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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 80 67
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 +1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 258 111 98
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.44% 2.77% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.01% 9.87% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 58 74
10th Percentile £318 £299 £377
25th Percentile £404 £378 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £447 £531
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -15.86% +6.25%
75th Percentile £544 £497 £638
90th Percentile £616 £575 £675
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £32.63 - -
25th Percentile £39.57 £65.75 £48.75
Median hourly rate £51.13 £66.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +26.67% -
75th Percentile £62.70 £67.25 £56.25
90th Percentile £69.63 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £65.69
% change year-on-year -2.87% -1.05% +32.09%

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 1,841 1,125 1,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.57% 28.10% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 805 717
10th Percentile £350 £315 £348
25th Percentile £413 £378 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £465 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% -4.91% -2.20%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £644
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 13 31
10th Percentile £28.65 £30.35 £37.50
25th Percentile £46.98 £36.00 £41.86
Median hourly rate £69.25 £66.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% +26.67% +13.69%
75th Percentile £71.13 £84.50 £70.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.75 £83.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.55%

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 21 August 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
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 21 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 21 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 +32 164 £475 +2.70% 44
Yorkshire -19 82 £513 +24.24% 13
North East - 13 £500 - 7
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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 37 (14.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (6.98%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.20%) Confluence
3 16 (6.20%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
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%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (3.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 134 (51.94%) Azure
2 75 (29.07%) AWS
3 51 (19.77%) GCP
4 48 (18.60%) Entra ID
5 46 (17.83%) GitHub
6 41 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (15.89%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (12.02%) Power Platform
8 26 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (7.36%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (6.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (5.04%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.65%) Azure AKS
14 11 (4.26%) PowerApps
14 11 (4.26%) SaaS
15 9 (3.49%) OneDrive
15 9 (3.49%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.18%) Firewall
2 25 (9.69%) DNS
3 19 (7.36%) Network Security
4 16 (6.20%) Skype
5 13 (5.04%) DHCP
5 13 (5.04%) SAN
6 12 (4.65%) VPN
6 12 (4.65%) WAN
7 11 (4.26%) NAS
7 11 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (3.88%) VLAN
9 9 (3.49%) LAN
10 8 (3.10%) VSAN
11 7 (2.71%) SSL
12 6 (2.33%) TCP/IP
13 5 (1.94%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (1.55%) Internet
15 3 (1.16%) DMZ
15 3 (1.16%) MPLS
15 3 (1.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.02%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.36%) Power BI
3 11 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.94%) MySQL
6 5 (1.94%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.55%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.78%) Big Data
9 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 36 (13.95%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.75%) GitLab
3 19 (7.36%) Git
4 16 (6.20%) JIRA
5 6 (2.33%) Selenium
5 6 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.94%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.55%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.55%) MSBuild
7 4 (1.55%) MSI
7 4 (1.55%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.16%) Bugzilla
8 3 (1.16%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.78%) Flyway
9 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.78%) Postman
9 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 55 (21.32%) Finance
2 54 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.69%) Banking
5 13 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.10%) Legal
8 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Games
10 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Law
10 2 (0.78%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (13.95%) Security Engineer
2 25 (9.69%) Senior
3 22 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (7.36%) Developer
5 17 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (5.81%) Desktop Engineer
7 12 (4.65%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 12 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (4.65%) Lead
8 10 (3.88%) DBA
8 10 (3.88%) SQL DBA
8 10 (3.88%) Support Engineer
8 10 (3.88%) VMware Engineer
9 9 (3.49%) Architect
10 8 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.10%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (2.71%) Administrator
11 7 (2.71%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.71%) Splunk Engineer
12 6 (2.33%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (31.40%) Terraform
2 22 (8.53%) REST
3 16 (6.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 14 (5.43%) JSON
5 13 (5.04%) .NET
6 10 (3.88%) Kafka
7 9 (3.49%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.49%) YAML
8 6 (2.33%) OAuth
8 6 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.33%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.94%) LDAP
9 5 (1.94%) Web Services
10 4 (1.55%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.55%) XML
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Blueprints
11 3 (1.16%) JDBC
11 3 (1.16%) Node.js
11 3 (1.16%) SOAP
11 3 (1.16%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.69%) Cloud Native
1 25 (9.69%) Replication
2 22 (8.53%) Security Posture
3 21 (8.14%) Clustering
4 16 (6.20%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (3.88%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.49%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.10%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.71%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.71%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.71%) PKI
9 7 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.94%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.55%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (1.16%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 136 (52.71%) Windows
2 71 (27.52%) Linux
3 44 (17.05%) Windows Server
4 27 (10.47%) Windows 10
5 24 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (8.14%) Windows 7
7 8 (3.10%) Unix
8 7 (2.71%) Apple iOS
9 6 (2.33%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.94%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.55%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.16%) AIX
12 3 (1.16%) Solaris
12 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.78%) VMS
13 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.39%) CentOS
14 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (36.43%) DevOps
2 84 (32.56%) CI/CD
3 69 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (18.99%) Agile
5 48 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (18.22%) Cloud Security
7 42 (16.28%) Observability
8 39 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (14.73%) Change Management
10 36 (13.95%) AI
11 35 (13.57%) Containerisation
12 34 (13.18%) Analytics
13 33 (12.79%) Infrastructure Automation
14 32 (12.40%) ITIL
15 30 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
15 30 (11.63%) ITSM
15 30 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 28 (10.85%) Performance Tuning
17 28 (10.85%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 121 (46.90%) Python
2 78 (30.23%) Bash
3 49 (18.99%) SQL
4 26 (10.08%) Bicep
5 23 (8.91%) Java
6 20 (7.75%) VBScript
7 16 (6.20%) VB
8 15 (5.81%) C#
9 11 (4.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (4.26%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.71%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.33%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (1.55%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.16%) JavaScript
13 3 (1.16%) Perl
14 2 (0.78%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.78%) Groovy
14 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.39%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 61 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 52 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 41 (15.89%) Degree
4 36 (13.95%) Azure Certification
5 29 (11.24%) CISSP
6 27 (10.47%) AWS Certification
7 22 (8.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (3.88%) VCAP
10 8 (3.10%) MCSA
10 8 (3.10%) MCSE
11 7 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.33%) GCIH
13 5 (1.94%) CCNP
13 5 (1.94%) GCFA
13 5 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (1.55%) CCIE
14 4 (1.55%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.26%) GDPR
2 9 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.10%) NIST
3 8 (3.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.94%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.94%) SLA
6 4 (1.55%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.16%) QA
8 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 54 (20.93%) Active Directory
2 41 (15.89%) Docker
3 32 (12.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (10.08%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (8.53%) vSphere
6 20 (7.75%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (6.59%) BitLocker
8 10 (3.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (3.10%) Hyper-V
10 7 (2.71%) VMware NSX
11 6 (2.33%) Firmware
12 2 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
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%) KVM
13 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 68 (26.36%) Ansible
2 58 (22.48%) Kubernetes
3 30 (11.63%) SCCM
4 26 (10.08%) Progress Chef
5 23 (8.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (6.59%) Grafana
7 15 (5.81%) vCenter Server
8 13 (5.04%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (2.33%) Argo
10 6 (2.33%) PowerCLI
11 5 (1.94%) CASB
11 5 (1.94%) SCOM
11 5 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.55%) Packer
12 4 (1.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (1.55%) vMotion
13 3 (1.16%) HP ALM
13 3 (1.16%) vRealize
13 3 (1.16%) WMI
Vendors
1 131 (50.78%) Microsoft
2 42 (16.28%) ServiceNow
3 41 (15.89%) VMware
4 35 (13.57%) Splunk
5 31 (12.02%) Cisco
6 29 (11.24%) Google
7 23 (8.91%) Red Hat
8 14 (5.43%) CyberArk
8 14 (5.43%) Remedy
9 11 (4.26%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (3.49%) Oracle
11 7 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (2.33%) Dell
12 6 (2.33%) Dynatrace
12 6 (2.33%) HP
12 6 (2.33%) IBM
12 6 (2.33%) Ivanti
12 6 (2.33%) Ribbon
13 5 (1.94%) BMC
13 5 (1.94%) Brocade