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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 67 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 259 116 109
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.59% 3.03% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.64% 11.23% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 65 80
10th Percentile £311 £263 £362
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -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 1,899 1,033 1,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.30% 27.01% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 745 788
10th Percentile £350 £319 £317
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -4.21% -9.18%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £605 £632
England median daily rate £520 £516 £545
% change year-on-year +0.78% -5.32% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 11 36
10th Percentile £29.96 £30.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £31.62 £44.72
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year - +30.23% +16.39%
75th Percentile £76.00 £86.63 £71.87
90th Percentile £86.00 £95.00 £81.09
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

PowerShell
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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +18 154 £455 +1.62% 37
Yorkshire -3 101 £455 +8.66% 17
North East -31 6 £238 -32.14% 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 38 (14.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 21 (8.11%) Confluence
4 8 (3.09%) 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 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 126 (48.65%) Azure
2 63 (24.32%) AWS
3 60 (23.17%) Entra ID
4 52 (20.08%) GCP
4 52 (20.08%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (17.37%) GitHub
6 33 (12.74%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (10.42%) Power Platform
9 21 (8.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 19 (7.34%) OneDrive
11 16 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (5.02%) OpenShift
13 12 (4.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (4.63%) SaaS
14 10 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.86%) PowerApps
14 10 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (3.47%) Azure AKS
15 9 (3.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.74%) Firewall
2 18 (6.95%) DNS
3 12 (4.63%) Network Security
4 11 (4.25%) SAN
5 10 (3.86%) WAN
6 9 (3.47%) NAS
6 9 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (3.09%) DHCP
7 8 (3.09%) Kerberos
7 8 (3.09%) Skype
7 8 (3.09%) TCP/IP
7 8 (3.09%) VSAN
8 7 (2.70%) LAN
9 6 (2.32%) SSL
9 6 (2.32%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.93%) VPN
11 4 (1.54%) BGP
11 4 (1.54%) Internet
12 3 (1.16%) MPLS
12 3 (1.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.56%) Power BI
3 15 (5.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.25%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.70%) Db2
6 6 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.32%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.93%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.54%) MySQL
8 4 (1.54%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 34 (13.13%) Jenkins
2 24 (9.27%) JIRA
3 19 (7.34%) Git
4 11 (4.25%) GitLab
5 6 (2.32%) Selenium
5 6 (2.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.54%) Claude Code
6 4 (1.54%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.54%) MSBuild
6 4 (1.54%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.16%) Bugzilla
7 3 (1.16%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.77%) Flyway
8 2 (0.77%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.77%) MSI
8 2 (0.77%) Postman
8 2 (0.77%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 58 (22.39%) Finance
2 45 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.49%) Banking
5 11 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.25%) Legal
5 11 (4.25%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.77%) Games
8 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.77%) Law
8 2 (0.77%) Military
8 2 (0.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.39%) Local Government
9 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (11.58%) Security Engineer
2 25 (9.65%) Senior
3 18 (6.95%) Developer
4 16 (6.18%) Architect
4 16 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (5.79%) DBA
5 15 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (5.79%) SQL DBA
6 12 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (4.25%) Administrator
7 11 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (3.86%) Desktop Engineer
9 9 (3.47%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 9 (3.47%) Wintel Engineer
10 8 (3.09%) VMware Engineer
11 7 (2.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 7 (2.70%) Lead
12 6 (2.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (2.32%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.65%) REST
2 24 (9.27%) Microsoft Graph
3 13 (5.02%) JSON
4 12 (4.63%) LDAP
5 10 (3.86%) .NET
6 8 (3.09%) Kafka
7 7 (2.70%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.32%) OAuth
8 6 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.32%) SailPoint
8 6 (2.32%) YAML
9 5 (1.93%) Web Services
10 4 (1.54%) XML
11 3 (1.16%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.16%) JDBC
11 3 (1.16%) Node.js
11 3 (1.16%) OpenAPI
11 3 (1.16%) SOAP
11 3 (1.16%) Swagger
11 3 (1.16%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.97%) Replication
2 27 (10.42%) Clustering
3 23 (8.88%) Security Posture
4 22 (8.49%) Cloud Native
5 17 (6.56%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (6.18%) Data Centre
7 13 (5.02%) Management Information System
8 11 (4.25%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (4.25%) Onboarding
9 9 (3.47%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.70%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.70%) PKI
10 7 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.32%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.93%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.54%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 130 (50.19%) Windows
2 68 (26.25%) Linux
3 47 (18.15%) Windows Server
4 22 (8.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.02%) Unix
5 13 (5.02%) Windows 10
6 9 (3.47%) AIX
7 8 (3.09%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.32%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.93%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.16%) Solaris
11 3 (1.16%) VMS
12 2 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (33.20%) DevOps
2 74 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 59 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (19.69%) Agile
5 50 (19.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (17.37%) Change Management
6 45 (17.37%) Observability
7 38 (14.67%) Cloud Security
8 37 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (12.74%) Disaster Recovery
10 32 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 32 (12.36%) ITIL
11 31 (11.97%) AI
11 31 (11.97%) High Availability
12 30 (11.58%) Capacity Planning
12 30 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (11.20%) Identity Access Management
14 28 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
15 26 (10.04%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 117 (45.17%) Python
2 78 (30.12%) Bash
3 49 (18.92%) SQL
4 19 (7.34%) Bicep
5 17 (6.56%) Java
6 12 (4.63%) C#
6 12 (4.63%) VBScript
7 10 (3.86%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.09%) VB
9 7 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (2.70%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.93%) Groovy
11 4 (1.54%) Perl
11 4 (1.54%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.16%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.77%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.39%) COBOL
14 1 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 56 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 49 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 34 (13.13%) Degree
4 31 (11.97%) Azure Certification
5 22 (8.49%) AWS Certification
6 21 (8.11%) CISSP
7 19 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (5.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (4.25%) VCAP
10 9 (3.47%) MCSA
10 9 (3.47%) MCSE
11 7 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.54%) CCNP
13 4 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (1.16%) CCIE
14 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.86%) GDPR
2 6 (2.32%) HIPAA
2 6 (2.32%) NIST
3 5 (1.93%) SLA
4 4 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.77%) FINRA
6 2 (0.77%) MiFID
6 2 (0.77%) 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 57 (22.01%) Active Directory
2 38 (14.67%) Docker
2 38 (14.67%) Virtual Machines
3 36 (13.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (9.65%) vSphere
5 22 (8.49%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (7.34%) Hyper-V
7 13 (5.02%) KVM
8 9 (3.47%) BitLocker
8 9 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (2.70%) Firmware
9 7 (2.70%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.77%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.77%) NFS
10 2 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.77%) SRDF
11 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 68 (26.25%) Terraform
2 60 (23.17%) Ansible
3 53 (20.46%) Kubernetes
4 24 (9.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (8.88%) vCenter Server
6 15 (5.79%) Progress Chef
7 14 (5.41%) SCCM
8 12 (4.63%) Grafana
9 9 (3.47%) PowerCLI
10 8 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (3.09%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (3.09%) Prometheus
11 6 (2.32%) Argo
11 6 (2.32%) IBM BigFix
11 6 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.93%) Istio
13 4 (1.54%) SCOM
13 4 (1.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (1.16%) vRealize
14 3 (1.16%) WMI
Vendors
1 121 (46.72%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.83%) VMware
3 33 (12.74%) ServiceNow
4 32 (12.36%) Google
5 28 (10.81%) Cisco
6 23 (8.88%) Red Hat
7 22 (8.49%) Splunk
8 13 (5.02%) Remedy
9 12 (4.63%) IBM
10 9 (3.47%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (3.47%) SolarWinds
11 8 (3.09%) CyberArk
11 8 (3.09%) Dynatrace
11 8 (3.09%) Oracle
12 7 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (2.32%) Citrix
13 6 (2.32%) HP
13 6 (2.32%) RedGate
13 6 (2.32%) Veeam
14 5 (1.93%) BMC