PowerShell Contracts in Manchester

Windows PowerShell
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 57 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 +22
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 32 39 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.46% 2.57% 4.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.56% 8.67% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 58
10th Percentile £402 £252 £425
25th Percentile £451 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £504 £528 £574
90th Percentile £536 £650 £605
North West median daily rate £465 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +9.41% -19.05% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 303 450 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.72% 29.66% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 355 442
10th Percentile £375 £343 £339
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £68.38 - £39.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £82.90 £59.10
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton - 1 £190 - 3
PowerShell
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (31.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (46.88%) Azure
3 12 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 11 (34.38%) IaaS
5 10 (31.25%) Power Automate
5 10 (31.25%) Power Platform
5 10 (31.25%) PowerApps
6 3 (9.38%) AWS
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (40.63%) Firewall
1 13 (40.63%) Network Security
2 11 (34.38%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (9.38%) DHCP
4 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) DMZ
5 1 (3.13%) DNS
5 1 (3.13%) tcpdump
5 1 (3.13%) VPN
5 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) Maven
2 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (34.38%) Telecoms
2 10 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Military
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Analyst
3 8 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Lead
7 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Security Support Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) IT Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) IT Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Power Platform Developer
8 1 (3.13%) SailPoint Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior
8 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) CSS
1 10 (31.25%) HTML
2 6 (18.75%) React
2 6 (18.75%) SPFx
3 1 (3.13%) ADO
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.13%) Node.js
3 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.13%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.13%) CMDB
2 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) MISP
2 1 (3.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Windows
2 13 (40.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (34.38%) Business Continuity
2 11 (34.38%) Change Management
2 11 (34.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 10 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (31.25%) Web Development
4 9 (28.13%) Task Automation
5 8 (25.00%) BCP
5 8 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
5 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (25.00%) Information Security
5 8 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
6 7 (21.88%) High Availability
6 7 (21.88%) Line Management
6 7 (21.88%) Project Delivery
6 7 (21.88%) Web Operations
7 6 (18.75%) Analytics
8 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) JavaScript
2 6 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 5 (15.63%) Python
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) Java
6 1 (3.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Azure Certification
2 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) Active Directory
2 11 (34.38%) vSphere
3 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (3.13%) Graylog
3 1 (3.13%) Nagios
3 1 (3.13%) Nessus
3 1 (3.13%) OpenVAS
3 1 (3.13%) Packer
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) QRadar
3 1 (3.13%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (71.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (34.38%) VMware
3 2 (6.25%) Dell
3 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.25%) Splunk
3 2 (6.25%) Thycotic
4 1 (3.13%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.13%) ArcSight
4 1 (3.13%) Carbon Black
4 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) LogRhythm
4 1 (3.13%) Moogsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Qualys
4 1 (3.13%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds