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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 56 58
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,217 931 1,244
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 3.83% 3.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.18% 11.35% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 646 900
10th Percentile £329 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £623 £625
90th Percentile £719 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 8 21
10th Percentile £21.84 £16.93 £37.63
25th Percentile £50.25 £19.43 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £41.75 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.22% +3.73% -32.92%
75th Percentile £74.68 £112.22 £46.39
90th Percentile £82.70 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £60.93 £24.66 £40.25
% change year-on-year +147.08% -38.73% -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 10,881 8,206 10,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.51% 33.73% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,185 5,697 7,901
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.48%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 210 446
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.31 £37.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.65 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.10 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.42% -0.40% +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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 19 May 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 19 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 19 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 -22 513 £550 +4.76% 137
South East -8 240 £525 -8.70% 125
North of England 0 233 £465 -0.09% 75
North West +13 134 £471 +1.20% 43
South West -13 98 £434 -26.01% 43
Yorkshire -17 97 £460 -8.00% 17
Midlands -59 69 £469 -1.32% 32
West Midlands -59 52 £485 +1.04% 13
East of England -34 39 £507 -7.82% 24
East Midlands -30 16 £380 -20.00% 19
North East -18 4 £400 +14.29% 15
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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UK

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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
1 138 (11.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 123 (10.11%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.96%) Confluence
4 20 (1.64%) IIS
5 13 (1.07%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.74%) Apache
7 5 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.25%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.082%) MTS
10 1 (0.082%) SAS
10 1 (0.082%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.082%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.66%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 646 (53.08%) Azure
2 280 (23.01%) Entra ID
3 245 (20.13%) AWS
4 224 (18.41%) Microsoft 365
5 136 (11.18%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (10.85%) GCP
7 130 (10.68%) GitHub
8 98 (8.05%) Power Platform
9 88 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
10 82 (6.74%) OneDrive
11 77 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
12 59 (4.85%) PaaS
13 54 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
14 53 (4.35%) Azure AKS
15 47 (3.86%) Microsoft Copilot
16 40 (3.29%) Azure Key Vault
16 40 (3.29%) IaaS
17 36 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
17 36 (2.96%) Power Automate
18 34 (2.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 150 (12.33%) DNS
2 119 (9.78%) Firewall
3 88 (7.23%) DHCP
4 67 (5.51%) VPN
5 58 (4.77%) Network Security
6 40 (3.29%) Kerberos
7 37 (3.04%) TCP/IP
8 36 (2.96%) WAN
9 30 (2.47%) LAN
10 24 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (1.73%) SMTP
12 19 (1.56%) VLAN
13 18 (1.48%) SAN
14 17 (1.40%) SNMP
15 15 (1.23%) HTTP
15 15 (1.23%) SSL
16 13 (1.07%) Skype
17 12 (0.99%) Unified Communications
18 11 (0.90%) NAS
18 11 (0.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (10.60%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.09%) Power BI
3 41 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.07%) Metadata
8 12 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.90%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.90%) MySQL
10 10 (0.82%) Delta Lake
10 10 (0.82%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.66%) DB2
12 8 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (0.58%) Spark SQL
14 6 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 82 (6.74%) Jenkins
2 79 (6.49%) Git
3 62 (5.09%) GitLab
4 55 (4.52%) JIRA
5 19 (1.56%) MSI
6 11 (0.90%) InstallShield
7 10 (0.82%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.74%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.74%) Postman
8 9 (0.74%) Robot Framework
8 9 (0.74%) Selenium
9 7 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.58%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.49%) JMeter
11 5 (0.41%) Appium
12 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.33%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.33%) JUnit
13 3 (0.25%) Spinnaker
General
1 327 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 152 (12.49%) Analytical Skills
3 138 (11.34%) Finance
4 108 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 73 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
6 59 (4.85%) Banking
7 42 (3.45%) Legal
8 20 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.23%) Front Office
11 12 (0.99%) Military
12 11 (0.90%) Law
13 10 (0.82%) Retail
14 9 (0.74%) Publishing
15 7 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.49%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.49%) Marketing
16 6 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
18 3 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 145 (11.91%) Architect
2 116 (9.53%) Senior
3 96 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
4 94 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 74 (6.08%) Security Engineer
6 73 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 73 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 51 (4.19%) Support Engineer
8 50 (4.11%) Developer
9 41 (3.37%) Analyst
10 37 (3.04%) CyberArk Architect
11 34 (2.79%) Consultant
12 33 (2.71%) Lead
13 32 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
14 28 (2.30%) Desktop Engineer
15 27 (2.22%) PowerShell Engineer
16 25 (2.05%) Administrator
16 25 (2.05%) Automation Engineer
16 25 (2.05%) Software Engineer
16 25 (2.05%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (11.50%) REST
2 118 (9.70%) LDAP
3 83 (6.82%) Microsoft Graph
4 58 (4.77%) SOAP
5 53 (4.35%) .NET
6 49 (4.03%) OAuth
7 42 (3.45%) SAML
8 39 (3.20%) JSON
9 36 (2.96%) SailPoint
10 35 (2.88%) ARM Templates
11 32 (2.63%) YAML
12 27 (2.22%) Web Services
13 26 (2.14%) OpenID
14 22 (1.81%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.48%) OAuth2
16 17 (1.40%) Kafka
16 17 (1.40%) React
17 15 (1.23%) AngularJS
17 15 (1.23%) Node.js
18 14 (1.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.82%) Replication
2 79 (6.49%) Onboarding
3 74 (6.08%) Security Posture
4 69 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (4.77%) Clustering
6 53 (4.35%) Cloud Native
7 50 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 44 (3.62%) PKI
9 34 (2.79%) Management Information System
10 33 (2.71%) Data Centre
11 21 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
12 20 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.56%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
16 16 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
17 12 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
18 11 (0.90%) Private Cloud
18 11 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 518 (42.56%) Windows
2 220 (18.08%) Linux
3 211 (17.34%) Windows Server
4 54 (4.44%) Windows 10
5 37 (3.04%) Unix
6 35 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (2.14%) AIX
7 26 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 24 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (1.40%) VMS
11 13 (1.07%) Apple iOS
11 13 (1.07%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.90%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.74%) Android
14 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.33%) CentOS
16 3 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (25.55%) DevOps
2 289 (23.75%) CI/CD
3 270 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
4 220 (18.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 163 (13.39%) Agile
6 159 (13.06%) SIEM
7 142 (11.67%) Migration
8 136 (11.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 130 (10.68%) Task Automation
10 121 (9.94%) Analytics
11 119 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
11 119 (9.78%) Identity Access Management
12 116 (9.53%) ITIL
13 115 (9.45%) Runbook
14 112 (9.20%) ITSM
14 112 (9.20%) Observability
15 110 (9.04%) High Availability
16 108 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 108 (8.87%) Root Cause Analysis
17 104 (8.55%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 533 (43.80%) Python
2 235 (19.31%) Bash
3 186 (15.28%) SQL
4 100 (8.22%) C#
5 68 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 67 (5.51%) Bicep
7 58 (4.77%) Kusto Query Language
8 45 (3.70%) Java
9 24 (1.97%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.48%) Search Processing Language
10 18 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.40%) VBScript
12 16 (1.31%) Go
13 14 (1.15%) Perl
14 11 (0.90%) Groovy
15 10 (0.82%) VB
16 8 (0.66%) BeanShell
16 8 (0.66%) C++
16 8 (0.66%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 490 (40.26%) Security Cleared
2 368 (30.24%) SC Cleared
3 110 (9.04%) DV Cleared
4 102 (8.38%) Degree
5 84 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 71 (5.83%) Azure Certification
7 63 (5.18%) CISSP
8 41 (3.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 33 (2.71%) CISM
10 28 (2.30%) MCSE
11 27 (2.22%) MCSA
12 21 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.56%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.56%) VCAP
14 16 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (1.23%) CEH
15 15 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (0.90%) GIAC
17 7 (0.58%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.31%) GDPR
2 88 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (6.24%) NIST
4 31 (2.55%) QA
5 26 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.56%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.40%) SLA
8 14 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (1.15%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.90%) FINRA
9 11 (0.90%) MiFID
10 9 (0.74%) NCSC
10 9 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.41%) GRC
13 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
15 2 (0.16%) ISA99
15 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 405 (33.28%) Active Directory
2 139 (11.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.86%) Docker
4 67 (5.51%) Hyper-V
4 67 (5.51%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (4.44%) vSphere
6 48 (3.94%) VMware ESXi
7 39 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (2.05%) BitLocker
9 19 (1.56%) Firmware
9 19 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
9 19 (1.56%) VMware NSX
10 18 (1.48%) KVM
11 6 (0.49%) vCloud
12 5 (0.41%) Squid
13 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 276 (22.68%) Terraform
2 162 (13.31%) Kubernetes
3 158 (12.98%) Ansible
4 135 (11.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 81 (6.66%) SCCM
6 58 (4.77%) vCenter Server
7 55 (4.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 50 (4.11%) Grafana
9 42 (3.45%) Prometheus
10 41 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.89%) Nagios
12 22 (1.81%) Puppet
13 19 (1.56%) Progress Chef
14 18 (1.48%) SCOM
14 18 (1.48%) Tivoli
14 18 (1.48%) vRealize
14 18 (1.48%) ZABBIX
15 16 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
15 16 (1.31%) Netcool
16 13 (1.07%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 562 (46.18%) Microsoft
2 182 (14.95%) VMware
3 87 (7.15%) CyberArk
4 81 (6.66%) ServiceNow
5 75 (6.16%) BeyondTrust
6 70 (5.75%) Splunk
7 50 (4.11%) Citrix
8 48 (3.94%) Google
8 48 (3.94%) Oracle
9 44 (3.62%) Cisco
10 36 (2.96%) Centrify
11 32 (2.63%) SolarWinds
12 30 (2.47%) BMC
12 30 (2.47%) Red Hat
13 27 (2.22%) IBM
14 26 (2.14%) Databricks
15 23 (1.89%) Dynatrace
16 22 (1.81%) HP
17 21 (1.73%) Remedy
18 19 (1.56%) Okta