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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 56 43
Rank change year-on-year 0 -13 +30
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 23 39 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.59% 2.75% 4.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.85% 9.35% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 55
10th Percentile £373 £259 £420
25th Percentile £445 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -8.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £513 £525 £569
90th Percentile £560 £650 £600
North West median daily rate £465 £456 £547
% change year-on-year +1.92% -16.63% +21.61%

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 293 417 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.00% 29.45% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 322 424
10th Percentile £375 £350 £356
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.50% -2.53%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £594
90th Percentile £625 £636 £654
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 2
10th Percentile £69.30 £52.50 £48.23
25th Percentile £72.00 £57.50 £51.19
Median hourly rate £80.75 £70.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% +23.35% +8.10%
75th Percentile £90.31 £77.75 £61.69
90th Percentile £93.13 £82.80 £64.28
North West median hourly rate £82.50 £48.43 £47.50
% change year-on-year +70.35% +1.96% -4.95%

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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 24 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 24 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 - 46
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 (52.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 13 (56.52%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (52.17%) Entra ID
4 11 (47.83%) IaaS
5 3 (13.04%) AWS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) Firewall
1 13 (56.52%) Network Security
2 11 (47.83%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (13.04%) DHCP
4 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.35%) DMZ
5 1 (4.35%) DNS
5 1 (4.35%) tcpdump
5 1 (4.35%) VPN
5 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Maven
2 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (47.83%) Telecoms
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Security Support Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) IT Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) ADO
1 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (4.35%) Node.js
1 1 (4.35%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.35%) CMDB
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) MISP
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 13 (56.52%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (47.83%) Business Continuity
2 11 (47.83%) Change Management
2 11 (47.83%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 10 (43.48%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (34.78%) BCP
4 8 (34.78%) Business Continuity Planning
4 8 (34.78%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (34.78%) Information Security
4 8 (34.78%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (30.43%) High Availability
5 7 (30.43%) Line Management
5 7 (30.43%) Project Delivery
5 7 (30.43%) Web Operations
6 6 (26.09%) Analytics
7 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
9 3 (13.04%) DevOps
9 3 (13.04%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Azure Certification
2 10 (43.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
2 11 (47.83%) vSphere
3 9 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (4.35%) Graylog
3 1 (4.35%) Nagios
3 1 (4.35%) Nessus
3 1 (4.35%) OpenVAS
3 1 (4.35%) Packer
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
3 1 (4.35%) QRadar
3 1 (4.35%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (47.83%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Dell
3 2 (8.70%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) Splunk
3 2 (8.70%) Thycotic
4 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.35%) ArcSight
4 1 (4.35%) Carbon Black
4 1 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.35%) Moogsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds