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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 80
Rank change year-on-year -3 +26 -22
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 219 131 120
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.01% 4.01% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.99% 14.77% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 84 86
10th Percentile £314 £357 £238
25th Percentile £367 £413 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% +4.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £536
90th Percentile £625 £600 £644
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -
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 £74.26 £56.75 £40.25
% change year-on-year +30.87% +40.98% -29.79%

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 1,565 887 1,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.64% 27.16% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 620 905
10th Percentile £343 £344 £311
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% -10.48%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £550
90th Percentile £621 £638 £625
England median daily rate £506 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.71% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 15 64
10th Percentile £41.94 £35.48 £38.87
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.59 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.50 £65.50 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +37.17% -1.04%
75th Percentile £74.26 £86.75 £66.88
90th Percentile £86.00 £99.86 £74.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the North of England

PowerShell
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 9 March 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 +9 121 £496 +5.57% 33
Yorkshire -22 90 £460 -8.00% 27
North East -10 13 £550 +20.35% 12
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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 60 (27.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (21.92%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.57%) Confluence
4 9 (4.11%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.37%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 84 (38.36%) Azure
2 69 (31.51%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (29.22%) Entra ID
4 42 (19.18%) AWS
5 38 (17.35%) OneDrive
6 30 (13.70%) GCP
7 22 (10.05%) GitHub
8 21 (9.59%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (5.94%) Serverless
12 12 (5.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 12 (5.48%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.57%) PaaS
14 10 (4.57%) SaaS
15 9 (4.11%) OpenShift
15 9 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (3.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (21.46%) Firewall
2 40 (18.26%) DNS
3 25 (11.42%) DHCP
4 21 (9.59%) VLAN
5 19 (8.68%) VPN
6 17 (7.76%) TCP/IP
7 16 (7.31%) LAN
7 16 (7.31%) WAN
8 14 (6.39%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (5.02%) Network Security
9 11 (5.02%) WebEx
10 9 (4.11%) BGP
10 9 (4.11%) Skype
11 8 (3.65%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (3.20%) Kerberos
13 4 (1.83%) NetScaler
13 4 (1.83%) SNMP
13 4 (1.83%) Unified Communications
14 3 (1.37%) DKIM
14 3 (1.37%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.31%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.74%) DB2
2 6 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.28%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.83%) Metadata
5 3 (1.37%) Power BI
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (11.42%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.22%) JIRA
3 16 (7.31%) GitLab
4 14 (6.39%) Git
5 7 (3.20%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.91%) MSI
6 2 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.91%) Selenium
6 2 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.91%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.46%) Appium
7 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.46%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.46%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.46%) Subversion
7 1 (0.46%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.46%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 38 (17.35%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.53%) Legal
3 33 (15.07%) Finance
4 27 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.94%) Banking
7 11 (5.02%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.83%) Retail
10 3 (1.37%) Law
11 2 (0.91%) Military
12 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.46%) Local Government
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (14.16%) Architect
2 24 (10.96%) Platform Engineer
3 16 (7.31%) Administrator
4 15 (6.85%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 13 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (5.94%) Senior
6 12 (5.48%) Security Engineer
7 10 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.65%) Wintel Engineer
10 7 (3.20%) Analyst
10 7 (3.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.20%) Technical Architect
11 6 (2.74%) DBA
11 6 (2.74%) IT Support
11 6 (2.74%) Lead
11 6 (2.74%) Network Engineer
11 6 (2.74%) Support Engineer
11 6 (2.74%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (15.53%) Microsoft Graph
2 13 (5.94%) REST
3 11 (5.02%) XMPP
4 8 (3.65%) ARM Templates
4 8 (3.65%) LDAP
5 6 (2.74%) Node.js
6 5 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.28%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.28%) Swagger
7 4 (1.83%) .NET
7 4 (1.83%) JSON
7 4 (1.83%) SOAP
7 4 (1.83%) Web Services
8 3 (1.37%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.37%) Kafka
9 2 (0.91%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.91%) OAuth
9 2 (0.91%) SPFx
9 2 (0.91%) XML
10 1 (0.46%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.50%) Data Centre
1 23 (10.50%) Product Ownership
2 21 (9.59%) Clustering
3 16 (7.31%) Replication
4 11 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.11%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.74%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.28%) Fat Client
8 5 (2.28%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.28%) Thin Client
9 4 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.83%) CMDB
9 4 (1.83%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.37%) iPhone
10 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 107 (48.86%) Windows
2 52 (23.74%) Linux
3 45 (20.55%) Windows Server
4 25 (11.42%) Windows 10
5 19 (8.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (4.57%) Unix
7 9 (4.11%) Windows 7
8 7 (3.20%) AIX
9 4 (1.83%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.37%) Android
11 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.46%) Solaris
12 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (23.29%) CI/CD
3 49 (22.37%) DevOps
4 35 (15.98%) Disaster Recovery
4 35 (15.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (14.61%) Containerisation
6 31 (14.16%) High Availability
6 31 (14.16%) Root Cause Analysis
6 31 (14.16%) Service Management
7 30 (13.70%) Observability
8 29 (13.24%) ITSM
9 28 (12.79%) Identity Access Management
9 28 (12.79%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (11.87%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (11.42%) Incident Response
12 24 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (10.96%) Migration
13 22 (10.05%) Agile
14 20 (9.13%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (9.13%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 80 (36.53%) Python
2 74 (33.79%) Bash
3 21 (9.59%) SQL
4 18 (8.22%) Perl
5 17 (7.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 13 (5.94%) Bicep
7 10 (4.57%) Java
8 9 (4.11%) C#
8 9 (4.11%) VB
8 9 (4.11%) VBScript
9 7 (3.20%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.28%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.83%) Go
11 4 (1.83%) Groovy
12 2 (0.91%) Ruby
12 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.46%) C
13 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 67 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.40%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.39%) Azure Certification
3 14 (6.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (5.94%) Degree
5 11 (5.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (4.57%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.11%) CCDP
7 9 (4.11%) CCNA
7 9 (4.11%) CCNP
7 9 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (4.11%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.65%) MCSA
8 8 (3.65%) MCSE
8 8 (3.65%) VCAP
9 6 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.28%) CISSP
11 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.91%) CISM
13 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.42%) GDPR
2 13 (5.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.57%) FINRA
3 10 (4.57%) MiFID
4 8 (3.65%) NIST
5 4 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.83%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.83%) QA
5 4 (1.83%) SLA
6 3 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (31.96%) Active Directory
2 39 (17.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (16.89%) Docker
4 26 (11.87%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (9.59%) Hyper-V
6 19 (8.68%) vSphere
7 15 (6.85%) KVM
7 15 (6.85%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (4.11%) BitLocker
9 8 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (2.28%) Firmware
11 2 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 50 (22.83%) Terraform
2 37 (16.89%) Kubernetes
3 36 (16.44%) Ansible
4 22 (10.05%) SCCM
5 21 (9.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (8.68%) vCenter Server
7 16 (7.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (5.48%) Grafana
9 9 (4.11%) Prometheus
9 9 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (3.20%) Istio
11 6 (2.74%) IBM BigFix
11 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (2.74%) Nagios
12 5 (2.28%) Argo
13 4 (1.83%) PowerCLI
13 4 (1.83%) Progress Chef
14 3 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
15 2 (0.91%) CA Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.91%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 111 (50.68%) Microsoft
2 49 (22.37%) VMware
3 26 (11.87%) Cisco
4 20 (9.13%) Citrix
4 20 (9.13%) Red Hat
5 18 (8.22%) ServiceNow
6 15 (6.85%) Google
7 12 (5.48%) SolarWinds
7 12 (5.48%) Splunk
8 9 (4.11%) Oracle
9 7 (3.20%) IBM
9 7 (3.20%) Veeam
10 6 (2.74%) RedGate
11 5 (2.28%) CyberArk
11 5 (2.28%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.83%) F5
12 4 (1.83%) Juniper
13 3 (1.37%) Alibaba
13 3 (1.37%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.91%) Veritas