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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 63 53
Rank change year-on-year -25 -10 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,317 1,023 1,305
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 3.72% 3.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.13% 11.33% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 659 945
10th Percentile £326 £325 £350
25th Percentile £423 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -1.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 15 17
10th Percentile £19.25 £45.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £33.70 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.84% +3.68%
75th Percentile £74.26 £83.98 £74.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £154.00 £74.66
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £63.50 £65.69
% change year-on-year -13.39% -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 11,838 9,030 10,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.40% 32.83% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,679 6,226 7,721
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £772 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 226 373
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £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 £80.12 £83.73 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +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

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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 29 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

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 29 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 29 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 -17 561 £538 +3.86% 156
South East -7 292 £537 -6.70% 105
North of England +3 242 £454 +1.57% 75
North West +11 144 £450 +0.56% 43
South West -6 107 £473 -17.70% 45
Yorkshire -13 90 £460 +5.50% 20
Midlands -80 61 £500 +11.11% 46
East of England -42 43 £507 -7.82% 33
West Midlands -85 41 £500 +8.70% 26
East Midlands -10 19 £469 +4.17% 20
North East -38 9 £394 +12.50% 14
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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 (9.34%) SharePoint
2 121 (9.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (3.57%) Confluence
4 21 (1.59%) IIS
5 12 (0.91%) Apache
5 12 (0.91%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.68%) nginx
7 5 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.30%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.23%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 24 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.076%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (3.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.30%) Remedy AR System
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.076%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.076%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.076%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.076%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.076%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.076%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 721 (54.75%) Azure
2 322 (24.45%) Entra ID
3 293 (22.25%) AWS
4 213 (16.17%) Microsoft 365
5 172 (13.06%) Azure DevOps
6 163 (12.38%) GitHub
7 133 (10.10%) GCP
8 120 (9.11%) Power Platform
9 113 (8.58%) GitHub Actions
10 105 (7.97%) Azure Monitor
11 72 (5.47%) OneDrive
12 68 (5.16%) Azure AKS
13 54 (4.10%) SaaS
14 53 (4.02%) PaaS
15 51 (3.87%) Microsoft Purview
16 50 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
17 45 (3.42%) IaaS
18 44 (3.34%) Microsoft Copilot
19 42 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
20 41 (3.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 179 (13.59%) DNS
2 169 (12.83%) Firewall
3 98 (7.44%) DHCP
4 84 (6.38%) VPN
5 82 (6.23%) TCP/IP
6 59 (4.48%) Network Security
7 38 (2.89%) WAN
8 32 (2.43%) SAN
9 28 (2.13%) VLAN
10 22 (1.67%) VSAN
11 21 (1.59%) LAN
11 21 (1.59%) SSL
12 19 (1.44%) SSH
13 17 (1.29%) NAS
13 17 (1.29%) SNMP
14 15 (1.14%) SD-WAN
15 14 (1.06%) Skype
15 14 (1.06%) SMTP
15 14 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
16 13 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (14.05%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.23%) Power BI
3 40 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.29%) MySQL
8 17 (1.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (1.21%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.21%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.21%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.99%) Metadata
10 13 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.91%) Big Data
12 10 (0.76%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.53%) Db2
Development Applications
1 113 (8.58%) Jenkins
2 107 (8.12%) Git
3 71 (5.39%) JIRA
4 62 (4.71%) GitLab
5 24 (1.82%) MSI
6 12 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (0.84%) Selenium
8 10 (0.76%) InstallShield
8 10 (0.76%) Postman
9 9 (0.68%) AdminStudio
9 9 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 8 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.46%) JMeter
11 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.38%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.38%) MSBuild
12 5 (0.38%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 300 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 218 (16.55%) Finance
3 177 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 78 (5.92%) Documentation Skills
6 77 (5.85%) Banking
7 31 (2.35%) Legal
8 22 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 18 (1.37%) Front Office
10 17 (1.29%) Military
11 16 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.76%) Law
15 8 (0.61%) Retail
16 7 (0.53%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.53%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.38%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 155 (11.77%) Senior
2 139 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 136 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 113 (8.58%) Azure Engineer
5 83 (6.30%) Architect
6 81 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
7 80 (6.07%) Security Engineer
8 69 (5.24%) Support Engineer
9 56 (4.25%) Developer
10 48 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (3.57%) Consultant
12 45 (3.42%) Analyst
13 44 (3.34%) Lead
14 36 (2.73%) Administrator
15 34 (2.58%) IT Engineer
16 33 (2.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (2.28%) DBA
17 30 (2.28%) PowerShell Engineer
18 29 (2.20%) Automation Engineer
18 29 (2.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (9.19%) REST
2 74 (5.62%) .NET
3 68 (5.16%) Microsoft Graph
4 53 (4.02%) ARM Templates
4 53 (4.02%) JSON
5 51 (3.87%) OAuth
6 50 (3.80%) LDAP
7 45 (3.42%) SailPoint
8 43 (3.26%) YAML
9 39 (2.96%) OpenID
9 39 (2.96%) SAML
10 33 (2.51%) Web Services
11 30 (2.28%) OAuth2
12 28 (2.13%) .NET Framework
13 23 (1.75%) Kafka
13 23 (1.75%) SOAP
14 18 (1.37%) React
15 17 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
16 16 (1.21%) XML
17 12 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 124 (9.42%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.91%) Cloud Native
3 69 (5.24%) PKI
4 68 (5.16%) Security Posture
5 61 (4.63%) Replication
6 58 (4.40%) Clustering
7 57 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 52 (3.95%) Management Information System
9 50 (3.80%) Data Centre
10 47 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
11 31 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.90%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.75%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.59%) Product Ownership
15 20 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
16 19 (1.44%) CMDB
16 19 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
17 18 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 620 (47.08%) Windows
2 327 (24.83%) Linux
3 256 (19.44%) Windows Server
4 81 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (4.33%) Windows 10
6 47 (3.57%) Unix
7 28 (2.13%) Ubuntu
8 24 (1.82%) AIX
8 24 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (1.67%) Mac OS
10 19 (1.44%) CentOS
10 19 (1.44%) VMS
11 18 (1.37%) Apple iOS
12 17 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 14 (1.06%) Android
14 11 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
15 10 (0.76%) Rocky
16 9 (0.68%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
17 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (28.70%) DevOps
2 354 (26.88%) CI/CD
3 316 (23.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 261 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
5 216 (16.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 182 (13.82%) Agile
7 168 (12.76%) Migration
8 167 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 163 (12.38%) ITIL
10 161 (12.22%) Runbook
11 140 (10.63%) ITSM
12 135 (10.25%) Identity Access Management
13 134 (10.17%) Analytics
14 131 (9.95%) SIEM
15 128 (9.72%) Observability
16 125 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
17 122 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
18 121 (9.19%) AI
19 119 (9.04%) Cloud Security
20 117 (8.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 621 (47.15%) Python
2 330 (25.06%) Bash
3 237 (18.00%) SQL
4 112 (8.50%) Bicep
5 98 (7.44%) C#
6 60 (4.56%) Java
7 59 (4.48%) JavaScript
8 29 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.05%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.75%) Perl
11 21 (1.59%) VBScript
12 20 (1.52%) Search Processing Language
12 20 (1.52%) TypeScript
13 19 (1.44%) Groovy
14 15 (1.14%) Go
15 12 (0.91%) C++
15 12 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.84%) BeanShell
17 10 (0.76%) VB
18 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 462 (35.08%) Security Cleared
2 324 (24.60%) SC Cleared
3 146 (11.09%) Degree
4 141 (10.71%) DV Cleared
5 99 (7.52%) Azure Certification
6 94 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 75 (5.69%) CISSP
8 54 (4.10%) AWS Certification
9 42 (3.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 30 (2.28%) CISM
11 28 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (1.82%) MCSE
14 21 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.37%) MCSA
15 18 (1.37%) VCAP
16 14 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 10 (0.76%) A+ Certification
18 10 (0.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (6.83%) NIST
3 46 (3.49%) GDPR
4 40 (3.04%) QA
5 33 (2.51%) Data Quality
6 29 (2.20%) SLA
7 14 (1.06%) HIPAA
8 13 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.84%) NCSC
10 10 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.76%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.46%) GxP
12 5 (0.38%) GRC
13 4 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 415 (31.51%) Active Directory
2 165 (12.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 147 (11.16%) Docker
4 84 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
5 70 (5.32%) Hyper-V
6 61 (4.63%) VMware ESXi
7 58 (4.40%) vSphere
8 41 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 39 (2.96%) VMware NSX
10 24 (1.82%) BitLocker
11 20 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
12 17 (1.29%) Firmware
13 16 (1.21%) vCloud
14 10 (0.76%) KVM
15 5 (0.38%) Squid
15 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.23%) NFS
16 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 387 (29.38%) Terraform
2 233 (17.69%) Ansible
3 214 (16.25%) Kubernetes
4 163 (12.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 92 (6.99%) SCCM
6 66 (5.01%) Grafana
7 65 (4.94%) vCenter Server
8 55 (4.18%) Prometheus
9 42 (3.19%) Progress Chef
10 41 (3.11%) Puppet
11 39 (2.96%) SCOM
12 27 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (1.75%) Packer
14 21 (1.59%) Nagios
15 20 (1.52%) ZABBIX
16 18 (1.37%) Tivoli
16 18 (1.37%) vRealize
17 16 (1.21%) Netcool
18 14 (1.06%) NetBackup
18 14 (1.06%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 600 (45.56%) Microsoft
2 220 (16.70%) VMware
3 124 (9.42%) ServiceNow
4 84 (6.38%) Google
5 82 (6.23%) CyberArk
6 78 (5.92%) Splunk
7 76 (5.77%) Oracle
8 57 (4.33%) Cisco
9 51 (3.87%) BeyondTrust
9 51 (3.87%) Red Hat
10 48 (3.64%) Citrix
11 47 (3.57%) BMC
12 45 (3.42%) Remedy
13 38 (2.89%) SolarWinds
14 31 (2.35%) IBM
15 29 (2.20%) Databricks
16 28 (2.13%) HP
16 28 (2.13%) NetApp
17 23 (1.75%) Dynatrace
18 21 (1.59%) Qualys