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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 67 53
Rank change year-on-year -16 -14 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,432 1,017 1,254
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 3.68% 3.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.95% 11.26% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 645 902
10th Percentile £325 £322 £351
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £619
90th Percentile £706 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 15 16
10th Percentile £22.25 £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% +32.09%
75th Percentile £75.00 £78.98 £74.11
90th Percentile £91.00 £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 11,988 9,028 10,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.21% 32.70% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,779 6,177 7,549
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 £651
90th Percentile £738 £753 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £533
% change year-on-year +1.98% -5.25% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 249 347
10th Percentile £31.83 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £40.00 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +8.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £83.27 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -8 631 £540 +4.35% 130
South East -7 312 £525 -4.55% 119
North of England +19 257 £483 +7.99% 67
North West +31 165 £477 +3.14% 44
South West -4 112 £490 -14.78% 40
Yorkshire -19 81 £500 +19.40% 14
Midlands -84 59 £500 +5.26% 39
East of England -41 50 £507 -7.82% 34
West Midlands -83 39 £500 +5.26% 23
East Midlands -15 19 £475 +5.56% 16
North East - 12 £500 - 10
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 (8.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 117 (8.17%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.49%) 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 30 (2.09%) 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 (3.28%) 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
1 793 (55.38%) Azure
2 352 (24.58%) Entra ID
3 340 (23.74%) AWS
4 225 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
5 206 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (12.57%) GitHub
7 141 (9.85%) GCP
8 127 (8.87%) Power Platform
9 122 (8.52%) Azure Monitor
10 119 (8.31%) GitHub Actions
11 79 (5.52%) Azure AKS
12 66 (4.61%) OneDrive
13 64 (4.47%) SaaS
14 61 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 54 (3.77%) PaaS
16 50 (3.49%) IaaS
16 50 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
17 49 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
18 46 (3.21%) OpenShift
19 45 (3.14%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 221 (15.43%) DNS
2 203 (14.18%) Firewall
3 128 (8.94%) DHCP
4 97 (6.77%) VPN
5 95 (6.63%) TCP/IP
6 72 (5.03%) Network Security
7 42 (2.93%) WAN
8 33 (2.30%) SAN
8 33 (2.30%) VLAN
9 29 (2.03%) VSAN
10 24 (1.68%) SSL
11 22 (1.54%) Skype
12 21 (1.47%) LAN
13 18 (1.26%) NAS
13 18 (1.26%) SD-WAN
13 18 (1.26%) SSH
13 18 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (1.19%) SNMP
15 15 (1.05%) SMTP
16 13 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (12.64%) SQL Server
2 86 (6.01%) Power BI
3 43 (3.00%) 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%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.26%) MySQL
8 18 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.05%) Relational Database
11 14 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (0.98%) Metadata
12 10 (0.70%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 129 (9.01%) Jenkins
2 109 (7.61%) Git
3 82 (5.73%) GitLab
4 76 (5.31%) JIRA
5 28 (1.96%) MSI
6 15 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (0.77%) Artifactory
8 11 (0.77%) Selenium
9 9 (0.63%) AdminStudio
9 9 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (0.63%) InstallShield
10 8 (0.56%) Postman
10 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.42%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.42%) JMeter
11 6 (0.42%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.35%) MSBuild
12 5 (0.35%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 342 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 248 (17.32%) Finance
3 193 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 87 (6.08%) Banking
6 82 (5.73%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.23%) Legal
8 23 (1.61%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.26%) Aerospace
9 18 (1.26%) Front Office
10 17 (1.19%) Military
11 14 (0.98%) Financial Institution
11 14 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.77%) Law
14 10 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.70%) Retail
15 8 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.42%) Local Government
16 6 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 164 (11.45%) Senior
2 158 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 150 (10.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 128 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
5 91 (6.35%) Architect
6 90 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
7 86 (6.01%) Support Engineer
8 81 (5.66%) Security Engineer
9 59 (4.12%) Lead
10 57 (3.98%) Developer
11 53 (3.70%) Analyst
11 53 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
12 51 (3.56%) Consultant
13 40 (2.79%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 36 (2.51%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.44%) Administrator
16 33 (2.30%) PowerShell Engineer
17 32 (2.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 31 (2.16%) DBA
19 30 (2.09%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (9.15%) REST
2 76 (5.31%) .NET
3 69 (4.82%) ARM Templates
4 62 (4.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 58 (4.05%) OAuth
6 55 (3.84%) LDAP
7 49 (3.42%) JSON
8 47 (3.28%) YAML
9 46 (3.21%) SailPoint
9 46 (3.21%) SAML
10 42 (2.93%) OpenID
11 33 (2.30%) OAuth2
11 33 (2.30%) Web Services
12 28 (1.96%) Kafka
13 26 (1.82%) .NET Framework
13 26 (1.82%) SOAP
14 21 (1.47%) React
15 16 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (0.91%) JDBC
16 13 (0.91%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.94%) Onboarding
2 99 (6.91%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (5.17%) PKI
5 73 (5.10%) Security Posture
6 63 (4.40%) Clustering
6 63 (4.40%) Replication
7 61 (4.26%) Management Information System
8 54 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (3.70%) Data Centre
10 28 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
10 28 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.75%) CMDB
12 25 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.68%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
15 20 (1.40%) Product Ownership
16 17 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 695 (48.53%) Windows
2 368 (25.70%) Linux
3 289 (20.18%) Windows Server
4 88 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 79 (5.52%) Windows 10
6 42 (2.93%) Unix
7 32 (2.23%) Ubuntu
8 28 (1.96%) Mac OS
9 25 (1.75%) CentOS
10 24 (1.68%) Apple iOS
11 22 (1.54%) Windows 7
11 22 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 20 (1.40%) AIX
13 18 (1.26%) VMS
13 18 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
14 17 (1.19%) Android
15 10 (0.70%) Rocky
16 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (30.31%) DevOps
2 416 (29.05%) CI/CD
3 377 (26.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 288 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
5 241 (16.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 195 (13.62%) Agile
7 189 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 189 (13.20%) ITIL
8 182 (12.71%) Runbook
9 178 (12.43%) Migration
10 171 (11.94%) ITSM
11 155 (10.82%) Analytics
12 147 (10.27%) Identity Access Management
13 146 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
14 144 (10.06%) Cloud Security
15 143 (9.99%) Observability
16 141 (9.85%) Disaster Recovery
16 141 (9.85%) Platform Engineering
17 140 (9.78%) AI
17 140 (9.78%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 678 (47.35%) Python
2 368 (25.70%) Bash
3 246 (17.18%) SQL
4 132 (9.22%) Bicep
5 97 (6.77%) C#
6 83 (5.80%) Java
7 70 (4.89%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.09%) VBScript
9 27 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
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 16 (1.12%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.98%) Go
18 13 (0.91%) BeanShell
19 12 (0.84%) C++
20 9 (0.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 520 (36.31%) Security Cleared
2 361 (25.21%) SC Cleared
3 169 (11.80%) DV Cleared
4 161 (11.24%) Degree
5 113 (7.89%) Azure Certification
6 98 (6.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 89 (6.22%) CISSP
8 65 (4.54%) AWS Certification
9 40 (2.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 32 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (2.23%) CISM
11 31 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.75%) MCSE
13 22 (1.54%) VCAP
14 21 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.26%) MCSA
16 17 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 16 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 12 (0.84%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (6.91%) NIST
3 50 (3.49%) GDPR
4 42 (2.93%) QA
5 35 (2.44%) SLA
6 33 (2.30%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.12%) NCSC
9 14 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.98%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.42%) GxP
13 5 (0.35%) GRC
14 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 3 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
15 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 454 (31.70%) Active Directory
2 187 (13.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 167 (11.66%) Docker
4 81 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
5 73 (5.10%) Hyper-V
6 67 (4.68%) vSphere
7 66 (4.61%) VMware ESXi
8 49 (3.42%) VMware NSX
9 48 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 32 (2.23%) BitLocker
11 20 (1.40%) vCloud
12 19 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
13 17 (1.19%) Firmware
14 9 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.35%) Squid
15 5 (0.35%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.21%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.21%) NFS
16 3 (0.21%) Postfix
16 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 453 (31.63%) Terraform
2 265 (18.51%) Ansible
3 253 (17.67%) Kubernetes
4 180 (12.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 118 (8.24%) SCCM
6 76 (5.31%) Grafana
7 64 (4.47%) vCenter Server
8 63 (4.40%) Prometheus
9 53 (3.70%) Progress Chef
10 51 (3.56%) SCOM
11 44 (3.07%) Puppet
12 30 (2.09%) 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
17 17 (1.19%) WMI
18 16 (1.12%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 667 (46.58%) Microsoft
2 256 (17.88%) VMware
3 144 (10.06%) ServiceNow
4 96 (6.70%) CyberArk
5 93 (6.49%) Splunk
6 88 (6.15%) Google
7 77 (5.38%) Oracle
8 59 (4.12%) Cisco
9 55 (3.84%) Red Hat
10 54 (3.77%) BMC
11 53 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
12 51 (3.56%) Remedy
13 47 (3.28%) Citrix
14 43 (3.00%) Databricks
15 35 (2.44%) SolarWinds
16 27 (1.89%) HP
16 27 (1.89%) IBM
16 27 (1.89%) NetApp
17 24 (1.68%) Dynatrace
18 23 (1.61%) CrowdStrike