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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 61 57
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,175 1,079 1,483
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.89% 3.46% 3.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.03% 10.71% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 722 1,043
10th Percentile £351 £345 £330
25th Percentile £425 £433 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £663
90th Percentile £725 £700 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 40
10th Percentile £44.13 £23.80 £18.20
25th Percentile £45.94 £48.75 £30.44
Median hourly rate £64.07 £58.49 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% +20.85% -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £74.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £60.00 £48.40
% change year-on-year +5.84% +23.96% -12.00%

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 9,769 10,071 12,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.33% 32.30% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,511 6,571 9,107
10th Percentile £350 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £779
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 247 420
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £31.95
25th Percentile £46.25 £45.59 £47.31
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +7.44% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

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 15 November 2025.

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

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -12 518 £525 -4.55% 284
South East +1 189 £513 -10.87% 186
South West +21 138 £560 +5.66% 67
North of England -21 121 £473 -0.51% 75
Midlands -5 115 £475 -5.00% 81
West Midlands -10 89 £475 -6.86% 48
East of England +19 64 £550 +57.14% 50
North West -15 60 £448 -5.79% 42
Yorkshire -19 52 £473 +0.02% 21
East Midlands 0 26 £450 - 33
North East -9 13 £550 +20.35% 12
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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
1 182 (15.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (9.62%) SharePoint
3 63 (5.36%) Confluence
4 42 (3.57%) Skype for Business
5 16 (1.36%) Apache
5 16 (1.36%) Mattermost
6 14 (1.19%) nginx
7 8 (0.68%) IIS
8 4 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.26%) SAS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.085%) CMS
11 1 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.085%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.085%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.085%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.085%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.085%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 39 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.085%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.085%) ProjectWise
4 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.085%) Eikon
2 1 (0.085%) Endur
2 1 (0.085%) Eze OMS
2 1 (0.085%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.085%) Findur
2 1 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.085%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 508 (43.23%) Azure
2 260 (22.13%) Microsoft 365
3 229 (19.49%) Entra ID
4 204 (17.36%) AWS
5 109 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (8.51%) GCP
7 94 (8.00%) GitHub
8 69 (5.87%) Power Platform
9 61 (5.19%) IaaS
10 56 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (4.51%) OneDrive
12 51 (4.34%) SaaS
13 50 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
14 47 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
15 46 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
16 44 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 43 (3.66%) Microsoft Purview
18 40 (3.40%) Amazon S3
19 39 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
20 38 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 202 (17.19%) Firewall
2 186 (15.83%) DNS
3 88 (7.49%) DHCP
4 66 (5.62%) Network Security
5 58 (4.94%) VPN
6 55 (4.68%) TCP/IP
7 45 (3.83%) Skype
8 44 (3.74%) SMTP
9 43 (3.66%) HTTP
10 31 (2.64%) FTP
11 29 (2.47%) SSH
12 28 (2.38%) SAN
12 28 (2.38%) VLAN
13 25 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
14 19 (1.62%) LAN
14 19 (1.62%) WAN
14 19 (1.62%) Wireshark
15 18 (1.53%) SSL
16 16 (1.36%) Unified Communications
17 13 (1.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 45 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
2 45 (3.83%) Power BI
3 34 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.19%) Metadata
6 13 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.77%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.51%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.43%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.34%) MySQL
13 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 105 (8.94%) Jenkins
2 98 (8.34%) JIRA
3 79 (6.72%) Git
4 55 (4.68%) GitLab
5 24 (2.04%) MSI
5 24 (2.04%) Vagrant
6 22 (1.87%) Artifactory
7 16 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.85%) InstallShield
10 9 (0.77%) AdminStudio
10 9 (0.77%) Metasploit
11 8 (0.68%) Burp Suite
11 8 (0.68%) Maven
12 7 (0.60%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.51%) Postman
14 5 (0.43%) GCC
14 5 (0.43%) Gradle
15 4 (0.34%) Cucumber
General
1 393 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 181 (15.40%) Finance
3 180 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (10.21%) Public Sector
5 59 (5.02%) Documentation Skills
6 56 (4.77%) Banking
7 38 (3.23%) Legal
8 25 (2.13%) Games
9 23 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.70%) Front Office
11 19 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.62%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.53%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.45%) Marketing
14 16 (1.36%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.28%) Electronics
16 11 (0.94%) Law
17 10 (0.85%) Retail
18 9 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 106 (9.02%) Platform Engineer
2 100 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 97 (8.26%) Architect
4 96 (8.17%) Analyst
5 86 (7.32%) Senior
6 69 (5.87%) Security Engineer
7 66 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
8 64 (5.45%) Consultant
9 63 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 52 (4.43%) Developer
10 52 (4.43%) Support Engineer
11 36 (3.06%) Administrator
12 35 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
13 32 (2.72%) Lead
13 32 (2.72%) Windows Engineer
14 29 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
15 28 (2.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 28 (2.38%) SOC Analyst
16 27 (2.30%) Microsoft Engineer
16 27 (2.30%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (9.62%) REST
2 58 (4.94%) JSON
3 53 (4.51%) LDAP
4 52 (4.43%) OAuth
5 48 (4.09%) SAML
6 41 (3.49%) OpenID
7 37 (3.15%) ARM Templates
8 33 (2.81%) .NET
8 33 (2.81%) Middleware
9 29 (2.47%) SailPoint
10 27 (2.30%) Microsoft Graph
11 26 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
11 26 (2.21%) OAuth2
11 26 (2.21%) YAML
12 23 (1.96%) XML
13 22 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (1.36%) React
15 15 (1.28%) HTML
16 13 (1.11%) CSS
17 12 (1.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (5.87%) PKI
2 55 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.51%) Replication
4 40 (3.40%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.06%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.98%) Security Posture
7 33 (2.81%) Cloud Native
8 32 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 30 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
11 26 (2.21%) Private Cloud
12 25 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (1.70%) Security Operations Centre
16 19 (1.62%) Product Ownership
17 14 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 14 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
18 12 (1.02%) Algorithms
18 12 (1.02%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 482 (41.02%) Windows
2 263 (22.38%) Linux
3 168 (14.30%) Windows Server
4 78 (6.64%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.51%) Mac OS
6 50 (4.26%) Android
7 38 (3.23%) VMS
8 35 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (2.04%) Amazon Linux
10 23 (1.96%) Unix
11 21 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (1.53%) Apple iOS
13 17 (1.45%) Ubuntu
14 15 (1.28%) CentOS
15 14 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.94%) Solaris
17 10 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
18 8 (0.68%) Kali Linux
19 5 (0.43%) Windows 7
20 3 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (27.49%) DevOps
2 248 (21.11%) CI/CD
3 242 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
4 210 (17.87%) Agile
5 200 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 178 (15.15%) Migration
7 145 (12.34%) ITIL
8 136 (11.57%) Cybersecurity
9 134 (11.40%) SIEM
10 115 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 114 (9.70%) Identity Access Management
12 109 (9.28%) Configuration Management
13 104 (8.85%) Incident Response
14 102 (8.68%) Task Automation
15 100 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 99 (8.43%) RBAC
17 92 (7.83%) Platform Engineering
18 90 (7.66%) Cloud Security
19 89 (7.57%) Security Operations
20 88 (7.49%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 516 (43.91%) Python
2 225 (19.15%) Bash
3 162 (13.79%) SQL
4 70 (5.96%) Java
5 69 (5.87%) JavaScript
6 67 (5.70%) C#
7 46 (3.91%) Kusto Query Language
8 42 (3.57%) Bicep
9 39 (3.32%) Perl
10 35 (2.98%) Groovy
11 28 (2.38%) VBScript
12 17 (1.45%) Go
13 15 (1.28%) C++
14 13 (1.11%) BeanShell
15 10 (0.85%) C
15 10 (0.85%) PHP
15 10 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.85%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.85%) VB
16 7 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 426 (36.26%) Security Cleared
2 323 (27.49%) SC Cleared
3 116 (9.87%) DV Cleared
4 111 (9.45%) Degree
5 86 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 72 (6.13%) CISSP
7 55 (4.68%) Azure Certification
8 32 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
10 30 (2.55%) AWS Certification
10 30 (2.55%) CISM
11 29 (2.47%) CEH
12 26 (2.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 24 (2.04%) CCNA
13 24 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
14 22 (1.87%) CCNP
15 19 (1.62%) GCIH
16 17 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (1.36%) GIAC
17 16 (1.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (9.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 94 (8.00%) GDPR
3 77 (6.55%) NIST
4 27 (2.30%) HIPAA
5 18 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 17 (1.45%) QA
6 17 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.28%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.19%) SLA
9 9 (0.77%) NCSC
10 8 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.43%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.43%) PSD2
12 4 (0.34%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.26%) EMIR
13 3 (0.26%) ITGC
13 3 (0.26%) MiFID
14 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.085%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 428 (36.43%) Active Directory
2 126 (10.72%) Docker
3 125 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 29 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.87%) DFS Replication
7 20 (1.70%) Virtual Servers
8 16 (1.36%) Hyper-V
8 16 (1.36%) Squid
9 13 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 13 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (1.11%) vSphere
10 12 (1.02%) Dovecot
10 12 (1.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 12 (1.02%) Postfix
11 9 (0.77%) Firmware
11 9 (0.77%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.68%) NFS
13 7 (0.60%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 237 (20.17%) Terraform
2 158 (13.45%) SCCM
3 141 (12.00%) Ansible
4 138 (11.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 103 (8.77%) Kubernetes
6 56 (4.77%) Single Sign-On
7 54 (4.60%) Grafana
8 52 (4.43%) Prometheus
9 45 (3.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 36 (3.06%) SCOM
11 27 (2.30%) vRealize
12 24 (2.04%) WSUS
13 21 (1.79%) HP SiteScope
13 21 (1.79%) Kibana
14 19 (1.62%) Nessus
14 19 (1.62%) Proxmox
15 18 (1.53%) ITRS Geneos
16 16 (1.36%) vCenter Server
17 15 (1.28%) NetBackup
18 14 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 534 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 178 (15.15%) VMware
3 117 (9.96%) Splunk
4 90 (7.66%) Cisco
5 86 (7.32%) ServiceNow
6 63 (5.36%) Citrix
6 63 (5.36%) CyberArk
7 49 (4.17%) Red Hat
8 40 (3.40%) Google
8 40 (3.40%) Oracle
9 34 (2.89%) CrowdStrike
10 29 (2.47%) Atlassian
11 28 (2.38%) BeyondTrust
11 28 (2.38%) Meraki
12 25 (2.13%) SAP
13 23 (1.96%) Veeam
14 22 (1.87%) Okta
14 22 (1.87%) Remedy
15 21 (1.79%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.70%) Solace