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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 66 56
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,454 1,018 1,189
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 3.66% 3.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.11% 11.16% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 640 841
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £619
90th Percentile £706 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 14 15
10th Percentile £31.42 £44.13 £23.80
25th Percentile £48.00 £45.19 £42.17
Median hourly rate £63.48 £64.25 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +9.85% +3.55%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £74.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £84.39 £74.26
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -0.57% +2.42% +3.33%

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 12,008 9,125 10,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.93% 32.83% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,763 6,191 7,318
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 264 302
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £30.58
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.88 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -14 636 £550 +8.11% 373
South East -8 305 £538 -2.27% 157
North of England +35 270 £485 +12.46% 114
North West +37 170 £474 +5.81% 66
South West -9 110 £531 +1.19% 55
Yorkshire +2 87 £518 +25.45% 31
Midlands -89 59 £500 +5.26% 78
East of England -39 58 £507 -7.82% 54
West Midlands -82 41 £510 +7.37% 46
East Midlands -15 17 £500 +11.11% 32
North East -36 14 £500 - 18
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
1 120 (8.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 115 (7.91%) SharePoint
3 46 (3.16%) Confluence
4 29 (1.99%) IIS
5 21 (1.44%) Skype for Business
6 20 (1.38%) Apache
7 14 (0.96%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.96%) nginx
8 6 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
10 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 29 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.069%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Front Arena
4 4 (0.28%) Summit
5 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.069%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.069%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.069%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.069%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.069%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.069%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 795 (54.68%) Azure
2 357 (24.55%) Entra ID
3 323 (22.21%) AWS
4 221 (15.20%) Microsoft 365
5 209 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
6 174 (11.97%) GitHub
7 137 (9.42%) GCP
8 130 (8.94%) Power Platform
9 129 (8.87%) Azure Monitor
10 105 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
11 80 (5.50%) Azure AKS
12 66 (4.54%) SaaS
13 64 (4.40%) OneDrive
14 55 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 53 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
16 49 (3.37%) IaaS
16 49 (3.37%) Microsoft Purview
17 44 (3.03%) OpenShift
17 44 (3.03%) PaaS
18 41 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 236 (16.23%) DNS
2 210 (14.44%) Firewall
3 141 (9.70%) DHCP
4 103 (7.08%) TCP/IP
5 100 (6.88%) VPN
6 79 (5.43%) Network Security
7 39 (2.68%) WAN
8 37 (2.54%) VLAN
9 34 (2.34%) SAN
10 31 (2.13%) VSAN
11 26 (1.79%) SSL
12 24 (1.65%) Skype
13 20 (1.38%) SSH
14 19 (1.31%) LAN
15 18 (1.24%) HTTP
15 18 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 18 (1.24%) SMTP
16 17 (1.17%) NAS
16 17 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
17 13 (0.89%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 91 (6.26%) Power BI
3 37 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (1.51%) Big Data
7 19 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 19 (1.31%) MySQL
8 18 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 14 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (0.96%) Metadata
10 14 (0.96%) MongoDB
11 12 (0.83%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.76%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.48%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 119 (8.18%) Jenkins
2 105 (7.22%) Git
3 85 (5.85%) GitLab
4 72 (4.95%) JIRA
5 31 (2.13%) MSI
6 14 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 12 (0.83%) Artifactory
7 12 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (0.62%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.62%) InstallShield
8 9 (0.62%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (0.55%) Postman
9 8 (0.55%) Selenium
10 6 (0.41%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.41%) JMeter
11 5 (0.34%) MSBuild
11 5 (0.34%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 367 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 259 (17.81%) Finance
3 204 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.70%) Public Sector
5 88 (6.05%) Banking
6 84 (5.78%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (2.06%) Legal
8 23 (1.58%) Investment Banking
9 21 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 21 (1.44%) Military
10 17 (1.17%) Front Office
11 13 (0.89%) Law
12 12 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.76%) Back Office
13 11 (0.76%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.62%) Local Government
16 8 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 163 (11.21%) Senior
2 161 (11.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 146 (10.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 134 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
5 103 (7.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 91 (6.26%) Support Engineer
7 89 (6.12%) Architect
8 85 (5.85%) Security Engineer
9 66 (4.54%) Lead
10 61 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
11 52 (3.58%) Analyst
11 52 (3.58%) Consultant
12 50 (3.44%) Developer
13 40 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 39 (2.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 38 (2.61%) IT Engineer
16 36 (2.48%) DBA
17 35 (2.41%) Administrator
18 31 (2.13%) Desktop Engineer
19 29 (1.99%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (31.64%) Terraform
2 126 (8.67%) REST
3 80 (5.50%) ARM Templates
4 69 (4.75%) .NET
5 64 (4.40%) LDAP
6 61 (4.20%) OAuth
7 55 (3.78%) JSON
8 52 (3.58%) Microsoft Graph
9 48 (3.30%) SAML
10 47 (3.23%) YAML
11 45 (3.09%) SailPoint
12 44 (3.03%) OpenID
13 35 (2.41%) OAuth2
14 28 (1.93%) Kafka
15 24 (1.65%) React
15 24 (1.65%) Web Services
16 18 (1.24%) .NET Framework
16 18 (1.24%) SOAP
17 16 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
17 16 (1.10%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 129 (8.87%) Onboarding
2 99 (6.81%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 75 (5.16%) PKI
4 72 (4.95%) Security Posture
5 65 (4.47%) Replication
6 64 (4.40%) Clustering
6 64 (4.40%) Management Information System
7 62 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
8 58 (3.99%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
10 26 (1.79%) CMDB
11 25 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.65%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.51%) Product Ownership
14 21 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
15 17 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
15 17 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 721 (49.59%) Windows
2 373 (25.65%) Linux
3 318 (21.87%) Windows Server
4 92 (6.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 83 (5.71%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.16%) Unix
7 36 (2.48%) Ubuntu
8 29 (1.99%) CentOS
9 28 (1.93%) Apple iOS
10 26 (1.79%) Mac OS
11 23 (1.58%) Windows 7
11 23 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (1.51%) VMS
13 19 (1.31%) Android
14 15 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
15 14 (0.96%) AIX
16 12 (0.83%) Rocky
17 11 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
18 10 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
19 9 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (30.26%) DevOps
2 418 (28.75%) CI/CD
3 398 (27.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 303 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
5 240 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 216 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 208 (14.31%) ITIL
8 205 (14.10%) Agile
9 190 (13.07%) Runbook
10 180 (12.38%) ITSM
11 179 (12.31%) Migration
12 160 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
13 158 (10.87%) Analytics
14 153 (10.52%) AI
15 151 (10.39%) Disaster Recovery
16 148 (10.18%) Root Cause Analysis
17 146 (10.04%) Identity Access Management
18 145 (9.97%) SIEM
19 144 (9.90%) Platform Engineering
20 143 (9.83%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 684 (47.04%) Python
2 372 (25.58%) Bash
3 243 (16.71%) SQL
4 147 (10.11%) Bicep
5 94 (6.46%) Java
6 84 (5.78%) C#
7 70 (4.81%) JavaScript
8 29 (1.99%) VBScript
9 26 (1.79%) T-SQL
10 24 (1.65%) Perl
11 23 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 22 (1.51%) Search Processing Language
12 22 (1.51%) TypeScript
13 20 (1.38%) Groovy
14 18 (1.24%) Shell Script
15 17 (1.17%) VB
16 14 (0.96%) BeanShell
17 13 (0.89%) Go
18 12 (0.83%) C++
19 11 (0.76%) Korn
Qualifications
1 546 (37.55%) Security Cleared
2 372 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 188 (12.93%) DV Cleared
4 170 (11.69%) Degree
5 122 (8.39%) Azure Certification
6 104 (7.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (5.98%) CISSP
8 65 (4.47%) AWS Certification
9 41 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 32 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.99%) CISM
13 25 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 25 (1.72%) MCSE
14 23 (1.58%) VCAP
15 21 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.17%) MCSA
17 16 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 16 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
18 13 (0.89%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (7.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 103 (7.08%) NIST
3 43 (2.96%) QA
4 42 (2.89%) GDPR
5 35 (2.41%) SLA
6 31 (2.13%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.10%) NCSC
10 14 (0.96%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.76%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.41%) GxP
13 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 466 (32.05%) Active Directory
2 199 (13.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 173 (11.90%) Docker
4 94 (6.46%) Virtual Machines
5 86 (5.91%) Hyper-V
6 71 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
7 69 (4.75%) vSphere
8 52 (3.58%) VMware NSX
9 51 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 31 (2.13%) BitLocker
11 24 (1.65%) vCloud
12 17 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
13 15 (1.03%) Firmware
14 10 (0.69%) NFS
15 9 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
16 6 (0.41%) Squid
17 5 (0.34%) Terminal Services
18 4 (0.28%) Dovecot
18 4 (0.28%) Postfix
19 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 266 (18.29%) Ansible
2 256 (17.61%) Kubernetes
3 192 (13.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 133 (9.15%) SCCM
5 79 (5.43%) Grafana
6 69 (4.75%) vCenter Server
7 64 (4.40%) SCOM
8 62 (4.26%) Prometheus
9 53 (3.65%) Progress Chef
10 40 (2.75%) Puppet
11 35 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (1.72%) Packer
13 19 (1.31%) WMI
14 18 (1.24%) vRealize
15 17 (1.17%) Nagios
15 17 (1.17%) NetBackup
15 17 (1.17%) VxRail
16 16 (1.10%) ZABBIX
17 14 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
17 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 689 (47.39%) Microsoft
2 268 (18.43%) VMware
3 148 (10.18%) ServiceNow
4 98 (6.74%) CyberArk
5 97 (6.67%) Splunk
6 86 (5.91%) Google
7 77 (5.30%) Oracle
8 61 (4.20%) Cisco
9 57 (3.92%) BeyondTrust
9 57 (3.92%) Red Hat
10 51 (3.51%) Remedy
11 50 (3.44%) BMC
12 45 (3.09%) Databricks
13 42 (2.89%) Citrix
14 32 (2.20%) SolarWinds
15 26 (1.79%) Qualys
16 25 (1.72%) NetApp
17 24 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
17 24 (1.65%) Dynatrace
18 23 (1.58%) Okta