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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 110 69
Rank change year-on-year +49 -41 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 283 90 110
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.71% 2.17% 2.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.82% 7.32% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 47 74
10th Percentile £319 £310 £375
25th Percentile £402 £365 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £592
90th Percentile £614 £579 £645
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.75 £48.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £66.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +26.67% -
75th Percentile - £67.25 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £63.00 £58.49
% change year-on-year +6.35% +7.71% -2.52%

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 1,909 1,230 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.04% 29.72% 25.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 862 679
10th Percentile £350 £315 £325
25th Percentile £413 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -7.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £571
90th Percentile £650 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 13 30
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.20 £35.20
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.94 £37.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £66.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £84.50 £64.69
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.20 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -

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 9 October 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
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 9 October 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 +42 169 £456 +4.11% 87
Yorkshire +18 96 £518 +23.76% 57
North East -27 19 £500 - 25
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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 30 (10.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.65%) Skype for Business
3 13 (4.59%) SharePoint
4 11 (3.89%) Confluence
5 4 (1.41%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.71%) Apache
6 2 (0.71%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 145 (51.24%) Azure
2 72 (25.44%) AWS
3 68 (24.03%) Entra ID
4 51 (18.02%) GCP
5 48 (16.96%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (15.55%) GitHub
8 33 (11.66%) Power Platform
9 29 (10.25%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (4.95%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (4.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (4.95%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (3.53%) IaaS
14 9 (3.18%) Power Automate
14 9 (3.18%) PowerApps
14 9 (3.18%) SaaS
14 9 (3.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (15.19%) Firewall
2 30 (10.60%) DNS
3 25 (8.83%) Network Security
4 18 (6.36%) VPN
5 16 (5.65%) Skype
6 13 (4.59%) DHCP
7 11 (3.89%) SSL
8 10 (3.53%) VLAN
8 10 (3.53%) WAN
9 9 (3.18%) SAN
9 9 (3.18%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.83%) NAS
11 7 (2.47%) LAN
12 6 (2.12%) TCP/IP
13 5 (1.77%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (1.77%) Internet
14 3 (1.06%) DMZ
14 3 (1.06%) iSCSI
14 3 (1.06%) MPLS
14 3 (1.06%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.49%) SQL Server
2 22 (7.77%) Power BI
3 13 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.18%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.18%) MySQL
5 6 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.41%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.41%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.06%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.71%) Big Data
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (0.71%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (11.66%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.71%) Git
3 18 (6.36%) GitLab
4 12 (4.24%) JIRA
5 8 (2.83%) Claude Code
5 8 (2.83%) MSI
6 6 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.41%) MSBuild
7 4 (1.41%) Selenium
7 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.06%) Bugzilla
8 3 (1.06%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.71%) Postman
10 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.35%) WinAutomation
General
1 70 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.26%) Finance
3 29 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.83%) Banking
5 13 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.18%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.83%) Legal
8 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.41%) Law
8 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Military
10 2 (0.71%) Games
10 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (13.43%) Security Engineer
2 30 (10.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (6.36%) Desktop Engineer
5 18 (6.36%) Lead
5 18 (6.36%) Senior
6 17 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.30%) Developer
8 14 (4.95%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.59%) DBA
9 13 (4.59%) SQL DBA
10 12 (4.24%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 12 (4.24%) Network Engineer
11 10 (3.53%) Applications Packager
12 9 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) Consultant
13 8 (2.83%) Wintel Engineer
14 7 (2.47%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (32.86%) Terraform
2 21 (7.42%) REST
3 17 (6.01%) JSON
4 13 (4.59%) YAML
5 12 (4.24%) ARM Templates
6 11 (3.89%) Kafka
6 11 (3.89%) Microsoft Graph
7 10 (3.53%) .NET
8 9 (3.18%) OAuth
9 7 (2.47%) SAML
10 6 (2.12%) OpenID
10 6 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.12%) XML
11 5 (1.77%) FIDO
11 5 (1.77%) OAuth2
11 5 (1.77%) Software Packaging
11 5 (1.77%) WebAuthn
12 4 (1.41%) Azure Blueprints
12 4 (1.41%) SailPoint
13 3 (1.06%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.83%) Cloud Native
1 25 (8.83%) Security Posture
2 23 (8.13%) Clustering
2 23 (8.13%) Replication
3 18 (6.36%) Data Centre
3 18 (6.36%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.30%) PKI
5 13 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.89%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.83%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.47%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.47%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 146 (51.59%) Windows
2 68 (24.03%) Linux
3 53 (18.73%) Windows Server
4 32 (11.31%) Windows 10
5 22 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (7.77%) Windows 7
6 11 (3.89%) Apple iOS
6 11 (3.89%) Unix
7 6 (2.12%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.06%) Solaris
9 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.71%) AIX
10 2 (0.71%) Android
10 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.35%) CentOS
11 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (35.34%) DevOps
2 89 (31.45%) CI/CD
3 83 (29.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (17.67%) Cloud Security
6 47 (16.61%) Agile
6 47 (16.61%) Change Management
7 46 (16.25%) ITIL
8 44 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (14.13%) AI
9 40 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 37 (13.07%) Analytics
10 37 (13.07%) Cybersecurity
10 37 (13.07%) Observability
11 35 (12.37%) Identity Access Management
12 34 (12.01%) Infrastructure Automation
13 32 (11.31%) RBAC
14 31 (10.95%) Migration
14 31 (10.95%) Service Management
15 30 (10.60%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 131 (46.29%) Python
2 76 (26.86%) Bash
3 56 (19.79%) SQL
4 30 (10.60%) Bicep
5 26 (9.19%) Java
6 20 (7.07%) VBScript
7 16 (5.65%) VB
8 14 (4.95%) C#
8 14 (4.95%) T-SQL
9 9 (3.18%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (3.18%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.47%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (2.12%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.06%) Perl
13 2 (0.71%) Groovy
13 2 (0.71%) PHP
14 1 (0.35%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.35%) C
14 1 (0.35%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 64 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 45 (15.90%) Degree
4 37 (13.07%) Azure Certification
5 27 (9.54%) CISSP
5 27 (9.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (8.13%) AWS Certification
7 17 (6.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 9 (3.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (2.83%) MCSA
9 8 (2.83%) MCSE
9 8 (2.83%) VCAP
10 7 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (2.12%) DBS Check
11 6 (2.12%) GCIH
12 5 (1.77%) CCNP
12 5 (1.77%) GCFA
13 4 (1.41%) CCIE
14 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.53%) NIST
3 9 (3.18%) GDPR
3 9 (3.18%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (1.77%) SLA
6 4 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.71%) QA
8 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 69 (24.38%) Active Directory
2 33 (11.66%) Docker
3 30 (10.60%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (8.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (6.01%) BitLocker
6 14 (4.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (4.59%) vSphere
8 12 (4.24%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (2.12%) Firmware
9 6 (2.12%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.41%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.35%) NFS
11 1 (0.35%) SRDF
11 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 65 (22.97%) Ansible
2 53 (18.73%) Kubernetes
3 43 (15.19%) SCCM
4 34 (12.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (10.60%) Progress Chef
6 14 (4.95%) Grafana
7 13 (4.59%) vCenter Server
8 11 (3.89%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (3.53%) Prometheus
10 9 (3.18%) SCOM
11 5 (1.77%) CASB
11 5 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (1.77%) Packer
12 3 (1.06%) HP ALM
12 3 (1.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (1.06%) vMotion
12 3 (1.06%) WMI
13 2 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.71%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 161 (56.89%) Microsoft
2 46 (16.25%) ServiceNow
3 33 (11.66%) Splunk
4 31 (10.95%) Google
4 31 (10.95%) VMware
5 30 (10.60%) Cisco
6 20 (7.07%) Red Hat
7 14 (4.95%) BeyondTrust
8 13 (4.59%) CyberArk
9 11 (3.89%) Remedy
10 8 (2.83%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.83%) Ivanti
10 8 (2.83%) Oracle
11 7 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.47%) Okta
11 7 (2.47%) Ribbon
12 6 (2.12%) Apple
12 6 (2.12%) Dell
12 6 (2.12%) SolarWinds
12 6 (2.12%) Veeam