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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 67 55
Rank change year-on-year -13 -12 +5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,439 1,029 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.15% 3.71% 3.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.11% 11.32% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 650 860
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £613
90th Percentile £708 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £504 £523
% change year-on-year +3.23% -3.59% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 15 14
10th Percentile £27.00 £44.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £43.81 £45.38 £38.87
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +7.89% +13.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £78.98 £74.00
90th Percentile £91.00 £85.00 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £63.50 £65.69
% change year-on-year -0.57% -3.33% +9.48%

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 11,884 9,092 10,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.97% 32.76% 32.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,696 6,195 7,454
10th Percentile £363 £348 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 267 315
10th Percentile £29.96 £30.68 £31.98
25th Percentile £51.33 £42.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £79.25 £79.67
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 31 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 31 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 31 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 -10 636 £540 +5.37% 122
South East -5 306 £538 -6.32% 104
North of England +23 259 £475 +6.26% 77
North West +33 160 £453 -1.52% 54
South West -15 111 £500 -6.98% 49
Yorkshire -13 87 £500 +21.21% 16
Midlands -79 62 £500 +6.67% 63
East of England -35 50 £507 -7.82% 49
West Midlands -81 43 £518 +8.95% 37
East Midlands -9 18 £500 +11.11% 26
North East -25 13 £500 - 9
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
1 118 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 116 (8.06%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.27%) Confluence
4 22 (1.53%) IIS
5 21 (1.46%) Skype for Business
6 20 (1.39%) Apache
7 14 (0.97%) nginx
8 11 (0.76%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.35%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.14%) CMS
13 2 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 30 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.069%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.42%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.14%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.069%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.069%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.069%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 797 (55.39%) Azure
2 357 (24.81%) Entra ID
3 330 (22.93%) AWS
4 221 (15.36%) Microsoft 365
5 212 (14.73%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (12.79%) GitHub
7 137 (9.52%) GCP
8 133 (9.24%) Azure Monitor
9 132 (9.17%) Power Platform
10 117 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
11 82 (5.70%) Azure AKS
12 63 (4.38%) OneDrive
12 63 (4.38%) SaaS
13 54 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 52 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
15 49 (3.41%) Microsoft Purview
15 49 (3.41%) PaaS
16 47 (3.27%) IaaS
17 45 (3.13%) OpenShift
18 41 (2.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 232 (16.12%) DNS
2 210 (14.59%) Firewall
3 139 (9.66%) DHCP
4 102 (7.09%) TCP/IP
5 100 (6.95%) VPN
6 77 (5.35%) Network Security
7 40 (2.78%) WAN
8 37 (2.57%) VLAN
9 33 (2.29%) SAN
10 30 (2.08%) VSAN
11 23 (1.60%) Skype
11 23 (1.60%) SSL
12 20 (1.39%) SSH
13 19 (1.32%) LAN
14 18 (1.25%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.18%) NAS
15 17 (1.18%) SNMP
15 17 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (1.11%) SMTP
17 13 (0.90%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (12.09%) SQL Server
2 91 (6.32%) Power BI
3 39 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 20 (1.39%) Big Data
8 18 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.11%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.04%) MySQL
11 14 (0.97%) Metadata
11 14 (0.97%) MongoDB
12 13 (0.90%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.76%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 124 (8.62%) Jenkins
2 113 (7.85%) Git
3 85 (5.91%) GitLab
4 73 (5.07%) JIRA
5 31 (2.15%) MSI
6 14 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (0.76%) Artifactory
9 10 (0.69%) Selenium
10 9 (0.63%) AdminStudio
10 9 (0.63%) InstallShield
10 9 (0.63%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (0.56%) Postman
12 6 (0.42%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.42%) JMeter
13 5 (0.35%) MSBuild
13 5 (0.35%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.28%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.28%) Robot Framework
General
1 356 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 254 (17.65%) Finance
3 203 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 87 (6.05%) Banking
6 85 (5.91%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (1.95%) Legal
8 23 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 20 (1.39%) Aerospace
9 20 (1.39%) Military
10 18 (1.25%) Front Office
11 13 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.83%) Law
12 12 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.76%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.56%) Retail
15 8 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.49%) Local Government
17 6 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 162 (11.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 156 (10.84%) Senior
3 148 (10.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 135 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 102 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 89 (6.18%) Architect
7 88 (6.12%) Support Engineer
8 76 (5.28%) Security Engineer
9 64 (4.45%) Lead
10 59 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
11 56 (3.89%) Developer
12 53 (3.68%) Analyst
13 52 (3.61%) Consultant
14 39 (2.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 39 (2.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 37 (2.57%) IT Engineer
16 35 (2.43%) Administrator
17 33 (2.29%) PowerShell Engineer
18 31 (2.15%) DBA
19 28 (1.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (32.04%) Terraform
2 133 (9.24%) REST
3 79 (5.49%) ARM Templates
4 74 (5.14%) .NET
5 58 (4.03%) LDAP
5 58 (4.03%) Microsoft Graph
5 58 (4.03%) OAuth
6 50 (3.47%) YAML
7 48 (3.34%) JSON
8 46 (3.20%) SailPoint
9 45 (3.13%) SAML
10 41 (2.85%) OpenID
11 32 (2.22%) OAuth2
12 31 (2.15%) Web Services
13 30 (2.08%) Kafka
14 24 (1.67%) .NET Framework
14 24 (1.67%) SOAP
15 22 (1.53%) React
16 17 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (1.04%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.90%) Onboarding
2 99 (6.88%) Cloud Native
3 77 (5.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (5.07%) PKI
5 68 (4.73%) Security Posture
6 62 (4.31%) Management Information System
7 61 (4.24%) Clustering
8 60 (4.17%) Replication
9 56 (3.89%) Data Centre
10 52 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
12 26 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
13 25 (1.74%) Data Structures
13 25 (1.74%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.67%) CMDB
15 21 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
16 19 (1.32%) Product Ownership
17 17 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
18 16 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 705 (48.99%) Windows
2 374 (25.99%) Linux
3 309 (21.47%) Windows Server
4 88 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 78 (5.42%) Windows 10
6 45 (3.13%) Unix
7 34 (2.36%) Ubuntu
8 26 (1.81%) Apple iOS
8 26 (1.81%) CentOS
8 26 (1.81%) Mac OS
9 22 (1.53%) VMS
9 22 (1.53%) Windows 7
9 22 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (1.25%) AIX
10 18 (1.25%) Android
11 17 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.76%) Rocky
13 10 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
14 9 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
14 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (30.72%) DevOps
2 423 (29.40%) CI/CD
3 396 (27.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 302 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
5 243 (16.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 212 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 205 (14.25%) Agile
8 196 (13.62%) ITIL
9 185 (12.86%) Runbook
10 175 (12.16%) ITSM
11 172 (11.95%) Migration
12 167 (11.61%) Analytics
13 148 (10.28%) Disaster Recovery
13 148 (10.28%) Observability
14 147 (10.22%) Cybersecurity
15 146 (10.15%) Identity Access Management
16 144 (10.01%) AI
16 144 (10.01%) Cloud Security
16 144 (10.01%) Platform Engineering
17 139 (9.66%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 679 (47.19%) Python
2 372 (25.85%) Bash
3 249 (17.30%) SQL
4 143 (9.94%) Bicep
5 91 (6.32%) C#
6 89 (6.18%) Java
7 69 (4.79%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.08%) VBScript
9 27 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 26 (1.81%) Search Processing Language
11 25 (1.74%) Perl
12 22 (1.53%) T-SQL
13 21 (1.46%) TypeScript
14 20 (1.39%) Groovy
15 17 (1.18%) VB
16 16 (1.11%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.97%) BeanShell
18 13 (0.90%) Go
19 12 (0.83%) C++
20 10 (0.69%) Korn
Qualifications
1 535 (37.18%) Security Cleared
2 365 (25.36%) SC Cleared
3 179 (12.44%) DV Cleared
4 161 (11.19%) Degree
5 119 (8.27%) Azure Certification
6 100 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 85 (5.91%) CISSP
8 64 (4.45%) AWS Certification
9 41 (2.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 33 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (2.15%) CISM
11 31 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.67%) MCSE
13 23 (1.60%) VCAP
14 21 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 17 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
16 17 (1.18%) MCSA
17 12 (0.83%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 104 (7.23%) NIST
3 45 (3.13%) GDPR
3 45 (3.13%) QA
4 36 (2.50%) SLA
5 34 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.32%) NCSC
7 18 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.83%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.69%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.42%) GxP
13 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.21%) GRC
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.14%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.14%) ISA99
System Software
1 451 (31.34%) Active Directory
2 191 (13.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 173 (12.02%) Docker
4 83 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
5 79 (5.49%) Hyper-V
6 72 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
7 70 (4.86%) vSphere
8 53 (3.68%) VMware NSX
9 46 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 32 (2.22%) BitLocker
11 24 (1.67%) vCloud
12 19 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
13 15 (1.04%) Firmware
14 9 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.42%) Squid
16 5 (0.35%) Terminal Services
17 4 (0.28%) Dovecot
17 4 (0.28%) Postfix
18 3 (0.21%) NFS
18 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 269 (18.69%) Ansible
2 257 (17.86%) Kubernetes
3 183 (12.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 124 (8.62%) SCCM
5 82 (5.70%) Grafana
6 69 (4.79%) vCenter Server
7 65 (4.52%) Prometheus
8 59 (4.10%) SCOM
9 53 (3.68%) Progress Chef
10 42 (2.92%) Puppet
11 32 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
12 26 (1.81%) Packer
13 21 (1.46%) Nagios
14 20 (1.39%) ZABBIX
15 18 (1.25%) Tivoli
15 18 (1.25%) vRealize
15 18 (1.25%) WMI
16 17 (1.18%) VxRail
17 16 (1.11%) NetBackup
17 16 (1.11%) Netcool
Vendors
1 676 (46.98%) Microsoft
2 261 (18.14%) VMware
3 141 (9.80%) ServiceNow
4 98 (6.81%) Splunk
5 97 (6.74%) CyberArk
6 86 (5.98%) Google
7 79 (5.49%) Oracle
8 59 (4.10%) Cisco
9 55 (3.82%) BeyondTrust
10 53 (3.68%) Red Hat
11 52 (3.61%) BMC
12 49 (3.41%) Remedy
13 45 (3.13%) Databricks
14 42 (2.92%) Citrix
15 35 (2.43%) SolarWinds
16 27 (1.88%) HP
17 26 (1.81%) NetApp
18 25 (1.74%) IBM
19 24 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
19 24 (1.67%) Qualys