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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 73 75
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 258 116 109
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.57% 3.04% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.54% 11.31% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 65 80
10th Percentile £311 £263 £362
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% -11.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £573 £488 £638
90th Percentile £623 £568 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £46.50 - £46.44
25th Percentile - - £46.82
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £49.34
75th Percentile - - £53.73
90th Percentile - - £55.24
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -12.35%

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 1,905 1,026 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.37% 26.89% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 739 789
10th Percentile £350 £320 £318
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% -2.63% -8.65%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £610 £632
England median daily rate £520 £520 £545
% change year-on-year +0.05% -4.63% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 11 37
10th Percentile £29.96 £30.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £31.62 £41.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +13.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £86.63 £71.87
90th Percentile £85.80 £95.00 £80.70
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

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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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +18 152 £453 +1.29% 36
Yorkshire -7 102 £455 +8.54% 14
North East -37 6 £238 -32.14% 9
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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 38 (14.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (10.85%) SharePoint
3 21 (8.14%) Confluence
4 8 (3.10%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Camunda
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 124 (48.06%) Azure
2 62 (24.03%) AWS
3 60 (23.26%) Entra ID
4 52 (20.16%) GCP
4 52 (20.16%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (17.05%) GitHub
6 31 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (10.08%) Power Platform
9 21 (8.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 19 (7.36%) OneDrive
11 15 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (5.04%) OpenShift
13 12 (4.65%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (4.65%) SaaS
14 10 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.88%) PowerApps
14 10 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (3.49%) Azure AKS
15 9 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.79%) Firewall
2 18 (6.98%) DNS
3 12 (4.65%) SAN
4 11 (4.26%) Network Security
5 9 (3.49%) NAS
5 9 (3.49%) WAN
5 9 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (3.10%) DHCP
6 8 (3.10%) Kerberos
6 8 (3.10%) Skype
6 8 (3.10%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.10%) VSAN
7 7 (2.71%) LAN
8 6 (2.33%) Unified Communications
9 5 (1.94%) SSL
10 4 (1.55%) Internet
10 4 (1.55%) VLAN
10 4 (1.55%) VPN
11 3 (1.16%) BGP
11 3 (1.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.89%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.20%) Power BI
3 14 (5.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.71%) Db2
6 6 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.94%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.55%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.16%) MySQL
10 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 33 (12.79%) Jenkins
2 24 (9.30%) JIRA
3 18 (6.98%) Git
4 10 (3.88%) GitLab
5 6 (2.33%) Selenium
6 5 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.55%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.55%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.55%) MSBuild
7 4 (1.55%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.16%) Bugzilla
8 3 (1.16%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.78%) Flyway
9 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.78%) MSI
9 2 (0.78%) Postman
9 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 58 (22.48%) Finance
2 44 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.53%) Banking
5 11 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.26%) Legal
5 11 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.78%) Games
8 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Law
8 2 (0.78%) Military
8 2 (0.78%) Retail
9 1 (0.39%) Local Government
9 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (11.63%) Security Engineer
2 25 (9.69%) Senior
3 18 (6.98%) Developer
4 16 (6.20%) Architect
4 16 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (5.43%) DBA
6 14 (5.43%) SQL DBA
7 13 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.26%) Administrator
8 11 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (3.88%) Desktop Engineer
10 9 (3.49%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 9 (3.49%) Wintel Engineer
11 8 (3.10%) VMware Engineer
12 7 (2.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 6 (2.33%) Lead
13 6 (2.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (2.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.30%) Microsoft Graph
1 24 (9.30%) REST
2 12 (4.65%) JSON
2 12 (4.65%) LDAP
3 10 (3.88%) .NET
4 8 (3.10%) Kafka
5 7 (2.71%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.33%) OAuth
6 6 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (2.33%) SailPoint
7 5 (1.94%) Web Services
7 5 (1.94%) YAML
8 4 (1.55%) XML
9 3 (1.16%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.16%) JDBC
9 3 (1.16%) Node.js
9 3 (1.16%) OpenAPI
9 3 (1.16%) SOAP
9 3 (1.16%) Swagger
9 3 (1.16%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.63%) Replication
2 26 (10.08%) Clustering
3 23 (8.91%) Security Posture
4 22 (8.53%) Cloud Native
5 17 (6.59%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (6.20%) Data Centre
7 13 (5.04%) Management Information System
8 11 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (4.26%) Onboarding
9 9 (3.49%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.71%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.71%) PKI
11 6 (2.33%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.94%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.55%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (50.00%) Windows
2 67 (25.97%) Linux
3 46 (17.83%) Windows Server
4 22 (8.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.04%) Windows 10
6 12 (4.65%) Unix
7 9 (3.49%) AIX
8 8 (3.10%) Windows 7
9 6 (2.33%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.94%) Apple iOS
10 5 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (1.16%) Solaris
12 3 (1.16%) VMS
13 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (32.56%) DevOps
2 73 (28.29%) CI/CD
3 58 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (19.38%) Agile
5 49 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (17.44%) Change Management
7 44 (17.05%) Observability
8 37 (14.34%) Cloud Security
9 36 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
10 32 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (12.40%) Disaster Recovery
10 32 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (12.02%) ITIL
12 30 (11.63%) AI
12 30 (11.63%) Capacity Planning
12 30 (11.63%) High Availability
12 30 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (11.24%) Identity Access Management
14 27 (10.47%) Infrastructure Automation
15 26 (10.08%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 116 (44.96%) Python
2 77 (29.84%) Bash
3 48 (18.60%) SQL
4 19 (7.36%) Bicep
5 17 (6.59%) Java
6 12 (4.65%) C#
6 12 (4.65%) VBScript
7 9 (3.49%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.10%) VB
9 7 (2.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (2.71%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.94%) Groovy
11 4 (1.55%) Perl
11 4 (1.55%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.16%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.78%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.39%) COBOL
14 1 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 54 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 33 (12.79%) Degree
4 30 (11.63%) Azure Certification
5 22 (8.53%) AWS Certification
6 21 (8.14%) CISSP
7 18 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (5.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (4.26%) VCAP
10 9 (3.49%) MCSA
10 9 (3.49%) MCSE
11 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (1.16%) CCNP
13 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.88%) GDPR
2 6 (2.33%) HIPAA
2 6 (2.33%) NIST
3 5 (1.94%) SLA
4 4 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.78%) FINRA
6 2 (0.78%) MiFID
6 2 (0.78%) QA
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 58 (22.48%) Active Directory
2 37 (14.34%) Docker
2 37 (14.34%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (13.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (10.08%) vSphere
5 22 (8.53%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (7.36%) Hyper-V
7 13 (5.04%) KVM
8 9 (3.49%) BitLocker
8 9 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (2.71%) Firmware
10 6 (2.33%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.78%) NFS
11 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.78%) SRDF
12 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 67 (25.97%) Terraform
2 59 (22.87%) Ansible
3 52 (20.16%) Kubernetes
4 24 (9.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (8.91%) vCenter Server
6 14 (5.43%) Progress Chef
6 14 (5.43%) SCCM
7 12 (4.65%) Grafana
8 9 (3.49%) PowerCLI
9 8 (3.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (3.10%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (3.10%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.33%) Argo
10 6 (2.33%) IBM BigFix
10 6 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.94%) Istio
12 4 (1.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (1.16%) SCOM
13 3 (1.16%) vRealize
13 3 (1.16%) WMI
Vendors
1 119 (46.12%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.89%) VMware
3 32 (12.40%) Google
3 32 (12.40%) ServiceNow
4 27 (10.47%) Cisco
5 23 (8.91%) Red Hat
6 22 (8.53%) Splunk
7 13 (5.04%) Remedy
8 12 (4.65%) IBM
9 9 (3.49%) BeyondTrust
9 9 (3.49%) SolarWinds
10 8 (3.10%) CyberArk
10 8 (3.10%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.71%) HP
11 7 (2.71%) Oracle
11 7 (2.71%) Veeam
12 6 (2.33%) Citrix
12 6 (2.33%) RedGate
13 5 (1.94%) BMC