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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 59 55
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,282 938 1,319
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.05% 3.90% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.44% 11.48% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 641 952
10th Percentile £326 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £623 £625
90th Percentile £715 £700 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 6 24
10th Percentile £19.25 £37.38 £37.63
25th Percentile £48.64 £49.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £61.73 £73.23 £42.05
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +74.17% -29.93%
75th Percentile £74.26 £170.74 £58.49
90th Percentile £82.25 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £31.08 £42.05
% change year-on-year +78.57% -26.08% -29.93%

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 11,208 8,173 11,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.68% 34.02% 30.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,366 5,674 8,031
10th Percentile £358 £361 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -3.48%
75th Percentile £613 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 189 464
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £36.19
25th Percentile £54.66 £35.00 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.65 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.63% -0.40%

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 30 May 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 30 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 30 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 -15 549 £550 +4.76% 96
North of England +5 257 £460 -1.08% 64
South East -12 241 £525 -8.70% 88
North West +13 147 £455 -2.26% 41
Yorkshire -17 107 £485 -3.05% 13
South West -11 101 £430 -26.65% 35
Midlands -61 72 £477 +3.70% 35
West Midlands -72 54 £493 +7.07% 20
East of England -35 41 £507 -7.82% 25
East Midlands -23 17 £380 -17.39% 15
North East -20 5 £400 +14.29% 10
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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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
1 145 (11.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 131 (10.22%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.96%) Confluence
4 23 (1.79%) IIS
5 15 (1.17%) Skype for Business
6 11 (0.86%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.078%) CMS
11 1 (0.078%) MTS
Applications
1 36 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 687 (53.59%) Azure
2 301 (23.48%) Entra ID
3 273 (21.29%) AWS
4 235 (18.33%) Microsoft 365
5 146 (11.39%) GCP
6 138 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
6 138 (10.76%) GitHub
7 107 (8.35%) Power Platform
8 94 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
9 88 (6.86%) OneDrive
10 78 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
11 61 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 58 (4.52%) PaaS
13 51 (3.98%) Microsoft Copilot
14 50 (3.90%) Azure AKS
15 43 (3.35%) IaaS
16 42 (3.28%) Power Automate
17 39 (3.04%) Azure Key Vault
18 38 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
19 37 (2.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 163 (12.71%) DNS
2 130 (10.14%) Firewall
3 90 (7.02%) DHCP
4 69 (5.38%) VPN
5 61 (4.76%) Network Security
6 41 (3.20%) WAN
7 40 (3.12%) Kerberos
8 36 (2.81%) TCP/IP
9 31 (2.42%) LAN
10 24 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.72%) SAN
12 21 (1.64%) SMTP
13 19 (1.48%) SSL
14 18 (1.40%) VLAN
15 17 (1.33%) SNMP
16 15 (1.17%) HTTP
16 15 (1.17%) Skype
17 14 (1.09%) NAS
18 12 (0.94%) DKIM
18 12 (0.94%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (11.08%) SQL Server
2 67 (5.23%) Power BI
3 39 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.09%) Metadata
7 14 (1.09%) MySQL
8 11 (0.86%) Delta Lake
8 11 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.86%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.78%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (0.70%) DB2
11 8 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.62%) Spark SQL
12 7 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 88 (6.86%) Jenkins
2 79 (6.16%) Git
3 61 (4.76%) GitLab
4 60 (4.68%) JIRA
5 17 (1.33%) MSI
6 10 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.78%) InstallShield
6 10 (0.78%) Postman
7 9 (0.70%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.70%) Selenium
8 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.47%) JMeter
11 5 (0.39%) Appium
11 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.31%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.31%) JUnit
13 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 334 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 165 (12.87%) Finance
3 155 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 74 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
6 69 (5.38%) Banking
7 41 (3.20%) Legal
8 23 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 16 (1.25%) Law
11 15 (1.17%) Front Office
12 11 (0.86%) Military
13 9 (0.70%) Publishing
13 9 (0.70%) Retail
14 8 (0.62%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.47%) Marketing
17 4 (0.31%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 151 (11.78%) Architect
2 124 (9.67%) Senior
3 98 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 97 (7.57%) Azure Engineer
5 85 (6.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 84 (6.55%) Security Engineer
7 74 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 57 (4.45%) Support Engineer
9 51 (3.98%) Developer
10 38 (2.96%) Analyst
10 38 (2.96%) CyberArk Architect
11 36 (2.81%) Consultant
11 36 (2.81%) Lead
12 32 (2.50%) Desktop Engineer
12 32 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (2.18%) Automation Engineer
14 27 (2.11%) PowerShell Engineer
15 26 (2.03%) Administrator
15 26 (2.03%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 26 (2.03%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (11.23%) REST
2 119 (9.28%) LDAP
3 86 (6.71%) Microsoft Graph
4 55 (4.29%) SOAP
5 54 (4.21%) OAuth
6 53 (4.13%) .NET
7 45 (3.51%) SAML
8 40 (3.12%) JSON
8 40 (3.12%) YAML
9 37 (2.89%) SailPoint
10 35 (2.73%) ARM Templates
11 29 (2.26%) OpenID
12 26 (2.03%) Web Services
13 23 (1.79%) OAuth2
14 21 (1.64%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.40%) Kafka
15 18 (1.40%) React
16 16 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (1.17%) AngularJS
18 13 (1.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 88 (6.86%) Onboarding
2 87 (6.79%) Security Posture
3 84 (6.55%) Replication
4 74 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
5 70 (5.46%) Cloud Native
6 62 (4.84%) Clustering
7 54 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 45 (3.51%) PKI
9 44 (3.43%) Management Information System
10 38 (2.96%) Data Centre
11 24 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
12 22 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.56%) Product Ownership
14 19 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.48%) Enterprise Storage
15 18 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (1.33%) Public Cloud
17 15 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
18 11 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 552 (43.06%) Windows
2 245 (19.11%) Linux
3 224 (17.47%) Windows Server
4 59 (4.60%) Windows 10
5 55 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (3.12%) Unix
7 28 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (2.03%) AIX
9 24 (1.87%) Mac OS
10 21 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (1.48%) Ubuntu
11 19 (1.48%) VMS
12 14 (1.09%) Apple iOS
12 14 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (1.01%) Windows 7
14 11 (0.86%) Android
15 8 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.55%) CentOS
17 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
17 4 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (26.21%) DevOps
2 317 (24.73%) CI/CD
3 275 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
4 237 (18.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 172 (13.42%) SIEM
6 167 (13.03%) Agile
7 154 (12.01%) Migration
8 141 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 134 (10.45%) Task Automation
10 132 (10.30%) Disaster Recovery
11 128 (9.98%) Identity Access Management
11 128 (9.98%) ITIL
12 127 (9.91%) Runbook
13 121 (9.44%) Observability
14 119 (9.28%) Analytics
14 119 (9.28%) ITSM
15 117 (9.13%) High Availability
15 117 (9.13%) Root Cause Analysis
16 114 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 113 (8.81%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 568 (44.31%) Python
2 257 (20.05%) Bash
3 203 (15.83%) SQL
4 95 (7.41%) C#
5 75 (5.85%) Bicep
6 66 (5.15%) JavaScript
7 56 (4.37%) Kusto Query Language
8 55 (4.29%) Java
9 26 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.64%) VBScript
11 19 (1.48%) TypeScript
12 18 (1.40%) Search Processing Language
13 17 (1.33%) Go
14 15 (1.17%) Perl
15 13 (1.01%) Groovy
16 12 (0.94%) VB
17 10 (0.78%) BeanShell
17 10 (0.78%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.62%) C++
19 7 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 494 (38.53%) Security Cleared
2 371 (28.94%) SC Cleared
3 118 (9.20%) Degree
4 111 (8.66%) DV Cleared
5 89 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.32%) Azure Certification
7 78 (6.08%) CISSP
8 43 (3.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 35 (2.73%) CISM
10 30 (2.34%) AWS Certification
10 30 (2.34%) MCSE
11 29 (2.26%) MCSA
12 20 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (1.56%) VCAP
13 18 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (1.09%) CEH
16 12 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
16 12 (0.94%) GIAC
17 8 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 89 (6.94%) GDPR
3 80 (6.24%) NIST
4 32 (2.50%) QA
5 25 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 21 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.48%) SLA
8 15 (1.17%) HIPAA
9 14 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.86%) FINRA
10 11 (0.86%) MiFID
10 11 (0.86%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.62%) NCSC
11 8 (0.62%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.39%) GRC
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 429 (33.46%) Active Directory
2 144 (11.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (9.67%) Docker
4 74 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
5 70 (5.46%) Hyper-V
6 56 (4.37%) vSphere
7 53 (4.13%) VMware ESXi
8 40 (3.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 28 (2.18%) BitLocker
10 22 (1.72%) VMware NSX
11 19 (1.48%) Firmware
11 19 (1.48%) Microsoft App-V
12 18 (1.40%) KVM
13 9 (0.70%) vCloud
14 6 (0.47%) Squid
15 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.23%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.23%) Postfix
16 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
17 2 (0.16%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 309 (24.10%) Terraform
2 174 (13.57%) Ansible
3 167 (13.03%) Kubernetes
4 145 (11.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 81 (6.32%) SCCM
6 62 (4.84%) vCenter Server
7 57 (4.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 57 (4.45%) Grafana
8 48 (3.74%) Prometheus
9 42 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
10 27 (2.11%) Progress Chef
11 25 (1.95%) Puppet
12 23 (1.79%) Nagios
13 20 (1.56%) SCOM
14 18 (1.40%) Tivoli
14 18 (1.40%) vRealize
14 18 (1.40%) ZABBIX
15 17 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
16 16 (1.25%) Netcool
17 15 (1.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 592 (46.18%) Microsoft
2 187 (14.59%) VMware
3 92 (7.18%) CyberArk
4 89 (6.94%) ServiceNow
5 75 (5.85%) BeyondTrust
6 74 (5.77%) Splunk
7 62 (4.84%) Google
8 54 (4.21%) Cisco
8 54 (4.21%) Oracle
9 49 (3.82%) Citrix
10 46 (3.59%) Red Hat
11 36 (2.81%) Centrify
12 33 (2.57%) SolarWinds
13 32 (2.50%) BMC
14 29 (2.26%) IBM
15 28 (2.18%) Databricks
16 24 (1.87%) Remedy
17 23 (1.79%) Okta
18 22 (1.72%) Dynatrace
19 21 (1.64%) HP