PowerShell Contract Job Trends in the North East

Windows PowerShell
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 31 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 16 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.56% 3.35% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.60% 11.11% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 6
10th Percentile £400 £369 £163
25th Percentile £463 £454 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £460 £423
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +8.75% -0.47%
75th Percentile - £470 £505
90th Percentile £580 - £590
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £43.84
% change year-on-year +30.87% +29.44% -20.29%

All Programming Languages
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 127 99 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 28.22% 30.18% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 57 22
10th Percentile £378 £325 £233
25th Percentile £400 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -8.50% -17.79%
75th Percentile £565 £523 £528
90th Percentile £595 £579 £647
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 14
10th Percentile £43.65 - £20.77
25th Percentile £52.19 - £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £46.18 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.51% -2.78% -17.39%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile £72.68 - £68.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the North East over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the North East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the North East region over the 6 months to 24 January 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -7 10 £438 +12.32% 11
Northumberland - 5 £550 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (43.75%) OneDrive
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) CloudFront
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
4 1 (6.25%) Route 53
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) BGP
2 3 (18.75%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (18.75%) VLAN
3 2 (12.50%) Network Security
3 2 (12.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Desktop Specialist
1 6 (37.50%) Desktop Support
1 6 (37.50%) Desktop Support Specialist
1 6 (37.50%) Support Specialist
2 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (12.50%) XMPP
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows 10
3 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Service Management
2 8 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 7 (43.75%) Patch Management
4 6 (37.50%) Inventory Management
5 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 5 (31.25%) ITSM
6 4 (25.00%) Change Control
6 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
6 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (18.75%) DevOps
7 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (18.75%) Product Requirements
7 3 (18.75%) User Stories
8 2 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Bash
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) Groovy
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) CCDP
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) CCNP
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (43.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (12.50%) Docker
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Argo
3 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.25%) Icinga
3 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (6.25%) Podman
3 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Citrix
2 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk