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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 57 56
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,244 919 1,261
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 3.86% 3.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.31% 11.39% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 639 916
10th Percentile £326 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £623 £625
90th Percentile £723 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 5 21
10th Percentile £19.25 £35.70 £37.63
25th Percentile £48.64 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £61.73 £82.96 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% +106.11% -32.92%
75th Percentile £74.26 £200.00 £46.39
90th Percentile £82.25 - £74.44
UK median hourly rate £57.11 £30.04 £40.25
% change year-on-year +90.12% -25.37% -32.92%

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 10,997 8,067 10,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.48% 33.86% 30.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,234 5,613 7,954
10th Percentile £356 £360 £350
25th Percentile £416 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £721 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £530
% change year-on-year -3.45% -2.29% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 189 449
10th Percentile £39.25 £28.14 £37.54
25th Percentile £54.78 £36.25 £49.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.34
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -21 526 £550 +4.76% 99
South East -10 245 £525 -8.70% 96
North of England 0 239 £472 +1.51% 85
North West +15 137 £472 +1.51% 55
Yorkshire -21 99 £482 -3.60% 18
South West -12 98 £434 -26.17% 39
Midlands -67 70 £469 +1.90% 40
West Midlands -66 52 £485 +5.43% 18
East of England -35 40 £507 -7.82% 28
East Midlands -28 17 £380 -17.39% 22
North East -22 5 £400 +14.29% 12
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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
1 143 (11.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 128 (10.29%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.81%) Confluence
4 21 (1.69%) IIS
5 13 (1.05%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.72%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.24%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.24%) nginx
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.080%) MTS
10 1 (0.080%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.080%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.64%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 660 (53.05%) Azure
2 292 (23.47%) Entra ID
3 253 (20.34%) AWS
4 234 (18.81%) Microsoft 365
5 135 (10.85%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (10.61%) GCP
7 129 (10.37%) GitHub
8 102 (8.20%) Power Platform
9 86 (6.91%) OneDrive
10 85 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
11 75 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
12 58 (4.66%) Microsoft Purview
13 57 (4.58%) PaaS
14 51 (4.10%) Azure AKS
15 50 (4.02%) Microsoft Copilot
16 41 (3.30%) IaaS
17 38 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
17 38 (3.05%) Power Automate
18 36 (2.89%) Azure Sentinel
18 36 (2.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 154 (12.38%) DNS
2 123 (9.89%) Firewall
3 88 (7.07%) DHCP
4 68 (5.47%) VPN
5 59 (4.74%) Network Security
6 40 (3.22%) Kerberos
7 37 (2.97%) WAN
8 36 (2.89%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.41%) LAN
10 24 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (1.69%) SMTP
12 19 (1.53%) SAN
12 19 (1.53%) VLAN
13 17 (1.37%) SNMP
14 16 (1.29%) SSL
15 15 (1.21%) HTTP
16 13 (1.05%) Skype
17 12 (0.96%) NAS
17 12 (0.96%) Unified Communications
18 11 (0.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 63 (5.06%) Power BI
3 41 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (1.13%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.05%) Metadata
8 12 (0.96%) MySQL
8 12 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.88%) Delta Lake
9 11 (0.88%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.80%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.72%) DB2
11 9 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.64%) Spark SQL
12 8 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 83 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 78 (6.27%) Git
3 62 (4.98%) GitLab
4 55 (4.42%) JIRA
5 19 (1.53%) MSI
6 11 (0.88%) InstallShield
7 9 (0.72%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.72%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.72%) Postman
7 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
7 9 (0.72%) Selenium
8 7 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.48%) JMeter
10 5 (0.40%) Appium
11 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.32%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.32%) JUnit
11 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 327 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 155 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
3 147 (11.82%) Finance
4 109 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 72 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
6 62 (4.98%) Banking
7 43 (3.46%) Legal
8 21 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.21%) Front Office
11 12 (0.96%) Law
12 11 (0.88%) Military
13 10 (0.80%) Retail
14 9 (0.72%) Publishing
15 8 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.56%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.48%) Marketing
18 5 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
19 4 (0.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 146 (11.74%) Architect
2 116 (9.32%) Senior
3 96 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 95 (7.64%) Azure Engineer
5 77 (6.19%) Security Engineer
6 75 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 71 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 54 (4.34%) Support Engineer
9 50 (4.02%) Developer
10 41 (3.30%) Analyst
11 38 (3.05%) CyberArk Architect
12 36 (2.89%) Consultant
13 32 (2.57%) Lead
13 32 (2.57%) Platform Engineer
14 28 (2.25%) Desktop Engineer
15 27 (2.17%) PowerShell Engineer
16 26 (2.09%) Administrator
16 26 (2.09%) Automation Engineer
16 26 (2.09%) Wintel Engineer
17 25 (2.01%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (11.01%) REST
2 119 (9.57%) LDAP
3 84 (6.75%) Microsoft Graph
4 55 (4.42%) SOAP
5 51 (4.10%) OAuth
6 50 (4.02%) .NET
7 42 (3.38%) SAML
8 39 (3.14%) JSON
9 37 (2.97%) SailPoint
10 36 (2.89%) YAML
11 34 (2.73%) ARM Templates
12 26 (2.09%) OpenID
13 25 (2.01%) Web Services
14 21 (1.69%) .NET Framework
15 20 (1.61%) OAuth2
16 18 (1.45%) Kafka
17 17 (1.37%) React
18 16 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
19 15 (1.21%) AngularJS
20 13 (1.05%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.83%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.59%) Replication
3 76 (6.11%) Security Posture
4 72 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (4.74%) Clustering
6 53 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 53 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (3.62%) PKI
8 36 (2.89%) Data Centre
8 36 (2.89%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
10 21 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.53%) Product Ownership
12 18 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
14 12 (0.96%) Private Cloud
14 12 (0.96%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 531 (42.68%) Windows
2 226 (18.17%) Linux
3 218 (17.52%) Windows Server
4 58 (4.66%) Windows 10
5 40 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (3.14%) Unix
7 26 (2.09%) AIX
7 26 (2.09%) Mac OS
7 26 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (1.37%) VMS
10 14 (1.13%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.05%) Apple iOS
11 13 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.88%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.64%) Android
13 8 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.40%) CentOS
15 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (25.00%) DevOps
2 293 (23.55%) CI/CD
3 273 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
4 224 (18.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 161 (12.94%) SIEM
6 160 (12.86%) Agile
7 145 (11.66%) Migration
8 138 (11.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 132 (10.61%) Task Automation
10 123 (9.89%) Disaster Recovery
11 121 (9.73%) Identity Access Management
12 120 (9.65%) Runbook
13 119 (9.57%) ITIL
14 118 (9.49%) Analytics
15 114 (9.16%) ITSM
15 114 (9.16%) Root Cause Analysis
16 112 (9.00%) High Availability
16 112 (9.00%) Observability
17 110 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
18 105 (8.44%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 541 (43.49%) Python
2 236 (18.97%) Bash
3 194 (15.59%) SQL
4 94 (7.56%) C#
5 67 (5.39%) Bicep
6 65 (5.23%) JavaScript
7 56 (4.50%) Kusto Query Language
8 46 (3.70%) Java
9 25 (2.01%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.53%) VBScript
11 18 (1.45%) Search Processing Language
11 18 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.37%) Go
13 14 (1.13%) Perl
14 12 (0.96%) Groovy
15 10 (0.80%) VB
16 9 (0.72%) BeanShell
16 9 (0.72%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.64%) C++
18 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 494 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 369 (29.66%) SC Cleared
3 115 (9.24%) DV Cleared
4 107 (8.60%) Degree
5 86 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 70 (5.63%) Azure Certification
7 64 (5.14%) CISSP
8 42 (3.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 32 (2.57%) CISM
10 29 (2.33%) MCSE
11 28 (2.25%) MCSA
12 20 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (1.61%) VCAP
13 19 (1.53%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (1.21%) CEH
16 12 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.88%) GIAC
18 7 (0.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 88 (7.07%) GDPR
3 76 (6.11%) NIST
4 31 (2.49%) QA
5 26 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 20 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.37%) SLA
8 14 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (1.13%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.88%) FINRA
9 11 (0.88%) MiFID
10 9 (0.72%) NCSC
10 9 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.64%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.40%) GRC
13 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 422 (33.92%) Active Directory
2 141 (11.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (9.41%) Docker
4 70 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
5 68 (5.47%) Hyper-V
6 55 (4.42%) vSphere
7 51 (4.10%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 25 (2.01%) BitLocker
10 21 (1.69%) VMware NSX
11 19 (1.53%) Firmware
11 19 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
12 18 (1.45%) KVM
13 8 (0.64%) vCloud
14 6 (0.48%) Squid
15 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
16 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 282 (22.67%) Terraform
2 162 (13.02%) Kubernetes
3 161 (12.94%) Ansible
4 143 (11.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 82 (6.59%) SCCM
6 61 (4.90%) vCenter Server
7 55 (4.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 54 (4.34%) Grafana
9 45 (3.62%) Prometheus
10 42 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
11 25 (2.01%) Puppet
12 23 (1.85%) Nagios
13 20 (1.61%) Progress Chef
13 20 (1.61%) SCOM
14 18 (1.45%) Tivoli
14 18 (1.45%) vRealize
14 18 (1.45%) ZABBIX
15 17 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
16 16 (1.29%) Netcool
17 13 (1.05%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 576 (46.30%) Microsoft
2 186 (14.95%) VMware
3 92 (7.40%) CyberArk
4 82 (6.59%) ServiceNow
5 75 (6.03%) BeyondTrust
6 73 (5.87%) Splunk
7 51 (4.10%) Oracle
8 50 (4.02%) Citrix
8 50 (4.02%) Google
9 48 (3.86%) Cisco
10 36 (2.89%) Centrify
11 34 (2.73%) Red Hat
12 32 (2.57%) SolarWinds
13 30 (2.41%) BMC
14 29 (2.33%) Databricks
14 29 (2.33%) IBM
15 22 (1.77%) HP
15 22 (1.77%) Remedy
16 21 (1.69%) Dynatrace
16 21 (1.69%) Okta