PowerShell Contracts in the Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 40 68 55
Rank change year-on-year +28 -13 +1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 79 65 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.13% 2.36% 3.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.56% 10.52% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 49 105
10th Percentile £349 £208 £278
25th Percentile £410 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £505
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.79% +6.32%
75th Percentile £648 £625 £588
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £16.85 - £14.30
25th Percentile £17.00 - £18.87
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £26.48
75th Percentile £20.24 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year -27.50% -33.22% +19.80%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +23 62 £501 +33.60% 61
East Midlands +11 17 £475 -10.59% 25
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 13 (16.46%) SharePoint
2 7 (8.86%) IIS
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.27%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.38%) Azure
2 20 (25.32%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (16.46%) Entra ID
4 8 (10.13%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.86%) PowerApps
6 6 (7.59%) AWS
6 6 (7.59%) Power Automate
7 5 (6.33%) ShareGate
8 4 (5.06%) GitHub
9 3 (3.80%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.80%) SaaS
10 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.53%) GCP
10 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.27%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.27%) Azure Batch
11 1 (1.27%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Firewall
1 3 (3.80%) NetScaler
2 2 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.53%) SMTP
2 2 (2.53%) SSL
3 1 (1.27%) DNS
3 1 (1.27%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.80%) Power BI
3 2 (2.53%) Big Data
3 2 (2.53%) EDRMS
3 2 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.53%) Tableau
4 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) MSI
2 5 (6.33%) Git
3 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.80%) Chocolatey
4 3 (3.80%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.27%) GitLab
6 1 (1.27%) Selenium
6 1 (1.27%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.27%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (44.30%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Finance
3 5 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.33%) Legal
3 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.53%) Local Government
5 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.27%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (10.13%) Senior
2 7 (8.86%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (6.33%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (6.33%) Architect
4 5 (6.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (6.33%) Support Engineer
4 5 (6.33%) Support Officer
5 4 (5.06%) Active Directory Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Analyst
5 4 (5.06%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Developer
5 4 (5.06%) ICT Officer
5 4 (5.06%) ICT Support
5 4 (5.06%) ICT Support Officer
5 4 (5.06%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 4 (5.06%) Senior ICT Officer
6 3 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Mac Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) HTML
2 8 (10.13%) Middleware
2 8 (10.13%) Software Packaging
3 7 (8.86%) .NET
4 4 (5.06%) React
5 3 (3.80%) Apache Axis
5 3 (3.80%) CSS
5 3 (3.80%) OAuth
5 3 (3.80%) SAML
5 3 (3.80%) SPFx
6 2 (2.53%) LDAP
6 2 (2.53%) Web Services
7 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.27%) JSON
7 1 (1.27%) OpenID
7 1 (1.27%) REST
7 1 (1.27%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
1 4 (5.06%) SCADA
2 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.53%) PKI
3 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.27%) CCTV
4 1 (1.27%) Clustering
4 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 32 (40.51%) Windows
2 9 (11.39%) Linux
3 8 (10.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.59%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.80%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.80%) Windows 7
5 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.80%) Windows XP
6 2 (2.53%) Android
6 2 (2.53%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.53%) Unix
7 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.99%) DevOps
3 13 (16.46%) Agile
3 13 (16.46%) Migration
4 12 (15.19%) ITIL
5 10 (12.66%) Task Automation
6 8 (10.13%) Incident Management
6 8 (10.13%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (8.86%) CI/CD
7 7 (8.86%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (8.86%) Software Delivery
7 7 (8.86%) Software Deployment
8 6 (7.59%) High Availability
8 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (7.59%) Microservices
8 6 (7.59%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (7.59%) Software Distribution
9 5 (6.33%) Data Analysis
9 5 (6.33%) RBAC
10 4 (5.06%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 31 (39.24%) Python
2 14 (17.72%) Bash
3 12 (15.19%) C#
3 12 (15.19%) SQL
4 11 (13.92%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.06%) Java
5 4 (5.06%) Perl
5 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.80%) Bicep
6 3 (3.80%) Ruby
6 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) CISSP
4 5 (6.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.80%) CEH
5 3 (3.80%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (3.80%) Degree
6 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.53%) CISM
6 2 (2.53%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.27%) ACSP
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.27%) GIAC
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.53%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) NCSC
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (30.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.59%) Docker
3 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.27%) vSphere
4 1 (1.27%) XenApp
4 1 (1.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (16.46%) Ansible
2 9 (11.39%) SCCM
2 9 (11.39%) Terraform
3 8 (10.13%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (6.33%) Grafana
5 4 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.80%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.53%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.27%) Podman
8 1 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (41.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.59%) Tanium
2 6 (7.59%) VMware
3 5 (6.33%) Dell
3 5 (6.33%) HP
4 3 (3.80%) Apple
4 3 (3.80%) Foundry
4 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.53%) BMC
5 2 (2.53%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.53%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.27%) Citrix
6 1 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) Imperva
6 1 (1.27%) Okta
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle
6 1 (1.27%) Perforce
6 1 (1.27%) Veeam
6 1 (1.27%) Workday