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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 54 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,309 1,004 1,183
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.59% 3.91% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.24% 11.55% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 671 834
10th Percentile £353 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.92% +0.46%
75th Percentile £624 £628 £638
90th Percentile £738 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 18 39
10th Percentile £35.41 £17.00 £21.76
25th Percentile £55.00 £22.43 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year +30.87% +40.77% -28.23%
75th Percentile £78.13 £76.74 £67.31
90th Percentile £83.78 £138.40 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £42.50 £40.31
% change year-on-year +74.73% +5.43% -26.71%

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 10,695 8,693 11,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.37% 33.82% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 5,730 8,010
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £661
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 221 473
10th Percentile £41.83 £25.25 £35.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £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 £68.00 £69.00
90th Percentile £77.15 £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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -22 540 £548 +1.86% 145
South East +1 251 £505 -12.17% 133
North of England -2 220 £479 +1.81% 64
South West +6 149 £553 -3.91% 42
North West +5 121 £496 +5.57% 30
Yorkshire -22 90 £460 -8.00% 20
Midlands -55 83 £463 -7.50% 35
West Midlands -58 56 £475 -5.09% 17
East of England -5 30 £500 -13.04% 39
East Midlands -19 27 £449 -3.03% 18
North East -9 14 £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
1 205 (15.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 157 (11.99%) SharePoint
3 57 (4.35%) Confluence
4 34 (2.60%) Skype for Business
5 13 (0.99%) Apache
6 8 (0.61%) IIS
7 4 (0.31%) Mattermost
8 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.15%) WordPress
10 1 (0.076%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.076%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.076%) nginx
10 1 (0.076%) SAS
10 1 (0.076%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.076%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.076%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 9 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.31%) 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
1 648 (49.50%) Azure
2 322 (24.60%) Entra ID
3 297 (22.69%) Microsoft 365
4 233 (17.80%) AWS
5 142 (10.85%) GCP
6 131 (10.01%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (9.32%) GitHub
8 86 (6.57%) OneDrive
9 82 (6.26%) Power Platform
10 81 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (4.89%) Microsoft Purview
12 63 (4.81%) IaaS
13 58 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
14 57 (4.35%) PaaS
15 51 (3.90%) Azure Sentinel
16 49 (3.74%) SaaS
17 43 (3.28%) Serverless
18 40 (3.06%) Azure Key Vault
19 39 (2.98%) Azure AKS
20 38 (2.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 206 (15.74%) DNS
2 172 (13.14%) Firewall
3 134 (10.24%) DHCP
4 73 (5.58%) VPN
5 70 (5.35%) TCP/IP
6 58 (4.43%) Network Security
7 42 (3.21%) Kerberos
7 42 (3.21%) LAN
8 39 (2.98%) WAN
9 37 (2.83%) Skype
10 32 (2.44%) VLAN
11 30 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (1.45%) DKIM
12 19 (1.45%) DMARC
12 19 (1.45%) SAN
13 18 (1.38%) SMTP
14 17 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
15 16 (1.22%) Unified Communications
15 16 (1.22%) Wireshark
16 14 (1.07%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (6.49%) SQL Server
2 52 (3.97%) Power BI
3 32 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.68%) Metadata
4 22 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.69%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.61%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.61%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.53%) Delta Lake
12 7 (0.53%) MySQL
12 7 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.46%) DB2
14 5 (0.38%) Spark SQL
14 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 82 (6.26%) Git
1 82 (6.26%) Jenkins
1 82 (6.26%) JIRA
2 73 (5.58%) GitLab
3 15 (1.15%) Artifactory
3 15 (1.15%) MSI
4 12 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 10 (0.76%) Metasploit
6 9 (0.69%) Burp Suite
7 8 (0.61%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.53%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.53%) Selenium
8 7 (0.53%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.46%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.38%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.31%) Appium
11 4 (0.31%) Gradle
11 4 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 450 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 218 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
3 155 (11.84%) Finance
4 118 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 86 (6.57%) Documentation Skills
6 61 (4.66%) Banking
7 59 (4.51%) Legal
8 19 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.30%) Front Office
10 15 (1.15%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.07%) Retail
12 13 (0.99%) Military
13 12 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.69%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.69%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.69%) Publishing
15 7 (0.53%) Law
15 7 (0.53%) Marketing
15 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (13.29%) Architect
2 114 (8.71%) Senior
3 86 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
4 82 (6.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 75 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 73 (5.58%) Security Engineer
7 69 (5.27%) Support Engineer
8 64 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
9 59 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
10 56 (4.28%) Consultant
11 55 (4.20%) Analyst
12 54 (4.13%) Developer
13 43 (3.28%) Microsoft Engineer
14 37 (2.83%) CyberArk Architect
15 35 (2.67%) Lead
16 31 (2.37%) SIEM Engineer
17 30 (2.29%) Administrator
18 28 (2.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
19 26 (1.99%) IT Engineer
20 24 (1.83%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (12.83%) REST
2 118 (9.01%) LDAP
3 78 (5.96%) Microsoft Graph
4 64 (4.89%) OAuth
5 62 (4.74%) SAML
5 62 (4.74%) SOAP
6 56 (4.28%) JSON
7 43 (3.28%) .NET
8 40 (3.06%) OpenID
9 33 (2.52%) ARM Templates
10 32 (2.44%) SailPoint
11 29 (2.22%) OAuth2
12 23 (1.76%) YAML
13 22 (1.68%) Web Services
14 20 (1.53%) .NET Framework
14 20 (1.53%) Middleware
15 19 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
16 18 (1.38%) XML
17 17 (1.30%) AngularJS
18 14 (1.07%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 84 (6.42%) Security Posture
2 81 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 79 (6.04%) Replication
4 71 (5.42%) PKI
5 66 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 47 (3.59%) Data Centre
8 46 (3.51%) Cloud Native
9 37 (2.83%) Clustering
9 37 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.44%) Management Information System
11 27 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (2.06%) Product Ownership
12 20 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.30%) Private Cloud
15 16 (1.22%) BYOD
16 14 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
17 13 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 500 (38.20%) Windows
2 228 (17.42%) Linux
3 211 (16.12%) Windows Server
4 74 (5.65%) Windows 10
5 42 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (2.22%) Mac OS
7 23 (1.76%) Unix
8 20 (1.53%) Android
9 19 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (1.15%) VMS
11 15 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (0.99%) AIX
13 11 (0.84%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.76%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.76%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.69%) Kali Linux
15 9 (0.69%) Solaris
16 7 (0.53%) CentOS
17 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (25.44%) DevOps
2 319 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
3 282 (21.54%) CI/CD
4 209 (15.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 204 (15.58%) Agile
6 171 (13.06%) SIEM
7 163 (12.45%) Migration
8 146 (11.15%) ITIL
9 144 (11.00%) Task Automation
10 143 (10.92%) Cybersecurity
11 125 (9.55%) Identity Access Management
12 123 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 123 (9.40%) ITSM
13 122 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 122 (9.32%) RBAC
14 107 (8.17%) High Availability
15 106 (8.10%) Analytics
16 105 (8.02%) Incident Response
17 102 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
18 98 (7.49%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 553 (42.25%) Python
2 247 (18.87%) Bash
3 159 (12.15%) SQL
4 94 (7.18%) C#
5 79 (6.04%) Kusto Query Language
6 65 (4.97%) JavaScript
7 52 (3.97%) Bicep
8 50 (3.82%) Java
9 32 (2.44%) Perl
10 21 (1.60%) VBScript
11 16 (1.22%) Go
11 16 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.15%) BeanShell
13 13 (0.99%) VB
14 9 (0.69%) Groovy
15 7 (0.53%) PHP
15 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.53%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 558 (42.63%) Security Cleared
2 440 (33.61%) SC Cleared
3 124 (9.47%) Degree
4 119 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 106 (8.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 85 (6.49%) CISSP
7 64 (4.89%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.51%) CISM
9 35 (2.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 30 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.99%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.99%) CEH
12 25 (1.91%) MCSE
13 22 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.60%) CCNA
14 21 (1.60%) CCNP
14 21 (1.60%) MCSA
15 18 (1.38%) GIAC
15 18 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
16 17 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.01%) GDPR
2 116 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (5.73%) NIST
4 28 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 26 (1.99%) QA
6 18 (1.38%) SLA
7 15 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.15%) MiFID
8 12 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.92%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.84%) Data Quality
9 11 (0.84%) FINRA
9 11 (0.84%) NCSC
10 10 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.38%) PSD2
12 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.23%) EMIR
13 3 (0.23%) GRC
14 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 479 (36.59%) Active Directory
2 140 (10.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (9.40%) Docker
4 60 (4.58%) Hyper-V
5 48 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
6 37 (2.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 35 (2.67%) vSphere
8 25 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (1.30%) BitLocker
9 17 (1.30%) KVM
10 13 (0.99%) Firmware
11 12 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.53%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.38%) NFS
14 5 (0.38%) Squid
15 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.23%) Snort
17 2 (0.15%) Sendmail
17 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 268 (20.47%) Terraform
2 150 (11.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 142 (10.85%) Kubernetes
4 139 (10.62%) Ansible
5 107 (8.17%) SCCM
6 89 (6.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 67 (5.12%) Single Sign-On
8 43 (3.28%) vCenter Server
9 38 (2.90%) Grafana
10 35 (2.67%) Prometheus
11 23 (1.76%) SCOM
12 18 (1.38%) Kibana
13 16 (1.22%) vRealize
14 14 (1.07%) WSUS
15 13 (0.99%) Istio
16 12 (0.92%) Nessus
16 12 (0.92%) Puppet
17 11 (0.84%) Progress Chef
18 9 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
18 9 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 621 (47.44%) Microsoft
2 189 (14.44%) VMware
3 92 (7.03%) CyberArk
4 69 (5.27%) Citrix
4 69 (5.27%) ServiceNow
5 67 (5.12%) BeyondTrust
6 64 (4.89%) Splunk
7 51 (3.90%) Cisco
8 44 (3.36%) Google
9 43 (3.28%) Red Hat
10 40 (3.06%) Oracle
11 34 (2.60%) Centrify
12 28 (2.14%) Okta
13 27 (2.06%) Veeam
14 26 (1.99%) SolarWinds
15 24 (1.83%) Databricks
16 23 (1.76%) Atlassian
17 18 (1.38%) Qualys
17 18 (1.38%) Zscaler
18 17 (1.30%) Tanium