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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 60 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 +21 -14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 236 120 110
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.67% 3.65% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.77% 12.85% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 73 79
10th Percentile £313 £331 £353
25th Percentile £363 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £622
90th Percentile £622 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £82.96 £40.25
% change year-on-year -23.90% +106.11% -32.92%

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 1,714 934 1,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.65% 28.41% 25.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 677 839
10th Percentile £350 £350 £324
25th Percentile £413 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -0.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £566
90th Percentile £625 £613 £625
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.81% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 14 51
10th Percentile £37.25 £34.68 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.31 £43.57
Median hourly rate £64.07 £74.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +56.84% -3.62%
75th Percentile £74.26 £93.44 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.20 £100.97 £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 22 May 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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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 22 May 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 +15 135 £475 +2.04% 56
Yorkshire -14 99 £482 -3.60% 18
North East -25 4 £400 +14.29% 13
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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 47 (19.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (17.80%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.51%) Confluence
4 10 (4.24%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (39.83%) Azure
2 64 (27.12%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (25.42%) Entra ID
4 50 (21.19%) AWS
5 34 (14.41%) OneDrive
6 33 (13.98%) GCP
6 33 (13.98%) GitHub
7 23 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (9.32%) Power Platform
9 21 (8.90%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (7.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (5.08%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (4.24%) PowerApps
13 9 (3.81%) SaaS
14 8 (3.39%) Nutanix
14 8 (3.39%) PaaS
15 7 (2.97%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.44%) DNS
2 26 (11.02%) Firewall
3 14 (5.93%) DHCP
4 13 (5.51%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.66%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (4.24%) LAN
6 10 (4.24%) Network Security
6 10 (4.24%) Skype
6 10 (4.24%) WAN
7 9 (3.81%) SAN
8 7 (2.97%) Kerberos
8 7 (2.97%) VLAN
8 7 (2.97%) VSAN
9 6 (2.54%) NAS
9 6 (2.54%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.54%) VPN
10 5 (2.12%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.27%) DKIM
11 3 (1.27%) DMARC
11 3 (1.27%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.32%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.08%) Power BI
3 9 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (2.97%) DB2
4 7 (2.97%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.85%) Metadata
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) DataStage
7 1 (0.42%) DTS
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (8.47%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.05%) JIRA
3 9 (3.81%) Git
3 9 (3.81%) GitLab
4 5 (2.12%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.27%) MSI
5 3 (1.27%) Selenium
6 2 (0.85%) Flyway
6 2 (0.85%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.85%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.42%) Appium
7 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.42%) gulp
7 1 (0.42%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.42%) Postman
7 1 (0.42%) Subversion
7 1 (0.42%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.42%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 47 (19.92%) Finance
2 43 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.75%) Legal
5 19 (8.05%) Banking
6 15 (6.36%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.12%) Law
10 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Military
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) Local Government
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (13.98%) Architect
2 19 (8.05%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 19 (8.05%) Security Engineer
3 18 (7.63%) Senior
4 16 (6.78%) Wintel Engineer
5 12 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (4.66%) Developer
7 9 (3.81%) Administrator
7 9 (3.81%) DBA
7 9 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (3.81%) SQL DBA
7 9 (3.81%) VMware Engineer
8 8 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (3.39%) Desktop Engineer
9 7 (2.97%) Server Engineer
9 7 (2.97%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (2.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.54%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.53%) Microsoft Graph
2 20 (8.47%) REST
3 11 (4.66%) LDAP
4 7 (2.97%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.12%) .NET
5 5 (2.12%) Web Services
5 5 (2.12%) YAML
6 4 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.27%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.27%) JDBC
7 3 (1.27%) Kafka
7 3 (1.27%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.27%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.27%) SOAP
7 3 (1.27%) Software Packaging
7 3 (1.27%) SPFx
7 3 (1.27%) Swagger
7 3 (1.27%) XMPP
8 2 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.41%) Clustering
2 33 (13.98%) Replication
3 18 (7.63%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.93%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.66%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.66%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.81%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.97%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.54%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.69%) PKI
10 4 (1.69%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.27%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.27%) Fat Client
11 3 (1.27%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 129 (54.66%) Windows
2 44 (18.64%) Linux
3 43 (18.22%) Windows Server
4 21 (8.90%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.66%) Unix
6 10 (4.24%) Windows 7
7 9 (3.81%) AIX
7 9 (3.81%) Mac OS
7 9 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (2.54%) Apple iOS
10 5 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.27%) VMS
13 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (21.61%) DevOps
2 50 (21.19%) CI/CD
2 50 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (18.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 37 (15.68%) Observability
5 34 (14.41%) Capacity Planning
5 34 (14.41%) High Availability
6 33 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (13.56%) Root Cause Analysis
8 29 (12.29%) Performance Tuning
9 28 (11.86%) Agile
9 28 (11.86%) Network Virtualisation
10 26 (11.02%) Project Delivery
11 25 (10.59%) Migration
12 24 (10.17%) Analytics
12 24 (10.17%) Identity Access Management
13 21 (8.90%) Incident Response
13 21 (8.90%) Infrastructure Automation
13 21 (8.90%) ITSM
14 20 (8.47%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (34.32%) Python
2 58 (24.58%) Bash
3 31 (13.14%) SQL
4 16 (6.78%) Kusto Query Language
5 11 (4.66%) VBScript
6 9 (3.81%) Bicep
6 9 (3.81%) Java
6 9 (3.81%) VB
7 7 (2.97%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.54%) C#
9 5 (2.12%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.27%) Go
10 3 (1.27%) Groovy
10 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.85%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.42%) COBOL
12 1 (0.42%) Perl
12 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 58 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 49 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (8.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 18 (7.63%) VCAP
6 16 (6.78%) MCSA
6 16 (6.78%) MCSE
7 15 (6.36%) Azure Certification
8 14 (5.93%) Degree
9 11 (4.66%) AWS Certification
10 10 (4.24%) CISSP
11 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.42%) NCDA
13 1 (0.42%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.75%) GDPR
2 10 (4.24%) FINRA
2 10 (4.24%) MiFID
3 8 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.97%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.54%) NIST
6 5 (2.12%) SLA
7 4 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.27%) QA
9 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.42%) GRC
System Software
1 60 (25.42%) Active Directory
2 47 (19.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (17.80%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (14.41%) vSphere
5 29 (12.29%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (11.44%) Docker
7 22 (9.32%) Hyper-V
8 15 (6.36%) KVM
9 11 (4.66%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (4.24%) BitLocker
11 7 (2.97%) Firmware
12 6 (2.54%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.42%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.42%) NFS
14 1 (0.42%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 54 (22.88%) Ansible
2 48 (20.34%) Terraform
3 34 (14.41%) Kubernetes
4 30 (12.71%) vCenter Server
5 25 (10.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (9.32%) SCCM
7 10 (4.24%) Grafana
7 10 (4.24%) PowerCLI
8 9 (3.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (3.39%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (2.97%) Nagios
11 6 (2.54%) IBM BigFix
11 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (2.54%) Prometheus
12 5 (2.12%) Argo
12 5 (2.12%) Istio
12 5 (2.12%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (1.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 123 (52.12%) Microsoft
2 52 (22.03%) VMware
3 27 (11.44%) ServiceNow
4 25 (10.59%) Cisco
5 20 (8.47%) Google
5 20 (8.47%) Splunk
6 14 (5.93%) SolarWinds
7 12 (5.08%) IBM
8 11 (4.66%) Remedy
9 10 (4.24%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.81%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (3.81%) Citrix
10 9 (3.81%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.97%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.97%) Oracle
11 7 (2.97%) Veeam
12 6 (2.54%) RedGate
13 4 (1.69%) BMC
13 4 (1.69%) Brocade
13 4 (1.69%) F5