PowerShell Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Windows PowerShell
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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 71 74
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 242 116 101
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.35% 2.97% 2.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.01% 10.90% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 66 78
10th Percentile £308 £264 £375
25th Percentile £372 £382 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.57% -10.60% -
75th Percentile £550 £488 £634
90th Percentile £621 £575 £675
England median daily rate £520 £519 £525
% change year-on-year +0.29% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £46.50 - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.84% +3.68%

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 1,860 1,064 1,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.76% 27.25% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 763 758
10th Percentile £353 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £485
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -5.26% -5.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £524 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 10 34
10th Percentile £29.96 £29.28 £37.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.82 £42.41
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year - +30.23% +16.39%
75th Percentile £74.26 £87.69 £71.78
90th Percentile £83.43 £95.36 £81.85
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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

PowerShell
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 29 July 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in the North of England

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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 29 July 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 +11 144 £450 +0.56% 43
Yorkshire -13 90 £460 +5.50% 20
North East -38 9 £394 +12.50% 14
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England

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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 34 (14.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (9.92%) SharePoint
3 19 (7.85%) Confluence
4 8 (3.31%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.41%) Camunda
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 121 (50.00%) Azure
2 64 (26.45%) AWS
3 53 (21.90%) GCP
4 48 (19.83%) Entra ID
5 46 (19.01%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (18.60%) GitHub
7 35 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (11.98%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (11.16%) Power Platform
10 21 (8.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 16 (6.61%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (6.20%) OneDrive
13 13 (5.37%) OpenShift
14 11 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (4.55%) PowerApps
15 10 (4.13%) Azure AKS
15 10 (4.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (3.31%) Power Automate
16 8 (3.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.33%) Firewall
2 15 (6.20%) DNS
3 12 (4.96%) Network Security
4 11 (4.55%) SAN
5 9 (3.72%) NAS
6 8 (3.31%) Skype
6 8 (3.31%) VSAN
6 8 (3.31%) WAN
7 7 (2.89%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.48%) DHCP
8 6 (2.48%) SSL
9 5 (2.07%) LAN
9 5 (2.07%) VPN
10 4 (1.65%) BGP
10 4 (1.65%) Internet
10 4 (1.65%) Unified Communications
11 3 (1.24%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (1.24%) MPLS
11 3 (1.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.12%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.02%) Power BI
3 13 (5.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (4.96%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.89%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.07%) Db2
7 5 (2.07%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.07%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.65%) MySQL
9 3 (1.24%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.83%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 34 (14.05%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.26%) JIRA
3 19 (7.85%) Git
4 12 (4.96%) GitLab
5 6 (2.48%) Selenium
5 6 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.07%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.65%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.65%) MSBuild
7 4 (1.65%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.24%) Bugzilla
8 3 (1.24%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.83%) Flyway
9 2 (0.83%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.83%) MSI
9 2 (0.83%) Postman
9 2 (0.83%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 55 (22.73%) Finance
2 43 (17.77%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.68%) Banking
5 10 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.13%) Legal
5 10 (4.13%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.83%) Games
8 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.83%) Law
8 2 (0.83%) Military
8 2 (0.83%) Retail
9 1 (0.41%) Local Government
9 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (12.81%) Security Engineer
2 24 (9.92%) Senior
3 19 (7.85%) Developer
4 18 (7.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (5.37%) DBA
6 13 (5.37%) SQL DBA
7 12 (4.96%) Architect
8 11 (4.55%) Administrator
8 11 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.13%) Desktop Engineer
10 9 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.31%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 8 (3.31%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 8 (3.31%) VMware Engineer
11 8 (3.31%) Wintel Engineer
12 7 (2.89%) Lead
13 6 (2.48%) Analyst
13 6 (2.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.92%) REST
2 20 (8.26%) Microsoft Graph
3 14 (5.79%) JSON
4 13 (5.37%) .NET
5 9 (3.72%) Kafka
6 8 (3.31%) ARM Templates
6 8 (3.31%) YAML
7 6 (2.48%) OAuth
7 6 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.48%) SailPoint
8 5 (2.07%) LDAP
8 5 (2.07%) Web Services
9 4 (1.65%) XML
10 3 (1.24%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.24%) JDBC
10 3 (1.24%) Node.js
10 3 (1.24%) OpenAPI
10 3 (1.24%) SOAP
10 3 (1.24%) Swagger
10 3 (1.24%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.57%) Replication
2 24 (9.92%) Clustering
3 23 (9.50%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.50%) Security Posture
4 15 (6.20%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (5.79%) Data Centre
6 13 (5.37%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (4.13%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.31%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.31%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.89%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.89%) PKI
10 7 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (2.07%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (1.65%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 121 (50.00%) Windows
2 65 (26.86%) Linux
3 43 (17.77%) Windows Server
4 21 (8.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.37%) Windows 10
6 11 (4.55%) Unix
7 8 (3.31%) Windows 7
8 7 (2.89%) AIX
9 6 (2.48%) Mac OS
10 5 (2.07%) Apple iOS
11 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.24%) Solaris
12 3 (1.24%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.24%) VMS
12 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.83%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (35.95%) DevOps
2 74 (30.58%) CI/CD
3 53 (21.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (20.25%) Agile
4 49 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (19.42%) Observability
6 41 (16.94%) Cloud Security
7 39 (16.12%) Change Management
8 35 (14.46%) Performance Tuning
9 34 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (13.64%) AI
11 32 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 32 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (12.40%) Disaster Recovery
13 29 (11.98%) Infrastructure Automation
14 28 (11.57%) High Availability
15 27 (11.16%) Capacity Planning
16 26 (10.74%) Analytics
16 26 (10.74%) Containerisation
17 25 (10.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (47.11%) Python
2 76 (31.40%) Bash
3 47 (19.42%) SQL
4 23 (9.50%) Bicep
5 17 (7.02%) Java
6 14 (5.79%) C#
7 12 (4.96%) VBScript
8 10 (4.13%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.31%) VB
10 7 (2.89%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (2.89%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.07%) Groovy
12 4 (1.65%) Perl
12 4 (1.65%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.24%) JavaScript
14 2 (0.83%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.41%) COBOL
15 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 51 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.22%) Degree
4 31 (12.81%) Azure Certification
5 22 (9.09%) AWS Certification
6 21 (8.68%) CISSP
7 18 (7.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (5.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (4.13%) VCAP
10 8 (3.31%) MCSA
10 8 (3.31%) MCSE
11 7 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.65%) CCNP
13 4 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (1.24%) CCIE
14 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.72%) GDPR
2 6 (2.48%) HIPAA
2 6 (2.48%) NIST
3 4 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.65%) SLA
4 3 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.83%) QA
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.41%) FINRA
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.41%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (19.42%) Active Directory
2 38 (15.70%) Docker
3 33 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (13.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (9.50%) vSphere
6 21 (8.68%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (6.20%) Hyper-V
8 9 (3.72%) BitLocker
8 9 (3.72%) KVM
9 8 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.89%) VMware NSX
11 5 (2.07%) Firmware
12 2 (0.83%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.83%) NFS
12 2 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.83%) SRDF
13 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 71 (29.34%) Terraform
2 58 (23.97%) Ansible
3 55 (22.73%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (8.26%) vCenter Server
6 15 (6.20%) Progress Chef
7 13 (5.37%) Grafana
7 13 (5.37%) SCCM
8 9 (3.72%) PowerCLI
8 9 (3.72%) Prometheus
9 8 (3.31%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (2.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (2.48%) Argo
11 5 (2.07%) Istio
11 5 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.65%) IBM BigFix
12 4 (1.65%) SCOM
12 4 (1.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (1.24%) vRealize
13 3 (1.24%) WMI
Vendors
1 117 (48.35%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.29%) VMware
3 33 (13.64%) ServiceNow
4 32 (13.22%) Google
5 27 (11.16%) Cisco
6 23 (9.50%) Splunk
7 22 (9.09%) Red Hat
8 13 (5.37%) Remedy
9 10 (4.13%) IBM
10 9 (3.72%) BeyondTrust
11 8 (3.31%) CyberArk
11 8 (3.31%) Dynatrace
11 8 (3.31%) Oracle
12 7 (2.89%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (2.89%) SolarWinds
13 6 (2.48%) Citrix
13 6 (2.48%) HP
14 5 (2.07%) BMC
14 5 (2.07%) Brocade
14 5 (2.07%) Veeam