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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 63 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,191 1,077 1,466
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.90% 3.44% 3.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.11% 10.65% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 715 1,028
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £417 £435 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £663
90th Percentile £722 £700 £743
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 40
10th Percentile £44.50 £17.97 £18.20
25th Percentile £48.50 £32.64 £30.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.62 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.81% +19.04% -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.63 £74.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £58.49 £48.40
% change year-on-year +9.53% +20.85% -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 9,831 10,108 12,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.15% 32.33% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,546 6,568 8,925
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 261 419
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £64.57 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +4.84% -0.80%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £63.07 £62.50 £60.36
% change year-on-year +0.91% +3.55% -0.24%

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 22 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

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 22 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 22 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 -12 516 £525 -4.55% 285
South East +1 206 £500 -12.66% 179
South West +22 144 £560 +6.67% 66
North of England -18 122 £448 -5.79% 86
Midlands -9 118 £475 -5.00% 74
West Midlands -7 92 £475 -6.86% 43
North West -17 62 £438 -7.89% 53
East of England +18 56 £525 +50.00% 45
Yorkshire -24 51 £460 -2.69% 22
East Midlands +3 26 £450 -5.26% 30
North East -2 13 £550 +20.35% 11
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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
1 185 (15.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 115 (9.66%) SharePoint
3 65 (5.46%) Confluence
4 38 (3.19%) Skype for Business
5 18 (1.51%) Apache
6 13 (1.09%) Mattermost
6 13 (1.09%) nginx
7 8 (0.67%) IIS
8 4 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.25%) SAS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.17%) WordPress
11 1 (0.084%) CMS
11 1 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.084%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.084%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.084%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.084%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.084%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 40 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.084%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.084%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.084%) Actimize
2 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.084%) Eikon
2 1 (0.084%) Endur
2 1 (0.084%) Eze OMS
2 1 (0.084%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.084%) Findur
2 1 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.084%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 523 (43.91%) Azure
2 264 (22.17%) Microsoft 365
3 231 (19.40%) Entra ID
4 210 (17.63%) AWS
5 113 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (8.98%) GCP
7 100 (8.40%) GitHub
8 70 (5.88%) Power Platform
9 62 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
10 60 (5.04%) IaaS
11 51 (4.28%) OneDrive
12 50 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
12 50 (4.20%) SaaS
13 47 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
14 46 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
15 43 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 43 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
16 40 (3.36%) Amazon S3
17 38 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 38 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 202 (16.96%) Firewall
2 190 (15.95%) DNS
3 97 (8.14%) DHCP
4 65 (5.46%) Network Security
5 62 (5.21%) TCP/IP
6 58 (4.87%) VPN
7 44 (3.69%) SMTP
8 43 (3.61%) HTTP
9 41 (3.44%) Skype
10 31 (2.60%) FTP
11 30 (2.52%) VLAN
12 29 (2.43%) SSH
13 25 (2.10%) Cisco IOS
14 22 (1.85%) SAN
15 20 (1.68%) LAN
16 19 (1.60%) WAN
16 19 (1.60%) Wireshark
17 17 (1.43%) SSL
18 13 (1.09%) NAS
18 13 (1.09%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.20%) SQL Server
2 46 (3.86%) Power BI
3 45 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.34%) Metadata
6 15 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (0.92%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.76%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.76%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.59%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.59%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.50%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.34%) MySQL
14 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 109 (9.15%) Jenkins
2 100 (8.40%) JIRA
3 81 (6.80%) Git
4 55 (4.62%) GitLab
5 24 (2.02%) MSI
5 24 (2.02%) Vagrant
6 22 (1.85%) Artifactory
7 16 (1.34%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 12 (1.01%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.92%) InstallShield
11 9 (0.76%) AdminStudio
11 9 (0.76%) Metasploit
12 8 (0.67%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.67%) Maven
13 7 (0.59%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.50%) Postman
15 5 (0.42%) GCC
15 5 (0.42%) Gradle
15 5 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 410 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 187 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
3 184 (15.45%) Finance
4 121 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 56 (4.70%) Banking
7 39 (3.27%) Legal
8 24 (2.02%) Games
9 22 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.68%) Front Office
10 20 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 19 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.43%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.43%) Marketing
13 16 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.26%) Electronics
15 11 (0.92%) Law
15 11 (0.92%) Retail
16 10 (0.84%) Military
17 9 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (9.32%) Platform Engineer
2 100 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 96 (8.06%) Analyst
4 95 (7.98%) Architect
5 94 (7.89%) Senior
6 69 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (5.71%) Security Engineer
8 66 (5.54%) Consultant
8 66 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 53 (4.45%) Developer
10 48 (4.03%) Support Engineer
11 39 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 36 (3.02%) Administrator
13 32 (2.69%) Lead
13 32 (2.69%) Windows Engineer
14 31 (2.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 29 (2.43%) AWS Engineer
16 28 (2.35%) Microsoft Engineer
16 28 (2.35%) SOC Analyst
17 26 (2.18%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (9.91%) REST
2 60 (5.04%) JSON
3 58 (4.87%) LDAP
4 53 (4.45%) OAuth
5 49 (4.11%) SAML
6 42 (3.53%) OpenID
7 36 (3.02%) ARM Templates
8 35 (2.94%) .NET
9 33 (2.77%) Middleware
10 30 (2.52%) SailPoint
11 29 (2.43%) Microsoft Graph
12 27 (2.27%) OAuth2
13 26 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
13 26 (2.18%) YAML
14 22 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (1.85%) XML
15 15 (1.26%) SOAP
16 14 (1.18%) HTML
16 14 (1.18%) React
17 12 (1.01%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 73 (6.13%) PKI
2 60 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.70%) Replication
4 41 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.02%) Security Posture
6 34 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 32 (2.69%) Cloud Native
7 32 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 32 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.43%) Cyber Threat
9 26 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (2.18%) Private Cloud
10 23 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
13 19 (1.60%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
16 12 (1.01%) Fixed Income
16 12 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 487 (40.89%) Windows
2 267 (22.42%) Linux
3 173 (14.53%) Windows Server
4 76 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.45%) Mac OS
6 50 (4.20%) Android
7 38 (3.19%) VMS
8 37 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (2.02%) Amazon Linux
10 23 (1.93%) Unix
11 18 (1.51%) Ubuntu
12 16 (1.34%) Apple iOS
13 15 (1.26%) CentOS
14 14 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (1.01%) Solaris
16 10 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
17 8 (0.67%) Kali Linux
17 8 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
18 5 (0.42%) Windows 7
19 3 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (27.46%) DevOps
2 261 (21.91%) CI/CD
3 255 (21.41%) Problem-Solving
4 211 (17.72%) Agile
5 201 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 174 (14.61%) Migration
7 148 (12.43%) Cybersecurity
8 147 (12.34%) ITIL
9 140 (11.75%) SIEM
10 116 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 113 (9.49%) Identity Access Management
12 107 (8.98%) Configuration Management
13 104 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 102 (8.56%) Task Automation
15 101 (8.48%) Incident Response
15 101 (8.48%) Platform Engineering
16 100 (8.40%) RBAC
17 91 (7.64%) Containerisation
18 90 (7.56%) Change Management
19 88 (7.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 537 (45.09%) Python
2 232 (19.48%) Bash
3 162 (13.60%) SQL
4 72 (6.05%) C#
5 70 (5.88%) Java
5 70 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 48 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 43 (3.61%) Bicep
8 40 (3.36%) Perl
9 34 (2.85%) Groovy
10 29 (2.43%) VBScript
11 15 (1.26%) Go
12 14 (1.18%) BeanShell
12 14 (1.18%) C++
13 12 (1.01%) PHP
14 10 (0.84%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.84%) VB
15 9 (0.76%) C
15 9 (0.76%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 429 (36.02%) Security Cleared
2 333 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 116 (9.74%) Degree
4 109 (9.15%) DV Cleared
5 90 (7.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 79 (6.63%) CISSP
7 58 (4.87%) Azure Certification
8 36 (3.02%) CISM
9 34 (2.85%) AWS Certification
10 32 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (2.52%) CEH
11 30 (2.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 28 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
13 25 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
14 24 (2.02%) CCNA
15 22 (1.85%) CCNP
16 19 (1.60%) GCIH
17 17 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
17 17 (1.43%) GIAC
18 16 (1.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (9.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 105 (8.82%) GDPR
3 84 (7.05%) NIST
4 27 (2.27%) HIPAA
5 18 (1.51%) PCI DSS
5 18 (1.51%) QA
6 17 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.26%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.18%) SLA
9 10 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.76%) NCSC
11 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.42%) PSD2
13 4 (0.34%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.34%) MiFID
14 3 (0.25%) EMIR
14 3 (0.25%) ITGC
15 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 1 (0.084%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 436 (36.61%) Active Directory
2 134 (11.25%) Docker
3 129 (10.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (3.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 31 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.85%) DFS Replication
7 21 (1.76%) Hyper-V
8 16 (1.34%) Squid
9 14 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
10 13 (1.09%) vSphere
11 12 (1.01%) Dovecot
11 12 (1.01%) Postfix
12 11 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (0.76%) Firmware
13 9 (0.76%) VMware NSX
14 8 (0.67%) NFS
15 7 (0.59%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 240 (20.15%) Terraform
2 155 (13.01%) SCCM
3 137 (11.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 135 (11.34%) Ansible
5 109 (9.15%) Kubernetes
6 56 (4.70%) Single Sign-On
7 53 (4.45%) Grafana
8 51 (4.28%) Prometheus
9 47 (3.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 36 (3.02%) SCOM
11 28 (2.35%) vRealize
12 22 (1.85%) Kibana
13 21 (1.76%) HP SiteScope
14 19 (1.60%) Nessus
14 19 (1.60%) Proxmox
15 18 (1.51%) ITRS Geneos
15 18 (1.51%) vCenter Server
16 17 (1.43%) WSUS
17 15 (1.26%) NetBackup
18 13 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 533 (44.75%) Microsoft
2 183 (15.37%) VMware
3 108 (9.07%) Splunk
4 87 (7.30%) Cisco
5 86 (7.22%) ServiceNow
6 70 (5.88%) CyberArk
7 63 (5.29%) Citrix
8 48 (4.03%) Red Hat
9 40 (3.36%) Google
9 40 (3.36%) Oracle
10 35 (2.94%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (2.85%) CrowdStrike
12 29 (2.43%) Atlassian
13 28 (2.35%) Meraki
14 26 (2.18%) Veeam
15 25 (2.10%) SAP
16 22 (1.85%) Remedy
16 22 (1.85%) SolarWinds
17 21 (1.76%) Okta
18 20 (1.68%) Solace