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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 72 59
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 -2
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,496 1,022 1,143
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.23% 3.65% 3.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.40% 11.13% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 944 635 785
10th Percentile £331 £341 £347
25th Percentile £425 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £619
90th Percentile £713 £668 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 15 19
10th Percentile £22.42 £44.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £43.81 £45.38 £46.88
Median hourly rate £63.48 £63.00 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +7.71% -2.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £74.22
90th Percentile £92.11 £81.00 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £63.93
% change year-on-year -0.57% -0.68% +6.37%

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 12,064 9,182 10,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.08% 32.81% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,809 6,144 7,012
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
75th Percentile £636 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 266 298
10th Percentile £23.00 £31.25 £30.35
25th Percentile £50.19 £42.25 £47.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -
75th Percentile £70.88 £67.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.75 £79.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in England

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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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -11 650 £550 +7.84% 515
South East -2 324 £538 +3.61% 218
North of England +50 282 £476 +12.00% 168
North West +44 169 £456 +4.23% 91
South West -22 110 £613 +19.75% 91
Yorkshire +17 95 £518 +21.94% 55
Midlands -83 59 £500 +5.26% 84
East of England -47 52 £507 -7.82% 61
West Midlands -73 43 £505 +6.32% 49
North East -26 19 £500 - 23
East Midlands -20 16 £500 +9.29% 35
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
1 121 (8.09%) SharePoint
2 118 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 50 (3.34%) Confluence
4 26 (1.74%) IIS
5 24 (1.60%) Apache
6 21 (1.40%) Skype for Business
7 16 (1.07%) Apache Spark
8 15 (1.00%) nginx
9 8 (0.53%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.33%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.27%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
14 1 (0.067%) Camunda
14 1 (0.067%) MTS
14 1 (0.067%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.067%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 42 (2.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.53%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.33%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.33%) Summit
4 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.067%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.067%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.067%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.067%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.067%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.067%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.067%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.067%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 839 (56.08%) Azure
2 418 (27.94%) Entra ID
3 325 (21.72%) AWS
4 244 (16.31%) Microsoft 365
5 218 (14.57%) Azure DevOps
6 181 (12.10%) GitHub
7 156 (10.43%) GCP
8 128 (8.56%) Azure Monitor
9 124 (8.29%) Power Platform
10 106 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
11 86 (5.75%) Azure AKS
12 67 (4.48%) Azure Sentinel
13 66 (4.41%) SaaS
14 61 (4.08%) IaaS
14 61 (4.08%) OneDrive
15 53 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 49 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
17 48 (3.21%) PaaS
18 47 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
19 43 (2.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 246 (16.44%) DNS
2 222 (14.84%) Firewall
3 150 (10.03%) DHCP
4 113 (7.55%) TCP/IP
5 109 (7.29%) VPN
6 91 (6.08%) Network Security
7 37 (2.47%) WAN
8 35 (2.34%) VLAN
9 34 (2.27%) SAN
10 27 (1.80%) SSL
11 25 (1.67%) SSH
12 24 (1.60%) Skype
13 21 (1.40%) VSAN
14 20 (1.34%) LAN
15 17 (1.14%) Kerberos
15 17 (1.14%) NAS
16 16 (1.07%) SD-WAN
16 16 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (0.94%) SMTP
18 13 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (11.56%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.61%) Power BI
3 34 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 29 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (1.47%) Big Data
8 20 (1.34%) Data Lake
9 19 (1.27%) Metadata
10 18 (1.20%) MySQL
10 18 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 15 (1.00%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.00%) Relational Database
13 14 (0.94%) NoSQL
14 13 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.60%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (0.53%) Apache Hive
17 7 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 126 (8.42%) Git
2 123 (8.22%) Jenkins
3 82 (5.48%) GitLab
4 73 (4.88%) JIRA
5 35 (2.34%) MSI
6 15 (1.00%) Artifactory
7 14 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.67%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.60%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.53%) Postman
12 7 (0.47%) Snyk
13 6 (0.40%) JMeter
13 6 (0.40%) MSBuild
14 5 (0.33%) AdminStudio
14 5 (0.33%) InstallShield
14 5 (0.33%) Selenium
15 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
General
1 382 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 283 (18.92%) Finance
3 203 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.49%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.35%) Banking
6 79 (5.28%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.94%) Legal
8 27 (1.80%) Military
9 23 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 19 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 18 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.07%) Law
13 15 (1.00%) Front Office
14 13 (0.87%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.74%) Back Office
15 11 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.60%) Local Government
17 7 (0.47%) Marketing
17 7 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 168 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 163 (10.90%) Senior
3 159 (10.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 147 (9.83%) Azure Engineer
5 123 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 93 (6.22%) Support Engineer
7 91 (6.08%) Security Engineer
8 88 (5.88%) Architect
9 71 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
10 64 (4.28%) Lead
11 54 (3.61%) Consultant
12 51 (3.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 50 (3.34%) Analyst
14 48 (3.21%) Developer
15 46 (3.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 40 (2.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
17 38 (2.54%) DBA
18 37 (2.47%) Automation Engineer
19 36 (2.41%) IT Engineer
20 32 (2.14%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 490 (32.75%) Terraform
2 134 (8.96%) REST
3 93 (6.22%) ARM Templates
4 74 (4.95%) OAuth
5 65 (4.34%) LDAP
6 62 (4.14%) JSON
7 60 (4.01%) .NET
8 59 (3.94%) SAML
9 56 (3.74%) OpenID
10 52 (3.48%) YAML
11 49 (3.28%) Microsoft Graph
12 44 (2.94%) OAuth2
13 42 (2.81%) SailPoint
14 27 (1.80%) Kafka
15 26 (1.74%) React
15 26 (1.74%) Web Services
16 19 (1.27%) Middleware
17 17 (1.14%) Software Packaging
18 15 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
18 15 (1.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 147 (9.83%) Onboarding
2 98 (6.55%) Cloud Native
3 84 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
3 84 (5.61%) PKI
4 83 (5.55%) Security Posture
5 75 (5.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 67 (4.48%) Data Centre
7 65 (4.34%) Management Information System
8 63 (4.21%) Replication
9 54 (3.61%) Clustering
10 33 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
11 30 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.87%) CMDB
13 27 (1.80%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
15 23 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
15 23 (1.54%) Product Ownership
16 22 (1.47%) Data Structures
17 21 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
18 17 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 733 (49.00%) Windows
2 393 (26.27%) Linux
3 325 (21.72%) Windows Server
4 96 (6.42%) Windows 10
5 89 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 48 (3.21%) Unix
7 36 (2.41%) Ubuntu
8 31 (2.07%) CentOS
9 30 (2.01%) Apple iOS
10 26 (1.74%) Mac OS
10 26 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (1.54%) Windows 7
12 20 (1.34%) Android
13 18 (1.20%) VMS
13 18 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 12 (0.80%) Rocky
15 9 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
15 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
16 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (0.47%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (30.75%) DevOps
2 454 (30.35%) CI/CD
3 440 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 309 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
5 257 (17.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 230 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 219 (14.64%) ITIL
8 210 (14.04%) Runbook
9 197 (13.17%) Agile
10 196 (13.10%) Migration
11 191 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
12 185 (12.37%) ITSM
13 169 (11.30%) AI
14 165 (11.03%) Analytics
15 162 (10.83%) Identity Access Management
16 159 (10.63%) Platform Engineering
17 156 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
18 153 (10.23%) Disaster Recovery
18 153 (10.23%) Root Cause Analysis
19 151 (10.09%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 696 (46.52%) Python
2 400 (26.74%) Bash
3 232 (15.51%) SQL
4 170 (11.36%) Bicep
5 94 (6.28%) Java
6 80 (5.35%) C#
7 63 (4.21%) JavaScript
8 27 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 27 (1.80%) VBScript
9 24 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 23 (1.54%) Perl
10 23 (1.54%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.54%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.40%) Groovy
12 17 (1.14%) VB
13 15 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
14 14 (0.94%) Go
14 14 (0.94%) Korn
15 13 (0.87%) BeanShell
16 11 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 550 (36.76%) Security Cleared
2 381 (25.47%) SC Cleared
3 187 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 170 (11.36%) Degree
5 120 (8.02%) Azure Certification
6 104 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (5.82%) CISSP
8 66 (4.41%) AWS Certification
9 31 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 29 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (1.80%) CISM
12 25 (1.67%) MCSE
13 22 (1.47%) VCAP
14 19 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
16 15 (1.00%) MCSA
17 13 (0.87%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 103 (6.89%) NIST
3 35 (2.34%) QA
4 34 (2.27%) SLA
5 31 (2.07%) GDPR
6 29 (1.94%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 18 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (0.87%) NCSC
10 13 (0.87%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.47%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.40%) GxP
13 4 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 3 (0.20%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.13%) GRC
15 2 (0.13%) SOC 1
System Software
1 517 (34.56%) Active Directory
2 191 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 188 (12.57%) Docker
4 101 (6.75%) Virtual Machines
5 80 (5.35%) Hyper-V
6 64 (4.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 63 (4.21%) VMware ESXi
7 63 (4.21%) vSphere
8 47 (3.14%) VMware NSX
9 29 (1.94%) BitLocker
10 24 (1.60%) vCloud
11 17 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
12 13 (0.87%) Firmware
13 10 (0.67%) NFS
13 10 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.33%) Squid
15 4 (0.27%) Dovecot
15 4 (0.27%) Postfix
15 4 (0.27%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 278 (18.58%) Kubernetes
2 275 (18.38%) Ansible
3 215 (14.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 137 (9.16%) SCCM
5 77 (5.15%) Grafana
6 63 (4.21%) vCenter Server
7 62 (4.14%) SCOM
8 61 (4.08%) Prometheus
9 52 (3.48%) Progress Chef
10 45 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (2.34%) Puppet
12 23 (1.54%) Packer
13 21 (1.40%) WMI
14 16 (1.07%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.94%) VxRail
16 12 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
18 10 (0.67%) Nagios
18 10 (0.67%) vRealize
19 9 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 762 (50.94%) Microsoft
2 251 (16.78%) VMware
3 151 (10.09%) ServiceNow
4 111 (7.42%) CyberArk
5 96 (6.42%) Google
6 90 (6.02%) Splunk
7 69 (4.61%) Oracle
8 61 (4.08%) BeyondTrust
9 53 (3.54%) Cisco
10 52 (3.48%) Red Hat
11 46 (3.07%) Remedy
12 45 (3.01%) Citrix
13 43 (2.87%) Databricks
14 40 (2.67%) BMC
15 30 (2.01%) Dynatrace
16 29 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
17 27 (1.80%) SolarWinds
18 25 (1.67%) Okta
18 25 (1.67%) Qualys
19 23 (1.54%) NetApp