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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 54 67
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,307 982 1,168
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.42% 4.05% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.08% 12.03% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 670 832
10th Percentile £336 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -3.41% -
75th Percentile £620 £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 39 13 27
10th Percentile £34.58 £17.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £20.24 £37.35
Median hourly rate £74.26 £54.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.26% +36.25% -30.23%
75th Percentile £78.75 £77.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.80 £176.59 £57.13
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £24.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +201.14% -38.35% -30.23%

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 10,818 8,163 10,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.34% 33.67% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,220 5,591 7,900
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -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 491 216 438
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.56
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -29 542 £550 +4.76% 123
South East -3 239 £505 -12.17% 97
North of England -7 225 £500 +6.38% 66
South West -2 145 £525 -10.26% 60
North West +5 131 £506 +8.87% 35
Yorkshire -26 88 £460 -8.00% 16
Midlands -65 82 £450 -5.26% 45
West Midlands -59 62 £480 -4.00% 29
East of England -5 41 £507 +9.03% 34
East Midlands -31 19 £418 -9.73% 16
North East -7 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
1 175 (13.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 136 (10.41%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.28%) Confluence
4 20 (1.53%) Skype for Business
5 16 (1.22%) IIS
6 13 (0.99%) Apache
7 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
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 (0.077%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.077%) Actimize
5 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.077%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 662 (50.65%) Azure
2 299 (22.88%) Entra ID
3 261 (19.97%) Microsoft 365
4 235 (17.98%) AWS
5 141 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (10.10%) GCP
7 122 (9.33%) GitHub
8 82 (6.27%) Power Platform
9 81 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
10 79 (6.04%) OneDrive
11 74 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
12 63 (4.82%) IaaS
13 58 (4.44%) PaaS
14 56 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
15 44 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
15 44 (3.37%) Serverless
16 42 (3.21%) Azure AKS
17 41 (3.14%) SaaS
18 39 (2.98%) Azure Key Vault
19 36 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 203 (15.53%) DNS
2 172 (13.16%) Firewall
3 128 (9.79%) DHCP
4 89 (6.81%) VPN
5 61 (4.67%) TCP/IP
6 60 (4.59%) Network Security
7 43 (3.29%) LAN
7 43 (3.29%) WAN
8 39 (2.98%) Kerberos
9 34 (2.60%) VLAN
10 31 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.76%) Skype
12 19 (1.45%) SAN
12 19 (1.45%) SMTP
13 18 (1.38%) DKIM
13 18 (1.38%) DMARC
14 16 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
14 16 (1.22%) SSL
15 14 (1.07%) WebEx
16 13 (0.99%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (7.27%) SQL Server
2 48 (3.67%) Power BI
3 31 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.38%) Metadata
8 13 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.69%) Delta Lake
10 9 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.69%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.69%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.61%) MySQL
11 8 (0.61%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.54%) DB2
12 7 (0.54%) Spark SQL
13 6 (0.46%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 84 (6.43%) Git
2 83 (6.35%) JIRA
3 78 (5.97%) Jenkins
4 69 (5.28%) GitLab
5 15 (1.15%) MSI
6 14 (1.07%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.69%) InstallShield
7 9 (0.69%) Selenium
7 9 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.61%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.61%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.54%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.46%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.38%) AdminStudio
11 5 (0.38%) Appium
11 5 (0.38%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.38%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.31%) JUnit
12 4 (0.31%) MSTest
12 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 409 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 209 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
3 137 (10.48%) Finance
4 112 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.81%) Documentation Skills
6 61 (4.67%) Banking
7 58 (4.44%) Legal
8 19 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.38%) Front Office
10 17 (1.30%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.07%) Retail
12 12 (0.92%) Military
13 10 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.69%) Publishing
15 8 (0.61%) Law
16 7 (0.54%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.46%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.46%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.38%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (13.62%) Architect
2 124 (9.49%) Senior
3 97 (7.42%) Azure Engineer
4 85 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 79 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (5.20%) Security Engineer
7 61 (4.67%) Support Engineer
8 60 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 59 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
10 55 (4.21%) Consultant
11 49 (3.75%) Analyst
12 46 (3.52%) Developer
13 40 (3.06%) Lead
14 37 (2.83%) CyberArk Architect
15 35 (2.68%) Microsoft Engineer
16 30 (2.30%) IT Engineer
16 30 (2.30%) SIEM Engineer
17 29 (2.22%) Administrator
18 27 (2.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 25 (1.91%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (13.70%) REST
2 115 (8.80%) LDAP
3 77 (5.89%) Microsoft Graph
4 66 (5.05%) SOAP
5 57 (4.36%) JSON
6 54 (4.13%) OAuth
7 53 (4.06%) .NET
8 50 (3.83%) SAML
9 42 (3.21%) ARM Templates
10 30 (2.30%) OpenID
11 28 (2.14%) SailPoint
11 28 (2.14%) YAML
12 27 (2.07%) .NET Framework
13 23 (1.76%) OAuth2
14 21 (1.61%) Web Services
15 16 (1.22%) Middleware
16 15 (1.15%) Kafka
16 15 (1.15%) XML
17 14 (1.07%) AngularJS
17 14 (1.07%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.20%) Replication
2 80 (6.12%) Security Posture
3 75 (5.74%) PKI
4 74 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 67 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (4.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 47 (3.60%) Clustering
8 45 (3.44%) Data Centre
9 41 (3.14%) Cloud Native
10 37 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
11 34 (2.60%) Product Ownership
12 29 (2.22%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
14 20 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
15 17 (1.30%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (0.99%) BYOD
18 12 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 535 (40.93%) Windows
2 229 (17.52%) Windows Server
3 227 (17.37%) Linux
4 65 (4.97%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.91%) Mac OS
7 23 (1.76%) Unix
8 20 (1.53%) VMS
9 19 (1.45%) AIX
9 19 (1.45%) Android
9 19 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (0.99%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.77%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.77%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (0.54%) CentOS
16 5 (0.38%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (25.48%) DevOps
2 316 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
3 277 (21.19%) CI/CD
4 217 (16.60%) Agile
5 215 (16.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 171 (13.08%) SIEM
7 168 (12.85%) Migration
8 146 (11.17%) ITIL
9 141 (10.79%) Task Automation
10 135 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 134 (10.25%) Cybersecurity
12 124 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 120 (9.18%) Identity Access Management
13 120 (9.18%) ITSM
14 116 (8.88%) Disaster Recovery
15 115 (8.80%) RBAC
16 114 (8.72%) High Availability
17 110 (8.42%) Analytics
18 109 (8.34%) Incident Response
19 102 (7.80%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 552 (42.23%) Python
2 240 (18.36%) Bash
3 164 (12.55%) SQL
4 97 (7.42%) C#
5 75 (5.74%) Kusto Query Language
6 70 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 62 (4.74%) Bicep
8 45 (3.44%) Java
9 29 (2.22%) Perl
10 21 (1.61%) VBScript
11 20 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 13 (0.99%) Go
13 12 (0.92%) VB
14 11 (0.84%) BeanShell
15 10 (0.77%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
17 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.54%) PHP
18 6 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 559 (42.77%) Security Cleared
2 435 (33.28%) SC Cleared
3 119 (9.10%) DV Cleared
4 115 (8.80%) Degree
5 100 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (5.97%) CISSP
7 65 (4.97%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.52%) CISM
9 37 (2.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 25 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.76%) CEH
11 23 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.68%) MCSE
13 21 (1.61%) MCSA
14 20 (1.53%) AWS Certification
15 18 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (1.22%) CCNA
16 16 (1.22%) GIAC
17 15 (1.15%) CCNP
18 12 (0.92%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (8.42%) GDPR
2 99 (7.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 78 (5.97%) NIST
4 33 (2.52%) QA
5 23 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.45%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (1.22%) SLA
8 15 (1.15%) MiFID
9 13 (0.99%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.84%) FINRA
10 11 (0.84%) NCSC
11 10 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.69%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.31%) GRC
14 3 (0.23%) EMIR
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 455 (34.81%) Active Directory
2 142 (10.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (9.10%) Docker
4 72 (5.51%) Hyper-V
5 57 (4.36%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (3.44%) vSphere
7 37 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
8 35 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.61%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.30%) KVM
11 15 (1.15%) Firmware
12 14 (1.07%) Microsoft App-V
12 14 (1.07%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) Squid
15 2 (0.15%) NFS
15 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.15%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.15%) Snort
15 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 275 (21.04%) Terraform
2 151 (11.55%) Ansible
3 144 (11.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 139 (10.64%) Kubernetes
5 92 (7.04%) SCCM
6 80 (6.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 60 (4.59%) Single Sign-On
8 50 (3.83%) vCenter Server
9 37 (2.83%) Grafana
10 32 (2.45%) Prometheus
11 19 (1.45%) Puppet
11 19 (1.45%) vRealize
12 18 (1.38%) SCOM
13 17 (1.30%) Progress Chef
14 16 (1.22%) PowerCLI
15 15 (1.15%) Nagios
15 15 (1.15%) WSUS
16 14 (1.07%) Kibana
17 11 (0.84%) Istio
17 11 (0.84%) Nessus
Vendors
1 599 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 194 (14.84%) VMware
3 89 (6.81%) CyberArk
4 74 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 71 (5.43%) Citrix
6 69 (5.28%) BeyondTrust
7 61 (4.67%) Splunk
8 49 (3.75%) Cisco
9 45 (3.44%) Red Hat
10 40 (3.06%) Google
11 38 (2.91%) Oracle
12 35 (2.68%) Centrify
13 31 (2.37%) Databricks
14 28 (2.14%) SolarWinds
15 26 (1.99%) Okta
16 23 (1.76%) Atlassian
17 21 (1.61%) Veeam
18 20 (1.53%) IBM
19 19 (1.45%) NetApp
19 19 (1.45%) Qualys