PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Windows PowerShell
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 24 59
Rank change year-on-year -23 +35 +18
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 36 32 12
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 4.55% 7.41% 1.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.95% 19.05% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 12
10th Percentile £279 £378 -
25th Percentile £331 £408 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £513 £552 £700
90th Percentile £606 £575 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.56% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 258 168 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 32.58% 38.89% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 106 160
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £401 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +3.95% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £591
90th Percentile £625 £731 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £476 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.80% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £29.38 £23.70
25th Percentile - £31.62 £30.08
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £41.35
Median % change year-on-year - +118.64% -40.93%
75th Percentile - £100.28 £51.99
90th Percentile - £102.00 £58.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £90.42 £41.35
% change year-on-year - +118.64% -40.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Leeds

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Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Leeds

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing PowerShell

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 12 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (27.78%) SharePoint
3 4 (11.11%) Confluence
4 1 (2.78%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Azure
2 14 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (27.78%) Entra ID
4 9 (25.00%) GitHub
4 9 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (19.44%) GCP
6 6 (16.67%) AWS
7 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (13.89%) PaaS
8 4 (11.11%) Apigee
8 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (11.11%) OneDrive
8 4 (11.11%) SaaS
9 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
9 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (8.33%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) LAN
1 7 (19.44%) WAN
2 6 (16.67%) DNS
2 6 (16.67%) Firewall
3 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
4 4 (11.11%) DHCP
4 4 (11.11%) Unified Communications
4 4 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (8.33%) VoIP
6 1 (2.78%) DKIM
6 1 (2.78%) DMARC
6 1 (2.78%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.78%) NAS
6 1 (2.78%) PSTN
6 1 (2.78%) SAN
6 1 (2.78%) VLAN
6 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) Git
4 2 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.78%) Spinnaker
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Senior
2 4 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) IT Support
2 4 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) DBA
3 3 (8.33%) Developer
3 3 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) SQL DBA
4 2 (5.56%) .NET Developer
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Security Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Graph
1 7 (19.44%) REST
2 4 (11.11%) OpenAPI
2 4 (11.11%) Swagger
2 4 (11.11%) Web Services
3 3 (8.33%) .NET
3 3 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 3 (8.33%) SOAP
4 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.78%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Replication
2 3 (8.33%) Clustering
2 3 (8.33%) CMDB
2 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.33%) iPhone
2 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) IoT
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Windows
2 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
3 5 (13.89%) Linux
4 4 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 3 (8.33%) Android
6 1 (2.78%) AIX
6 1 (2.78%) Unix
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) DevOps
2 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (22.22%) Migration
3 8 (22.22%) Observability
3 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (19.44%) ITIL
4 7 (19.44%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (19.44%) Task Automation
5 6 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (13.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (11.11%) Data Management
7 4 (11.11%) High Availability
7 4 (11.11%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) Python
2 12 (33.33%) Bash
3 5 (13.89%) C#
4 4 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (8.33%) Bicep
5 3 (8.33%) Groovy
5 3 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (5.56%) Java
7 1 (2.78%) C
7 1 (2.78%) Go
7 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.78%) NIST
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
2 5 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.78%) Firmware
4 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Terraform
2 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 7 (19.44%) Ansible
4 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (11.11%) Istio
6 2 (5.56%) NetBackup
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (5.56%) SCCM
6 2 (5.56%) WSUS
7 1 (2.78%) Grafana
7 1 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.78%) SCOM
7 1 (2.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) VMware
3 5 (13.89%) Google
4 4 (11.11%) Dynatrace
4 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.33%) Oracle
5 3 (8.33%) RedGate
5 3 (8.33%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.56%) CloudEndure
6 2 (5.56%) CyberArk
6 2 (5.56%) Splunk
6 2 (5.56%) Veritas
7 1 (2.78%) Brocade
7 1 (2.78%) Cisco
7 1 (2.78%) Clearswift
7 1 (2.78%) IBM