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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 76 74
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 124 93 124
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.69% 2.39% 2.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.25% 9.50% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 58 94
10th Percentile £294 £389 £265
25th Percentile £372 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +5.56% +4.90%
75th Percentile £550 £572 £538
90th Percentile £601 £643 £650
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £63.38 £51.13 -
25th Percentile £70.01 £54.69 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £63.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% - -
75th Percentile - £72.19 -
90th Percentile - £75.38 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year +14.55% +17.24% -12.00%

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 1,340 979 1,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.02% 25.14% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 615 867
10th Percentile £315 £332 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £583
90th Percentile £635 £648 £650
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.62% -1.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 29 50
10th Percentile £36.00 £35.05 £36.47
25th Percentile £49.25 £41.50 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +6.11% +13.81%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £50.19
90th Percentile £81.50 £100.00 £67.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -10 64 £431 -11.49% 33
Yorkshire -13 51 £460 -2.17% 17
North East -5 13 £550 +20.35% 5
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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 28 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (12.90%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.03%) Skype for Business
4 3 (2.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 52 (41.94%) Azure
2 28 (22.58%) Entra ID
2 28 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (16.94%) AWS
4 14 (11.29%) GCP
5 11 (8.87%) OneDrive
6 9 (7.26%) Serverless
7 8 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (6.45%) SaaS
8 7 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.84%) PaaS
10 5 (4.03%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (4.03%) GitHub
10 5 (4.03%) IaaS
10 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (27.42%) Firewall
2 26 (20.97%) DNS
3 18 (14.52%) VLAN
4 15 (12.10%) VPN
5 12 (9.68%) DHCP
5 12 (9.68%) TCP/IP
6 9 (7.26%) LAN
6 9 (7.26%) WAN
7 8 (6.45%) BGP
7 8 (6.45%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (6.45%) WebEx
8 7 (5.65%) SAN
9 5 (4.03%) Skype
9 5 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (3.23%) iSCSI
10 4 (3.23%) Network Security
10 4 (3.23%) SNMP
11 3 (2.42%) NAS
11 3 (2.42%) VoIP
12 2 (1.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.03%) Power BI
3 3 (2.42%) Metadata
4 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 17 (13.71%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.06%) Git
2 10 (8.06%) GitLab
3 7 (5.65%) JIRA
4 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.61%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.61%) MSI
4 2 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.61%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.81%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.81%) JMeter
5 1 (0.81%) Selenium
5 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.32%) Finance
4 14 (11.29%) Legal
5 12 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.45%) Banking
7 7 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.42%) Military
9 2 (1.61%) Electronics
9 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.61%) Marketing
9 2 (1.61%) Retail
9 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (12.10%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (11.29%) Administrator
3 11 (8.87%) Analyst
4 8 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (5.65%) NetBackup Engineer
5 7 (5.65%) Network Engineer
6 6 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (4.84%) Desktop Specialist
6 6 (4.84%) Desktop Support
6 6 (4.84%) Desktop Support Specialist
6 6 (4.84%) Support Specialist
7 5 (4.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) IT Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) Migration Specialist
7 5 (4.03%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.45%) XMPP
2 5 (4.03%) JSON
2 5 (4.03%) Node.js
2 5 (4.03%) REST
3 3 (2.42%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.42%) Middleware
4 2 (1.61%) OAuth
4 2 (1.61%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.61%) Swagger
5 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.81%) CSS
5 1 (0.81%) HTML
5 1 (0.81%) LDAP
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.81%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.81%) SAML
5 1 (0.81%) SOAP
5 1 (0.81%) Web Services
5 1 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 15 (12.10%) Data Centre
3 13 (10.48%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.23%) CMDB
5 4 (3.23%) Replication
6 3 (2.42%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.42%) iPhone
6 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.61%) Clustering
7 2 (1.61%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.61%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.61%) PKI
7 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.61%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.81%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 62 (50.00%) Windows
2 40 (32.26%) Linux
3 28 (22.58%) Windows Server
4 20 (16.13%) Windows 10
5 13 (10.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.65%) Android
7 5 (4.03%) Windows 7
8 4 (3.23%) Apple iOS
9 3 (2.42%) Unix
9 3 (2.42%) VMS
10 1 (0.81%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (20.97%) Migration
3 25 (20.16%) Service Management
4 23 (18.55%) Containerisation
4 23 (18.55%) Cybersecurity
4 23 (18.55%) ITSM
5 22 (17.74%) DevOps
6 20 (16.13%) CI/CD
7 18 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (13.71%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (12.10%) Infrastructure Automation
9 15 (12.10%) Mobile Device Management
10 14 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (10.48%) Change Control
11 13 (10.48%) Task Automation
12 12 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (8.87%) Agile
13 11 (8.87%) Security Monitoring
13 11 (8.87%) User Experience
14 10 (8.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 54 (43.55%) Python
2 45 (36.29%) Bash
3 17 (13.71%) Perl
4 7 (5.65%) Bicep
5 5 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (4.03%) VB
5 5 (4.03%) VBScript
6 4 (3.23%) C#
7 3 (2.42%) Java
7 3 (2.42%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.42%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (1.61%) Ruby
8 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.81%) C
9 1 (0.81%) Go
9 1 (0.81%) Groovy
9 1 (0.81%) SQL
9 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (29.84%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.29%) Degree
4 8 (6.45%) CCDP
4 8 (6.45%) CCNA
4 8 (6.45%) CCNP
4 8 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.42%) GCIH
8 3 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.61%) CISSP
9 2 (1.61%) GCIA
9 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.61%) VCAP
10 1 (0.81%) CISM
10 1 (0.81%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.84%) NIST
3 4 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.23%) GDPR
4 3 (2.42%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.42%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.61%) QA
6 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (37.10%) Active Directory
2 28 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (17.74%) Docker
4 8 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (4.84%) vSphere
6 5 (4.03%) BitLocker
6 5 (4.03%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (19.35%) Terraform
2 21 (16.94%) Ansible
3 13 (10.48%) SCCM
4 11 (8.87%) Kubernetes
5 9 (7.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (6.45%) vCenter Server
7 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (5.65%) NetBackup
7 7 (5.65%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (4.03%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.23%) Grafana
9 4 (3.23%) Prometheus
9 4 (3.23%) vRealize
10 3 (2.42%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.61%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.61%) Istio
11 2 (1.61%) PowerCLI
11 2 (1.61%) SCOM
12 1 (0.81%) Argo
12 1 (0.81%) Podman
Vendors
1 54 (43.55%) Microsoft
2 39 (31.45%) VMware
3 19 (15.32%) Cisco
4 13 (10.48%) Citrix
4 13 (10.48%) Red Hat
4 13 (10.48%) ServiceNow
5 9 (7.26%) Oracle
6 8 (6.45%) Google
7 7 (5.65%) CyberArk
7 7 (5.65%) Splunk
7 7 (5.65%) Veritas
8 6 (4.84%) F5
9 5 (4.03%) Veeam
10 4 (3.23%) Dell
10 4 (3.23%) Juniper
10 4 (3.23%) NetApp
10 4 (3.23%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.42%) Computacenter
11 3 (2.42%) Remedy
11 3 (2.42%) SAP