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 83 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
6 61 (4.82%) Banking
7 47 (3.72%) Legal
8 19 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.26%) Front Office
11 13 (1.03%) Military
11 13 (1.03%) Retail
12 9 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.71%) Publishing
13 8 (0.63%) Law
14 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.40%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 169 (13.36%) Architect
2 129 (10.20%) Senior
3 100 (7.91%) Azure Engineer
3 100 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 75 (5.93%) Security Engineer
5 72 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 51 (4.03%) Developer
8 47 (3.72%) Support Engineer
9 40 (3.16%) Analyst
9 40 (3.16%) Consultant
10 37 (2.92%) CyberArk Architect
10 37 (2.92%) Lead
10 37 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (2.37%) SIEM Engineer
12 27 (2.13%) Microsoft Engineer
12 27 (2.13%) Windows Engineer
13 26 (2.06%) Administrator
13 26 (2.06%) PowerShell Engineer
14 25 (1.98%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (12.33%) REST
2 120 (9.49%) LDAP
3 77 (6.09%) Microsoft Graph
4 63 (4.98%) SOAP
5 53 (4.19%) JSON
6 52 (4.11%) .NET
7 50 (3.95%) OAuth
8 44 (3.48%) SAML
9 34 (2.69%) SailPoint
10 32 (2.53%) ARM Templates
11 27 (2.13%) OpenID
11 27 (2.13%) Web Services
12 26 (2.06%) YAML
13 24 (1.90%) .NET Framework
14 17 (1.34%) Kafka
14 17 (1.34%) Node.js
14 17 (1.34%) OAuth2
15 15 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (1.19%) React
16 14 (1.11%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.72%) Replication
2 83 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 82 (6.48%) Security Posture
4 69 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (4.98%) PKI
6 56 (4.43%) Clustering
7 50 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 46 (3.64%) Cloud Native
9 34 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.53%) Management Information System
11 27 (2.13%) 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 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.03%) BYOD
16 13 (1.03%) Operational Technology
17 11 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 524 (41.42%) Windows
2 217 (17.15%) Linux
3 216 (17.08%) Windows Server
4 58 (4.58%) Windows 10
5 39 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (2.53%) Unix
7 27 (2.13%) Mac OS
8 23 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (1.74%) AIX
10 17 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (1.26%) VMS
12 14 (1.11%) Android
12 14 (1.11%) Ubuntu
13 12 (0.95%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.79%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.47%) CentOS
17 3 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (24.03%) DevOps
2 284 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
3 272 (21.50%) CI/CD
4 214 (16.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 187 (14.78%) Agile
6 175 (13.83%) SIEM
7 151 (11.94%) Migration
8 143 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 131 (10.36%) Task Automation
10 130 (10.28%) ITIL
11 123 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
12 115 (9.09%) Analytics
13 113 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (8.77%) ITSM
15 110 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
16 108 (8.54%) Identity Access Management
17 107 (8.46%) RBAC
18 106 (8.38%) High Availability
19 105 (8.30%) Root Cause Analysis
20 104 (8.22%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 534 (42.21%) Python
2 224 (17.71%) Bash
3 176 (13.91%) SQL
4 100 (7.91%) C#
5 72 (5.69%) JavaScript
6 69 (5.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 62 (4.90%) Bicep
8 47 (3.72%) Java
9 24 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.50%) VBScript
11 17 (1.34%) Perl
12 16 (1.26%) Go
13 15 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 14 (1.11%) Search Processing Language
15 11 (0.87%) VB
16 10 (0.79%) BeanShell
16 10 (0.79%) Groovy
17 7 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 514 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 400 (31.62%) SC Cleared
3 113 (8.93%) Degree
4 107 (8.46%) DV Cleared
5 96 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 74 (5.85%) CISSP
7 68 (5.38%) Azure Certification
8 48 (3.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 42 (3.32%) CISM
10 30 (2.37%) MCSE
11 28 (2.21%) MCSA
12 23 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (1.74%) AWS Certification
14 19 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (1.50%) CEH
15 18 (1.42%) VCAP
16 15 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (1.19%) GIAC
17 12 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
18 8 (0.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (8.30%) GDPR
2 102 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 83 (6.56%) NIST
4 32 (2.53%) 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 (1.11%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.95%) MiFID
11 11 (0.87%) FINRA
11 11 (0.87%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.79%) NCSC
13 5 (0.40%) GRC
13 5 (0.40%) 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
1 422 (33.36%) Active Directory
2 142 (11.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (9.09%) Docker
4 70 (5.53%) Hyper-V
5 67 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
6 53 (4.19%) vSphere
7 44 (3.48%) VMware ESXi
8 33 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 25 (1.98%) 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 (0.40%) Squid
14 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.16%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.16%) UAG
15 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 276 (21.82%) Terraform
2 160 (12.65%) Kubernetes
3 152 (12.02%) Ansible
4 144 (11.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 94 (7.43%) SCCM
6 56 (4.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 55 (4.35%) vCenter Server
8 45 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
9 44 (3.48%) Grafana
10 39 (3.08%) Prometheus
11 22 (1.74%) vRealize
12 20 (1.58%) Nagios
12 20 (1.58%) Puppet
12 20 (1.58%) SCOM
13 18 (1.42%) Progress Chef
14 15 (1.19%) PowerCLI
15 14 (1.11%) Kibana
15 14 (1.11%) Tivoli
15 14 (1.11%) WSUS
15 14 (1.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 589 (46.56%) Microsoft
2 187 (14.78%) VMware
3 93 (7.35%) CyberArk
4 81 (6.40%) ServiceNow
5 74 (5.85%) BeyondTrust
6 65 (5.14%) Splunk
7 59 (4.66%) Citrix
8 47 (3.72%) Cisco
8 47 (3.72%) Oracle
9 43 (3.40%) Google
10 36 (2.85%) Centrify
11 33 (2.61%) SolarWinds
12 32 (2.53%) Red Hat
13 26 (2.06%) BMC
13 26 (2.06%) Databricks
14 24 (1.90%) IBM
14 24 (1.90%) Veeam
15 21 (1.66%) Okta
16 19 (1.50%) Dynatrace
17 18 (1.42%) HP