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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 75 75
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 -9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 257 114 105
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.55% 2.95% 2.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.60% 11.06% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 65 78
10th Percentile £311 £263 £363
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% -11.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £569 £488 £634
90th Percentile £621 £568 £675
England median daily rate £520 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £46.50 - £46.44
25th Percentile - - £46.82
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £49.34
75th Percentile - - £53.73
90th Percentile - - £55.24
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.49
% change year-on-year -15.38% +11.13% -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 1,031 1,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.13% 26.70% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 742 782
10th Percentile £350 £315 £319
25th Percentile £413 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -5.26% -8.65%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £574
90th Percentile £650 £600 £630
England median daily rate £520 £515 £545
% change year-on-year +0.97% -5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 10 35
10th Percentile £29.96 £29.28 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.82 £43.57
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +13.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £87.69 £71.69
90th Percentile £86.00 £95.36 £81.47
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

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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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +21 152 £453 +1.29% 45
Yorkshire -5 100 £455 +8.54% 19
North East -29 7 £238 -32.14% 14
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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 38 (14.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.51%) SharePoint
3 21 (8.17%) Confluence
4 8 (3.11%) 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 12 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 125 (48.64%) Azure
2 62 (24.12%) AWS
3 58 (22.57%) Entra ID
4 52 (20.23%) GCP
5 50 (19.46%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (17.90%) GitHub
7 34 (13.23%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (11.28%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (10.89%) Power Platform
10 21 (8.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 18 (7.00%) OneDrive
12 16 (6.23%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (5.06%) OpenShift
14 12 (4.67%) SaaS
15 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (4.28%) PowerApps
16 10 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (3.50%) Azure AKS
17 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 31 (12.06%) Firewall
2 17 (6.61%) DNS
3 12 (4.67%) Network Security
4 11 (4.28%) SAN
5 10 (3.89%) WAN
6 9 (3.50%) NAS
6 9 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (3.11%) Skype
7 8 (3.11%) VSAN
8 7 (2.72%) DHCP
8 7 (2.72%) Kerberos
8 7 (2.72%) LAN
8 7 (2.72%) TCP/IP
9 6 (2.33%) SSL
9 6 (2.33%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.95%) VPN
11 4 (1.56%) BGP
11 4 (1.56%) Internet
12 3 (1.17%) MPLS
12 3 (1.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.34%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.61%) Power BI
3 15 (5.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.72%) Db2
6 6 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.95%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.56%) MySQL
8 4 (1.56%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 34 (13.23%) Jenkins
2 24 (9.34%) JIRA
3 19 (7.39%) Git
4 11 (4.28%) GitLab
5 6 (2.33%) Selenium
5 6 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.56%) Claude Code
6 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.56%) MSBuild
6 4 (1.56%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.17%) Bugzilla
7 3 (1.17%) 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 56 (21.79%) Finance
2 45 (17.51%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.56%) Banking
5 11 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.28%) Legal
5 11 (4.28%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.78%) Games
8 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Law
8 2 (0.78%) Military
8 2 (0.78%) Retail
9 1 (0.39%) Local Government
9 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (11.67%) Security Engineer
2 26 (10.12%) Senior
3 19 (7.39%) Developer
4 17 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (6.23%) Architect
6 15 (5.84%) DBA
6 15 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (5.84%) SQL DBA
7 11 (4.28%) Administrator
7 11 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (3.89%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (3.89%) Desktop Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 8 (3.11%) VMware Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (2.72%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 7 (2.72%) Lead
12 6 (2.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (2.33%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.73%) REST
2 23 (8.95%) Microsoft Graph
3 13 (5.06%) JSON
4 11 (4.28%) LDAP
5 10 (3.89%) .NET
6 8 (3.11%) Kafka
7 7 (2.72%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.33%) OAuth
8 6 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.33%) SailPoint
8 6 (2.33%) YAML
9 5 (1.95%) Web Services
10 4 (1.56%) XML
11 3 (1.17%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.17%) JDBC
11 3 (1.17%) Node.js
11 3 (1.17%) OpenAPI
11 3 (1.17%) SOAP
11 3 (1.17%) Swagger
11 3 (1.17%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.67%) Replication
2 26 (10.12%) Clustering
3 23 (8.95%) Cloud Native
3 23 (8.95%) Security Posture
4 17 (6.61%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (6.23%) Data Centre
6 13 (5.06%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.28%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (4.28%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.50%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.72%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.72%) PKI
9 7 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.33%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.95%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.56%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 128 (49.81%) Windows
2 68 (26.46%) Linux
3 45 (17.51%) Windows Server
4 22 (8.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.06%) Unix
5 13 (5.06%) Windows 10
6 9 (3.50%) AIX
7 8 (3.11%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.33%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.95%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.17%) Solaris
11 3 (1.17%) VMS
11 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (33.46%) DevOps
2 75 (29.18%) CI/CD
3 57 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (19.84%) Agile
4 51 (19.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (17.51%) Observability
6 44 (17.12%) Change Management
7 39 (15.18%) Cloud Security
8 37 (14.40%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (12.45%) Disaster Recovery
11 31 (12.06%) AI
11 31 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (12.06%) ITIL
12 30 (11.67%) High Availability
12 30 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (11.28%) Capacity Planning
13 29 (11.28%) Identity Access Management
13 29 (11.28%) Infrastructure Automation
14 26 (10.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 117 (45.53%) Python
2 79 (30.74%) Bash
3 50 (19.46%) SQL
4 20 (7.78%) Bicep
5 17 (6.61%) Java
6 12 (4.67%) C#
6 12 (4.67%) VBScript
7 10 (3.89%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.11%) VB
9 7 (2.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (2.72%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.95%) Groovy
11 4 (1.56%) Perl
11 4 (1.56%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.78%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.39%) COBOL
14 1 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 55 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 34 (13.23%) Degree
4 31 (12.06%) Azure Certification
5 22 (8.56%) AWS Certification
6 21 (8.17%) CISSP
7 18 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (5.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (3.89%) VCAP
10 8 (3.11%) MCSA
10 8 (3.11%) MCSE
11 7 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.56%) CCNP
13 4 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (1.17%) CCIE
14 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.89%) GDPR
2 6 (2.33%) HIPAA
2 6 (2.33%) NIST
3 5 (1.95%) SLA
4 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.78%) FINRA
6 2 (0.78%) MiFID
6 2 (0.78%) QA
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 55 (21.40%) Active Directory
2 38 (14.79%) Docker
3 37 (14.40%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (13.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (8.95%) vSphere
6 21 (8.17%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (7.39%) Hyper-V
8 13 (5.06%) KVM
9 9 (3.50%) BitLocker
10 8 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (2.72%) Firmware
11 7 (2.72%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.78%) NFS
12 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.78%) SRDF
13 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 69 (26.85%) Terraform
2 59 (22.96%) Ansible
3 52 (20.23%) Kubernetes
4 23 (8.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (8.56%) vCenter Server
6 15 (5.84%) Progress Chef
7 13 (5.06%) SCCM
8 12 (4.67%) Grafana
9 9 (3.50%) PowerCLI
10 8 (3.11%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (3.11%) Prometheus
11 7 (2.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (2.33%) Argo
12 6 (2.33%) IBM BigFix
12 6 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.95%) Istio
14 4 (1.56%) SCOM
14 4 (1.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 3 (1.17%) vRealize
15 3 (1.17%) WMI
Vendors
1 120 (46.69%) Microsoft
2 39 (15.18%) VMware
3 33 (12.84%) ServiceNow
4 32 (12.45%) Google
5 27 (10.51%) Cisco
6 23 (8.95%) Red Hat
6 23 (8.95%) Splunk
7 13 (5.06%) Remedy
8 12 (4.67%) IBM
9 9 (3.50%) BeyondTrust
9 9 (3.50%) SolarWinds
10 8 (3.11%) CyberArk
10 8 (3.11%) Dynatrace
10 8 (3.11%) Oracle
11 7 (2.72%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (2.33%) Citrix
12 6 (2.33%) HP
12 6 (2.33%) RedGate
13 5 (1.95%) BMC
13 5 (1.95%) Veeam