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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 59 53
Rank change year-on-year -26 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,275 997 1,341
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 3.91% 3.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.90% 11.58% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 656 962
10th Percentile £326 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 8 29
10th Percentile £19.08 £25.95 £33.23
25th Percentile £27.97 £41.56 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £64.25 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% +46.56% -26.93%
75th Percentile £67.84 £112.22 £68.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £63.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -17.32% +44.84% -27.78%

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 11,697 8,610 11,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.73% 33.76% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,613 5,945 8,152
10th Percentile £360 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £543
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.15% -1.36%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 211 484
10th Percentile £35.25 £28.18 £35.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.13 £50.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.02% +3.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.80 £82.96 £75.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +1.46%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -20 542 £550 +5.77% 89
North of England +12 270 £460 +1.10% 61
South East -14 260 £525 -8.70% 107
North West +19 152 £452 +0.89% 36
Yorkshire -4 117 £500 +2.56% 16
South West -10 94 £441 -23.26% 28
Midlands -75 63 £500 +8.70% 26
West Midlands -76 45 £500 +8.70% 15
East of England -50 35 £507 -7.82% 24
East Midlands -16 17 £469 -6.25% 11
North East -32 3 £238 -32.14% 12
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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 (11.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 136 (10.67%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.14%) Confluence
4 20 (1.57%) IIS
5 14 (1.10%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.24%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.078%) CMS
11 1 (0.078%) MTS
11 1 (0.078%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 31 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (2.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.24%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 685 (53.73%) Azure
2 321 (25.18%) Entra ID
3 261 (20.47%) AWS
4 234 (18.35%) Microsoft 365
5 142 (11.14%) GitHub
6 139 (10.90%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (10.12%) GCP
8 115 (9.02%) Power Platform
9 99 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
10 88 (6.90%) OneDrive
11 83 (6.51%) Azure Monitor
12 60 (4.71%) Microsoft Purview
13 57 (4.47%) PaaS
14 56 (4.39%) Azure AKS
15 53 (4.16%) Microsoft Copilot
16 51 (4.00%) SaaS
17 44 (3.45%) IaaS
18 39 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
18 39 (3.06%) Power Automate
19 36 (2.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 171 (13.41%) DNS
2 138 (10.82%) Firewall
3 98 (7.69%) DHCP
4 76 (5.96%) VPN
5 49 (3.84%) Network Security
5 49 (3.84%) WAN
6 45 (3.53%) TCP/IP
7 39 (3.06%) Kerberos
8 36 (2.82%) LAN
9 27 (2.12%) SAN
10 26 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.73%) VLAN
12 20 (1.57%) SSL
13 17 (1.33%) NAS
13 17 (1.33%) SNMP
14 15 (1.18%) Skype
14 15 (1.18%) SMTP
15 14 (1.10%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.02%) Internet
16 13 (1.02%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (13.02%) SQL Server
2 73 (5.73%) Power BI
3 42 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.25%) MySQL
8 15 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 13 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (0.86%) Metadata
11 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (0.78%) NoSQL
13 9 (0.71%) Db2
14 8 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.63%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.55%) Big Data
15 7 (0.55%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 97 (7.61%) Jenkins
2 83 (6.51%) Git
3 58 (4.55%) JIRA
4 50 (3.92%) GitLab
5 22 (1.73%) MSI
6 10 (0.78%) InstallShield
6 10 (0.78%) Postman
7 9 (0.71%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.71%) Selenium
7 9 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.47%) JMeter
9 6 (0.47%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.39%) Appium
10 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.39%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.31%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.24%) MSBuild
General
1 298 (23.37%) Social Skills
2 199 (15.61%) Finance
3 153 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 76 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
6 73 (5.73%) Banking
7 40 (3.14%) Legal
8 24 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 23 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.49%) Front Office
11 13 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 12 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.78%) Law
13 10 (0.78%) Military
13 10 (0.78%) Retail
14 6 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.39%) Back Office
15 5 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.31%) Marketing
16 4 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 130 (10.20%) Senior
2 111 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 110 (8.63%) Architect
4 107 (8.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 102 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
6 78 (6.12%) Security Engineer
7 67 (5.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 67 (5.25%) Support Engineer
8 53 (4.16%) Developer
9 47 (3.69%) Analyst
10 44 (3.45%) Consultant
11 33 (2.59%) Lead
12 32 (2.51%) Platform Engineer
13 31 (2.43%) Administrator
14 29 (2.27%) IT Engineer
14 29 (2.27%) PowerShell Engineer
15 28 (2.20%) Desktop Engineer
15 28 (2.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 27 (2.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 25 (1.96%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (8.86%) REST
2 88 (6.90%) LDAP
3 87 (6.82%) Microsoft Graph
4 58 (4.55%) .NET
4 58 (4.55%) OAuth
5 49 (3.84%) JSON
6 47 (3.69%) SAML
7 40 (3.14%) SailPoint
8 36 (2.82%) ARM Templates
9 35 (2.75%) YAML
10 32 (2.51%) OpenID
11 30 (2.35%) Web Services
12 28 (2.20%) OAuth2
13 27 (2.12%) SOAP
14 23 (1.80%) .NET Framework
15 22 (1.73%) Kafka
16 16 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (1.18%) XML
18 14 (1.10%) React
19 11 (0.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 103 (8.08%) Onboarding
2 80 (6.27%) Replication
3 78 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 68 (5.33%) Security Posture
5 55 (4.31%) PKI
6 54 (4.24%) Clustering
7 50 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 49 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (3.22%) Management Information System
10 38 (2.98%) Data Centre
11 29 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.65%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.57%) Product Ownership
15 19 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (1.33%) Data Structures
17 15 (1.18%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 560 (43.92%) Windows
2 261 (20.47%) Linux
3 227 (17.80%) Windows Server
4 61 (4.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (4.39%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.61%) Unix
7 26 (2.04%) AIX
7 26 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (1.65%) Ubuntu
9 20 (1.57%) Mac OS
10 17 (1.33%) VMS
10 17 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (1.25%) Apple iOS
12 13 (1.02%) Windows 7
12 13 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (0.94%) Android
14 10 (0.78%) CentOS
15 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (26.35%) DevOps
2 314 (24.63%) CI/CD
3 259 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 166 (13.02%) Agile
5 166 (13.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 165 (12.94%) Migration
7 150 (11.76%) ITIL
8 145 (11.37%) Runbook
9 133 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 129 (10.12%) SIEM
11 124 (9.73%) Identity Access Management
12 120 (9.41%) High Availability
13 118 (9.25%) Disaster Recovery
13 118 (9.25%) ITSM
13 118 (9.25%) Observability
14 113 (8.86%) Analytics
15 111 (8.71%) Task Automation
16 110 (8.63%) RBAC
17 109 (8.55%) AI
Programming Languages
1 564 (44.24%) Python
2 263 (20.63%) Bash
3 225 (17.65%) SQL
4 92 (7.22%) C#
5 77 (6.04%) Bicep
6 57 (4.47%) JavaScript
7 47 (3.69%) Java
8 42 (3.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 28 (2.20%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.96%) VBScript
11 19 (1.49%) Perl
11 19 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 18 (1.41%) Search Processing Language
13 15 (1.18%) Groovy
14 13 (1.02%) VB
15 12 (0.94%) C++
16 11 (0.86%) BeanShell
16 11 (0.86%) Go
16 11 (0.86%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 450 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 335 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 129 (10.12%) Degree
4 108 (8.47%) DV Cleared
5 92 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.35%) Azure Certification
7 77 (6.04%) CISSP
8 43 (3.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 37 (2.90%) AWS Certification
10 33 (2.59%) CISM
11 29 (2.27%) MCSE
12 25 (1.96%) MCSA
13 24 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
16 15 (1.18%) VCAP
17 12 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.71%) GIAC
18 9 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (8.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (7.06%) NIST
3 72 (5.65%) GDPR
4 28 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.12%) QA
6 24 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (1.49%) SLA
8 15 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (1.18%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.63%) FINRA
11 8 (0.63%) MiFID
11 8 (0.63%) NCSC
12 5 (0.39%) GRC
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 410 (32.16%) Active Directory
2 139 (10.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (9.02%) Docker
4 82 (6.43%) Virtual Machines
5 60 (4.71%) Hyper-V
6 56 (4.39%) VMware ESXi
7 54 (4.24%) vSphere
8 42 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (2.35%) BitLocker
10 24 (1.88%) VMware NSX
11 21 (1.65%) Microsoft App-V
12 20 (1.57%) Firmware
13 17 (1.33%) KVM
14 12 (0.94%) vCloud
15 5 (0.39%) Squid
15 5 (0.39%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.24%) Postfix
17 3 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 314 (24.63%) Terraform
2 181 (14.20%) Ansible
3 166 (13.02%) Kubernetes
4 154 (12.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 84 (6.59%) SCCM
6 62 (4.86%) vCenter Server
7 53 (4.16%) Grafana
8 48 (3.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 43 (3.37%) Prometheus
10 42 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
11 31 (2.43%) Progress Chef
12 29 (2.27%) Puppet
13 26 (2.04%) SCOM
14 20 (1.57%) Nagios
14 20 (1.57%) vRealize
15 19 (1.49%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.41%) Tivoli
17 17 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
18 16 (1.25%) Netcool
18 16 (1.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 606 (47.53%) Microsoft
2 181 (14.20%) VMware
3 107 (8.39%) ServiceNow
4 74 (5.80%) CyberArk
5 73 (5.73%) Google
6 71 (5.57%) Splunk
7 64 (5.02%) Oracle
8 56 (4.39%) Cisco
9 52 (4.08%) BeyondTrust
10 51 (4.00%) Citrix
11 44 (3.45%) Red Hat
12 36 (2.82%) SolarWinds
13 35 (2.75%) BMC
14 31 (2.43%) Remedy
15 30 (2.35%) IBM
16 28 (2.20%) Okta
17 26 (2.04%) Databricks
17 26 (2.04%) HP
18 21 (1.65%) Dynatrace
19 20 (1.57%) Bloomberg