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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 79 75
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 239 108 95
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.25% 2.73% 2.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.88% 9.86% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 61 73
10th Percentile £311 £350 £375
25th Percentile £382 £388 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £548 £488 £638
90th Percentile £621 £575 £675
England median daily rate £523 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.95% -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 £61.73 £65.00 £65.69
% change year-on-year -5.03% -1.05% +9.85%

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 1,855 1,095 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.20% 27.65% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 786 720
10th Percentile £353 £315 £345
25th Percentile £413 £380 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £465 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.27% -4.12% -5.37%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 10 31
10th Percentile £29.08 £29.28 £37.50
25th Percentile £47.50 £36.82 £41.86
Median hourly rate £69.00 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +27.27% +19.10%
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.69 £71.69
90th Percentile £77.30 £95.36 £83.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

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 7 August 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 7 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 7 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 +24 146 £453 -2.05% 70
Yorkshire -16 82 £474 +5.98% 22
North East - 12 £500 - 9
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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 29 (12.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (7.11%) Confluence
2 17 (7.11%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.35%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.84%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Camunda
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 126 (52.72%) Azure
2 69 (28.87%) AWS
3 52 (21.76%) GCP
4 47 (19.67%) GitHub
5 43 (17.99%) Entra ID
6 38 (15.90%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (15.48%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (11.30%) Power Platform
10 20 (8.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 17 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.60%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.60%) OpenShift
13 11 (4.60%) PowerApps
14 10 (4.18%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (4.18%) SaaS
14 10 (4.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.13%) Firewall
2 16 (6.69%) DNS
3 15 (6.28%) Network Security
4 11 (4.60%) SAN
5 9 (3.77%) NAS
6 8 (3.35%) Skype
6 8 (3.35%) VSAN
7 7 (2.93%) SSL
8 6 (2.51%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.51%) WAN
9 5 (2.09%) DHCP
9 5 (2.09%) VPN
9 5 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.67%) Internet
11 3 (1.26%) BGP
11 3 (1.26%) DMZ
11 3 (1.26%) LAN
11 3 (1.26%) MPLS
11 3 (1.26%) OSPF
11 3 (1.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.90%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.11%) Power BI
3 13 (5.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (5.02%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.93%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.09%) MySQL
7 5 (2.09%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.09%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.67%) Db2
9 3 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.84%) Big Data
10 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.84%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 37 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.95%) Git
3 18 (7.53%) GitLab
3 18 (7.53%) JIRA
4 6 (2.51%) Selenium
4 6 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (2.09%) Claude Code
6 4 (1.67%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.67%) MSBuild
6 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.26%) Bugzilla
7 3 (1.26%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.84%) Flyway
8 2 (0.84%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.84%) MSI
8 2 (0.84%) Postman
8 2 (0.84%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 52 (21.76%) Finance
2 46 (19.25%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.21%) Banking
5 10 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.18%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.77%) Legal
7 7 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.84%) Games
9 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Law
9 2 (0.84%) Retail
10 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Local Government
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (12.97%) Security Engineer
2 22 (9.21%) Senior
3 19 (7.95%) Developer
4 18 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (5.44%) DBA
6 13 (5.44%) SQL DBA
7 11 (4.60%) Administrator
8 10 (4.18%) Desktop Engineer
8 10 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.18%) Lead
9 9 (3.77%) Architect
9 9 (3.77%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 8 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.35%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.93%) VMware Engineer
12 6 (2.51%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 6 (2.51%) Splunk Engineer
12 6 (2.51%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.62%) REST
2 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Graph
3 13 (5.44%) .NET
3 13 (5.44%) JSON
4 9 (3.77%) Kafka
4 9 (3.77%) YAML
5 8 (3.35%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.51%) OAuth
6 6 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (2.51%) SailPoint
7 5 (2.09%) LDAP
7 5 (2.09%) Web Services
8 4 (1.67%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.67%) XML
9 3 (1.26%) JDBC
9 3 (1.26%) Node.js
9 3 (1.26%) SOAP
9 3 (1.26%) WireMock
9 3 (1.26%) XMPP
10 2 (0.84%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.72%) Replication
2 24 (10.04%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.04%) Clustering
3 23 (9.62%) Security Posture
4 16 (6.69%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (5.44%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.18%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.77%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.35%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.93%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.93%) PKI
9 7 (2.93%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.51%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.67%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 115 (48.12%) Windows
2 67 (28.03%) Linux
3 41 (17.15%) Windows Server
4 20 (8.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.44%) Windows 10
6 11 (4.60%) Unix
7 8 (3.35%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.51%) AIX
8 6 (2.51%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.51%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.26%) Solaris
10 3 (1.26%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.84%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.84%) VMS
11 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.42%) Android
12 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (38.08%) DevOps
2 80 (33.47%) CI/CD
3 60 (25.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (20.50%) Agile
5 46 (19.25%) Cloud Security
6 45 (18.83%) Observability
6 45 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (15.06%) Change Management
8 35 (14.64%) AI
8 35 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (13.39%) Containerisation
9 32 (13.39%) Performance Tuning
9 32 (13.39%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (12.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (12.13%) Disaster Recovery
11 29 (12.13%) Infrastructure Automation
12 28 (11.72%) Analytics
13 27 (11.30%) Identity Access Management
14 26 (10.88%) SIEM
15 25 (10.46%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 118 (49.37%) Python
2 79 (33.05%) Bash
3 52 (21.76%) SQL
4 23 (9.62%) Bicep
5 20 (8.37%) Java
6 15 (6.28%) C#
7 12 (5.02%) VBScript
8 11 (4.60%) T-SQL
9 9 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (3.35%) VB
11 7 (2.93%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.09%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (1.67%) Groovy
13 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.26%) JavaScript
14 3 (1.26%) Perl
15 2 (0.84%) BeanShell
15 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.42%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 52 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.83%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.64%) Degree
4 33 (13.81%) Azure Certification
5 25 (10.46%) CISSP
6 24 (10.04%) AWS Certification
7 19 (7.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (5.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (4.18%) VCAP
10 8 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (3.35%) MCSA
10 8 (3.35%) MCSE
11 5 (2.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.67%) GCFA
12 4 (1.67%) GCIH
12 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (1.26%) CCIE
13 3 (1.26%) CCNP
13 3 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.60%) GDPR
2 7 (2.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (2.51%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.09%) NIST
5 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.67%) SLA
6 3 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.84%) QA
8 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 45 (18.83%) Active Directory
2 40 (16.74%) Docker
3 31 (12.97%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (11.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (8.37%) vSphere
6 19 (7.95%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (5.02%) Hyper-V
8 9 (3.77%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (2.93%) VMware NSX
10 6 (2.51%) KVM
11 5 (2.09%) Firmware
12 2 (0.84%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.84%) NFS
12 2 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.84%) SRDF
13 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.42%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 75 (31.38%) Terraform
2 62 (25.94%) Ansible
3 58 (24.27%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.79%) Progress Chef
5 18 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (7.11%) vCenter Server
7 15 (6.28%) Grafana
8 12 (5.02%) SCCM
9 11 (4.60%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.93%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (2.93%) PowerCLI
10 7 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.51%) Argo
12 5 (2.09%) SCOM
13 4 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.67%) CASB
13 4 (1.67%) Istio
13 4 (1.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (1.26%) HP ALM
14 3 (1.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 113 (47.28%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.23%) ServiceNow
3 33 (13.81%) VMware
4 30 (12.55%) Google
5 28 (11.72%) Splunk
6 27 (11.30%) Cisco
7 21 (8.79%) Red Hat
8 13 (5.44%) Remedy
9 9 (3.77%) BeyondTrust
9 9 (3.77%) IBM
9 9 (3.77%) Oracle
10 8 (3.35%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.93%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.93%) Dynatrace
12 6 (2.51%) HP
12 6 (2.51%) SolarWinds
13 5 (2.09%) BMC
13 5 (2.09%) Brocade
13 5 (2.09%) Citrix
14 4 (1.67%) Dell