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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 65 62
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1,238 934 1,230
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 3.48% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.49% 10.52% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 621 873
10th Percentile £350 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 42
10th Percentile £50.40 £17.00 £20.94
25th Percentile £58.43 £20.24 £37.21
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.87% +22.88% -16.04%
75th Percentile £82.00 £74.11 £69.62
90th Percentile £83.95 £94.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £42.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.73% -7.97% -16.04%

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 9,911 8,881 10,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.61% 33.10% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,609 5,707 7,910
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £731 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 216 443
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.26 £35.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £44.81 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +3.92% -7.48%
75th Percentile £69.58 £68.75 £69.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -12 555 £538 - 145
South East +7 208 £500 -13.04% 198
North of England -13 160 £469 -0.44% 120
South West +17 146 £555 +0.91% 90
Midlands -20 103 £475 - 79
North West -1 81 £448 -5.54% 64
West Midlands -22 79 £490 -2.00% 26
Yorkshire -23 67 £525 +8.25% 43
East of England +3 31 £525 +44.83% 75
East Midlands -7 24 £449 +6.79% 52
North East -7 16 £550 +19.57% 13
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
1 179 (14.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 134 (10.82%) SharePoint
3 58 (4.68%) Confluence
4 43 (3.47%) Skype for Business
5 13 (1.05%) Apache
5 13 (1.05%) Mattermost
6 10 (0.81%) nginx
7 7 (0.57%) IIS
8 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.32%) SAS
9 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.081%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.081%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 19 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.57%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 4 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.081%) Actimize
4 1 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.081%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 561 (45.32%) Azure
2 274 (22.13%) Microsoft 365
3 260 (21.00%) Entra ID
4 223 (18.01%) AWS
5 134 (10.82%) GCP
6 113 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (7.92%) GitHub
8 70 (5.65%) OneDrive
9 67 (5.41%) Power Platform
10 60 (4.85%) IaaS
11 55 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 49 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
13 48 (3.88%) Azure Sentinel
14 40 (3.23%) SaaS
15 38 (3.07%) Power Automate
16 37 (2.99%) PowerApps
16 37 (2.99%) Serverless
17 36 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
18 34 (2.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 201 (16.24%) DNS
2 169 (13.65%) Firewall
3 122 (9.85%) DHCP
4 73 (5.90%) TCP/IP
5 71 (5.74%) VPN
6 68 (5.49%) Network Security
7 46 (3.72%) Skype
8 33 (2.67%) VLAN
9 31 (2.50%) SMTP
10 28 (2.26%) HTTP
11 26 (2.10%) LAN
11 26 (2.10%) WAN
12 25 (2.02%) Kerberos
13 21 (1.70%) SSH
14 20 (1.62%) SAN
15 19 (1.53%) FTP
16 16 (1.29%) DKIM
16 16 (1.29%) DMARC
16 16 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (1.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 41 (3.31%) Power BI
3 32 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (1.53%) Metadata
6 14 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (0.97%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.57%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.57%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.48%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.40%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.32%) MySQL
14 3 (0.24%) KDB
14 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 84 (6.79%) Jenkins
2 79 (6.38%) JIRA
3 71 (5.74%) Git
4 67 (5.41%) GitLab
5 19 (1.53%) MSI
6 18 (1.45%) Artifactory
7 14 (1.13%) Vagrant
8 12 (0.97%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (0.89%) InstallShield
10 10 (0.81%) Metasploit
11 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.73%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.65%) AdminStudio
12 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.48%) Postman
14 5 (0.40%) Gradle
14 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.40%) Spinnaker
15 4 (0.32%) Robot Framework
General
1 474 (38.29%) Social Skills
2 214 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
3 166 (13.41%) Finance
4 125 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 82 (6.62%) Documentation Skills
6 56 (4.52%) Banking
7 49 (3.96%) Legal
8 24 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (1.37%) Front Office
10 16 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.13%) Military
12 12 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.89%) Marketing
13 11 (0.89%) Retail
13 11 (0.89%) Telecoms
14 10 (0.81%) Electronics
15 9 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.65%) Law
17 6 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 159 (12.84%) Architect
2 102 (8.24%) Senior
3 92 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 74 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
5 68 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
6 66 (5.33%) Security Engineer
7 63 (5.09%) Analyst
7 63 (5.09%) Consultant
8 61 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 54 (4.36%) Developer
10 52 (4.20%) Support Engineer
11 37 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 37 (2.99%) CyberArk Architect
12 35 (2.83%) Lead
13 33 (2.67%) Microsoft Engineer
14 32 (2.58%) Windows Engineer
15 30 (2.42%) SIEM Engineer
16 28 (2.26%) Administrator
17 25 (2.02%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 25 (2.02%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (12.52%) REST
2 106 (8.56%) LDAP
3 67 (5.41%) OAuth
4 63 (5.09%) SAML
5 58 (4.68%) JSON
6 50 (4.04%) SOAP
7 48 (3.88%) Microsoft Graph
8 40 (3.23%) OpenID
9 32 (2.58%) ARM Templates
10 31 (2.50%) SailPoint
11 29 (2.34%) .NET
11 29 (2.34%) OAuth2
12 23 (1.86%) Middleware
13 21 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.53%) XML
15 17 (1.37%) AngularJS
15 17 (1.37%) FIX Protocol
16 16 (1.29%) HTML
16 16 (1.29%) Node.js
16 16 (1.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (5.82%) Replication
2 70 (5.65%) Security Posture
3 65 (5.25%) PKI
4 63 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
5 62 (5.01%) Onboarding
6 43 (3.47%) Data Centre
7 41 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (3.07%) Cloud Native
9 33 (2.67%) Management Information System
9 33 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (2.10%) Clustering
11 20 (1.62%) Product Ownership
12 19 (1.53%) Private Cloud
13 18 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.21%) Cyber Security Posture
15 14 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
15 14 (1.13%) Enterprise Storage
16 13 (1.05%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 501 (40.47%) Windows
2 248 (20.03%) Linux
3 199 (16.07%) Windows Server
4 84 (6.79%) Windows 10
5 33 (2.67%) Mac OS
5 33 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (2.10%) VMS
7 23 (1.86%) Unix
8 22 (1.78%) Android
9 18 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (1.21%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.13%) Amazon Linux
13 12 (0.97%) Apple iOS
14 11 (0.89%) Solaris
14 11 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
15 10 (0.81%) Windows 7
16 9 (0.73%) Kali Linux
17 6 (0.48%) CentOS
18 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (26.09%) DevOps
2 302 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
3 260 (21.00%) CI/CD
4 202 (16.32%) Agile
5 189 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 180 (14.54%) SIEM
7 149 (12.04%) Migration
8 146 (11.79%) Cybersecurity
9 145 (11.71%) ITIL
10 135 (10.90%) Task Automation
11 126 (10.18%) ITSM
12 122 (9.85%) Identity Access Management
13 115 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (9.29%) RBAC
14 101 (8.16%) Configuration Management
14 101 (8.16%) Incident Response
15 98 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 97 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 96 (7.75%) Change Management
18 95 (7.67%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 541 (43.70%) Python
2 224 (18.09%) Bash
3 146 (11.79%) SQL
4 76 (6.14%) C#
5 75 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 68 (5.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 59 (4.77%) Java
8 37 (2.99%) Perl
9 35 (2.83%) Bicep
10 31 (2.50%) VBScript
11 19 (1.53%) Groovy
12 16 (1.29%) Go
13 15 (1.21%) BeanShell
14 12 (0.97%) VB
15 9 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.65%) PHP
17 7 (0.57%) TypeScript
18 5 (0.40%) C++
18 5 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
18 5 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 519 (41.92%) Security Cleared
2 408 (32.96%) SC Cleared
3 124 (10.02%) Degree
4 118 (9.53%) DV Cleared
5 103 (8.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 80 (6.46%) CISSP
7 56 (4.52%) Azure Certification
8 39 (3.15%) CISM
9 38 (3.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 31 (2.50%) CEH
10 31 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
11 29 (2.34%) AWS Certification
11 29 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (2.10%) MCSE
13 23 (1.86%) CCNA
13 23 (1.86%) GIAC
13 23 (1.86%) MCSA
14 20 (1.62%) CCNP
14 20 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (9.45%) GDPR
2 111 (8.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (5.41%) NIST
4 29 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 20 (1.62%) QA
6 15 (1.21%) SOC 2
7 14 (1.13%) SLA
8 13 (1.05%) HIPAA
8 13 (1.05%) MiFID
9 12 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.89%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.73%) FINRA
11 9 (0.73%) NCSC
12 7 (0.57%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.40%) PSD2
14 3 (0.24%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.24%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
15 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 466 (37.64%) Active Directory
2 136 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (10.26%) Docker
4 39 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 34 (2.75%) Hyper-V
6 30 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.10%) vSphere
8 18 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (1.21%) BitLocker
10 14 (1.13%) DFS Replication
10 14 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
10 14 (1.13%) Squid
10 14 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.73%) Dovecot
11 9 (0.73%) Postfix
12 7 (0.57%) Firmware
13 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.48%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.40%) NFS
15 4 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 240 (19.39%) Terraform
2 128 (10.34%) Ansible
3 127 (10.26%) SCCM
4 117 (9.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 115 (9.29%) Kubernetes
6 70 (5.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 65 (5.25%) Single Sign-On
8 44 (3.55%) Grafana
9 42 (3.39%) Prometheus
10 39 (3.15%) SCOM
11 30 (2.42%) vCenter Server
12 28 (2.26%) vRealize
13 25 (2.02%) Kibana
14 21 (1.70%) HP SiteScope
15 18 (1.45%) Proxmox
16 16 (1.29%) Nessus
17 15 (1.21%) WSUS
18 12 (0.97%) NetBackup
19 11 (0.89%) Puppet
20 10 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 558 (45.07%) Microsoft
2 194 (15.67%) VMware
3 102 (8.24%) CyberArk
4 86 (6.95%) Splunk
5 73 (5.90%) ServiceNow
6 69 (5.57%) BeyondTrust
7 61 (4.93%) Citrix
8 58 (4.68%) Cisco
9 43 (3.47%) Google
10 34 (2.75%) Centrify
10 34 (2.75%) Oracle
10 34 (2.75%) Red Hat
11 32 (2.58%) Okta
12 30 (2.42%) Veeam
13 27 (2.18%) Atlassian
14 24 (1.94%) Databricks
15 23 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
16 22 (1.78%) SolarWinds
17 20 (1.62%) Remedy
18 19 (1.53%) Tanium