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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 54 66
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,322 990 1,164
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.48% 4.08% 3.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.20% 12.08% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 937 675 827
10th Percentile £337 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £439 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 13 29
10th Percentile £35.41 £17.00 £21.76
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £37.08
Median hourly rate £74.26 £54.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.26% +36.25% -33.11%
75th Percentile £78.13 £77.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.78 £176.59 £69.29
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £24.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +201.14% -38.35% -31.70%

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 10,837 8,195 10,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.54% 33.79% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,209 5,609 7,877
10th Percentile £352 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 216 436
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.66 £40.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £77.02
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -20 550 £550 +4.76% 123
South East -9 238 £503 -12.61% 97
North of England -4 226 £488 +3.72% 66
South West +3 151 £525 -10.26% 60
North West +9 132 £500 +7.53% 35
Yorkshire -26 88 £460 -8.00% 16
Midlands -68 83 £450 -5.26% 45
West Midlands -58 62 £480 -4.00% 29
East of England -8 41 £507 -4.34% 34
East Midlands -31 20 £418 -9.73% 16
North East -5 11 £550 +18.28% 15
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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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
1 181 (13.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 139 (10.51%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.24%) Confluence
4 23 (1.74%) Skype for Business
5 15 (1.13%) IIS
6 14 (1.06%) Apache
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
8 2 (0.15%) WordPress
9 1 (0.076%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 36 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
1 8 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.076%) Actimize
5 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.076%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 666 (50.38%) Azure
2 304 (23.00%) Entra ID
3 266 (20.12%) Microsoft 365
4 237 (17.93%) AWS
5 140 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (10.14%) GCP
7 124 (9.38%) GitHub
8 83 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
9 80 (6.05%) OneDrive
10 79 (5.98%) Power Platform
11 75 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
12 64 (4.84%) IaaS
13 58 (4.39%) PaaS
14 56 (4.24%) Microsoft Purview
15 45 (3.40%) Serverless
16 44 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
17 43 (3.25%) SaaS
18 42 (3.18%) Azure AKS
19 39 (2.95%) Azure Key Vault
20 38 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 206 (15.58%) DNS
2 171 (12.93%) Firewall
3 131 (9.91%) DHCP
4 88 (6.66%) VPN
5 69 (5.22%) TCP/IP
6 61 (4.61%) Network Security
7 43 (3.25%) LAN
7 43 (3.25%) WAN
8 39 (2.95%) Kerberos
9 35 (2.65%) VLAN
10 31 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (1.97%) Skype
12 19 (1.44%) SAN
13 18 (1.36%) DKIM
13 18 (1.36%) DMARC
13 18 (1.36%) SMTP
14 16 (1.21%) Software-Defined Networking
14 16 (1.21%) SSL
15 14 (1.06%) WebEx
16 13 (0.98%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 45 (3.40%) Power BI
3 30 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.44%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.36%) Metadata
8 13 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.68%) Delta Lake
11 9 (0.68%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.61%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.61%) MySQL
12 8 (0.61%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.53%) Spark SQL
14 6 (0.45%) DB2
14 6 (0.45%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 83 (6.28%) Git
1 83 (6.28%) Jenkins
1 83 (6.28%) JIRA
2 72 (5.45%) GitLab
3 15 (1.13%) Artifactory
3 15 (1.13%) MSI
4 9 (0.68%) InstallShield
4 9 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.61%) CircleCI
5 8 (0.61%) Selenium
6 7 (0.53%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.45%) Burp Suite
7 6 (0.45%) Metasploit
7 6 (0.45%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.38%) AdminStudio
8 5 (0.38%) Appium
9 4 (0.30%) JUnit
9 4 (0.30%) MSTest
9 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 421 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 212 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
3 142 (10.74%) Finance
4 115 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.73%) Documentation Skills
6 59 (4.46%) Banking
7 58 (4.39%) Legal
8 21 (1.59%) Front Office
9 20 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.06%) Retail
12 12 (0.91%) Military
13 10 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.68%) Publishing
15 8 (0.61%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.61%) Law
16 7 (0.53%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.45%) Electronics
17 6 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 177 (13.39%) Architect
2 126 (9.53%) Senior
3 97 (7.34%) Azure Engineer
4 85 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 81 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 66 (4.99%) Security Engineer
6 66 (4.99%) Support Engineer
7 63 (4.77%) Platform Engineer
8 60 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
9 57 (4.31%) Consultant
10 49 (3.71%) Analyst
11 47 (3.56%) Developer
12 39 (2.95%) Lead
13 38 (2.87%) Microsoft Engineer
14 37 (2.80%) CyberArk Architect
15 30 (2.27%) IT Engineer
15 30 (2.27%) SIEM Engineer
16 29 (2.19%) Administrator
17 26 (1.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 26 (1.97%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (13.84%) REST
2 115 (8.70%) LDAP
3 78 (5.90%) Microsoft Graph
4 66 (4.99%) SOAP
5 59 (4.46%) JSON
6 56 (4.24%) OAuth
7 51 (3.86%) SAML
8 50 (3.78%) .NET
9 41 (3.10%) ARM Templates
10 31 (2.34%) OpenID
11 28 (2.12%) YAML
12 27 (2.04%) SailPoint
13 26 (1.97%) .NET Framework
14 25 (1.89%) OAuth2
15 21 (1.59%) Web Services
16 20 (1.51%) Middleware
17 18 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
18 17 (1.29%) XML
19 15 (1.13%) Kafka
20 14 (1.06%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.20%) Replication
2 80 (6.05%) Security Posture
3 78 (5.90%) Onboarding
4 74 (5.60%) PKI
5 68 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 46 (3.48%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.40%) Clustering
9 41 (3.10%) Cloud Native
10 37 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (2.50%) Product Ownership
12 29 (2.19%) Management Information System
13 27 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.29%) Private Cloud
17 16 (1.21%) Enterprise Storage
17 16 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
18 13 (0.98%) BYOD
19 12 (0.91%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 538 (40.70%) Windows
2 234 (17.70%) Linux
3 229 (17.32%) Windows Server
4 68 (5.14%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.66%) Unix
8 20 (1.51%) VMS
9 19 (1.44%) AIX
9 19 (1.44%) Android
9 19 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (0.98%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.76%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.68%) Apple iOS
15 7 (0.53%) CentOS
15 7 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.45%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (25.49%) DevOps
2 319 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
3 284 (21.48%) CI/CD
4 223 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 216 (16.34%) Agile
6 170 (12.86%) SIEM
7 165 (12.48%) Migration
8 145 (10.97%) ITIL
9 143 (10.82%) Task Automation
10 135 (10.21%) Cybersecurity
10 135 (10.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 131 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (9.08%) Identity Access Management
13 119 (9.00%) RBAC
14 118 (8.93%) Disaster Recovery
14 118 (8.93%) High Availability
14 118 (8.93%) ITSM
15 113 (8.55%) Incident Response
16 110 (8.32%) Analytics
17 104 (7.87%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 567 (42.89%) Python
2 248 (18.76%) Bash
3 162 (12.25%) SQL
4 95 (7.19%) C#
5 75 (5.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 69 (5.22%) JavaScript
7 62 (4.69%) Bicep
8 45 (3.40%) Java
9 29 (2.19%) Perl
10 22 (1.66%) VBScript
11 20 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 13 (0.98%) Go
13 12 (0.91%) BeanShell
13 12 (0.91%) VB
14 9 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
14 9 (0.68%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.53%) PHP
16 6 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 562 (42.51%) Security Cleared
2 439 (33.21%) SC Cleared
3 120 (9.08%) DV Cleared
4 116 (8.77%) Degree
5 101 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 77 (5.82%) CISSP
7 66 (4.99%) Azure Certification
8 45 (3.40%) CISM
9 39 (2.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 25 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.74%) CEH
11 23 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.74%) MCSE
12 22 (1.66%) MCSA
13 19 (1.44%) AWS Certification
14 18 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (1.21%) CCNA
15 16 (1.21%) GIAC
16 15 (1.13%) CCNP
17 13 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (8.62%) GDPR
2 103 (7.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 78 (5.90%) NIST
4 34 (2.57%) QA
5 26 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.36%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (1.21%) SLA
8 15 (1.13%) MiFID
9 13 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.91%) NCSC
11 11 (0.83%) FINRA
12 10 (0.76%) HIPAA
13 9 (0.68%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.30%) GRC
15 3 (0.23%) EMIR
15 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.15%) GxP
16 2 (0.15%) ISA99
System Software
1 459 (34.72%) Active Directory
2 144 (10.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.08%) Docker
4 72 (5.45%) Hyper-V
5 57 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (3.40%) vSphere
7 36 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
8 34 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 20 (1.51%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.29%) KVM
11 16 (1.21%) Firmware
12 14 (1.06%) VMware NSX
13 13 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.30%) Squid
16 2 (0.15%) NFS
16 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
16 2 (0.15%) Sendmail
16 2 (0.15%) Snort
16 2 (0.15%) UAG
Systems Management
1 281 (21.26%) Terraform
2 158 (11.95%) Ansible
3 147 (11.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 141 (10.67%) Kubernetes
5 95 (7.19%) SCCM
6 83 (6.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 64 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
8 49 (3.71%) vCenter Server
9 43 (3.25%) Grafana
10 39 (2.95%) Prometheus
11 20 (1.51%) vRealize
12 18 (1.36%) Puppet
12 18 (1.36%) SCOM
13 17 (1.29%) Progress Chef
14 16 (1.21%) Kibana
14 16 (1.21%) PowerCLI
15 15 (1.13%) Nagios
15 15 (1.13%) WSUS
16 11 (0.83%) Istio
16 11 (0.83%) Nessus
Vendors
1 605 (45.76%) Microsoft
2 198 (14.98%) VMware
3 90 (6.81%) CyberArk
4 71 (5.37%) ServiceNow
5 70 (5.30%) Citrix
6 68 (5.14%) BeyondTrust
7 59 (4.46%) Splunk
8 48 (3.63%) Cisco
9 45 (3.40%) Red Hat
10 40 (3.03%) Google
11 38 (2.87%) Oracle
12 35 (2.65%) Centrify
13 30 (2.27%) Databricks
13 30 (2.27%) SolarWinds
14 27 (2.04%) Okta
15 24 (1.82%) Atlassian
15 24 (1.82%) Veeam
16 20 (1.51%) IBM
17 19 (1.44%) Qualys
18 18 (1.36%) NetApp