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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 61 75
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -16
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 204 111 126
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.85% 3.36% 2.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.95% 12.63% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 72 92
10th Percentile £314 £355 £225
25th Percentile £364 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% +3.89% -7.69%
75th Percentile £563 £525 £538
90th Percentile £624 £600 £649
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% +3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £71.37 - -
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 £42.08
% change year-on-year +30.87% +34.87% -23.50%

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 1,575 879 1,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.73% 26.64% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 593 935
10th Percentile £343 £335 £313
25th Percentile £400 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £560
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 17 61
10th Percentile £41.94 £29.38 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.50 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +37.89% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £98.79 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.32
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.03% -7.20%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +6 109 £460 -2.13% 39
Yorkshire -22 83 £494 +5.05% 28
North East -15 17 £550 +20.35% 15
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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 57 (27.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (21.57%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.41%) Skype for Business
4 8 (3.92%) Confluence
5 3 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
6 1 (0.49%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.49%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 77 (37.75%) Azure
2 67 (32.84%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (28.43%) Entra ID
4 41 (20.10%) OneDrive
5 35 (17.16%) AWS
6 24 (11.76%) GCP
7 20 (9.80%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (6.86%) GitHub
9 12 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (5.88%) Serverless
10 11 (5.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (4.90%) SaaS
12 7 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.43%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.43%) PaaS
12 7 (3.43%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (22.06%) Firewall
2 38 (18.63%) DNS
3 24 (11.76%) DHCP
4 20 (9.80%) VLAN
5 19 (9.31%) VPN
6 16 (7.84%) LAN
6 16 (7.84%) TCP/IP
6 16 (7.84%) WAN
7 14 (6.86%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (5.39%) Network Security
9 10 (4.90%) WebEx
10 9 (4.41%) BGP
10 9 (4.41%) Skype
11 8 (3.92%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (3.43%) Kerberos
13 4 (1.96%) NetScaler
13 4 (1.96%) SNMP
13 4 (1.96%) Unified Communications
14 3 (1.47%) DKIM
14 3 (1.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.94%) DB2
2 6 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.96%) Metadata
4 4 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.47%) Power BI
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (9.80%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.84%) JIRA
3 12 (5.88%) Git
3 12 (5.88%) GitLab
4 7 (3.43%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.98%) MSI
5 2 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.98%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.49%) Appium
6 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.49%) gulp
6 1 (0.49%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.49%) Selenium
6 1 (0.49%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.49%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.49%) Yeoman
General
1 39 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.16%) Finance
3 33 (16.18%) Legal
4 26 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.86%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.39%) Banking
7 10 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.47%) Law
9 3 (1.47%) Retail
10 2 (0.98%) Military
11 1 (0.49%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (14.71%) Architect
2 24 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (6.86%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 13 (6.37%) Administrator
5 11 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (4.41%) Security Engineer
8 8 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.92%) Senior
8 8 (3.92%) Wintel Engineer
9 7 (3.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.43%) Technical Architect
10 6 (2.94%) Analyst
10 6 (2.94%) DBA
10 6 (2.94%) Desktop Support
10 6 (2.94%) Network Engineer
10 6 (2.94%) SQL DBA
10 6 (2.94%) Support Specialist
10 6 (2.94%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.71%) Microsoft Graph
2 10 (4.90%) XMPP
3 9 (4.41%) REST
4 8 (3.92%) LDAP
5 7 (3.43%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.94%) Node.js
7 5 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.45%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.45%) Swagger
8 4 (1.96%) JSON
9 3 (1.47%) Kafka
10 2 (0.98%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.98%) OAuth
10 2 (0.98%) SPFx
10 2 (0.98%) XML
11 1 (0.49%) Blazor
11 1 (0.49%) CSS
11 1 (0.49%) HTML
11 1 (0.49%) SOAP
11 1 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.78%) Data Centre
2 20 (9.80%) Clustering
2 20 (9.80%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.86%) Replication
4 11 (5.39%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.43%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.43%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.45%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.96%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.96%) CMDB
7 4 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.96%) Fat Client
7 4 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.96%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.47%) iPhone
8 3 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.47%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 105 (51.47%) Windows
2 50 (24.51%) Linux
3 44 (21.57%) Windows Server
4 27 (13.24%) Windows 10
5 17 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (4.90%) Unix
7 9 (4.41%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.94%) AIX
9 4 (1.96%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.47%) Android
11 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.49%) Solaris
11 1 (0.49%) VMS
11 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (21.08%) CI/CD
3 36 (17.65%) DevOps
4 35 (17.16%) Disaster Recovery
5 34 (16.67%) Service Management
6 29 (14.22%) High Availability
6 29 (14.22%) ITSM
6 29 (14.22%) Root Cause Analysis
7 28 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (12.75%) Identity Access Management
8 26 (12.75%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (12.25%) Containerisation
9 25 (12.25%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (11.76%) Incident Response
10 24 (11.76%) Migration
11 23 (11.27%) Observability
12 21 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (9.80%) Agile
14 19 (9.31%) ITIL
15 17 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.82%) Python
2 65 (31.86%) Bash
3 19 (9.31%) SQL
4 18 (8.82%) Perl
5 14 (6.86%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (4.41%) Bicep
6 9 (4.41%) Java
6 9 (4.41%) VB
6 9 (4.41%) VBScript
7 6 (2.94%) C#
7 6 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.96%) Go
8 4 (1.96%) Groovy
8 4 (1.96%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.98%) Ruby
9 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.49%) C
10 1 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 62 (30.39%) Security Cleared
2 56 (27.45%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (6.37%) Degree
5 11 (5.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (4.41%) CCDP
6 9 (4.41%) CCNA
6 9 (4.41%) CCNP
6 9 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.41%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.92%) MCSA
7 8 (3.92%) MCSE
7 8 (3.92%) VCAP
8 6 (2.94%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.47%) CISSP
11 1 (0.49%) CISM
11 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.76%) GDPR
2 13 (6.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.90%) FINRA
3 10 (4.90%) MiFID
4 7 (3.43%) NIST
5 4 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.96%) SLA
6 3 (1.47%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.47%) QA
7 2 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (33.82%) Active Directory
2 39 (19.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (13.73%) Docker
4 25 (12.25%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (9.80%) Hyper-V
6 17 (8.33%) vSphere
7 14 (6.86%) KVM
7 14 (6.86%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (4.41%) BitLocker
10 4 (1.96%) Firmware
11 2 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (20.59%) Terraform
2 34 (16.67%) Ansible
3 27 (13.24%) Kubernetes
4 22 (10.78%) SCCM
5 19 (9.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (9.31%) vCenter Server
6 16 (7.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (3.92%) Grafana
9 6 (2.94%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (2.94%) Nagios
10 5 (2.45%) Istio
10 5 (2.45%) Prometheus
11 4 (1.96%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.47%) NetBackup
12 3 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (1.47%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.98%) CA Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.98%) SCOM
Vendors
1 100 (49.02%) Microsoft
2 47 (23.04%) VMware
3 24 (11.76%) Cisco
4 19 (9.31%) Citrix
5 18 (8.82%) ServiceNow
6 17 (8.33%) Red Hat
7 14 (6.86%) Google
8 12 (5.88%) SolarWinds
9 8 (3.92%) Oracle
9 8 (3.92%) Splunk
10 6 (2.94%) IBM
10 6 (2.94%) RedGate
10 6 (2.94%) Veeam
11 5 (2.45%) CyberArk
11 5 (2.45%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.96%) F5
12 4 (1.96%) Juniper
13 3 (1.47%) Alibaba
13 3 (1.47%) OpenAI
13 3 (1.47%) Veritas