PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Windows PowerShell
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 27 34
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 11 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 4.38% 1.75% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.53% 3.92% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £310 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £640 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% - -
75th Percentile £637 - -
90th Percentile £648 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £368 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -22.53% +11.76% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £66.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.33% - -

All Programming Languages
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 129 51 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 51.39% 44.74% 51.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 39 42
10th Percentile £313 £309 £495
25th Percentile £351 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £367 £560
Median % change year-on-year +9.54% -34.46% +23.76%
75th Percentile £472 £448 £585
90th Percentile £503 £592 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £405 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -4.71% -15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £76.25 £85.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -10.82% +101.18% +41.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Knutsford over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Knutsford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Datadog
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) LDAP
2 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Change Management
3 5 (45.45%) ITIL
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
5 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Change Control
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (18.18%) High Availability
6 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Use Case
6 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) ArcSight
2 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk