PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Windows PowerShell
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 19 28
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 2.24% 2.52% 1.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 11.11% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £270 £445
25th Percentile £425 £276 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £295 £493
Median % change year-on-year +52.54% -40.10% +40.71%
75th Percentile £475 £308 £512
90th Percentile - £310 £512
East Midlands median daily rate £458 £510 £474
% change year-on-year -10.29% +7.65% -5.25%

All Programming Languages
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 24 27 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 17.91% 22.69% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 50
10th Percentile £378 £302 £312
25th Percentile £419 £344 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £409 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% -9.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £475 £505 £530
90th Percentile £488 £530 £563
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £445 £473
% change year-on-year -7.30% -5.82% -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £14.31 - -
25th Percentile £15.01 - -
Median hourly rate £16.42 - -
75th Percentile £18.09 - -
90th Percentile £18.93 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.42 £22.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -27.02% -57.55% +57.04%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Leicestershire

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
Leicester +1 3 £450 +52.54% 2
PowerShell
East Midlands

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure App Service
1 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Storage
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft