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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 62 79
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 234 118 109
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.66% 3.56% 2.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.67% 12.69% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 73 78
10th Percentile £313 £331 £362
25th Percentile £363 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -4.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £622
90th Percentile £622 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £41.75 £40.25
% change year-on-year +51.22% +3.73% -32.92%

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 1,712 930 1,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.75% 28.07% 25.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 678 843
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £412 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £569
90th Percentile £625 £615 £625
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 15 51
10th Percentile £37.25 £35.66 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.63 £43.57
Median hourly rate £64.07 £79.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.90% +66.32% -3.62%
75th Percentile £74.26 £91.88 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.20 £100.62 £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +15 134 £472 +1.51% 47
Yorkshire -17 98 £460 -8.00% 19
North East -20 4 £400 +14.29% 13
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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 47 (20.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (17.95%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.56%) Confluence
4 10 (4.27%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.28%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (40.17%) Azure
2 64 (27.35%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (25.64%) Entra ID
4 49 (20.94%) AWS
5 34 (14.53%) GCP
5 34 (14.53%) OneDrive
6 33 (14.10%) GitHub
7 25 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (10.68%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (9.40%) Power Platform
9 21 (8.97%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (6.84%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 12 (5.13%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.27%) PowerApps
13 9 (3.85%) Azure AKS
13 9 (3.85%) Azure Storage
13 9 (3.85%) SaaS
14 8 (3.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.54%) DNS
2 26 (11.11%) Firewall
3 14 (5.98%) DHCP
4 13 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.70%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (4.27%) LAN
6 10 (4.27%) Network Security
6 10 (4.27%) Skype
6 10 (4.27%) WAN
7 9 (3.85%) SAN
8 7 (2.99%) Kerberos
8 7 (2.99%) VLAN
8 7 (2.99%) VSAN
9 6 (2.56%) NAS
9 6 (2.56%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.56%) VPN
10 5 (2.14%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.28%) DKIM
11 3 (1.28%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (1.28%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.40%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.13%) Power BI
3 9 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.56%) DB2
6 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.85%) Metadata
7 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (8.97%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.12%) JIRA
3 9 (3.85%) Git
3 9 (3.85%) GitLab
4 5 (2.14%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.28%) MSI
5 3 (1.28%) Selenium
6 2 (0.85%) Flyway
6 2 (0.85%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.85%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.85%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.43%) Appium
7 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.43%) gulp
7 1 (0.43%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.43%) Postman
7 1 (0.43%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.43%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 46 (19.66%) Finance
2 44 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.83%) Legal
5 18 (7.69%) Banking
6 15 (6.41%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.14%) Law
10 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Military
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (14.10%) Architect
2 19 (8.12%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 18 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 18 (7.69%) Senior
4 15 (6.41%) Wintel Engineer
5 14 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Developer
9 10 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.85%) Administrator
10 9 (3.85%) DBA
10 9 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.85%) SQL DBA
10 9 (3.85%) VMware Engineer
11 8 (3.42%) Desktop Engineer
12 7 (2.99%) Server Engineer
12 7 (2.99%) Windows Engineer
13 6 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.56%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 22 (9.40%) REST
3 11 (4.70%) LDAP
4 7 (2.99%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.14%) .NET
5 5 (2.14%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.14%) Swagger
5 5 (2.14%) Web Services
5 5 (2.14%) YAML
6 4 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.28%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.28%) JDBC
7 3 (1.28%) Kafka
7 3 (1.28%) Node.js
7 3 (1.28%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.28%) SOAP
7 3 (1.28%) Software Packaging
7 3 (1.28%) SPFx
7 3 (1.28%) XMPP
8 2 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.10%) Clustering
2 32 (13.68%) Replication
3 17 (7.26%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.98%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.70%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.70%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.85%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.42%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.99%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.14%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.71%) PKI
10 4 (1.71%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.28%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.28%) Fat Client
11 3 (1.28%) IoT
11 3 (1.28%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 127 (54.27%) Windows
2 44 (18.80%) Linux
3 43 (18.38%) Windows Server
4 21 (8.97%) Windows 10
5 10 (4.27%) Unix
5 10 (4.27%) Windows 7
6 9 (3.85%) AIX
6 9 (3.85%) Mac OS
7 8 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (2.56%) Apple iOS
10 5 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.28%) VMS
13 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (22.22%) DevOps
2 51 (21.79%) CI/CD
3 49 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (17.95%) Disaster Recovery
5 38 (16.24%) Observability
6 34 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (14.10%) Capacity Planning
7 33 (14.10%) High Availability
8 32 (13.68%) Root Cause Analysis
9 30 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
10 28 (11.97%) Agile
11 27 (11.54%) Network Virtualisation
12 25 (10.68%) Project Delivery
13 24 (10.26%) Identity Access Management
13 24 (10.26%) Migration
14 23 (9.83%) Analytics
15 21 (8.97%) Incident Response
15 21 (8.97%) Infrastructure Automation
15 21 (8.97%) ITSM
15 21 (8.97%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (34.62%) Python
2 59 (25.21%) Bash
3 29 (12.39%) SQL
4 16 (6.84%) Kusto Query Language
5 11 (4.70%) Bicep
6 10 (4.27%) VBScript
7 9 (3.85%) Java
7 9 (3.85%) VB
8 8 (3.42%) C#
9 6 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.14%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.28%) Go
11 3 (1.28%) Groovy
11 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.85%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.43%) Perl
13 1 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 56 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 48 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (8.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (7.26%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.26%) VCAP
6 15 (6.41%) MCSA
6 15 (6.41%) MCSE
7 14 (5.98%) Degree
8 11 (4.70%) AWS Certification
9 10 (4.27%) CISSP
10 4 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.43%) CCNP
12 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.43%) NCDA
12 1 (0.43%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.83%) GDPR
2 10 (4.27%) FINRA
2 10 (4.27%) MiFID
3 8 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.99%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.56%) NIST
6 5 (2.14%) SLA
7 4 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.28%) QA
9 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.43%) GRC
System Software
1 60 (25.64%) Active Directory
2 46 (19.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (17.09%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (14.10%) vSphere
5 29 (12.39%) Docker
6 28 (11.97%) VMware ESXi
7 22 (9.40%) Hyper-V
8 15 (6.41%) KVM
9 11 (4.70%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (4.27%) BitLocker
11 7 (2.99%) Firmware
12 6 (2.56%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.43%) NFS
14 1 (0.43%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 53 (22.65%) Ansible
2 49 (20.94%) Terraform
3 36 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 29 (12.39%) vCenter Server
5 25 (10.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (9.40%) SCCM
7 10 (4.27%) PowerCLI
8 9 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (3.85%) Grafana
9 8 (3.42%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (2.99%) Istio
10 7 (2.99%) Nagios
11 6 (2.56%) IBM BigFix
11 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (2.56%) Prometheus
12 5 (2.14%) Argo
12 5 (2.14%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (1.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 122 (52.14%) Microsoft
2 51 (21.79%) VMware
3 26 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 24 (10.26%) Cisco
5 19 (8.12%) Google
5 19 (8.12%) Splunk
6 14 (5.98%) SolarWinds
7 11 (4.70%) IBM
7 11 (4.70%) Remedy
8 10 (4.27%) Red Hat
9 9 (3.85%) Citrix
10 8 (3.42%) BeyondTrust
10 8 (3.42%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.99%) Oracle
11 7 (2.99%) Veeam
12 6 (2.56%) RedGate
13 5 (2.14%) Dynatrace
14 4 (1.71%) Brocade
14 4 (1.71%) F5