PowerShell Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 52 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 +27 -15
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 238 129 106
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.92% 3.96% 2.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.26% 14.13% 8.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 85 75
10th Percentile £313 £356 £325
25th Percentile £401 £406 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £565 £525 £552
90th Percentile £621 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.28% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £72.82 - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +62.41% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.70 £41.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.16% +4.38% -30.23%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,669 913 1,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.51% 28.02% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 663 850
10th Percentile £350 £350 £320
25th Percentile £406 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.12%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £623 £638 £625
England median daily rate £502 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.48% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 15 47
10th Percentile £41.94 £35.66 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.63 £43.57
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +57.89% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £92.70 £66.25
90th Percentile £82.90 £100.62 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year +3.17% +1.32% -0.52%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
North West +12 142 £500 +7.53% 30
Yorkshire -23 92 £458 -3.68% 17
North East -14 10 £550 +18.28% 13
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 57 (23.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (19.75%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.46%) Confluence
4 9 (3.78%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.26%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (38.24%) Azure
2 69 (28.99%) Entra ID
3 66 (27.73%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (17.23%) AWS
5 36 (15.13%) OneDrive
6 28 (11.76%) GCP
7 24 (10.08%) GitHub
8 23 (9.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (5.04%) OpenShift
10 12 (5.04%) Power Platform
10 12 (5.04%) SaaS
11 11 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (4.62%) PaaS
12 9 (3.78%) Azure AKS
12 9 (3.78%) Azure Storage
13 8 (3.36%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 41 (17.23%) DNS
2 37 (15.55%) Firewall
3 25 (10.50%) DHCP
4 20 (8.40%) VLAN
5 18 (7.56%) LAN
5 18 (7.56%) WAN
6 16 (6.72%) TCP/IP
6 16 (6.72%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (6.30%) VPN
8 13 (5.46%) Network Security
9 11 (4.62%) WebEx
10 9 (3.78%) BGP
10 9 (3.78%) Skype
11 8 (3.36%) Software-Defined Networking
11 8 (3.36%) VSAN
12 7 (2.94%) Kerberos
13 6 (2.52%) SAN
13 6 (2.52%) Unified Communications
14 5 (2.10%) NetScaler
15 4 (1.68%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.56%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.52%) DB2
5 6 (2.52%) Power BI
6 4 (1.68%) Metadata
7 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.84%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 19 (7.98%) Jenkins
1 19 (7.98%) JIRA
2 10 (4.20%) Git
2 10 (4.20%) GitLab
3 5 (2.10%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.26%) MSI
4 3 (1.26%) Selenium
5 2 (0.84%) Flyway
5 2 (0.84%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.84%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.84%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.42%) Appium
6 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.42%) gulp
6 1 (0.42%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.42%) Postman
6 1 (0.42%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 41 (17.23%) Social Skills
2 37 (15.55%) Finance
3 36 (15.13%) Legal
4 31 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.46%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (5.04%) Banking
8 6 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.68%) Retail
10 3 (1.26%) Law
11 2 (0.84%) Local Government
11 2 (0.84%) Military
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (13.45%) Architect
2 24 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (7.56%) Senior
4 15 (6.30%) Administrator
4 15 (6.30%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 15 (6.30%) Security Engineer
5 13 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (5.46%) Wintel Engineer
6 12 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (3.78%) VMware Engineer
9 8 (3.36%) DBA
9 8 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.36%) SQL DBA
10 7 (2.94%) Server Engineer
10 7 (2.94%) Technical Architect
10 7 (2.94%) Windows Engineer
11 6 (2.52%) Developer
11 6 (2.52%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (2.52%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.55%) Microsoft Graph
2 17 (7.14%) REST
3 11 (4.62%) LDAP
3 11 (4.62%) XMPP
4 9 (3.78%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.10%) .NET
5 5 (2.10%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.10%) Swagger
5 5 (2.10%) Web Services
6 3 (1.26%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.26%) JDBC
6 3 (1.26%) JSON
6 3 (1.26%) Kafka
6 3 (1.26%) Node.js
6 3 (1.26%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.26%) SOAP
6 3 (1.26%) Software Packaging
6 3 (1.26%) SPFx
7 2 (0.84%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.18%) Clustering
2 27 (11.34%) Replication
3 24 (10.08%) Product Ownership
4 19 (7.98%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.04%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.62%) Security Posture
7 10 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.78%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (2.94%) Cloud Native
10 5 (2.10%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.10%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.10%) Fat Client
10 5 (2.10%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.10%) Thin Client
11 4 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.68%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (1.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 129 (54.20%) Windows
2 55 (23.11%) Linux
2 55 (23.11%) Windows Server
3 24 (10.08%) Windows 10
4 21 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.78%) Unix
5 9 (3.78%) Windows 7
6 7 (2.94%) AIX
7 6 (2.52%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.26%) Android
9 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.26%) VMS
10 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.42%) Solaris
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (21.01%) CI/CD
3 45 (18.91%) DevOps
4 44 (18.49%) Disaster Recovery
5 36 (15.13%) High Availability
6 35 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (14.71%) Root Cause Analysis
7 33 (13.87%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (13.45%) Service Management
9 31 (13.03%) Capacity Planning
9 31 (13.03%) Observability
10 29 (12.18%) ITSM
11 28 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (11.34%) Identity Access Management
12 27 (11.34%) Performance Tuning
13 26 (10.92%) Containerisation
13 26 (10.92%) Migration
14 25 (10.50%) Agile
14 25 (10.50%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 79 (33.19%) Python
2 70 (29.41%) Bash
3 27 (11.34%) SQL
4 17 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (5.88%) Bicep
6 13 (5.46%) Perl
7 9 (3.78%) C#
7 9 (3.78%) Java
7 9 (3.78%) VB
7 9 (3.78%) VBScript
8 6 (2.52%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.10%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.26%) Go
10 3 (1.26%) Groovy
11 2 (0.84%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.42%) C
12 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (29.83%) Security Cleared
2 62 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (7.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 16 (6.72%) Degree
7 15 (6.30%) VCAP
8 13 (5.46%) MCSA
8 13 (5.46%) MCSE
9 9 (3.78%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.78%) CCDP
9 9 (3.78%) CCNA
9 9 (3.78%) CCNP
9 9 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.78%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.94%) CISSP
11 6 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.92%) GDPR
2 13 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.20%) FINRA
3 10 (4.20%) MiFID
4 8 (3.36%) NIST
5 7 (2.94%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.10%) SLA
7 4 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.26%) QA
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.42%) GRC
System Software
1 75 (31.51%) Active Directory
2 48 (20.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (15.55%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (13.03%) vSphere
5 28 (11.76%) Docker
6 27 (11.34%) VMware ESXi
7 22 (9.24%) Hyper-V
8 15 (6.30%) KVM
9 9 (3.78%) BitLocker
10 7 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (2.52%) VMware NSX
12 5 (2.10%) Firmware
13 2 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.42%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.42%) NFS
14 1 (0.42%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 47 (19.75%) Terraform
2 45 (18.91%) Ansible
3 36 (15.13%) Kubernetes
4 28 (11.76%) vCenter Server
5 22 (9.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (9.24%) SCCM
6 15 (6.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (4.20%) Grafana
7 10 (4.20%) PowerCLI
8 7 (2.94%) Istio
8 7 (2.94%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.52%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (2.52%) Nagios
10 5 (2.10%) Argo
10 5 (2.10%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (1.26%) vRealize
13 2 (0.84%) vMotion
Vendors
1 128 (53.78%) Microsoft
2 56 (23.53%) VMware
3 29 (12.18%) Cisco
4 23 (9.66%) Red Hat
5 20 (8.40%) Citrix
5 20 (8.40%) ServiceNow
6 13 (5.46%) Google
6 13 (5.46%) SolarWinds
6 13 (5.46%) Splunk
7 8 (3.36%) Veeam
8 7 (2.94%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.94%) IBM
8 7 (2.94%) Oracle
9 6 (2.52%) RedGate
10 5 (2.10%) Dynatrace
10 5 (2.10%) Remedy
11 4 (1.68%) F5
12 3 (1.26%) Alibaba
12 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.84%) CrowdStrike