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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 62 53
Rank change year-on-year -23 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,332 1,046 1,349
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 3.84% 3.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.14% 11.61% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 874 682 962
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 13 27
10th Percentile £19.25 £45.15 £30.87
25th Percentile £33.70 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +40.75% -23.03%
75th Percentile £68.50 £85.00 £68.84
90th Percentile £79.00 £177.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £64.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -18.29% +39.13% -23.30%

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 11,956 9,007 11,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.57% 33.08% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,787 6,203 8,043
10th Percentile £361 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -4.17% -1.82%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 228 436
10th Percentile £34.02 £29.07 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.97 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +3.59%
75th Percentile £70.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.13 £83.42 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.79% -8.60% -

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -17 559 £535 +1.90% 88
South East -10 294 £525 -8.70% 87
North of England +5 261 £454 +2.02% 50
North West +12 153 £452 +0.95% 30
Yorkshire -4 105 £460 +9.85% 11
South West -14 102 £450 -21.74% 27
Midlands -71 67 £500 +8.70% 36
West Midlands -79 47 £500 +8.70% 20
East of England -47 39 £507 -7.82% 23
East Midlands -12 19 £469 +4.17% 16
North East -29 5 £238 -32.14% 10
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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
1 133 (9.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 129 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 45 (3.38%) Confluence
4 20 (1.50%) IIS
5 12 (0.90%) Skype for Business
6 11 (0.83%) Apache
7 8 (0.60%) nginx
8 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.23%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.075%) CMS
12 1 (0.075%) MTS
Applications
1 25 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.075%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.15%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.075%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.075%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 726 (54.50%) Azure
2 337 (25.30%) Entra ID
3 285 (21.40%) AWS
4 227 (17.04%) Microsoft 365
5 160 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
6 155 (11.64%) GitHub
7 128 (9.61%) GCP
8 118 (8.86%) Power Platform
9 108 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
10 97 (7.28%) Azure Monitor
11 79 (5.93%) OneDrive
12 62 (4.65%) Azure AKS
13 58 (4.35%) PaaS
14 57 (4.28%) SaaS
15 54 (4.05%) Microsoft Purview
16 45 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
16 45 (3.38%) IaaS
16 45 (3.38%) Microsoft Copilot
17 40 (3.00%) Power Automate
18 38 (2.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 192 (14.41%) DNS
2 167 (12.54%) Firewall
3 110 (8.26%) DHCP
4 80 (6.01%) VPN
5 73 (5.48%) TCP/IP
6 58 (4.35%) Network Security
7 44 (3.30%) WAN
8 32 (2.40%) Kerberos
9 31 (2.33%) LAN
10 30 (2.25%) SAN
11 28 (2.10%) VLAN
12 24 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (1.43%) SSL
14 18 (1.35%) VSAN
15 17 (1.28%) NAS
15 17 (1.28%) SNMP
15 17 (1.28%) SSH
16 14 (1.05%) Skype
16 14 (1.05%) SMTP
17 13 (0.98%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (13.36%) SQL Server
2 77 (5.78%) Power BI
3 43 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 16 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.20%) MySQL
9 15 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (1.05%) Relational Database
11 13 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (0.90%) Metadata
13 11 (0.83%) Big Data
14 10 (0.75%) NoSQL
15 9 (0.68%) Db2
15 9 (0.68%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 109 (8.18%) Jenkins
2 101 (7.58%) Git
3 72 (5.41%) JIRA
4 56 (4.20%) GitLab
5 24 (1.80%) MSI
6 11 (0.83%) Selenium
7 10 (0.75%) InstallShield
7 10 (0.75%) Postman
8 9 (0.68%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.60%) Artifactory
9 8 (0.60%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.45%) JMeter
11 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.38%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.30%) Appium
12 4 (0.30%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.30%) MSBuild
General
1 305 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 213 (15.99%) Finance
3 171 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 79 (5.93%) Documentation Skills
6 76 (5.71%) Banking
7 35 (2.63%) Legal
8 22 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 21 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.28%) Front Office
11 15 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 15 (1.13%) Military
12 12 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.75%) Law
14 9 (0.68%) Retail
15 6 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.45%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.38%) Back Office
16 5 (0.38%) Local Government
17 4 (0.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 150 (11.26%) Senior
2 128 (9.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 123 (9.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 112 (8.41%) Azure Engineer
5 86 (6.46%) Architect
6 83 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 79 (5.93%) Security Engineer
8 74 (5.56%) Support Engineer
9 52 (3.90%) Developer
10 47 (3.53%) Analyst
11 46 (3.45%) Consultant
12 39 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
13 38 (2.85%) Lead
14 36 (2.70%) IT Engineer
15 33 (2.48%) Administrator
16 32 (2.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 30 (2.25%) PowerShell Engineer
18 29 (2.18%) DBA
18 29 (2.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 28 (2.10%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (8.56%) REST
2 77 (5.78%) LDAP
2 77 (5.78%) Microsoft Graph
3 63 (4.73%) .NET
4 54 (4.05%) OAuth
5 50 (3.75%) JSON
6 47 (3.53%) ARM Templates
7 45 (3.38%) SailPoint
8 42 (3.15%) SAML
8 42 (3.15%) YAML
9 34 (2.55%) OpenID
10 32 (2.40%) Web Services
11 29 (2.18%) OAuth2
12 24 (1.80%) .NET Framework
13 23 (1.73%) Kafka
14 21 (1.58%) SOAP
15 19 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
16 16 (1.20%) XML
17 15 (1.13%) React
18 12 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 119 (8.93%) Onboarding
2 86 (6.46%) Cloud Native
3 80 (6.01%) Replication
4 69 (5.18%) Security Posture
5 64 (4.80%) PKI
6 59 (4.43%) Clustering
7 52 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 46 (3.45%) Management Information System
9 44 (3.30%) Data Centre
9 44 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
11 25 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.80%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.65%) Product Ownership
15 21 (1.58%) Data Structures
16 18 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
18 16 (1.20%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 604 (45.35%) Windows
2 302 (22.67%) Linux
3 247 (18.54%) Windows Server
4 74 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 60 (4.50%) Windows 10
6 46 (3.45%) Unix
7 26 (1.95%) AIX
8 25 (1.88%) Ubuntu
8 25 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (1.65%) Mac OS
10 19 (1.43%) VMS
11 18 (1.35%) Apple iOS
11 18 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (1.13%) CentOS
13 13 (0.98%) Android
13 13 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.75%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.53%) Rocky
16 5 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
16 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (27.25%) DevOps
2 346 (25.98%) CI/CD
3 296 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 265 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
5 197 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 185 (13.89%) Agile
7 169 (12.69%) Migration
8 164 (12.31%) ITIL
9 157 (11.79%) Runbook
10 155 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 133 (9.98%) SIEM
12 132 (9.91%) Identity Access Management
12 132 (9.91%) ITSM
13 127 (9.53%) Analytics
14 124 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
14 124 (9.31%) Disaster Recovery
15 122 (9.16%) Observability
16 118 (8.86%) High Availability
17 114 (8.56%) AI
18 113 (8.48%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 608 (45.65%) Python
2 309 (23.20%) Bash
3 236 (17.72%) SQL
4 93 (6.98%) Bicep
5 89 (6.68%) C#
6 58 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 55 (4.13%) Java
8 35 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (1.95%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.65%) VBScript
11 21 (1.58%) TypeScript
12 20 (1.50%) Perl
12 20 (1.50%) Search Processing Language
13 17 (1.28%) Groovy
14 13 (0.98%) Go
14 13 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.90%) C++
16 11 (0.83%) BeanShell
17 10 (0.75%) VB
18 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 473 (35.51%) Security Cleared
2 339 (25.45%) SC Cleared
3 136 (10.21%) Degree
4 133 (9.98%) DV Cleared
5 93 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 88 (6.61%) Azure Certification
7 78 (5.86%) CISSP
8 50 (3.75%) AWS Certification
9 42 (3.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 33 (2.48%) CISM
11 27 (2.03%) MCSE
12 24 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.65%) MCSA
14 20 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (1.43%) VCAP
16 13 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 8 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 91 (6.83%) NIST
3 58 (4.35%) GDPR
4 34 (2.55%) QA
5 31 (2.33%) Data Quality
6 29 (2.18%) SLA
7 17 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 15 (1.13%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.75%) NCSC
10 10 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.38%) GRC
11 5 (0.38%) GxP
12 4 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.23%) FINRA
13 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 426 (31.98%) Active Directory
2 160 (12.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 138 (10.36%) Docker
4 86 (6.46%) Virtual Machines
5 71 (5.33%) Hyper-V
6 63 (4.73%) VMware ESXi
7 59 (4.43%) vSphere
8 42 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 33 (2.48%) VMware NSX
10 26 (1.95%) BitLocker
11 20 (1.50%) Microsoft App-V
12 19 (1.43%) Firmware
13 15 (1.13%) vCloud
14 14 (1.05%) KVM
15 5 (0.38%) Squid
15 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.23%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.23%) Postfix
17 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 362 (27.18%) Terraform
2 216 (16.22%) Ansible
3 195 (14.64%) Kubernetes
4 163 (12.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 89 (6.68%) SCCM
6 69 (5.18%) vCenter Server
7 64 (4.80%) Grafana
8 53 (3.98%) Prometheus
9 39 (2.93%) Progress Chef
9 39 (2.93%) Puppet
10 36 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 35 (2.63%) SCOM
11 35 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (1.58%) Nagios
12 21 (1.58%) Packer
13 20 (1.50%) ZABBIX
14 18 (1.35%) Tivoli
14 18 (1.35%) vRealize
15 17 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
16 16 (1.20%) Netcool
Vendors
1 621 (46.62%) Microsoft
2 209 (15.69%) VMware
3 119 (8.93%) ServiceNow
4 79 (5.93%) CyberArk
4 79 (5.93%) Google
5 76 (5.71%) Splunk
6 71 (5.33%) Oracle
7 59 (4.43%) Cisco
8 49 (3.68%) BeyondTrust
8 49 (3.68%) Citrix
9 48 (3.60%) Red Hat
10 40 (3.00%) BMC
10 40 (3.00%) SolarWinds
11 37 (2.78%) Remedy
12 32 (2.40%) IBM
13 28 (2.10%) Databricks
13 28 (2.10%) HP
14 24 (1.80%) NetApp
15 23 (1.73%) Okta
16 21 (1.58%) Dynatrace