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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 70 52
Rank change year-on-year -14 -18 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,421 1,008 1,263
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.12% 3.65% 3.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.85% 11.17% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 638 908
10th Percentile £325 £320 £350
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £619
90th Percentile £706 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +2.46% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 15 16
10th Percentile £21.88 £44.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £43.81 £45.38 £45.46
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £65.69
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -1.05% +27.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £78.98 £74.11
90th Percentile £91.50 £85.00 £74.72
UK median hourly rate £61.73 £63.50 £69.69
% change year-on-year -2.78% -8.88% +16.15%

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 11,995 9,021 10,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.31% 32.64% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,780 6,180 7,555
10th Percentile £363 £345 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +1.98% -4.76% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 495 245 358
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.26
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £83.88 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +8.33%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -4 625 £538 +3.61% 385
South East -9 314 £527 -8.10% 159
North of England +20 254 £483 +8.05% 98
North West +35 162 £477 +3.70% 62
South West -7 113 £490 -14.78% 51
Yorkshire -11 81 £500 +21.21% 25
Midlands -80 57 £500 +8.40% 45
East of England -40 47 £507 -7.82% 41
West Midlands -87 39 £500 +5.26% 26
East Midlands -19 17 £469 +4.17% 19
North East - 12 £500 - 13
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
1 123 (8.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 119 (8.37%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.52%) Confluence
4 23 (1.62%) IIS
5 20 (1.41%) Skype for Business
6 18 (1.27%) Apache
7 12 (0.84%) nginx
8 9 (0.63%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.35%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
10 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.28%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 29 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.070%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (3.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.42%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.070%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.070%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.070%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.070%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.070%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.070%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.070%) Summit
6 1 (0.070%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 782 (55.03%) Azure
2 345 (24.28%) Entra ID
3 335 (23.57%) AWS
4 220 (15.48%) Microsoft 365
5 198 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
6 178 (12.53%) GitHub
7 138 (9.71%) GCP
8 126 (8.87%) Power Platform
9 119 (8.37%) Azure Monitor
10 117 (8.23%) GitHub Actions
11 77 (5.42%) Azure AKS
12 67 (4.71%) OneDrive
13 61 (4.29%) SaaS
14 59 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 53 (3.73%) PaaS
16 51 (3.59%) Microsoft Purview
17 48 (3.38%) Azure Sentinel
17 48 (3.38%) IaaS
18 46 (3.24%) Microsoft Copilot
18 46 (3.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 216 (15.20%) DNS
2 197 (13.86%) Firewall
3 123 (8.66%) DHCP
4 96 (6.76%) VPN
5 93 (6.54%) TCP/IP
6 68 (4.79%) Network Security
7 43 (3.03%) WAN
8 33 (2.32%) SAN
8 33 (2.32%) VLAN
9 29 (2.04%) VSAN
10 24 (1.69%) SSL
11 23 (1.62%) LAN
12 22 (1.55%) Skype
13 19 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (1.27%) NAS
14 18 (1.27%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.20%) SNMP
15 17 (1.20%) SSH
16 15 (1.06%) SMTP
17 13 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (12.88%) SQL Server
2 86 (6.05%) Power BI
3 43 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.34%) Big Data
8 18 (1.27%) MySQL
8 18 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.06%) Metadata
10 15 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 13 (0.91%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.70%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 125 (8.80%) Jenkins
2 107 (7.53%) Git
3 80 (5.63%) GitLab
4 76 (5.35%) JIRA
5 28 (1.97%) MSI
6 14 (0.99%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (0.77%) Selenium
9 10 (0.70%) Artifactory
10 9 (0.63%) AdminStudio
10 9 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (0.63%) InstallShield
11 8 (0.56%) Postman
11 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.42%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.42%) JMeter
12 6 (0.42%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.35%) MSBuild
13 5 (0.35%) Robot Framework
14 4 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 339 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 238 (16.75%) Finance
3 189 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (7.74%) Public Sector
5 83 (5.84%) Banking
6 81 (5.70%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (2.32%) Legal
8 23 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.34%) Front Office
10 17 (1.20%) Military
11 16 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (0.99%) Aerospace
12 14 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.77%) Law
15 10 (0.70%) Retail
16 9 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.56%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.42%) Local Government
18 6 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 164 (11.54%) Senior
2 157 (11.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 146 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 125 (8.80%) Azure Engineer
5 89 (6.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 88 (6.19%) Architect
7 84 (5.91%) Support Engineer
8 80 (5.63%) Security Engineer
9 58 (4.08%) Lead
10 56 (3.94%) Developer
11 53 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
12 52 (3.66%) Analyst
13 49 (3.45%) Consultant
14 38 (2.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 38 (2.67%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.46%) Administrator
16 33 (2.32%) PowerShell Engineer
17 31 (2.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 31 (2.18%) DBA
18 30 (2.11%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (8.94%) REST
2 76 (5.35%) .NET
3 67 (4.71%) ARM Templates
4 62 (4.36%) Microsoft Graph
5 56 (3.94%) OAuth
6 52 (3.66%) LDAP
7 49 (3.45%) JSON
8 45 (3.17%) SailPoint
9 44 (3.10%) SAML
10 43 (3.03%) YAML
11 42 (2.96%) OpenID
12 33 (2.32%) OAuth2
12 33 (2.32%) Web Services
13 28 (1.97%) Kafka
14 26 (1.83%) .NET Framework
15 25 (1.76%) SOAP
16 21 (1.48%) React
17 16 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
18 12 (0.84%) JDBC
18 12 (0.84%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 128 (9.01%) Onboarding
2 98 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.21%) PKI
4 73 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 72 (5.07%) Security Posture
6 62 (4.36%) Clustering
7 60 (4.22%) Replication
8 58 (4.08%) Management Information System
9 54 (3.80%) Data Centre
10 52 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
11 31 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
12 28 (1.97%) Public Cloud
13 26 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (1.76%) CMDB
14 25 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.69%) Data Structures
16 21 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
17 20 (1.41%) Product Ownership
18 18 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
19 17 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 690 (48.56%) Windows
2 363 (25.55%) Linux
3 286 (20.13%) Windows Server
4 86 (6.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 75 (5.28%) Windows 10
6 44 (3.10%) Unix
7 29 (2.04%) Ubuntu
8 27 (1.90%) Mac OS
9 23 (1.62%) AIX
9 23 (1.62%) Apple iOS
10 22 (1.55%) CentOS
10 22 (1.55%) Windows 7
11 21 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (1.27%) VMS
13 17 (1.20%) Android
13 17 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 10 (0.70%) Rocky
15 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
15 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (29.84%) DevOps
2 405 (28.50%) CI/CD
3 366 (25.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 287 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
5 238 (16.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 192 (13.51%) Agile
7 187 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 185 (13.02%) ITIL
9 178 (12.53%) Migration
10 176 (12.39%) Runbook
11 168 (11.82%) ITSM
12 151 (10.63%) Analytics
13 145 (10.20%) Identity Access Management
14 140 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
14 140 (9.85%) Observability
15 139 (9.78%) AI
15 139 (9.78%) Cloud Security
15 139 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
15 139 (9.78%) SIEM
16 136 (9.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 674 (47.43%) Python
2 368 (25.90%) Bash
3 243 (17.10%) SQL
4 129 (9.08%) Bicep
5 97 (6.83%) C#
6 78 (5.49%) Java
7 69 (4.86%) JavaScript
8 29 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
8 29 (2.04%) VBScript
9 24 (1.69%) Perl
9 24 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
10 22 (1.55%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.41%) TypeScript
12 18 (1.27%) Groovy
13 17 (1.20%) VB
14 15 (1.06%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.99%) Go
16 12 (0.84%) BeanShell
16 12 (0.84%) C++
17 9 (0.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 515 (36.24%) Security Cleared
2 359 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 164 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 157 (11.05%) Degree
5 113 (7.95%) Azure Certification
6 97 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 85 (5.98%) CISSP
8 64 (4.50%) AWS Certification
9 41 (2.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.18%) CISM
10 31 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.76%) MCSE
12 22 (1.55%) VCAP
13 20 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (1.27%) MCSA
15 16 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
15 16 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 15 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.84%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 96 (6.76%) NIST
3 48 (3.38%) GDPR
4 41 (2.89%) QA
5 34 (2.39%) SLA
6 33 (2.32%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.99%) HIPAA
9 14 (0.99%) NCSC
10 13 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.42%) GxP
13 5 (0.35%) GRC
14 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 3 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
15 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 446 (31.39%) Active Directory
2 187 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 163 (11.47%) Docker
4 84 (5.91%) Virtual Machines
5 75 (5.28%) Hyper-V
6 67 (4.71%) VMware ESXi
6 67 (4.71%) vSphere
7 49 (3.45%) VMware NSX
8 47 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (2.25%) BitLocker
10 20 (1.41%) vCloud
11 19 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
12 17 (1.20%) Firmware
13 8 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.42%) KVM
15 5 (0.35%) Squid
15 5 (0.35%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.21%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.21%) NFS
16 3 (0.21%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 445 (31.32%) Terraform
2 262 (18.44%) Ansible
3 244 (17.17%) Kubernetes
4 179 (12.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 114 (8.02%) SCCM
6 75 (5.28%) Grafana
7 68 (4.79%) vCenter Server
8 62 (4.36%) Prometheus
9 51 (3.59%) Progress Chef
10 49 (3.45%) SCOM
11 43 (3.03%) Puppet
12 30 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
13 24 (1.69%) Packer
14 21 (1.48%) Nagios
15 20 (1.41%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.27%) Tivoli
17 17 (1.20%) vRealize
17 17 (1.20%) VxRail
18 16 (1.13%) Netcool
18 16 (1.13%) WMI
Vendors
1 656 (46.16%) Microsoft
2 257 (18.09%) VMware
3 143 (10.06%) ServiceNow
4 94 (6.62%) CyberArk
5 90 (6.33%) Splunk
6 86 (6.05%) Google
7 76 (5.35%) Oracle
8 61 (4.29%) Cisco
9 54 (3.80%) Red Hat
10 53 (3.73%) BMC
11 52 (3.66%) BeyondTrust
11 52 (3.66%) Remedy
12 48 (3.38%) Citrix
13 39 (2.74%) Databricks
14 35 (2.46%) SolarWinds
15 30 (2.11%) IBM
16 28 (1.97%) NetApp
17 27 (1.90%) HP
18 24 (1.69%) Dynatrace
19 23 (1.62%) CrowdStrike