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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 62 83
Rank change year-on-year +2 +21 -18
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 224 116 109
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.64% 3.53% 2.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.39% 12.41% 9.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 74 78
10th Percentile £313 £334 £321
25th Percentile £358 £391 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -1.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £591
90th Percentile £621 £600 £650
England median daily rate £520 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -1.47% +0.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 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 £41.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +55.69% +4.38% -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 1,673 935 1,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.17% 28.44% 25.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 685 836
10th Percentile £343 £353 £314
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £563
90th Percentile £625 £635 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 15 49
10th Percentile £40.74 £35.66 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.72% +66.32% -2.06%
75th Percentile £74.26 £92.70 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.62 £75.43
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.97%

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 8 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 8 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 +14 133 £465 -0.09% 36
Yorkshire -19 88 £458 -8.50% 18
North East -12 5 £438 +25.00% 10
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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 (20.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (17.86%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.80%) Confluence
4 9 (4.02%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.34%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (40.63%) Azure
2 60 (26.79%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (25.89%) Entra ID
4 47 (20.98%) AWS
5 34 (15.18%) OneDrive
6 30 (13.39%) GCP
7 26 (11.61%) GitHub
8 22 (9.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (8.04%) Power Platform
11 13 (5.80%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (5.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 12 (5.36%) OpenShift
13 10 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.46%) SaaS
14 9 (4.02%) Azure AKS
14 9 (4.02%) Azure Storage
14 9 (4.02%) PaaS
15 8 (3.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.50%) DNS
2 26 (11.61%) Firewall
3 14 (6.25%) DHCP
4 12 (5.36%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.91%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (4.46%) LAN
6 10 (4.46%) Network Security
6 10 (4.46%) WAN
7 9 (4.02%) Skype
8 8 (3.57%) VSAN
9 7 (3.13%) Kerberos
9 7 (3.13%) SAN
9 7 (3.13%) VLAN
9 7 (3.13%) VPN
10 6 (2.68%) Unified Communications
11 5 (2.23%) NAS
11 5 (2.23%) NetScaler
12 4 (1.79%) WebEx
13 3 (1.34%) DKIM
13 3 (1.34%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.48%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.46%) Power BI
3 9 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.68%) DB2
6 3 (1.34%) Metadata
6 3 (1.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.89%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (8.48%) Jenkins
1 19 (8.48%) JIRA
2 10 (4.46%) GitLab
3 9 (4.02%) Git
4 5 (2.23%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.34%) MSI
5 3 (1.34%) Selenium
6 2 (0.89%) Flyway
6 2 (0.89%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.89%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.89%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.45%) Appium
7 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.45%) gulp
7 1 (0.45%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.45%) Postman
7 1 (0.45%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.45%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 42 (18.75%) Finance
1 42 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.61%) Legal
3 23 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.70%) Banking
6 12 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.79%) Law
9 3 (1.34%) Retail
10 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (13.84%) Architect
2 18 (8.04%) Security Engineer
2 18 (8.04%) Senior
3 17 (7.59%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 14 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
5 13 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (4.91%) Administrator
8 10 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.02%) DBA
9 9 (4.02%) SQL DBA
9 9 (4.02%) VMware Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.13%) Desktop Engineer
11 7 (3.13%) Server Engineer
11 7 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
12 6 (2.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.68%) Developer
12 6 (2.68%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.52%) Microsoft Graph
2 17 (7.59%) REST
3 11 (4.91%) LDAP
4 8 (3.57%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.23%) .NET
5 5 (2.23%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.23%) Swagger
5 5 (2.23%) Web Services
6 4 (1.79%) XMPP
7 3 (1.34%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.34%) JDBC
7 3 (1.34%) Kafka
7 3 (1.34%) Node.js
7 3 (1.34%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.34%) SOAP
7 3 (1.34%) Software Packaging
7 3 (1.34%) YAML
8 2 (0.89%) pytest
8 2 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.84%) Clustering
2 30 (13.39%) Replication
3 15 (6.70%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.91%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (4.91%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.91%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.46%) Security Posture
6 9 (4.02%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.79%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.79%) PKI
8 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.34%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 119 (53.13%) Windows
2 44 (19.64%) Linux
3 42 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 20 (8.93%) Windows 10
5 10 (4.46%) Unix
6 9 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.02%) Windows 7
7 8 (3.57%) AIX
7 8 (3.57%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (2.23%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.34%) VMS
12 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.45%) Solaris
13 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 47 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (20.54%) DevOps
4 43 (19.20%) Disaster Recovery
5 34 (15.18%) Observability
6 33 (14.73%) High Availability
6 33 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (14.73%) Root Cause Analysis
7 32 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
8 28 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
9 27 (12.05%) Agile
10 26 (11.61%) Network Virtualisation
11 24 (10.71%) Migration
11 24 (10.71%) Project Delivery
12 23 (10.27%) Identity Access Management
13 22 (9.82%) Incident Response
13 22 (9.82%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (9.38%) Analytics
14 21 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
15 19 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 76 (33.93%) Python
2 57 (25.45%) Bash
3 28 (12.50%) SQL
4 16 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
5 13 (5.80%) Bicep
6 9 (4.02%) Java
6 9 (4.02%) VBScript
7 8 (3.57%) C#
7 8 (3.57%) VB
8 6 (2.68%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.23%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.34%) Go
10 3 (1.34%) Groovy
10 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.89%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.89%) Perl
11 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 48 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 16 (7.14%) VCAP
6 14 (6.25%) MCSA
6 14 (6.25%) MCSE
7 13 (5.80%) Degree
8 11 (4.91%) AWS Certification
9 9 (4.02%) CISSP
10 5 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.45%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.45%) CCDP
12 1 (0.45%) CCNA
12 1 (0.45%) CCNP
12 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.16%) GDPR
2 10 (4.46%) FINRA
2 10 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.46%) MiFID
3 7 (3.13%) HIPAA
4 6 (2.68%) NIST
5 5 (2.23%) SLA
6 4 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.34%) QA
8 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
System Software
1 59 (26.34%) Active Directory
2 45 (20.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (16.96%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (14.29%) vSphere
5 28 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (12.05%) Docker
7 22 (9.82%) Hyper-V
8 15 (6.70%) KVM
9 9 (4.02%) BitLocker
9 9 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (2.68%) Firmware
10 6 (2.68%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.45%) NFS
12 1 (0.45%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 48 (21.43%) Ansible
2 46 (20.54%) Terraform
3 35 (15.63%) Kubernetes
4 29 (12.95%) vCenter Server
5 23 (10.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (9.38%) SCCM
7 10 (4.46%) Grafana
7 10 (4.46%) PowerCLI
8 9 (4.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (3.13%) Istio
9 7 (3.13%) Nagios
9 7 (3.13%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.68%) IBM BigFix
10 6 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (2.23%) Argo
11 5 (2.23%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.34%) vRealize
13 2 (0.89%) vMotion
Vendors
1 119 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 49 (21.88%) VMware
3 23 (10.27%) ServiceNow
4 22 (9.82%) Cisco
5 17 (7.59%) Splunk
6 15 (6.70%) Google
7 14 (6.25%) SolarWinds
8 11 (4.91%) Red Hat
9 10 (4.46%) Citrix
10 9 (4.02%) IBM
10 9 (4.02%) Remedy
11 8 (3.57%) CyberArk
11 8 (3.57%) Veeam
12 7 (3.13%) BeyondTrust
12 7 (3.13%) Oracle
13 6 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (2.68%) RedGate
14 5 (2.23%) Dynatrace
15 4 (1.79%) BMC
15 4 (1.79%) F5