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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 -9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,287 986 1,182
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 3.96% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.22% 11.69% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 668 829
10th Percentile £353 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 17 36
10th Percentile £35.41 £17.00 £21.41
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £37.49
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.87% +40.98% -29.79%
75th Percentile £78.13 £77.50 £53.66
90th Percentile £83.78 £147.20 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £36.79 £40.25
% change year-on-year +101.85% -8.60% -26.82%

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 10,533 8,438 11,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.26% 33.88% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,027 5,642 7,934
10th Percentile £351 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 216 471
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.20 £85.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -25 522 £550 +2.33% 140
South East -2 248 £505 -12.17% 150
North of England -3 219 £479 +1.81% 74
South West +2 149 £556 -3.26% 52
North West +9 121 £496 +5.57% 35
Yorkshire -22 90 £460 -8.00% 29
Midlands -53 82 £463 -7.50% 44
West Midlands -56 55 £475 -5.09% 21
East of England -15 30 £500 -13.04% 45
East Midlands -22 27 £449 -3.03% 21
North East -10 13 £550 +20.35% 11
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
1 201 (15.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 154 (11.97%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.35%) Confluence
4 31 (2.41%) Skype for Business
5 13 (1.01%) Apache
6 8 (0.62%) IIS
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.16%) Mattermost
8 2 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.078%) SAS
9 1 (0.078%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.078%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.62%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.078%) Actimize
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.078%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 636 (49.42%) Azure
2 320 (24.86%) Entra ID
3 291 (22.61%) Microsoft 365
4 229 (17.79%) AWS
5 141 (10.96%) GCP
6 130 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (9.25%) GitHub
8 83 (6.45%) OneDrive
9 82 (6.37%) Power Platform
10 78 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
11 63 (4.90%) IaaS
11 63 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
12 58 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
13 56 (4.35%) PaaS
14 50 (3.89%) Azure Sentinel
15 48 (3.73%) SaaS
16 43 (3.34%) Serverless
17 40 (3.11%) Azure Key Vault
18 38 (2.95%) Azure AKS
18 38 (2.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 202 (15.70%) DNS
2 168 (13.05%) Firewall
3 133 (10.33%) DHCP
4 71 (5.52%) VPN
5 69 (5.36%) TCP/IP
6 57 (4.43%) Network Security
7 42 (3.26%) Kerberos
7 42 (3.26%) LAN
8 39 (3.03%) WAN
9 34 (2.64%) Skype
10 32 (2.49%) VLAN
11 30 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (1.48%) DKIM
12 19 (1.48%) DMARC
12 19 (1.48%) SAN
13 17 (1.32%) SMTP
13 17 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
14 15 (1.17%) Wireshark
15 14 (1.09%) Unified Communications
16 13 (1.01%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 52 (4.04%) Power BI
3 31 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.71%) Metadata
4 22 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (1.32%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.93%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.70%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.62%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.62%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.54%) Delta Lake
12 7 (0.54%) MySQL
12 7 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.47%) DB2
14 5 (0.39%) Spark SQL
14 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 81 (6.29%) JIRA
2 80 (6.22%) Git
3 78 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 69 (5.36%) GitLab
5 15 (1.17%) MSI
6 14 (1.09%) Artifactory
7 11 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.78%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.54%) Selenium
12 6 (0.47%) InstallShield
12 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.39%) Spinnaker
14 4 (0.31%) Appium
14 4 (0.31%) MSTest
14 4 (0.31%) Postman
14 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 438 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 215 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
3 147 (11.42%) Finance
4 115 (8.94%) Public Sector
5 86 (6.68%) Documentation Skills
6 60 (4.66%) Banking
7 59 (4.58%) Legal
8 19 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.32%) Front Office
10 15 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.09%) Retail
12 13 (1.01%) Military
13 11 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.70%) Publishing
15 7 (0.54%) Law
15 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.47%) Electronics
16 6 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 174 (13.52%) Architect
2 114 (8.86%) Senior
3 84 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
4 77 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 74 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 70 (5.44%) Security Engineer
7 69 (5.36%) Support Engineer
8 62 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
9 56 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (4.27%) Consultant
11 53 (4.12%) Developer
12 52 (4.04%) Analyst
13 42 (3.26%) Microsoft Engineer
14 37 (2.87%) CyberArk Architect
15 35 (2.72%) Lead
16 31 (2.41%) SIEM Engineer
17 30 (2.33%) Administrator
18 28 (2.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
19 26 (2.02%) IT Engineer
20 23 (1.79%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (13.05%) REST
2 117 (9.09%) LDAP
3 78 (6.06%) Microsoft Graph
4 63 (4.90%) OAuth
4 63 (4.90%) SOAP
5 60 (4.66%) SAML
6 55 (4.27%) JSON
7 43 (3.34%) .NET
8 39 (3.03%) OpenID
9 32 (2.49%) ARM Templates
9 32 (2.49%) SailPoint
10 28 (2.18%) OAuth2
11 23 (1.79%) YAML
12 22 (1.71%) Web Services
13 20 (1.55%) .NET Framework
13 20 (1.55%) Middleware
14 18 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
15 17 (1.32%) XML
16 16 (1.24%) AngularJS
17 14 (1.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.45%) Security Posture
2 81 (6.29%) Onboarding
3 77 (5.98%) Replication
4 70 (5.44%) PKI
5 65 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 46 (3.57%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.42%) Cloud Native
9 37 (2.87%) Clustering
9 37 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (2.41%) Management Information System
11 27 (2.10%) Product Ownership
12 26 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.32%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.24%) BYOD
17 14 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
17 14 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
18 13 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 493 (38.31%) Windows
2 221 (17.17%) Linux
3 209 (16.24%) Windows Server
4 72 (5.59%) Windows 10
5 41 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (2.18%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.71%) Unix
8 20 (1.55%) Android
9 19 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 14 (1.09%) VMS
13 13 (1.01%) AIX
14 10 (0.78%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.78%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.78%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.70%) Kali Linux
16 8 (0.62%) Solaris
17 7 (0.54%) CentOS
18 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (25.10%) DevOps
2 312 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 273 (21.21%) CI/CD
4 203 (15.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 200 (15.54%) Agile
6 170 (13.21%) SIEM
7 158 (12.28%) Migration
8 142 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
8 142 (11.03%) ITIL
8 142 (11.03%) Task Automation
9 124 (9.63%) Identity Access Management
10 121 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 120 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 120 (9.32%) ITSM
11 120 (9.32%) RBAC
12 106 (8.24%) Analytics
12 106 (8.24%) High Availability
13 104 (8.08%) Incident Response
14 101 (7.85%) Disaster Recovery
15 96 (7.46%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 542 (42.11%) Python
2 243 (18.88%) Bash
3 152 (11.81%) SQL
4 91 (7.07%) C#
5 78 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 61 (4.74%) JavaScript
7 52 (4.04%) Bicep
8 48 (3.73%) Java
9 32 (2.49%) Perl
10 21 (1.63%) VBScript
11 16 (1.24%) Go
11 16 (1.24%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.17%) BeanShell
13 13 (1.01%) VB
14 7 (0.54%) Groovy
14 7 (0.54%) PHP
14 7 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.54%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 551 (42.81%) Security Cleared
2 436 (33.88%) SC Cleared
3 121 (9.40%) Degree
4 118 (9.17%) DV Cleared
5 103 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 85 (6.60%) CISSP
7 61 (4.74%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.57%) CISM
9 33 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 28 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (2.02%) CEH
12 24 (1.86%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.86%) MCSE
13 22 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.63%) MCSA
15 19 (1.48%) CCNA
15 19 (1.48%) CCNP
16 18 (1.40%) GIAC
17 17 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
18 15 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (10.10%) GDPR
2 114 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (5.67%) NIST
4 28 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 26 (2.02%) QA
6 18 (1.40%) SLA
7 15 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.17%) MiFID
8 12 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.85%) Data Quality
9 11 (0.85%) FINRA
9 11 (0.85%) NCSC
9 11 (0.85%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.78%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.39%) PSD2
12 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.23%) EMIR
13 3 (0.23%) GRC
14 2 (0.16%) GxP
14 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 471 (36.60%) Active Directory
2 138 (10.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (9.25%) Docker
4 60 (4.66%) Hyper-V
5 48 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (2.72%) vSphere
7 34 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (1.32%) BitLocker
9 17 (1.32%) KVM
10 13 (1.01%) Firmware
11 12 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
12 9 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.54%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.39%) NFS
15 4 (0.31%) Squid
16 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.23%) Snort
17 2 (0.16%) Sendmail
17 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 260 (20.20%) Terraform
2 150 (11.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 138 (10.72%) Ansible
3 138 (10.72%) Kubernetes
4 105 (8.16%) SCCM
5 89 (6.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 66 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (3.34%) vCenter Server
8 37 (2.87%) Grafana
9 34 (2.64%) Prometheus
10 20 (1.55%) SCOM
11 17 (1.32%) Kibana
12 14 (1.09%) vRealize
13 13 (1.01%) Istio
13 13 (1.01%) WSUS
14 12 (0.93%) Puppet
15 11 (0.85%) Nessus
15 11 (0.85%) Progress Chef
16 9 (0.70%) Nagios
16 9 (0.70%) Nmap
Vendors
1 611 (47.47%) Microsoft
2 186 (14.45%) VMware
3 92 (7.15%) CyberArk
4 68 (5.28%) Citrix
5 67 (5.21%) BeyondTrust
5 67 (5.21%) ServiceNow
6 59 (4.58%) Splunk
7 49 (3.81%) Cisco
8 44 (3.42%) Google
9 42 (3.26%) Red Hat
10 40 (3.11%) Oracle
11 34 (2.64%) Centrify
12 28 (2.18%) Okta
13 26 (2.02%) Veeam
14 25 (1.94%) SolarWinds
15 23 (1.79%) Atlassian
15 23 (1.79%) Databricks
16 18 (1.40%) Qualys
17 17 (1.32%) Zscaler
18 16 (1.24%) Tanium