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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 54 66
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,317 999 1,156
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 4.09% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.33% 12.09% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 937 675 820
10th Percentile £346 £351 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 16 31
10th Percentile £35.41 £17.00 £20.82
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £36.96
Median hourly rate £74.26 £55.62 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.51% +39.06% -28.78%
75th Percentile £78.13 £90.22 £46.29
90th Percentile £83.78 £156.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £31.08 £40.00
% change year-on-year +138.93% -22.30% -27.27%

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 10,684 8,262 10,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.76% 33.81% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,137 5,579 7,896
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.03%
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 457 218 445
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.20
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.69 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £76.55 £85.30 £75.00
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

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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 20 March 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 20 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 20 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 -25 538 £550 +4.76% 132
South East -5 246 £505 -12.17% 107
North of England -8 225 £482 +2.55% 61
South West +4 158 £550 -6.18% 43
North West +9 129 £483 +3.25% 29
Yorkshire -25 90 £482 -3.60% 18
Midlands -60 79 £463 -2.63% 43
West Midlands -66 58 £493 -1.50% 25
East of England -7 33 £504 -6.76% 38
East Midlands -33 20 £418 -7.22% 18
North East -15 11 £550 +20.35% 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
1 196 (14.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 152 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 57 (4.33%) Confluence
4 28 (2.13%) Skype for Business
5 14 (1.06%) Apache
5 14 (1.06%) IIS
6 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
7 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.15%) WordPress
8 1 (0.076%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.076%) SAS
8 1 (0.076%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.076%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 37 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 6 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.076%) Actimize
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.076%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 653 (49.58%) Azure
2 316 (23.99%) Entra ID
3 281 (21.34%) Microsoft 365
4 235 (17.84%) AWS
5 135 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (10.17%) GCP
7 121 (9.19%) GitHub
8 89 (6.76%) Power Platform
9 80 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
9 80 (6.07%) OneDrive
10 71 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
11 65 (4.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 63 (4.78%) IaaS
13 57 (4.33%) PaaS
14 48 (3.64%) SaaS
15 47 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
16 43 (3.26%) Serverless
17 41 (3.11%) Azure Key Vault
18 37 (2.81%) PowerApps
19 36 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 208 (15.79%) DNS
2 166 (12.60%) Firewall
3 136 (10.33%) DHCP
4 76 (5.77%) VPN
5 69 (5.24%) TCP/IP
6 60 (4.56%) Network Security
7 44 (3.34%) LAN
8 41 (3.11%) WAN
9 39 (2.96%) Kerberos
10 33 (2.51%) VLAN
11 31 (2.35%) Skype
11 31 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (1.52%) SMTP
13 18 (1.37%) DKIM
13 18 (1.37%) DMARC
14 17 (1.29%) SAN
14 17 (1.29%) Software-Defined Networking
15 15 (1.14%) Wireshark
16 14 (1.06%) HTTP
16 14 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.68%) SQL Server
2 55 (4.18%) Power BI
3 28 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.44%) Metadata
7 18 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (0.76%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.68%) Delta Lake
12 8 (0.61%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.61%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.53%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.53%) Spark SQL
13 7 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.46%) DB2
14 6 (0.46%) MySQL
15 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 85 (6.45%) JIRA
2 82 (6.23%) Git
3 79 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 69 (5.24%) GitLab
5 15 (1.14%) Artifactory
5 15 (1.14%) MSI
6 11 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (0.76%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.68%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.68%) InstallShield
8 9 (0.68%) Selenium
9 8 (0.61%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.53%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.38%) AdminStudio
11 5 (0.38%) Appium
11 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.30%) JUnit
12 4 (0.30%) MSTest
12 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 430 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 223 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
3 138 (10.48%) Finance
4 124 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 90 (6.83%) Documentation Skills
6 61 (4.63%) Legal
7 57 (4.33%) Banking
8 20 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.29%) Front Office
10 14 (1.06%) Retail
11 13 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 13 (0.99%) Military
12 11 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.68%) Publishing
14 8 (0.61%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.61%) Law
15 7 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.46%) Electronics
16 6 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 174 (13.21%) Architect
2 123 (9.34%) Senior
3 90 (6.83%) Azure Engineer
4 83 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 76 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 72 (5.47%) Security Engineer
7 69 (5.24%) Support Engineer
8 62 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
9 59 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 56 (4.25%) Consultant
11 50 (3.80%) Developer
12 46 (3.49%) Analyst
13 44 (3.34%) Microsoft Engineer
14 37 (2.81%) CyberArk Architect
14 37 (2.81%) Lead
15 30 (2.28%) Administrator
15 30 (2.28%) SIEM Engineer
16 27 (2.05%) IT Engineer
17 25 (1.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 25 (1.90%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (13.67%) REST
2 114 (8.66%) LDAP
3 82 (6.23%) Microsoft Graph
4 64 (4.86%) SOAP
5 61 (4.63%) OAuth
6 57 (4.33%) JSON
7 56 (4.25%) SAML
8 49 (3.72%) .NET
9 36 (2.73%) OpenID
10 35 (2.66%) ARM Templates
11 31 (2.35%) SailPoint
12 28 (2.13%) OAuth2
13 26 (1.97%) .NET Framework
14 24 (1.82%) YAML
15 20 (1.52%) Web Services
16 19 (1.44%) Middleware
17 18 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
18 17 (1.29%) XML
19 14 (1.06%) AngularJS
19 14 (1.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 84 (6.38%) Security Posture
2 81 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 75 (5.69%) PKI
4 74 (5.62%) Replication
5 68 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 47 (3.57%) Data Centre
8 40 (3.04%) Cloud Native
9 39 (2.96%) Clustering
10 37 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (2.51%) Product Ownership
12 31 (2.35%) Management Information System
13 26 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.29%) Private Cloud
17 16 (1.21%) BYOD
18 15 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
19 14 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
20 13 (0.99%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 521 (39.56%) Windows
2 227 (17.24%) Linux
2 227 (17.24%) Windows Server
3 69 (5.24%) Windows 10
4 44 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.82%) Mac OS
6 21 (1.59%) Unix
7 20 (1.52%) Android
8 19 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.29%) AIX
10 17 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (1.06%) VMS
12 11 (0.84%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.76%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.76%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.68%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.53%) CentOS
15 7 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (25.13%) DevOps
2 319 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
3 279 (21.18%) CI/CD
4 210 (15.95%) Agile
4 210 (15.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 170 (12.91%) SIEM
6 159 (12.07%) Migration
7 144 (10.93%) Task Automation
8 143 (10.86%) ITIL
9 139 (10.55%) Cybersecurity
10 131 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 130 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 124 (9.42%) Identity Access Management
13 120 (9.11%) ITSM
14 119 (9.04%) RBAC
15 116 (8.81%) Incident Response
16 113 (8.58%) Disaster Recovery
16 113 (8.58%) High Availability
17 110 (8.35%) Analytics
18 102 (7.74%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 564 (42.82%) Python
2 240 (18.22%) Bash
3 151 (11.47%) SQL
4 94 (7.14%) C#
5 76 (5.77%) Kusto Query Language
6 66 (5.01%) JavaScript
7 57 (4.33%) Bicep
8 50 (3.80%) Java
9 32 (2.43%) Perl
10 22 (1.67%) VBScript
11 19 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.14%) BeanShell
13 13 (0.99%) Go
13 13 (0.99%) VB
14 8 (0.61%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.53%) PHP
15 7 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
15 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 569 (43.20%) Security Cleared
2 446 (33.86%) SC Cleared
3 123 (9.34%) DV Cleared
4 120 (9.11%) Degree
5 103 (7.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (6.15%) CISSP
7 60 (4.56%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.49%) CISM
9 34 (2.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 27 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.97%) CEH
12 23 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (1.75%) MCSE
13 21 (1.59%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.52%) MCSA
15 18 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.37%) CCNA
15 18 (1.37%) CCNP
16 16 (1.21%) GIAC
17 13 (0.99%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.73%) GDPR
2 103 (7.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (5.69%) NIST
4 34 (2.58%) QA
5 28 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.37%) SLA
7 15 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 15 (1.14%) MiFID
8 12 (0.91%) NCSC
8 12 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.84%) FINRA
9 11 (0.84%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.38%) PSD2
12 4 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.30%) GRC
13 3 (0.23%) EMIR
13 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 466 (35.38%) Active Directory
2 137 (10.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 116 (8.81%) Docker
4 65 (4.94%) Hyper-V
5 49 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (2.96%) vSphere
7 36 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (1.52%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.29%) KVM
11 14 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
12 13 (0.99%) Firmware
13 10 (0.76%) VMware NSX
14 8 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.30%) NFS
16 3 (0.23%) Squid
17 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
17 2 (0.15%) Snort
17 2 (0.15%) UAG
Systems Management
1 270 (20.50%) Terraform
2 151 (11.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 147 (11.16%) Ansible
4 134 (10.17%) Kubernetes
5 97 (7.37%) SCCM
6 86 (6.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 65 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (3.42%) vCenter Server
9 41 (3.11%) Grafana
10 38 (2.89%) Prometheus
11 18 (1.37%) SCOM
12 16 (1.21%) Kibana
13 15 (1.14%) vRealize
14 14 (1.06%) Puppet
14 14 (1.06%) WSUS
15 13 (0.99%) Nagios
15 13 (0.99%) Progress Chef
16 12 (0.91%) PowerCLI
17 11 (0.84%) Istio
17 11 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 612 (46.47%) Microsoft
2 188 (14.27%) VMware
3 91 (6.91%) CyberArk
4 71 (5.39%) ServiceNow
5 69 (5.24%) Citrix
6 68 (5.16%) BeyondTrust
7 57 (4.33%) Splunk
8 49 (3.72%) Cisco
9 45 (3.42%) Red Hat
10 40 (3.04%) Google
11 38 (2.89%) Oracle
12 35 (2.66%) Centrify
13 29 (2.20%) SolarWinds
14 27 (2.05%) Okta
15 26 (1.97%) Veeam
16 23 (1.75%) Atlassian
16 23 (1.75%) Databricks
17 18 (1.37%) NetApp
17 18 (1.37%) Qualys
18 17 (1.29%) IBM