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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 85 75
Rank change year-on-year +23 -10 -12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 255 105 95
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.45% 2.64% 2.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.67% 9.48% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 57 72
10th Percentile £317 £335 £376
25th Percentile £402 £385 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £447 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -16.84% +7.50%
75th Percentile £544 £488 £638
90th Percentile £617 £564 £675
England median daily rate £519 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.27% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £41.88 - -
25th Percentile £62.70 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £65.69
% change year-on-year -2.87% -1.05% +27.92%

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 1,866 1,108 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.27% 27.87% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 795 713
10th Percentile £350 £315 £350
25th Percentile £413 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £460 £485
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -5.26% -4.90%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 11 31
10th Percentile £28.79 £30.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £47.15 £33.88 £41.86
Median hourly rate £69.00 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +27.27% +19.10%
75th Percentile £70.75 £86.63 £71.69
90th Percentile £77.00 £95.00 £83.00
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 12 August 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
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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +28 162 £480 +3.78% 71
Yorkshire -9 82 £481 +16.67% 29
North East - 12 £500 - 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 37 (14.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (6.67%) Confluence
2 17 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.27%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
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%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 131 (51.37%) Azure
2 71 (27.84%) AWS
3 53 (20.78%) GCP
4 48 (18.82%) GitHub
5 46 (18.04%) Entra ID
6 40 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (15.69%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (10.59%) Power Platform
9 21 (8.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 18 (7.06%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.71%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.31%) OpenShift
13 11 (4.31%) PowerApps
14 10 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (3.92%) SaaS
14 10 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.37%) Firewall
2 23 (9.02%) DNS
3 16 (6.27%) Skype
4 15 (5.88%) Network Security
5 12 (4.71%) DHCP
5 12 (4.71%) WAN
6 11 (4.31%) SAN
6 11 (4.31%) VPN
6 11 (4.31%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (3.53%) LAN
7 9 (3.53%) NAS
8 8 (3.14%) VLAN
8 8 (3.14%) VSAN
9 7 (2.75%) SSL
10 6 (2.35%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.57%) Internet
12 3 (1.18%) BGP
12 3 (1.18%) DMZ
12 3 (1.18%) MPLS
12 3 (1.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.67%) Power BI
3 12 (4.71%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (2.75%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.96%) MySQL
7 5 (1.96%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.96%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.57%) Db2
9 3 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 37 (14.51%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.45%) Git
3 18 (7.06%) GitLab
3 18 (7.06%) JIRA
4 6 (2.35%) Selenium
4 6 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.96%) Claude Code
6 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.57%) MSBuild
6 4 (1.57%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.18%) Bugzilla
7 3 (1.18%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.78%) Flyway
8 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.78%) MSI
8 2 (0.78%) Postman
8 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 55 (21.57%) Finance
2 47 (18.43%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.02%) Banking
5 11 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.92%) Legal
7 9 (3.53%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Games
10 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Law
10 2 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (12.94%) Security Engineer
2 23 (9.02%) Senior
3 20 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (7.45%) Developer
5 17 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (5.49%) Desktop Engineer
7 11 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (3.92%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 10 (3.92%) DBA
8 10 (3.92%) Lead
8 10 (3.92%) SQL DBA
8 10 (3.92%) VMware Engineer
9 9 (3.53%) Administrator
9 9 (3.53%) Architect
10 8 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.14%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (2.75%) Support Engineer
12 6 (2.35%) Analyst
12 6 (2.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.02%) REST
2 15 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
3 14 (5.49%) JSON
4 13 (5.10%) .NET
5 10 (3.92%) Kafka
6 9 (3.53%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.53%) YAML
7 6 (2.35%) OAuth
7 6 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.35%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.96%) LDAP
8 5 (1.96%) Web Services
9 4 (1.57%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.57%) XML
10 3 (1.18%) JDBC
10 3 (1.18%) Node.js
10 3 (1.18%) SOAP
10 3 (1.18%) WireMock
10 3 (1.18%) XMPP
11 2 (0.78%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.80%) Replication
3 24 (9.41%) Security Posture
4 21 (8.24%) Clustering
5 16 (6.27%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (5.10%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.53%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.53%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.14%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.75%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.75%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.75%) PKI
9 7 (2.75%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.57%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 132 (51.76%) Windows
2 70 (27.45%) Linux
3 44 (17.25%) Windows Server
4 26 (10.20%) Windows 10
5 23 (9.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (8.24%) Windows 7
7 11 (4.31%) Unix
8 6 (2.35%) AIX
8 6 (2.35%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.35%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.18%) Solaris
11 3 (1.18%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.78%) VMS
12 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.39%) Android
13 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (37.25%) DevOps
2 84 (32.94%) CI/CD
3 64 (25.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (20.00%) Agile
5 48 (18.82%) Cloud Security
6 46 (18.04%) Observability
6 46 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (14.90%) Change Management
8 36 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (13.73%) AI
10 33 (12.94%) Platform Engineering
11 32 (12.55%) Containerisation
12 31 (12.16%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (11.76%) Analytics
13 30 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (11.76%) ITSM
14 29 (11.37%) Performance Tuning
15 28 (10.98%) SIEM
16 27 (10.59%) Disaster Recovery
16 27 (10.59%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (47.06%) Python
2 80 (31.37%) Bash
3 50 (19.61%) SQL
4 25 (9.80%) Bicep
5 21 (8.24%) Java
6 20 (7.84%) VBScript
7 16 (6.27%) VB
8 15 (5.88%) C#
9 11 (4.31%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.92%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (2.75%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.96%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (1.57%) Groovy
13 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
14 3 (1.18%) Perl
15 2 (0.78%) BeanShell
15 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.39%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 62 (24.31%) Security Cleared
2 54 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 35 (13.73%) Azure Certification
3 35 (13.73%) Degree
4 26 (10.20%) CISSP
5 25 (9.80%) AWS Certification
6 19 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (5.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (3.92%) VCAP
9 8 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.14%) MCSA
9 8 (3.14%) MCSE
10 5 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.57%) GCFA
11 4 (1.57%) GCIH
11 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (1.18%) CCIE
12 3 (1.18%) CCNP
12 3 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.31%) GDPR
2 7 (2.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (2.35%) HIPAA
3 6 (2.35%) NIST
4 5 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.96%) SLA
5 4 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.78%) QA
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 52 (20.39%) Active Directory
2 41 (16.08%) Docker
3 31 (12.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (8.24%) vSphere
6 19 (7.45%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (6.67%) BitLocker
8 12 (4.71%) Hyper-V
9 9 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.75%) VMware NSX
11 5 (1.96%) KVM
12 4 (1.57%) Firmware
13 2 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.78%) NFS
13 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.78%) SRDF
14 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 78 (30.59%) Terraform
2 62 (24.31%) Ansible
3 60 (23.53%) Kubernetes
4 26 (10.20%) SCCM
5 22 (8.63%) Progress Chef
6 20 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (6.67%) vCenter Server
8 16 (6.27%) Grafana
9 12 (4.71%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.75%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (2.75%) PowerCLI
10 7 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.35%) Argo
12 5 (1.96%) SCOM
13 4 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.57%) CASB
13 4 (1.57%) Istio
13 4 (1.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (1.18%) HP ALM
14 3 (1.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 126 (49.41%) Microsoft
2 42 (16.47%) ServiceNow
3 40 (15.69%) VMware
4 30 (11.76%) Google
5 29 (11.37%) Splunk
6 28 (10.98%) Cisco
7 23 (9.02%) Red Hat
8 14 (5.49%) CyberArk
8 14 (5.49%) Remedy
9 9 (3.53%) BeyondTrust
9 9 (3.53%) IBM
9 9 (3.53%) Oracle
10 7 (2.75%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (2.75%) Dynatrace
11 6 (2.35%) HP
12 5 (1.96%) BMC
12 5 (1.96%) Brocade
12 5 (1.96%) Citrix
12 5 (1.96%) Ivanti
13 4 (1.57%) Dell