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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 55 82
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 -21
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 226 132 108
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.87% 4.13% 2.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.85% 14.92% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 82 77
10th Percentile £313 £358 £270
25th Percentile £369 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £575
90th Percentile £621 £600 £668
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £72.82 - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +62.41% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £54.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.26% +36.25% -33.11%

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 1,632 885 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.97% 27.69% 25.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 632 876
10th Percentile £346 £350 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% -10.48%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £545
90th Percentile £617 £638 £625
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 15 56
10th Percentile £42.20 £31.59 £38.01
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.38 £44.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +57.07% -1.04%
75th Percentile £74.26 £92.70 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.55 £100.62 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.76%

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 28 March 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
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 28 March 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 +9 132 £500 +7.53% 35
Yorkshire -26 88 £460 -8.00% 16
North East -5 11 £550 +18.28% 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 57 (25.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (20.80%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.87%) Confluence
4 9 (3.98%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.33%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.44%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 88 (38.94%) Azure
2 68 (30.09%) Entra ID
3 67 (29.65%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (17.26%) AWS
5 36 (15.93%) OneDrive
6 27 (11.95%) GCP
7 24 (10.62%) GitHub
8 22 (9.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (5.31%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (5.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (4.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (4.87%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (4.87%) PaaS
12 11 (4.87%) SaaS
12 11 (4.87%) Serverless
13 9 (3.98%) OpenShift
14 8 (3.54%) Azure AKS
14 8 (3.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 43 (19.03%) Firewall
2 40 (17.70%) DNS
3 25 (11.06%) DHCP
4 21 (9.29%) VLAN
5 19 (8.41%) VPN
6 17 (7.52%) LAN
6 17 (7.52%) TCP/IP
6 17 (7.52%) WAN
7 15 (6.64%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (4.87%) Network Security
8 11 (4.87%) WebEx
9 9 (3.98%) BGP
9 9 (3.98%) Skype
10 8 (3.54%) Software-Defined Networking
11 7 (3.10%) Kerberos
11 7 (3.10%) VSAN
12 5 (2.21%) NetScaler
12 5 (2.21%) SAN
12 5 (2.21%) Unified Communications
13 4 (1.77%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (2.65%) DB2
3 6 (2.65%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.33%) Metadata
4 3 (1.33%) Power BI
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (10.62%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.96%) JIRA
3 14 (6.19%) GitLab
4 12 (5.31%) Git
5 7 (3.10%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.88%) Flyway
6 2 (0.88%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.88%) MSI
6 2 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.88%) Selenium
6 2 (0.88%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.44%) Appium
7 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.44%) gulp
7 1 (0.44%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.44%) Subversion
7 1 (0.44%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 39 (17.26%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.49%) Legal
3 32 (14.16%) Finance
4 27 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.42%) Banking
8 6 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.77%) Retail
10 3 (1.33%) Law
11 2 (0.88%) Military
12 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.44%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (13.27%) Architect
2 25 (11.06%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (8.41%) Senior
4 15 (6.64%) Administrator
4 15 (6.64%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 14 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (5.31%) Security Engineer
7 11 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.54%) VMware Engineer
9 8 (3.54%) Wintel Engineer
10 7 (3.10%) Analyst
10 7 (3.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.10%) DBA
10 7 (3.10%) SQL DBA
10 7 (3.10%) Technical Architect
11 6 (2.65%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (2.65%) Network Engineer
11 6 (2.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.37%) Microsoft Graph
2 15 (6.64%) REST
3 11 (4.87%) XMPP
4 9 (3.98%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.10%) LDAP
6 5 (2.21%) .NET
6 5 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.21%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.21%) Swagger
6 5 (2.21%) Web Services
7 4 (1.77%) JSON
7 4 (1.77%) Node.js
7 4 (1.77%) SOAP
8 3 (1.33%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.33%) Kafka
8 3 (1.33%) SPFx
9 2 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.88%) OAuth
9 2 (0.88%) XML
10 1 (0.44%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.62%) Product Ownership
2 23 (10.18%) Clustering
2 23 (10.18%) Data Centre
3 20 (8.85%) Replication
4 11 (4.87%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.42%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.65%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.21%) Fat Client
8 5 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.21%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.21%) Thin Client
9 4 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.77%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.77%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.33%) iPhone
10 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 118 (52.21%) Windows
2 53 (23.45%) Linux
3 50 (22.12%) Windows Server
4 24 (10.62%) Windows 10
5 21 (9.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.98%) Unix
6 9 (3.98%) Windows 7
7 7 (3.10%) AIX
8 5 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.77%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.33%) Android
10 3 (1.33%) VMS
11 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (23.45%) CI/CD
2 51 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (21.24%) DevOps
4 38 (16.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (16.37%) Disaster Recovery
5 37 (16.37%) Root Cause Analysis
6 33 (14.60%) High Availability
6 33 (14.60%) Platform Engineering
7 32 (14.16%) Observability
8 30 (13.27%) Containerisation
8 30 (13.27%) Service Management
9 28 (12.39%) Identity Access Management
10 27 (11.95%) ITSM
11 26 (11.50%) Agile
12 25 (11.06%) Capacity Planning
12 25 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (11.06%) Incident Response
12 25 (11.06%) Migration
12 25 (11.06%) Performance Tuning
13 24 (10.62%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 79 (34.96%) Python
2 74 (32.74%) Bash
3 23 (10.18%) SQL
4 17 (7.52%) Kusto Query Language
5 16 (7.08%) Perl
6 13 (5.75%) Bicep
7 10 (4.42%) C#
8 9 (3.98%) Java
8 9 (3.98%) VB
8 9 (3.98%) VBScript
9 5 (2.21%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.21%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.77%) Go
10 4 (1.77%) Groovy
11 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.44%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.44%) C
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (6.19%) Azure Certification
4 14 (6.19%) Degree
5 12 (5.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (4.42%) VCAP
7 9 (3.98%) CCDP
7 9 (3.98%) CCNA
7 9 (3.98%) CCNP
7 9 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.98%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.54%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.54%) MCSA
8 8 (3.54%) MCSE
9 6 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.77%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.62%) GDPR
2 12 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.42%) FINRA
3 10 (4.42%) MiFID
4 8 (3.54%) NIST
5 4 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.77%) QA
5 4 (1.77%) SLA
6 3 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.33%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (31.42%) Active Directory
2 45 (19.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (14.60%) Docker
4 32 (14.16%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (11.06%) vSphere
6 22 (9.73%) Hyper-V
7 21 (9.29%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (6.64%) KVM
9 9 (3.98%) BitLocker
10 7 (3.10%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (2.65%) VMware NSX
12 5 (2.21%) Firmware
13 2 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 53 (23.45%) Terraform
2 45 (19.91%) Ansible
3 35 (15.49%) Kubernetes
4 23 (10.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (9.73%) SCCM
6 21 (9.29%) vCenter Server
7 16 (7.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (5.31%) Grafana
9 10 (4.42%) PowerCLI
10 9 (3.98%) Prometheus
11 8 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (3.10%) Istio
13 6 (2.65%) IBM BigFix
13 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Clustering
13 6 (2.65%) Nagios
14 5 (2.21%) Argo
14 5 (2.21%) Progress Chef
15 3 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
16 2 (0.88%) FortiGate
16 2 (0.88%) vMotion
Vendors
1 115 (50.88%) Microsoft
2 54 (23.89%) VMware
3 26 (11.50%) Cisco
4 21 (9.29%) Citrix
5 20 (8.85%) Red Hat
6 17 (7.52%) ServiceNow
7 13 (5.75%) Google
8 12 (5.31%) SolarWinds
8 12 (5.31%) Splunk
9 7 (3.10%) IBM
9 7 (3.10%) Veeam
10 6 (2.65%) Oracle
10 6 (2.65%) RedGate
11 5 (2.21%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.77%) F5
12 4 (1.77%) Juniper
13 3 (1.33%) Alibaba
13 3 (1.33%) CyberArk
13 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.88%) CloudEndure