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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 102 69
Rank change year-on-year +42 -33 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 282 89 105
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.70% 2.18% 2.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.92% 7.45% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 47 75
10th Percentile £321 £295 £375
25th Percentile £403 £364 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £591
90th Percentile £614 £579 £645
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 £63.48 £63.00 £58.49
% change year-on-year +0.76% +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 1,890 1,195 1,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.79% 29.26% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 843 683
10th Percentile £350 £315 £338
25th Percentile £413 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -7.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £571
90th Percentile £650 £626 £625
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 13 29
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.20 £35.93
25th Percentile £53.13 £41.94 £37.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £66.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £73.50 £84.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.20 £80.84
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 4 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 4 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 +44 170 £456 +4.23% 108
Yorkshire +14 95 £519 +23.94% 60
North East -27 18 £500 - 34
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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 (10.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.67%) Skype for Business
3 13 (4.61%) SharePoint
4 11 (3.90%) Confluence
5 4 (1.42%) 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 21 (7.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 146 (51.77%) Azure
2 73 (25.89%) AWS
3 63 (22.34%) Entra ID
4 51 (18.09%) GCP
5 46 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (16.31%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (15.60%) GitHub
7 34 (12.06%) Power Platform
8 29 (10.28%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.96%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (4.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (4.96%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (3.55%) IaaS
13 9 (3.19%) Azure AKS
13 9 (3.19%) Power Automate
13 9 (3.19%) PowerApps
13 9 (3.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (15.25%) Firewall
2 29 (10.28%) DNS
3 26 (9.22%) Network Security
4 18 (6.38%) VPN
5 16 (5.67%) Skype
6 13 (4.61%) DHCP
7 11 (3.90%) SSL
8 10 (3.55%) SAN
8 10 (3.55%) VLAN
8 10 (3.55%) WAN
9 9 (3.19%) NAS
9 9 (3.19%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.48%) LAN
11 6 (2.13%) TCP/IP
12 5 (1.77%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.42%) Internet
14 3 (1.06%) BGP
14 3 (1.06%) DMZ
14 3 (1.06%) MPLS
14 3 (1.06%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.54%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.16%) Power BI
3 13 (4.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.19%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.19%) MySQL
5 6 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.42%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.06%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.71%) Big Data
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.71%) Pentaho
9 2 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.35%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 33 (11.70%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.74%) Git
3 17 (6.03%) GitLab
4 12 (4.26%) JIRA
5 8 (2.84%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.48%) MSI
7 6 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.42%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.42%) MSBuild
8 4 (1.42%) Selenium
8 4 (1.42%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.06%) Bugzilla
9 3 (1.06%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.71%) Postman
11 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 70 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.63%) Finance
3 31 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.51%) Banking
5 13 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.19%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.48%) Legal
8 4 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.42%) Law
8 4 (1.42%) 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 39 (13.83%) Security Engineer
2 28 (9.93%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (6.38%) Desktop Engineer
4 18 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (6.38%) Lead
5 17 (6.03%) Senior
6 16 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.32%) Developer
8 14 (4.96%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.61%) DBA
9 13 (4.61%) SQL DBA
10 12 (4.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 12 (4.26%) Network Engineer
11 9 (3.19%) Applications Packager
11 9 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.84%) Architect
12 8 (2.84%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.84%) Wintel Engineer
13 7 (2.48%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (32.62%) Terraform
2 20 (7.09%) REST
3 17 (6.03%) JSON
4 13 (4.61%) YAML
5 12 (4.26%) ARM Templates
6 11 (3.90%) Kafka
6 11 (3.90%) Microsoft Graph
7 10 (3.55%) .NET
8 8 (2.84%) OAuth
9 6 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.13%) XML
10 5 (1.77%) OpenID
10 5 (1.77%) SAML
10 5 (1.77%) Software Packaging
11 4 (1.42%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (1.42%) FIDO
11 4 (1.42%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.42%) SailPoint
11 4 (1.42%) WebAuthn
12 3 (1.06%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.87%) Security Posture
3 23 (8.16%) Clustering
3 23 (8.16%) Replication
4 18 (6.38%) Data Centre
4 18 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.96%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (4.61%) PKI
7 10 (3.55%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.84%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.48%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.48%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 145 (51.42%) Windows
2 70 (24.82%) Linux
3 51 (18.09%) Windows Server
4 30 (10.64%) Windows 10
5 22 (7.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (7.80%) Windows 7
6 11 (3.90%) Apple iOS
6 11 (3.90%) Unix
7 6 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (1.77%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.06%) Solaris
10 2 (0.71%) AIX
10 2 (0.71%) Android
10 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.35%) CentOS
11 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (35.82%) DevOps
2 91 (32.27%) CI/CD
3 84 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (18.44%) Cloud Security
6 47 (16.67%) Agile
7 45 (15.96%) Change Management
7 45 (15.96%) ITIL
8 44 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (14.18%) AI
10 39 (13.83%) Analytics
11 38 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 38 (13.48%) Observability
12 36 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
13 33 (11.70%) Identity Access Management
13 33 (11.70%) Infrastructure Automation
13 33 (11.70%) Migration
14 32 (11.35%) RBAC
15 31 (10.99%) Service Management
15 31 (10.99%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 132 (46.81%) Python
2 78 (27.66%) Bash
3 57 (20.21%) SQL
4 29 (10.28%) Bicep
5 26 (9.22%) Java
6 20 (7.09%) VBScript
7 16 (5.67%) VB
8 14 (4.96%) C#
8 14 (4.96%) T-SQL
9 9 (3.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (3.19%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.48%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (2.13%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.13%) 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 66 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 45 (15.96%) Degree
4 40 (14.18%) Azure Certification
5 28 (9.93%) CISSP
5 28 (9.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (8.51%) AWS Certification
7 16 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (3.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 8 (2.84%) MCSA
10 8 (2.84%) MCSE
10 8 (2.84%) VCAP
11 7 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.13%) GCIH
13 5 (1.77%) CCNP
13 5 (1.77%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.77%) GCFA
14 4 (1.42%) CCIE
15 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.55%) GDPR
2 10 (3.55%) NIST
3 9 (3.19%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.13%) SLA
6 5 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.77%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.71%) QA
9 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.35%) GRC
9 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 66 (23.40%) Active Directory
2 33 (11.70%) Docker
3 30 (10.64%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (8.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (6.03%) BitLocker
6 15 (5.32%) vSphere
7 14 (4.96%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (4.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (2.48%) Hyper-V
10 6 (2.13%) Firmware
11 4 (1.42%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.71%) NFS
12 2 (0.71%) SRDF
13 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (23.40%) Ansible
2 55 (19.50%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.89%) SCCM
4 32 (11.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (10.64%) Progress Chef
6 15 (5.32%) Grafana
6 15 (5.32%) vCenter Server
7 11 (3.90%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.19%) SCOM
8 9 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.77%) CASB
9 5 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (1.77%) Packer
10 3 (1.06%) HP ALM
10 3 (1.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (1.06%) vMotion
10 3 (1.06%) WMI
11 2 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.71%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.71%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 158 (56.03%) Microsoft
2 46 (16.31%) ServiceNow
3 34 (12.06%) Splunk
4 33 (11.70%) VMware
5 31 (10.99%) Cisco
5 31 (10.99%) Google
6 21 (7.45%) Red Hat
7 14 (4.96%) BeyondTrust
7 14 (4.96%) CyberArk
8 12 (4.26%) Remedy
9 8 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.84%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.84%) Ivanti
9 8 (2.84%) Oracle
10 7 (2.48%) Dell
10 7 (2.48%) Ribbon
10 7 (2.48%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.48%) Veeam
11 6 (2.13%) Citrix
11 6 (2.13%) Okta