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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 58 77
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 -14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 221 128 114
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.60% 3.92% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.23% 13.93% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 85 81
10th Percentile £314 £356 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £594
90th Percentile £623 £600 £650
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +124.14% -27.50% -33.22%

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 1,671 919 1,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.19% 28.16% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 671 863
10th Percentile £347 £352 £319
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £623 £638 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.90% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 14 48
10th Percentile £41.94 £34.68 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.31 £44.72
Median hourly rate £63.14 £76.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +60.53% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £94.67 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.30 £100.97 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.07%

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 28 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 28 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 +12 130 £485 +4.30% 39
Yorkshire -35 88 £460 -3.16% 12
North East -19 5 £438 -5.91% 11
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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 49 (22.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (18.10%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.88%) Confluence
4 9 (4.07%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.36%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 89 (40.27%) Azure
2 61 (27.60%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (27.15%) Entra ID
4 41 (18.55%) AWS
5 35 (15.84%) OneDrive
6 28 (12.67%) GCP
7 24 (10.86%) GitHub
8 23 (10.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (5.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (5.43%) OpenShift
10 12 (5.43%) Power Platform
11 11 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (4.98%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (4.98%) SaaS
12 10 (4.52%) PaaS
13 9 (4.07%) Azure AKS
13 9 (4.07%) Azure Storage
14 8 (3.62%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 37 (16.74%) DNS
2 28 (12.67%) Firewall
3 21 (9.50%) DHCP
4 16 (7.24%) LAN
4 16 (7.24%) WAN
4 16 (7.24%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 13 (5.88%) VPN
6 12 (5.43%) VLAN
7 10 (4.52%) Network Security
8 9 (4.07%) Skype
9 8 (3.62%) VSAN
10 7 (3.17%) Kerberos
11 6 (2.71%) SAN
11 6 (2.71%) Unified Communications
12 5 (2.26%) NetScaler
12 5 (2.26%) WebEx
13 4 (1.81%) NAS
14 3 (1.36%) DKIM
14 3 (1.36%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (3.17%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.71%) DB2
4 6 (2.71%) Power BI
5 4 (1.81%) Metadata
6 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (8.60%) Jenkins
1 19 (8.60%) JIRA
2 10 (4.52%) Git
2 10 (4.52%) GitLab
3 5 (2.26%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.36%) MSI
4 3 (1.36%) Selenium
5 2 (0.90%) Flyway
5 2 (0.90%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.90%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.90%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.45%) Appium
6 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.45%) gulp
6 1 (0.45%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.45%) Postman
6 1 (0.45%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.45%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 38 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.74%) Finance
3 28 (12.67%) Legal
4 20 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (5.43%) Banking
8 6 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.81%) Retail
10 3 (1.36%) Law
11 2 (0.90%) Local Government
11 2 (0.90%) Military
12 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (14.48%) Architect
2 18 (8.14%) Senior
3 15 (6.79%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 15 (6.79%) Security Engineer
4 14 (6.33%) Wintel Engineer
5 13 (5.88%) Administrator
5 13 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (4.07%) DBA
8 9 (4.07%) SQL DBA
8 9 (4.07%) VMware Engineer
9 8 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.17%) Server Engineer
10 7 (3.17%) Technical Architect
10 7 (3.17%) Windows Engineer
11 6 (2.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.71%) Developer
11 6 (2.71%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.74%) Microsoft Graph
2 17 (7.69%) REST
3 11 (4.98%) LDAP
4 9 (4.07%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.26%) .NET
5 5 (2.26%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.26%) Swagger
5 5 (2.26%) Web Services
5 5 (2.26%) XMPP
6 3 (1.36%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.36%) JDBC
6 3 (1.36%) JSON
6 3 (1.36%) Kafka
6 3 (1.36%) Node.js
6 3 (1.36%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.36%) SOAP
6 3 (1.36%) Software Packaging
6 3 (1.36%) SPFx
7 2 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.03%) Clustering
2 29 (13.12%) Replication
3 14 (6.33%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.43%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.98%) Security Posture
6 10 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (4.52%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.07%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (3.17%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.26%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.26%) Fat Client
9 5 (2.26%) Thin Client
10 4 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.81%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.36%) IoT
11 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 115 (52.04%) Windows
2 42 (19.00%) Linux
3 41 (18.55%) Windows Server
4 21 (9.50%) Windows 10
5 9 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.07%) Unix
5 9 (4.07%) Windows 7
6 7 (3.17%) AIX
7 6 (2.71%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.45%) Android
11 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.45%) Solaris
11 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (21.27%) CI/CD
2 45 (20.36%) DevOps
2 45 (20.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 45 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
4 33 (14.93%) High Availability
5 32 (14.48%) Capacity Planning
6 31 (14.03%) Observability
7 28 (12.67%) Performance Tuning
8 26 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
9 25 (11.31%) Agile
10 23 (10.41%) Incident Response
10 23 (10.41%) Project Delivery
11 22 (9.95%) Infrastructure Automation
11 22 (9.95%) Migration
11 22 (9.95%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (9.50%) Identity Access Management
12 21 (9.50%) Service Management
13 20 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 68 (30.77%) Python
2 56 (25.34%) Bash
3 28 (12.67%) SQL
4 17 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (6.33%) Bicep
6 9 (4.07%) C#
6 9 (4.07%) Java
6 9 (4.07%) VB
6 9 (4.07%) VBScript
7 6 (2.71%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.26%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.36%) Go
9 3 (1.36%) Groovy
9 3 (1.36%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.90%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.90%) Perl
10 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.45%) C
11 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (26.24%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.17%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 16 (7.24%) VCAP
7 14 (6.33%) MCSA
7 14 (6.33%) MCSE
8 13 (5.88%) Degree
9 9 (4.07%) AWS Certification
9 9 (4.07%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.17%) CISSP
11 6 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.45%) CCNA
13 1 (0.45%) CCNP
13 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.45%) NCDA
13 1 (0.45%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.76%) GDPR
2 13 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.52%) FINRA
3 10 (4.52%) MiFID
4 8 (3.62%) NIST
5 7 (3.17%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.26%) SLA
7 4 (1.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.36%) QA
9 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.90%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.45%) GRC
System Software
1 62 (28.05%) Active Directory
2 45 (20.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (17.19%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (14.48%) vSphere
5 28 (12.67%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (11.31%) Docker
7 22 (9.95%) Hyper-V
8 15 (6.79%) KVM
9 9 (4.07%) BitLocker
10 7 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (2.71%) VMware NSX
12 5 (2.26%) Firmware
13 2 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.45%) NFS
14 1 (0.45%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 46 (20.81%) Ansible
1 46 (20.81%) Terraform
2 33 (14.93%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.12%) vCenter Server
4 21 (9.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (9.50%) SCCM
5 10 (4.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 10 (4.52%) Grafana
5 10 (4.52%) PowerCLI
6 7 (3.17%) Istio
6 7 (3.17%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.71%) IBM BigFix
7 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (2.71%) Nagios
7 6 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.26%) Argo
8 5 (2.26%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.36%) vRealize
11 2 (0.90%) vMotion
Vendors
1 119 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 48 (21.72%) VMware
3 22 (9.95%) Cisco
4 20 (9.05%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.88%) Google
5 13 (5.88%) SolarWinds
5 13 (5.88%) Splunk
6 11 (4.98%) Citrix
6 11 (4.98%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.62%) Veeam
8 7 (3.17%) CyberArk
8 7 (3.17%) IBM
8 7 (3.17%) Oracle
9 6 (2.71%) RedGate
9 6 (2.71%) Remedy
10 5 (2.26%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.81%) F5
12 3 (1.36%) Alibaba
12 3 (1.36%) BMC
12 3 (1.36%) OpenAI