PowerShell Contracts in Merseyside

Windows PowerShell
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 27 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 3 1 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.85% 0.52% 7.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.14% 3.70% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 13
10th Percentile - - £410
25th Percentile £388 £246 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £248 £650
Median % change year-on-year +61.62% -61.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £450 £249 £675
90th Percentile £473 - £700
North West median daily rate £454 £463 £525
% change year-on-year -1.89% -11.90% +31.25%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 42 27 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 25.93% 14.06% 26.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 55
10th Percentile £328 £376 £345
25th Percentile £406 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £494 £605
90th Percentile £745 £511 £686
North West median daily rate £438 £463 £520
% change year-on-year -5.41% -11.06% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £29.39
25th Percentile - - £32.83
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £38.60
Median % change year-on-year - -6.74% -
75th Percentile - - £44.33
90th Percentile - - £47.73
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +26.87%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Merseyside

PowerShell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Merseyside

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Liverpool 0 3 £400 +61.62% 7
PowerShell
North West

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Software Packaging
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Database Security
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (66.67%) HP