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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 58 59
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,006 1,192 1,516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.62% 3.62% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.02% 11.11% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 840 1,067
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £675
90th Percentile £660 £688 £798
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 35
10th Percentile £44.00 £23.80 £28.41
25th Percentile £45.00 £45.46 £46.09
Median hourly rate £63.50 £58.49 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -2.52% +13.27%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £69.94
90th Percentile £83.00 £74.44 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £63.93 £60.21
% change year-on-year -0.68% +6.18% +12.57%

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 9,133 10,730 13,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.84% 32.57% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 7,343 9,851
10th Percentile £350 £350 £373
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 309 415
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.40 £35.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £50.00 £48.36
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £71.39
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.34 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +11.40%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 -20 469 £509 -3.10% 180
South East -8 169 £545 -0.91% 181
Midlands +12 107 £475 -9.09% 59
North of England -31 87 £438 -12.50% 75
West Midlands +17 84 £475 -9.09% 31
East of England +43 73 £550 +57.14% 51
South West +1 71 £520 -3.26% 48
North West -9 42 £448 -3.24% 37
Yorkshire -25 39 £413 -25.00% 25
East Midlands +1 23 £458 -11.59% 27
North East 0 6 - - 14
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 123 (12.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (8.45%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.98%) Confluence
4 29 (2.88%) Skype for Business
5 22 (2.19%) Mattermost
6 15 (1.49%) IIS
7 14 (1.39%) nginx
8 10 (0.99%) Apache
9 5 (0.50%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.30%) SAS
10 3 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.099%) CMS
12 1 (0.099%) HCL Domino
12 1 (0.099%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.099%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.099%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 29 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 7 (0.70%) InfoPath
5 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.099%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.099%) Eikon
3 1 (0.099%) Endur
3 1 (0.099%) Eze OMS
3 1 (0.099%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.099%) Findur
3 1 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 457 (45.43%) Azure
2 205 (20.38%) Microsoft 365
3 202 (20.08%) AWS
4 167 (16.60%) Entra ID
5 107 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (9.84%) GCP
7 68 (6.76%) GitHub
8 64 (6.36%) Power Platform
9 51 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
9 51 (5.07%) OneDrive
10 49 (4.87%) IaaS
11 48 (4.77%) Azure Sentinel
12 41 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (3.98%) SaaS
14 39 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 38 (3.78%) PaaS
16 37 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (3.58%) Power Automate
18 35 (3.48%) Amazon S3
19 34 (3.38%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 178 (17.69%) Firewall
2 154 (15.31%) DNS
3 58 (5.77%) Network Security
4 57 (5.67%) SMTP
5 56 (5.57%) DHCP
6 53 (5.27%) VPN
7 46 (4.57%) HTTP
8 41 (4.08%) SAN
9 37 (3.68%) FTP
10 30 (2.98%) TCP/IP
11 29 (2.88%) Skype
12 26 (2.58%) SSL
13 25 (2.49%) Cisco IOS
13 25 (2.49%) SSH
14 21 (2.09%) Unified Communications
15 18 (1.79%) NAS
16 17 (1.69%) VLAN
17 12 (1.19%) IMAP
17 12 (1.19%) OpenLDAP
18 11 (1.09%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 47 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (4.27%) Power BI
4 42 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (1.19%) Big Data
10 10 (0.99%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.89%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.70%) Metadata
12 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.60%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.60%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.50%) MySQL
15 4 (0.40%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 88 (8.75%) Jenkins
2 70 (6.96%) Git
3 68 (6.76%) JIRA
4 52 (5.17%) GitLab
5 29 (2.88%) MSI
6 25 (2.49%) Vagrant
7 18 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 15 (1.49%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.89%) AdminStudio
10 9 (0.89%) Maven
10 9 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.80%) InstallShield
11 8 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.60%) Postman
13 6 (0.60%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.50%) JUnit
15 4 (0.40%) GCC
General
1 319 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.99%) Finance
3 106 (10.54%) Public Sector
4 97 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (4.47%) Banking
6 36 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.49%) Games
8 20 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.79%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.69%) Marketing
12 15 (1.49%) Electronics
13 14 (1.39%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.39%) Legal
14 11 (1.09%) Front Office
14 11 (1.09%) Law
14 11 (1.09%) Military
15 9 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (9.84%) Analyst
2 90 (8.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 83 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
4 73 (7.26%) Architect
5 68 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 64 (6.36%) Senior
7 63 (6.26%) Azure Engineer
8 59 (5.86%) Security Engineer
9 46 (4.57%) Developer
10 41 (4.08%) Consultant
10 41 (4.08%) Support Engineer
11 37 (3.68%) Windows Engineer
12 35 (3.48%) Support Analyst
13 31 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
14 30 (2.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 29 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
16 28 (2.78%) Lead
17 27 (2.68%) SOC Analyst
18 26 (2.58%) Administrator
19 25 (2.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (4.87%) .NET
2 42 (4.17%) REST
3 35 (3.48%) LDAP
4 33 (3.28%) Middleware
5 28 (2.78%) ARM Templates
6 27 (2.68%) JSON
7 26 (2.58%) YAML
8 25 (2.49%) OAuth
9 24 (2.39%) SAML
10 22 (2.19%) React
11 21 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (2.09%) SailPoint
12 20 (1.99%) OpenID
12 20 (1.99%) XML
13 18 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
14 17 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
15 14 (1.39%) HTML
16 13 (1.29%) .NET Core
17 11 (1.09%) ADO
18 10 (0.99%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.67%) PKI
2 44 (4.37%) Replication
3 42 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 36 (3.58%) Cloud Native
5 35 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 34 (3.38%) Cyber Threat
6 34 (3.38%) Data Centre
7 23 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.29%) Private Cloud
7 23 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 19 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
9 18 (1.79%) Clustering
10 17 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.80%) Cyberattack
13 8 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 437 (43.44%) Windows
2 225 (22.37%) Linux
3 158 (15.71%) Windows Server
4 80 (7.95%) Windows 10
5 50 (4.97%) Mac OS
6 41 (4.08%) Android
7 34 (3.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 31 (3.08%) VMS
8 31 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (2.39%) Amazon Linux
10 23 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 23 (2.29%) Unix
11 17 (1.69%) Apple iOS
12 16 (1.59%) Ubuntu
13 12 (1.19%) CentOS
14 10 (0.99%) Solaris
15 9 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
18 1 (0.099%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (28.13%) DevOps
2 206 (20.48%) CI/CD
3 201 (19.98%) Problem-Solving
4 175 (17.40%) Agile
5 168 (16.70%) Migration
6 166 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 129 (12.82%) SIEM
8 119 (11.83%) ITIL
9 99 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 98 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
11 93 (9.24%) Cloud Security
12 91 (9.05%) Configuration Management
13 88 (8.75%) Identity Access Management
14 84 (8.35%) Task Automation
15 82 (8.15%) Security Operations
16 77 (7.65%) Incident Response
17 75 (7.46%) Containerisation
18 70 (6.96%) Change Management
19 69 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
19 69 (6.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 406 (40.36%) Python
2 187 (18.59%) SQL
3 178 (17.69%) Bash
4 91 (9.05%) C#
5 67 (6.66%) JavaScript
6 57 (5.67%) Java
7 53 (5.27%) Bicep
8 35 (3.48%) Groovy
9 32 (3.18%) Kusto Query Language
10 29 (2.88%) VBScript
11 21 (2.09%) Perl
12 16 (1.59%) Go
13 15 (1.49%) C++
14 13 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 13 (1.29%) TypeScript
15 11 (1.09%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.89%) PHP
16 9 (0.89%) VB
17 8 (0.80%) C
18 5 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 319 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 203 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 107 (10.64%) DV Cleared
4 98 (9.74%) Degree
5 61 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 55 (5.47%) Azure Certification
7 49 (4.87%) CISSP
8 31 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
9 26 (2.58%) AWS Certification
10 24 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (2.19%) CEH
12 21 (2.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 20 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
14 19 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
14 19 (1.89%) GCIH
15 14 (1.39%) GIAC
16 13 (1.29%) GCIA
17 12 (1.19%) GCFA
18 11 (1.09%) CCNA
19 10 (0.99%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (6.86%) GDPR
3 52 (5.17%) NIST
4 35 (3.48%) HIPAA
5 18 (1.79%) QA
6 16 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.39%) SLA
8 10 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.99%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.80%) NCSC
10 5 (0.50%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.30%) ITGC
12 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.099%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.099%) GRC
13 1 (0.099%) SOC 1
13 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 361 (35.88%) Active Directory
2 124 (12.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (11.73%) Docker
4 40 (3.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 34 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (2.68%) Hyper-V
6 27 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
7 25 (2.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 25 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (2.39%) Microsoft App-V
9 22 (2.19%) DFS Replication
10 17 (1.69%) vSphere
11 15 (1.49%) Squid
12 14 (1.39%) VMware NSX
13 12 (1.19%) BitLocker
13 12 (1.19%) Dovecot
13 12 (1.19%) Postfix
14 10 (0.99%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.70%) Firmware
16 5 (0.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 209 (20.78%) Terraform
2 153 (15.21%) SCCM
3 149 (14.81%) Ansible
4 121 (12.03%) Kubernetes
5 112 (11.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 53 (5.27%) Grafana
7 43 (4.27%) Prometheus
8 38 (3.78%) SCOM
9 34 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
10 31 (3.08%) WSUS
11 27 (2.68%) Puppet
11 27 (2.68%) vRealize
12 24 (2.39%) Nessus
12 24 (2.39%) vCenter Server
13 21 (2.09%) HP SiteScope
14 16 (1.59%) Kibana
15 13 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 13 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
15 13 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
15 13 (1.29%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 484 (48.11%) Microsoft
2 171 (17.00%) VMware
3 135 (13.42%) Splunk
4 75 (7.46%) Cisco
5 73 (7.26%) ServiceNow
6 51 (5.07%) Citrix
7 49 (4.87%) Google
8 41 (4.08%) CyberArk
8 41 (4.08%) Red Hat
9 39 (3.88%) Oracle
10 31 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
10 31 (3.08%) NetApp
11 25 (2.49%) Meraki
12 24 (2.39%) SAP
13 23 (2.29%) Remedy
14 20 (1.99%) Okta
15 16 (1.59%) Databricks
16 15 (1.49%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.49%) Solace
16 15 (1.49%) Veeam