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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 58 54
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,247 920 1,279
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.00% 3.87% 3.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.34% 11.43% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 637 925
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £623 £625
90th Percentile £723 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 6 22
10th Percentile £19.25 £37.38 £37.63
25th Percentile £48.64 £49.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £61.73 £73.23 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +81.94% -32.92%
75th Percentile £74.26 £170.74 £46.74
90th Percentile £82.25 £200.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £31.08 £40.25
% change year-on-year +78.57% -22.78% -33.31%

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 10,996 8,048 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.49% 33.81% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,223 5,594 7,988
10th Percentile £356 £360 £350
25th Percentile £417 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.37% -2.40%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 186 453
10th Percentile £39.25 £28.09 £37.51
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -22 524 £550 +4.76% 99
South East -7 244 £525 -8.70% 93
North of England 0 243 £460 -1.08% 73
North West +16 139 £465 -0.09% 47
South West -12 101 £430 -26.81% 37
Yorkshire -19 101 £471 -5.80% 16
Midlands -59 70 £469 +1.90% 31
West Midlands -63 52 £485 +5.43% 13
East of England -38 41 £507 -7.82% 27
East Midlands -28 17 £380 -17.39% 18
North East -18 5 £400 +14.29% 10
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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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
1 144 (11.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 129 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.81%) Confluence
4 23 (1.84%) IIS
5 15 (1.20%) Skype for Business
6 11 (0.88%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.40%) nginx
8 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.24%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.080%) MTS
11 1 (0.080%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.080%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.64%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 662 (53.09%) Azure
2 292 (23.42%) Entra ID
3 254 (20.37%) AWS
4 233 (18.68%) Microsoft 365
5 134 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
6 133 (10.67%) GCP
7 128 (10.26%) GitHub
8 103 (8.26%) Power Platform
9 86 (6.90%) OneDrive
10 85 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
11 75 (6.01%) Azure Monitor
12 59 (4.73%) Microsoft Purview
13 57 (4.57%) PaaS
14 50 (4.01%) Azure AKS
14 50 (4.01%) Microsoft Copilot
15 41 (3.29%) IaaS
16 38 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
16 38 (3.05%) Power Automate
17 36 (2.89%) SaaS
18 34 (2.73%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 157 (12.59%) DNS
2 123 (9.86%) Firewall
3 89 (7.14%) DHCP
4 68 (5.45%) VPN
5 58 (4.65%) Network Security
6 40 (3.21%) Kerberos
7 36 (2.89%) TCP/IP
7 36 (2.89%) WAN
8 30 (2.41%) LAN
9 23 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (1.68%) SAN
10 21 (1.68%) SMTP
11 19 (1.52%) VLAN
12 17 (1.36%) SNMP
13 16 (1.28%) SSL
14 15 (1.20%) HTTP
14 15 (1.20%) Skype
15 13 (1.04%) NAS
16 11 (0.88%) Unified Communications
16 11 (0.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.75%) SQL Server
2 64 (5.13%) Power BI
3 41 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (1.12%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.12%) MySQL
7 13 (1.04%) Metadata
8 12 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.88%) Delta Lake
9 11 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.80%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.72%) DB2
11 9 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.64%) Spark SQL
12 8 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 82 (6.58%) Jenkins
2 76 (6.09%) Git
3 60 (4.81%) GitLab
4 55 (4.41%) JIRA
5 18 (1.44%) MSI
6 10 (0.80%) InstallShield
7 9 (0.72%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.72%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.72%) Postman
7 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.64%) Selenium
9 7 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.48%) JMeter
11 5 (0.40%) Appium
12 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.32%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.32%) JUnit
13 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 324 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 153 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
3 149 (11.95%) Finance
4 107 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 72 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
6 64 (5.13%) Banking
7 43 (3.45%) Legal
8 22 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 21 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.20%) Front Office
11 12 (0.96%) Law
12 11 (0.88%) Military
13 10 (0.80%) Retail
14 9 (0.72%) Publishing
15 8 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.56%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.48%) Marketing
18 5 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
19 4 (0.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 145 (11.63%) Architect
2 115 (9.22%) Senior
3 97 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 93 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
5 78 (6.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 76 (6.09%) Security Engineer
7 70 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 55 (4.41%) Support Engineer
9 50 (4.01%) Developer
10 41 (3.29%) Analyst
11 38 (3.05%) CyberArk Architect
12 36 (2.89%) Consultant
13 32 (2.57%) Lead
13 32 (2.57%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (2.49%) Desktop Engineer
15 28 (2.25%) Automation Engineer
16 27 (2.17%) PowerShell Engineer
17 26 (2.09%) Wintel Engineer
18 25 (2.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 25 (2.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (11.23%) REST
2 120 (9.62%) LDAP
3 84 (6.74%) Microsoft Graph
4 55 (4.41%) SOAP
5 52 (4.17%) .NET
5 52 (4.17%) OAuth
6 42 (3.37%) SAML
7 39 (3.13%) JSON
7 39 (3.13%) YAML
8 38 (3.05%) SailPoint
9 34 (2.73%) ARM Templates
10 26 (2.09%) OpenID
11 25 (2.00%) Web Services
12 21 (1.68%) .NET Framework
12 21 (1.68%) OAuth2
13 18 (1.44%) Kafka
14 17 (1.36%) React
15 15 (1.20%) AngularJS
16 14 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
17 13 (1.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 87 (6.98%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.58%) Replication
3 76 (6.09%) Security Posture
4 73 (5.85%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (4.73%) Clustering
6 55 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 52 (4.17%) Cloud Native
8 45 (3.61%) PKI
9 36 (2.89%) Management Information System
10 34 (2.73%) Data Centre
11 23 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
12 21 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (1.52%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (1.12%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
18 11 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 536 (42.98%) Windows
2 229 (18.36%) Linux
3 221 (17.72%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.81%) Windows 10
5 41 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (3.13%) Unix
7 28 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (2.09%) AIX
9 25 (2.00%) Mac OS
10 21 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (1.28%) Ubuntu
11 16 (1.28%) VMS
12 14 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (1.04%) Apple iOS
13 13 (1.04%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.64%) Android
14 8 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (0.56%) CentOS
16 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (24.94%) DevOps
2 293 (23.50%) CI/CD
3 271 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
4 224 (17.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 159 (12.75%) Agile
5 159 (12.75%) SIEM
6 145 (11.63%) Migration
7 140 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 132 (10.59%) Task Automation
9 126 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
10 121 (9.70%) Identity Access Management
11 119 (9.54%) ITIL
11 119 (9.54%) Runbook
12 118 (9.46%) Analytics
13 117 (9.38%) ITSM
14 114 (9.14%) Root Cause Analysis
15 112 (8.98%) High Availability
16 111 (8.90%) Observability
17 109 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 106 (8.50%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 543 (43.54%) Python
2 236 (18.93%) Bash
3 193 (15.48%) SQL
4 93 (7.46%) C#
5 68 (5.45%) Bicep
6 63 (5.05%) JavaScript
7 56 (4.49%) Kusto Query Language
8 47 (3.77%) Java
9 24 (1.92%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.68%) VBScript
11 18 (1.44%) Search Processing Language
11 18 (1.44%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.36%) Go
13 14 (1.12%) Perl
14 12 (0.96%) Groovy
14 12 (0.96%) VB
15 10 (0.80%) BeanShell
16 9 (0.72%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.64%) C++
18 7 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 495 (39.70%) Security Cleared
2 371 (29.75%) SC Cleared
3 115 (9.22%) DV Cleared
4 108 (8.66%) Degree
5 87 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 71 (5.69%) Azure Certification
7 66 (5.29%) CISSP
8 42 (3.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 32 (2.57%) CISM
10 30 (2.41%) MCSE
11 29 (2.33%) MCSA
12 20 (1.60%) VCAP
13 19 (1.52%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (1.20%) CEH
16 13 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.88%) GIAC
18 7 (0.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 89 (7.14%) GDPR
3 76 (6.09%) NIST
4 30 (2.41%) QA
5 26 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 21 (1.68%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.52%) SLA
8 14 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (1.12%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.88%) FINRA
9 11 (0.88%) MiFID
10 9 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.64%) NCSC
11 8 (0.64%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.40%) GRC
13 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 426 (34.16%) Active Directory
2 141 (11.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (9.14%) Docker
4 69 (5.53%) Hyper-V
4 69 (5.53%) Virtual Machines
5 55 (4.41%) vSphere
6 51 (4.09%) VMware ESXi
7 40 (3.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (2.17%) BitLocker
9 21 (1.68%) VMware NSX
10 19 (1.52%) Firmware
10 19 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
11 18 (1.44%) KVM
12 8 (0.64%) vCloud
13 5 (0.40%) Squid
14 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.24%) Postfix
14 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 287 (23.02%) Terraform
2 165 (13.23%) Ansible
3 158 (12.67%) Kubernetes
4 142 (11.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 82 (6.58%) SCCM
6 61 (4.89%) vCenter Server
7 57 (4.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 53 (4.25%) Grafana
9 44 (3.53%) Prometheus
10 40 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.92%) Puppet
12 23 (1.84%) Nagios
13 20 (1.60%) SCOM
14 19 (1.52%) Progress Chef
15 18 (1.44%) Tivoli
15 18 (1.44%) vRealize
15 18 (1.44%) ZABBIX
16 16 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
16 16 (1.28%) Netcool
17 13 (1.04%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 581 (46.59%) Microsoft
2 186 (14.92%) VMware
3 93 (7.46%) CyberArk
4 85 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 75 (6.01%) BeyondTrust
6 71 (5.69%) Splunk
7 52 (4.17%) Oracle
8 49 (3.93%) Cisco
8 49 (3.93%) Citrix
8 49 (3.93%) Google
9 37 (2.97%) Red Hat
10 36 (2.89%) Centrify
11 32 (2.57%) SolarWinds
12 31 (2.49%) BMC
13 29 (2.33%) IBM
14 27 (2.17%) Databricks
15 23 (1.84%) Remedy
16 21 (1.68%) Dynatrace
16 21 (1.68%) HP
17 20 (1.60%) Okta