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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 70 77
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 259 120 113
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.61% 3.16% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.51% 11.70% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 70 82
10th Percentile £313 £271 £363
25th Percentile £374 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% -10.55% -2.44%
75th Percentile £565 £508 £638
90th Percentile £621 £575 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £46.50 - £41.05
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £52.22
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.01
% change year-on-year -15.38% +44.41% -24.98%

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 1,917 1,026 1,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.70% 27.02% 25.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 749 822
10th Percentile £352 £320 £319
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -2.63% -8.65%
75th Percentile £572 £538 £569
90th Percentile £644 £607 £625
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 11 47
10th Percentile £29.96 £30.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £46.80 £31.62 £41.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +47.37% +2.86%
75th Percentile £76.00 £86.63 £66.25
90th Percentile £85.80 £95.00 £76.37
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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +14 152 £452 +0.95% 42
Yorkshire -14 104 £471 +4.67% 16
North East -35 5 £238 -32.14% 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 42 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (11.20%) SharePoint
3 21 (8.11%) Confluence
4 10 (3.86%) Skype for Business
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%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 118 (45.56%) Azure
2 59 (22.78%) Entra ID
3 57 (22.01%) AWS
4 53 (20.46%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (18.53%) GCP
6 43 (16.60%) GitHub
7 30 (11.58%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (10.42%) Power Platform
9 20 (7.72%) OneDrive
10 18 (6.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 15 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (5.02%) OpenShift
13 12 (4.63%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (4.25%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (4.25%) SaaS
15 10 (3.86%) PowerApps
15 10 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (3.09%) PaaS
17 7 (2.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.36%) Firewall
2 20 (7.72%) DNS
3 12 (4.63%) SAN
4 11 (4.25%) WAN
4 11 (4.25%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (3.86%) DHCP
5 10 (3.86%) Network Security
5 10 (3.86%) Skype
6 9 (3.47%) LAN
6 9 (3.47%) NAS
7 8 (3.09%) Kerberos
7 8 (3.09%) TCP/IP
7 8 (3.09%) VSAN
8 6 (2.32%) Unified Communications
8 6 (2.32%) VLAN
8 6 (2.32%) VPN
9 5 (1.93%) SSL
10 4 (1.54%) Internet
11 3 (1.16%) BGP
11 3 (1.16%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.83%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.56%) Power BI
3 14 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.25%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.70%) Db2
6 6 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.32%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.93%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.54%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.16%) MySQL
10 2 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 34 (13.13%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.88%) JIRA
3 17 (6.56%) Git
4 11 (4.25%) GitLab
5 6 (2.32%) Selenium
6 5 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.54%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.54%) MSBuild
7 4 (1.54%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.77%) Bugzilla
9 2 (0.77%) Flyway
9 2 (0.77%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.77%) MSI
9 2 (0.77%) Postman
9 2 (0.77%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.77%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.39%) Subversion
10 1 (0.39%) TestComplete
10 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 55 (21.24%) Finance
2 45 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 29 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.49%) Banking
5 14 (5.41%) Legal
6 12 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.25%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Law
10 2 (0.77%) Military
10 2 (0.77%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (10.04%) Security Engineer
2 23 (8.88%) Senior
3 19 (7.34%) Architect
4 18 (6.95%) Developer
5 16 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (5.41%) DBA
6 14 (5.41%) SQL DBA
7 13 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.63%) Wintel Engineer
9 11 (4.25%) Administrator
9 11 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.86%) Desktop Engineer
10 10 (3.86%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 8 (3.09%) VMware Engineer
12 6 (2.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.32%) Support Engineer
12 6 (2.32%) Technical Specialist
12 6 (2.32%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.65%) Microsoft Graph
2 23 (8.88%) REST
3 12 (4.63%) LDAP
4 11 (4.25%) JSON
5 10 (3.86%) .NET
6 8 (3.09%) Kafka
7 7 (2.70%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.93%) OAuth
9 5 (1.93%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.93%) Web Services
9 5 (1.93%) YAML
10 3 (1.16%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.16%) JDBC
10 3 (1.16%) OpenAPI
10 3 (1.16%) SOAP
10 3 (1.16%) Swagger
10 3 (1.16%) XML
10 3 (1.16%) XMPP
11 2 (0.77%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.74%) Replication
2 29 (11.20%) Clustering
3 19 (7.34%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.34%) Security Posture
4 17 (6.56%) Data Centre
4 17 (6.56%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (4.63%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.63%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.25%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.70%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.70%) PKI
9 6 (2.32%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.54%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 129 (49.81%) Windows
2 62 (23.94%) Linux
3 47 (18.15%) Windows Server
4 19 (7.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.79%) Windows 10
6 11 (4.25%) Unix
7 10 (3.86%) Windows 7
8 9 (3.47%) AIX
9 6 (2.32%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.93%) Apple iOS
10 5 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (1.16%) Solaris
12 3 (1.16%) VMS
13 2 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.27%) DevOps
2 70 (27.03%) CI/CD
3 57 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (18.15%) Agile
5 44 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (16.22%) Observability
7 41 (15.83%) Change Management
8 36 (13.90%) Performance Tuning
9 34 (13.13%) Disaster Recovery
10 33 (12.74%) Capacity Planning
10 33 (12.74%) Cloud Security
10 33 (12.74%) High Availability
11 30 (11.58%) AI
11 30 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (11.58%) ITIL
12 29 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (11.20%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (10.42%) Identity Access Management
13 27 (10.42%) ITSM
14 25 (9.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 111 (42.86%) Python
2 73 (28.19%) Bash
3 49 (18.92%) SQL
4 15 (5.79%) Bicep
4 15 (5.79%) Java
5 14 (5.41%) VBScript
6 13 (5.02%) C#
7 10 (3.86%) VB
8 9 (3.47%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.09%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (2.70%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.93%) Groovy
12 4 (1.54%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.54%) Perl
13 3 (1.16%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.77%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.39%) COBOL
15 1 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 59 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 52 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 33 (12.74%) Degree
4 27 (10.42%) Azure Certification
5 21 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (7.34%) AWS Certification
7 18 (6.95%) CISSP
7 18 (6.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 14 (5.41%) VCAP
9 12 (4.63%) MCSA
9 12 (4.63%) MCSE
10 6 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.16%) CCNP
12 3 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.77%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.63%) GDPR
2 7 (2.70%) HIPAA
3 6 (2.32%) NIST
4 5 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.93%) SLA
5 4 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.16%) FINRA
6 3 (1.16%) MiFID
7 2 (0.77%) 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 56 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 41 (15.83%) Virtual Machines
3 38 (14.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (13.13%) Docker
5 29 (11.20%) vSphere
6 25 (9.65%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (7.34%) Hyper-V
8 13 (5.02%) KVM
9 11 (4.25%) BitLocker
10 9 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (2.70%) Firmware
12 6 (2.32%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.77%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.77%) NFS
13 2 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.77%) SRDF
14 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 61 (23.55%) Terraform
2 60 (23.17%) Ansible
3 47 (18.15%) Kubernetes
4 26 (10.04%) vCenter Server
5 24 (9.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (6.18%) SCCM
7 12 (4.63%) Grafana
7 12 (4.63%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.47%) PowerCLI
9 8 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (3.09%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (3.09%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.32%) Argo
10 6 (2.32%) IBM BigFix
10 6 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.93%) Istio
12 4 (1.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (1.16%) Packer
13 3 (1.16%) SCOM
13 3 (1.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 124 (47.88%) Microsoft
2 44 (16.99%) VMware
3 33 (12.74%) ServiceNow
4 31 (11.97%) Google
5 29 (11.20%) Cisco
6 23 (8.88%) Splunk
7 20 (7.72%) Red Hat
8 13 (5.02%) Remedy
9 12 (4.63%) IBM
10 9 (3.47%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (3.47%) SolarWinds
11 8 (3.09%) CyberArk
11 8 (3.09%) Dynatrace
12 7 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (2.70%) Oracle
12 7 (2.70%) Veeam
13 6 (2.32%) Citrix
13 6 (2.32%) HP
13 6 (2.32%) RedGate
14 5 (1.93%) Brocade