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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 58 83
Rank change year-on-year +3 +25 -26
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 232 124 102
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.88% 3.88% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.15% 13.89% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 84 70
10th Percentile £314 £356 £274
25th Percentile £400 £406 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £567
90th Percentile £621 £600 £651
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.45% -
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% -31.70%

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 1,639 893 1,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.44% 27.95% 24.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,113 648 847
10th Percentile £345 £350 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £622 £638 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 14 48
10th Percentile £41.94 £34.68 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £65.25 £44.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £78.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +65.79% +1.49%
75th Percentile £74.26 £94.67 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £100.97 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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

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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 11 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

PowerShell
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 11 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 +18 135 £513 +10.22% 35
Yorkshire -20 92 £471 -3.38% 16
North East -11 10 £550 +18.28% 15
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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 58 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (20.69%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.17%) Confluence
4 9 (3.88%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.29%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.43%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (39.22%) Azure
2 68 (29.31%) Entra ID
3 67 (28.88%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (17.67%) AWS
5 37 (15.95%) OneDrive
6 28 (12.07%) GCP
7 24 (10.34%) GitHub
8 23 (9.91%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (8.19%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (5.17%) Power Platform
10 12 (5.17%) SaaS
11 11 (4.74%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (4.74%) PaaS
12 10 (4.31%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.31%) Serverless
13 9 (3.88%) Azure AKS
13 9 (3.88%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 42 (18.10%) Firewall
2 40 (17.24%) DNS
3 25 (10.78%) DHCP
4 20 (8.62%) VLAN
5 19 (8.19%) VPN
6 18 (7.76%) LAN
6 18 (7.76%) WAN
7 17 (7.33%) TCP/IP
8 16 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (5.17%) Network Security
10 11 (4.74%) WebEx
11 9 (3.88%) BGP
11 9 (3.88%) Skype
12 8 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
12 8 (3.45%) VSAN
13 7 (3.02%) Kerberos
14 6 (2.59%) SAN
14 6 (2.59%) Unified Communications
15 5 (2.16%) NetScaler
16 4 (1.72%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (2.59%) DB2
3 6 (2.59%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.59%) Power BI
4 4 (1.72%) Metadata
5 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.43%) DTS
7 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (8.62%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.76%) JIRA
3 11 (4.74%) Git
4 10 (4.31%) GitLab
5 5 (2.16%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.29%) Selenium
7 2 (0.86%) Flyway
7 2 (0.86%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.86%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.86%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.43%) Appium
8 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.43%) gulp
8 1 (0.43%) MSI
8 1 (0.43%) Subversion
8 1 (0.43%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.43%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 40 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.09%) Legal
3 34 (14.66%) Finance
4 32 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (5.17%) Banking
8 6 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.72%) Retail
10 3 (1.29%) Law
11 2 (0.86%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Military
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (13.79%) Architect
2 24 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (7.76%) Senior
4 15 (6.47%) Administrator
4 15 (6.47%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 14 (6.03%) Security Engineer
6 13 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (3.88%) VMware Engineer
10 8 (3.45%) DBA
10 8 (3.45%) SQL DBA
10 8 (3.45%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.02%) Server Engineer
11 7 (3.02%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.59%) Developer
12 6 (2.59%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) Technical Specialist
12 6 (2.59%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.95%) Microsoft Graph
2 16 (6.90%) REST
3 11 (4.74%) LDAP
3 11 (4.74%) XMPP
4 9 (3.88%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.16%) .NET
5 5 (2.16%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.16%) Swagger
6 4 (1.72%) Web Services
7 3 (1.29%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.29%) JSON
7 3 (1.29%) Kafka
7 3 (1.29%) Node.js
7 3 (1.29%) SOAP
7 3 (1.29%) SPFx
8 2 (0.86%) JDBC
8 2 (0.86%) OAuth
8 2 (0.86%) pytest
8 2 (0.86%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.34%) Clustering
1 24 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 23 (9.91%) Data Centre
3 22 (9.48%) Replication
4 12 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.31%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.16%) Fat Client
9 5 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.16%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.16%) Thin Client
10 4 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.72%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 122 (52.59%) Windows
2 56 (24.14%) Linux
3 49 (21.12%) Windows Server
4 24 (10.34%) Windows 10
5 21 (9.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.88%) Unix
6 9 (3.88%) Windows 7
7 7 (3.02%) AIX
8 6 (2.59%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.29%) Android
10 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.29%) VMS
10 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.86%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.43%) Solaris
12 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (21.98%) CI/CD
3 45 (19.40%) DevOps
4 39 (16.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 36 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (15.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 33 (14.22%) Platform Engineering
8 31 (13.36%) High Availability
8 31 (13.36%) Observability
8 31 (13.36%) Service Management
9 30 (12.93%) Containerisation
10 29 (12.50%) ITSM
10 29 (12.50%) Migration
11 28 (12.07%) Identity Access Management
12 27 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (11.64%) Performance Tuning
13 26 (11.21%) Capacity Planning
14 24 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (9.91%) Agile
15 23 (9.91%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 82 (35.34%) Python
2 74 (31.90%) Bash
3 26 (11.21%) SQL
4 17 (7.33%) Kusto Query Language
5 16 (6.90%) Perl
6 14 (6.03%) Bicep
7 9 (3.88%) C#
7 9 (3.88%) VB
7 9 (3.88%) VBScript
8 8 (3.45%) Java
9 5 (2.16%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.72%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.29%) Go
11 3 (1.29%) Groovy
12 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.43%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.43%) C
13 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (28.88%) Security Cleared
2 59 (25.43%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.33%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.90%) Degree
4 16 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (5.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.31%) VCAP
7 9 (3.88%) CCDP
7 9 (3.88%) CCNA
7 9 (3.88%) CCNP
7 9 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.88%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.45%) MCSA
8 8 (3.45%) MCSE
9 6 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.59%) CISSP
10 4 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.78%) GDPR
2 13 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.31%) FINRA
3 10 (4.31%) MiFID
4 7 (3.02%) NIST
5 6 (2.59%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.16%) SLA
7 4 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.29%) QA
9 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.86%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.43%) GRC
System Software
1 74 (31.90%) Active Directory
2 45 (19.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (13.79%) Docker
3 32 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (11.21%) vSphere
5 22 (9.48%) Hyper-V
5 22 (9.48%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (6.47%) KVM
7 9 (3.88%) BitLocker
8 7 (3.02%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (2.59%) VMware NSX
10 5 (2.16%) Firmware
11 2 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.43%) NFS
12 1 (0.43%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 49 (21.12%) Terraform
2 40 (17.24%) Ansible
3 36 (15.52%) Kubernetes
4 23 (9.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (9.91%) vCenter Server
5 20 (8.62%) SCCM
6 16 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (4.31%) Grafana
7 10 (4.31%) PowerCLI
8 8 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.02%) Istio
9 7 (3.02%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.59%) IBM BigFix
10 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (2.59%) Nagios
11 5 (2.16%) Argo
11 5 (2.16%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 122 (52.59%) Microsoft
2 53 (22.84%) VMware
3 27 (11.64%) Cisco
4 22 (9.48%) Red Hat
5 20 (8.62%) Citrix
6 19 (8.19%) ServiceNow
7 13 (5.60%) Google
7 13 (5.60%) SolarWinds
7 13 (5.60%) Splunk
8 8 (3.45%) Veeam
9 7 (3.02%) IBM
10 6 (2.59%) CyberArk
10 6 (2.59%) Oracle
10 6 (2.59%) RedGate
11 5 (2.16%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.16%) Remedy
12 4 (1.72%) F5
12 4 (1.72%) Juniper
13 3 (1.29%) Alibaba
13 3 (1.29%) OpenAI