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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 68 53
Rank change year-on-year -18 -15 +5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,392 995 1,260
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.05% 3.60% 3.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.60% 11.01% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 632 907
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +2.37% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 15 16
10th Percentile £21.50 £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 £74.26 £83.98 £74.11
90th Percentile £87.00 £154.00 £74.72
UK median hourly rate £60.33 £63.50 £69.69
% change year-on-year -4.99% -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 11,998 9,036 10,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.32% 32.70% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,785 6,214 7,550
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £530
% change year-on-year +1.99% -5.19% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 234 359
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £52.88 £38.33 £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 £79.75 £84.85 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -10 608 £530 +2.91% 250
South East -9 308 £525 -8.70% 123
North of England +13 249 £483 +7.63% 91
North West +30 156 £477 +3.14% 62
South West 0 113 £495 -13.91% 51
Yorkshire -16 82 £481 +10.38% 20
Midlands -83 56 £500 +11.11% 42
East of England -40 47 £507 -7.82% 40
West Midlands -89 38 £500 +8.70% 25
East Midlands -9 17 £469 +4.17% 17
North East - 12 £500 - 11
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 (8.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 118 (8.48%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.52%) Confluence
4 22 (1.58%) IIS
5 19 (1.36%) Skype for Business
6 17 (1.22%) Apache
7 12 (0.86%) nginx
8 7 (0.50%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.29%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.29%) FactoryTalk
10 4 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 28 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.072%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.43%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.072%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.072%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.072%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.072%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.072%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.072%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 778 (55.89%) Azure
2 335 (24.07%) Entra ID
3 323 (23.20%) AWS
4 217 (15.59%) Microsoft 365
5 195 (14.01%) Azure DevOps
6 176 (12.64%) GitHub
7 140 (10.06%) GCP
8 127 (9.12%) Power Platform
9 118 (8.48%) Azure Monitor
9 118 (8.48%) GitHub Actions
10 76 (5.46%) Azure AKS
11 67 (4.81%) OneDrive
12 60 (4.31%) SaaS
13 58 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 55 (3.95%) PaaS
15 52 (3.74%) Microsoft Purview
16 48 (3.45%) IaaS
17 46 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
17 46 (3.30%) Microsoft Copilot
18 45 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 209 (15.01%) DNS
2 191 (13.72%) Firewall
3 118 (8.48%) DHCP
4 95 (6.82%) VPN
5 91 (6.54%) TCP/IP
6 66 (4.74%) Network Security
7 42 (3.02%) WAN
8 32 (2.30%) SAN
8 32 (2.30%) VLAN
9 28 (2.01%) VSAN
10 24 (1.72%) SSL
11 22 (1.58%) LAN
12 21 (1.51%) Skype
13 18 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (1.22%) NAS
14 17 (1.22%) SD-WAN
14 17 (1.22%) SNMP
15 16 (1.15%) SSH
16 14 (1.01%) SMTP
17 13 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (13.00%) SQL Server
2 87 (6.25%) Power BI
3 42 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (1.29%) Big Data
8 18 (1.29%) MySQL
9 17 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 16 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.15%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.01%) Metadata
12 13 (0.93%) NoSQL
13 10 (0.72%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.43%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 125 (8.98%) Jenkins
2 106 (7.61%) Git
3 77 (5.53%) GitLab
4 74 (5.32%) JIRA
5 26 (1.87%) MSI
6 13 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (0.79%) Selenium
8 9 (0.65%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.65%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (0.65%) InstallShield
9 8 (0.57%) Postman
9 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.43%) JMeter
10 6 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.36%) MSBuild
11 5 (0.36%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 328 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 230 (16.52%) Finance
3 184 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.75%) Banking
6 77 (5.53%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.30%) Legal
8 21 (1.51%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.36%) Front Office
10 17 (1.22%) Military
11 15 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 14 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.72%) Law
14 10 (0.72%) Retail
15 9 (0.65%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.50%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 163 (11.71%) Senior
2 156 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 148 (10.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 127 (9.12%) Azure Engineer
5 89 (6.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 84 (6.03%) Architect
7 81 (5.82%) Security Engineer
8 78 (5.60%) Support Engineer
9 56 (4.02%) Developer
10 54 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
11 53 (3.81%) Lead
12 50 (3.59%) Consultant
13 48 (3.45%) Analyst
14 38 (2.73%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 37 (2.66%) IT Engineer
16 36 (2.59%) Administrator
17 31 (2.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 31 (2.23%) PowerShell Engineer
17 31 (2.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 30 (2.16%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (8.91%) REST
2 73 (5.24%) .NET
3 65 (4.67%) ARM Templates
4 61 (4.38%) Microsoft Graph
5 55 (3.95%) OAuth
6 51 (3.66%) JSON
6 51 (3.66%) LDAP
7 45 (3.23%) SailPoint
7 45 (3.23%) YAML
8 43 (3.09%) SAML
9 42 (3.02%) OpenID
10 33 (2.37%) OAuth2
10 33 (2.37%) Web Services
11 27 (1.94%) Kafka
12 26 (1.87%) .NET Framework
13 25 (1.80%) SOAP
14 20 (1.44%) React
15 16 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
16 12 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.91%) Onboarding
2 99 (7.11%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (5.10%) PKI
5 70 (5.03%) Security Posture
6 59 (4.24%) Clustering
6 59 (4.24%) Replication
7 53 (3.81%) Management Information System
8 52 (3.74%) Data Centre
9 51 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
11 26 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 24 (1.72%) CMDB
12 24 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
13 21 (1.51%) Product Ownership
14 17 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 668 (47.99%) Windows
2 351 (25.22%) Linux
3 276 (19.83%) Windows Server
4 85 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 71 (5.10%) Windows 10
6 44 (3.16%) Unix
7 28 (2.01%) Ubuntu
8 26 (1.87%) Mac OS
9 23 (1.65%) AIX
10 21 (1.51%) Apple iOS
10 21 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (1.44%) CentOS
11 20 (1.44%) VMS
12 19 (1.36%) Windows 7
13 17 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
14 16 (1.15%) Android
15 10 (0.72%) Rocky
15 10 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
16 7 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (30.10%) DevOps
2 398 (28.59%) CI/CD
3 362 (26.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 278 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
5 236 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 192 (13.79%) Agile
7 183 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 179 (12.86%) ITIL
9 174 (12.50%) Migration
10 169 (12.14%) Runbook
11 160 (11.49%) ITSM
12 147 (10.56%) Analytics
13 146 (10.49%) Identity Access Management
14 141 (10.13%) Observability
15 139 (9.99%) Cloud Security
16 137 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
16 137 (9.84%) SIEM
17 135 (9.70%) AI
18 134 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
18 134 (9.63%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 664 (47.70%) Python
2 359 (25.79%) Bash
3 243 (17.46%) SQL
4 126 (9.05%) Bicep
5 98 (7.04%) C#
6 73 (5.24%) Java
7 65 (4.67%) JavaScript
8 29 (2.08%) VBScript
9 28 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
10 24 (1.72%) Perl
10 24 (1.72%) Search Processing Language
10 24 (1.72%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.44%) Groovy
11 20 (1.44%) TypeScript
12 16 (1.15%) VB
13 14 (1.01%) Go
14 13 (0.93%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.86%) BeanShell
15 12 (0.86%) C++
16 8 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 502 (36.06%) Security Cleared
2 354 (25.43%) SC Cleared
3 154 (11.06%) DV Cleared
4 151 (10.85%) Degree
5 110 (7.90%) Azure Certification
6 97 (6.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 83 (5.96%) CISSP
8 61 (4.38%) AWS Certification
9 41 (2.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (2.16%) CISM
12 25 (1.80%) MCSE
13 21 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (1.51%) VCAP
14 18 (1.29%) MCSA
15 16 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
16 14 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 13 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.79%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 93 (6.68%) NIST
3 50 (3.59%) GDPR
4 41 (2.95%) QA
5 35 (2.51%) Data Quality
6 33 (2.37%) SLA
7 15 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (1.01%) HIPAA
8 14 (1.01%) NCSC
9 10 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.43%) GxP
11 5 (0.36%) GRC
12 4 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 3 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 434 (31.18%) Active Directory
2 182 (13.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 160 (11.49%) Docker
4 86 (6.18%) Virtual Machines
5 75 (5.39%) Hyper-V
6 64 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
6 64 (4.60%) vSphere
7 48 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 46 (3.30%) VMware NSX
9 30 (2.16%) BitLocker
10 19 (1.36%) Microsoft App-V
11 18 (1.29%) vCloud
12 17 (1.22%) Firmware
13 7 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.43%) KVM
15 5 (0.36%) Squid
15 5 (0.36%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.22%) NFS
16 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 438 (31.47%) Terraform
2 255 (18.32%) Ansible
3 244 (17.53%) Kubernetes
4 173 (12.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 109 (7.83%) SCCM
6 74 (5.32%) Grafana
7 65 (4.67%) vCenter Server
8 62 (4.45%) Prometheus
9 50 (3.59%) Progress Chef
10 47 (3.38%) SCOM
11 42 (3.02%) Puppet
12 32 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
13 24 (1.72%) Packer
14 21 (1.51%) Nagios
15 20 (1.44%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.29%) Tivoli
17 17 (1.22%) vRealize
18 16 (1.15%) Netcool
18 16 (1.15%) VxRail
19 15 (1.08%) WMI
Vendors
1 647 (46.48%) Microsoft
2 248 (17.82%) VMware
3 140 (10.06%) ServiceNow
4 87 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 87 (6.25%) Google
5 86 (6.18%) Splunk
6 74 (5.32%) Oracle
7 57 (4.09%) Cisco
8 54 (3.88%) Red Hat
9 51 (3.66%) BMC
10 50 (3.59%) BeyondTrust
11 49 (3.52%) Citrix
11 49 (3.52%) Remedy
12 37 (2.66%) Databricks
13 35 (2.51%) SolarWinds
14 30 (2.16%) IBM
15 28 (2.01%) HP
15 28 (2.01%) NetApp
16 24 (1.72%) Dynatrace
17 23 (1.65%) Qualys