PowerShell Contracts in the North of England

Windows PowerShell
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 80 66
Rank change year-on-year +25 -14 +23
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 129 114 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.92% 2.39% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.86% 9.40% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 81 143
10th Percentile £356 £325 £235
25th Percentile £406 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £528 £594 £575
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year -27.50% -33.22% +19.80%

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 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the North of England

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +14 70 £465 +9.41% 73
Yorkshire +32 58 £475 -9.52% 40
North East -5 5 £465 -2.11% 11
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (24.03%) SharePoint
2 25 (19.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (10.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 9 (6.98%) Skype for Business
5 5 (3.88%) Confluence
5 5 (3.88%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.78%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (38.76%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (34.11%) Azure
3 24 (18.60%) Entra ID
4 16 (12.40%) Power Automate
4 16 (12.40%) Power Platform
4 16 (12.40%) PowerApps
5 12 (9.30%) GitHub
6 11 (8.53%) IaaS
7 8 (6.20%) AWS
8 7 (5.43%) OneDrive
8 7 (5.43%) SaaS
9 6 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.33%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.33%) GCP
10 3 (2.33%) Serverless
11 2 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.55%) NuGet
11 2 (1.55%) PaaS
12 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (21.71%) DNS
2 17 (13.18%) Firewall
3 14 (10.85%) Network Security
4 12 (9.30%) DHCP
5 11 (8.53%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (6.98%) Skype
6 9 (6.98%) SMTP
7 7 (5.43%) VPN
8 6 (4.65%) SAN
8 6 (4.65%) WAN
9 5 (3.88%) LAN
9 5 (3.88%) Softphone
9 5 (3.88%) Unified Communications
9 5 (3.88%) VLAN
9 5 (3.88%) WebEx
9 5 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (3.10%) DMZ
10 4 (3.10%) NAS
11 3 (2.33%) TCP/IP
12 2 (1.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.95%) SQL Server
2 16 (12.40%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.78%) GIS
5 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.78%) MSDE
5 1 (0.78%) MySQL
5 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (12.40%) Git
2 10 (7.75%) GitLab
2 10 (7.75%) JIRA
3 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.10%) Selenium
5 3 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (2.33%) Vagrant
5 3 (2.33%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.55%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.55%) JMeter
6 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.55%) TestNG
7 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.78%) Maven
7 1 (0.78%) MSI
General
1 53 (41.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Public Sector
3 15 (11.63%) Finance
4 13 (10.08%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Banking
7 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.55%) Military
8 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (13.18%) Developer
1 17 (13.18%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 15 (11.63%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 13 (10.08%) Analyst
3 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (8.53%) Software Developer
4 11 (8.53%) Support Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Architect
5 10 (7.75%) Engineering Specialist
6 8 (6.20%) Windows Engineer
7 7 (5.43%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Consultant
8 6 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Messaging Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Messaging Support Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Operations Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.08%) CSS
1 13 (10.08%) HTML
2 11 (8.53%) REST
3 10 (7.75%) React
4 9 (6.98%) SPFx
5 5 (3.88%) XMPP
6 4 (3.10%) Middleware
7 3 (2.33%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.33%) Software Packaging
8 2 (1.55%) .NET
8 2 (1.55%) ADO
8 2 (1.55%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.55%) pytest
9 1 (0.78%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.78%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.78%) LDAP
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.78%) RESTful
9 1 (0.78%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.18%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (6.98%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.55%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Clustering
6 1 (0.78%) CMDB
6 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.78%) MISP
6 1 (0.78%) NHS
6 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.78%) PKI
6 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (47.29%) Windows
2 41 (31.78%) Windows Server
3 31 (24.03%) Linux
4 7 (5.43%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.10%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.33%) Android
6 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.78%) CentOS
8 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (36.43%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (24.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 28 (21.71%) Agile
4 23 (17.83%) Task Automation
5 21 (16.28%) DevOps
5 21 (16.28%) Migration
6 20 (15.50%) ITSM
7 17 (13.18%) Change Management
8 16 (12.40%) CI/CD
8 16 (12.40%) Microservices
9 15 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (11.63%) Security Management
9 15 (11.63%) Server Management
10 13 (10.08%) SIEM
10 13 (10.08%) SOA
10 13 (10.08%) Web Development
11 12 (9.30%) Configuration Management
12 11 (8.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (8.53%) Information Security
12 11 (8.53%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.03%) SQL
2 30 (23.26%) Bash
3 27 (20.93%) Python
4 15 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.85%) Perl
5 14 (10.85%) PL/SQL
6 10 (7.75%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.43%) VBScript
8 5 (3.88%) VB
9 4 (3.10%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.33%) Ruby
10 3 (2.33%) VBA
11 2 (1.55%) C#
12 1 (0.78%) Java
12 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (31.78%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.81%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.95%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (12.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (9.30%) Azure Certification
5 12 (9.30%) Degree
6 5 (3.88%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.78%) CCIE
9 1 (0.78%) CCNA
9 1 (0.78%) CCNP
9 1 (0.78%) CISM
9 1 (0.78%) CISSP
9 1 (0.78%) MCP
9 1 (0.78%) MCSA
9 1 (0.78%) MCSE
9 1 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (2.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) NIST
3 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 68 (52.71%) Active Directory
2 18 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (12.40%) vSphere
4 6 (4.65%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.88%) BitLocker
5 5 (3.88%) Docker
6 3 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.33%) VirtualBox
7 2 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (20.93%) Ansible
2 18 (13.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (7.75%) SCCM
3 10 (7.75%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (6.20%) Progress Chef
4 8 (6.20%) Puppet
4 8 (6.20%) Terraform
5 7 (5.43%) Kubernetes
5 7 (5.43%) vRealize
6 6 (4.65%) SCOM
7 5 (3.88%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.10%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.55%) Grafana
11 1 (0.78%) Graylog
11 1 (0.78%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.78%) Packer
11 1 (0.78%) Perfmon
11 1 (0.78%) QRadar
11 1 (0.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 68 (52.71%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.38%) Cisco
3 24 (18.60%) VMware
4 21 (16.28%) Oracle
5 12 (9.30%) Splunk
6 8 (6.20%) Red Hat
6 8 (6.20%) ServiceNow
7 7 (5.43%) Dell
8 5 (3.88%) CyberArk
8 5 (3.88%) HP
9 3 (2.33%) Thycotic
10 2 (1.55%) 3PAR
10 2 (1.55%) Brocade
10 2 (1.55%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.55%) EMC
10 2 (1.55%) IBM
10 2 (1.55%) Infoblox
10 2 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (1.55%) McAfee
10 2 (1.55%) Veeam