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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 60 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 -15
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 261 119 116
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.78% 3.41% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.91% 12.02% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 72 83
10th Percentile £313 £277 £361
25th Percentile £367 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -7.50% -2.72%
75th Percentile £565 £528 £638
90th Percentile £621 £575 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £46.50 - £37.63
25th Percentile - - £39.76
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £51.22
England median hourly rate £53.75 £64.25 £42.05
% change year-on-year -16.34% +52.81% -29.93%

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 1,876 990 1,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.18% 28.33% 25.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 733 847
10th Percentile £350 £331 £317
25th Percentile £413 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.02% -2.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £606 £628
England median daily rate £516 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -0.79% -3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 9 57
10th Percentile £29.96 £31.70 £37.55
25th Percentile £46.53 £52.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +45.83% +2.48%
75th Percentile £75.13 £88.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.40 £95.71 £76.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 24 June 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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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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +5 145 £452 -0.50% 40
Yorkshire -3 116 £500 - 14
North East -34 2 £275 -21.43% 11
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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 50 (19.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (16.09%) SharePoint
3 20 (7.66%) Confluence
4 12 (4.60%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 112 (42.91%) Azure
2 63 (24.14%) Entra ID
2 63 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (20.31%) AWS
4 44 (16.86%) GCP
5 39 (14.94%) GitHub
6 33 (12.64%) OneDrive
7 25 (9.58%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (8.43%) Power Platform
10 19 (7.28%) Microsoft Copilot
11 18 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (6.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 14 (5.36%) OpenShift
14 12 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (3.83%) PowerApps
15 10 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.45%) SaaS
17 8 (3.07%) Azure Storage
17 8 (3.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.88%) Firewall
2 21 (8.05%) DNS
3 13 (4.98%) WAN
3 13 (4.98%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (4.60%) DHCP
4 12 (4.60%) Skype
5 11 (4.21%) LAN
5 11 (4.21%) SAN
6 8 (3.07%) Kerberos
6 8 (3.07%) NAS
6 8 (3.07%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.07%) VLAN
6 8 (3.07%) VPN
6 8 (3.07%) VSAN
7 6 (2.30%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.92%) Network Security
9 4 (1.53%) Internet
10 3 (1.15%) BGP
10 3 (1.15%) DMZ
10 3 (1.15%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.88%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.60%) Power BI
3 11 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.68%) Db2
6 6 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.92%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.53%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.38%) DTS
11 1 (0.38%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 28 (10.73%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.28%) JIRA
3 11 (4.21%) Git
4 10 (3.83%) GitLab
5 4 (1.53%) Claude Code
5 4 (1.53%) Selenium
6 2 (0.77%) Flyway
6 2 (0.77%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.77%) MSI
6 2 (0.77%) Postman
6 2 (0.77%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.38%) Appium
7 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.38%) Subversion
7 1 (0.38%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 60 (22.99%) Finance
2 45 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 29 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.43%) Legal
5 21 (8.05%) Banking
6 11 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.21%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.77%) Law
9 2 (0.77%) Military
9 2 (0.77%) Retail
10 1 (0.38%) Games
10 1 (0.38%) Local Government
10 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (10.73%) Architect
2 24 (9.20%) Senior
3 23 (8.81%) Security Engineer
4 17 (6.51%) Developer
4 17 (6.51%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 12 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (4.60%) Wintel Engineer
6 11 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (4.21%) DBA
6 11 (4.21%) Desktop Engineer
6 11 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (4.21%) SQL DBA
7 10 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (3.45%) Administrator
8 9 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (2.30%) Consultant
9 6 (2.30%) Support Engineer
9 6 (2.30%) Technical Specialist
9 6 (2.30%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.18%) Microsoft Graph
2 23 (8.81%) REST
3 12 (4.60%) LDAP
4 9 (3.45%) JSON
5 7 (2.68%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.92%) .NET
7 5 (1.92%) Kafka
7 5 (1.92%) OAuth
7 5 (1.92%) SailPoint
7 5 (1.92%) Web Services
7 5 (1.92%) YAML
8 3 (1.15%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.15%) JDBC
8 3 (1.15%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.15%) SOAP
8 3 (1.15%) Swagger
8 3 (1.15%) XML
8 3 (1.15%) XMPP
9 2 (0.77%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.49%) Replication
2 26 (9.96%) Clustering
3 20 (7.66%) Data Centre
4 18 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 18 (6.90%) Security Posture
5 16 (6.13%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (4.60%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.60%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.45%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.68%) PKI
10 5 (1.92%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.53%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.15%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 132 (50.57%) Windows
2 59 (22.61%) Linux
3 42 (16.09%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (6.51%) Windows 10
6 12 (4.60%) Windows 7
7 11 (4.21%) Unix
8 9 (3.45%) AIX
9 5 (1.92%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.92%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.15%) Solaris
11 3 (1.15%) VMS
11 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.20%) DevOps
2 70 (26.82%) CI/CD
3 54 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (18.01%) Observability
5 41 (15.71%) Agile
6 38 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (13.03%) Disaster Recovery
8 33 (12.64%) Capacity Planning
8 33 (12.64%) High Availability
8 33 (12.64%) Performance Tuning
9 32 (12.26%) Change Management
10 30 (11.49%) Cloud Security
11 29 (11.11%) ITSM
11 29 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
12 28 (10.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (9.96%) AI
13 26 (9.96%) ITIL
13 26 (9.96%) Migration
14 25 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (9.20%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 103 (39.46%) Python
2 70 (26.82%) Bash
3 42 (16.09%) SQL
4 16 (6.13%) VBScript
5 15 (5.75%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (5.36%) Java
7 12 (4.60%) VB
8 11 (4.21%) Bicep
8 11 (4.21%) C#
9 7 (2.68%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.30%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.92%) Groovy
12 4 (1.53%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.53%) Perl
13 2 (0.77%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.38%) COBOL
14 1 (0.38%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 51 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.34%) Degree
4 23 (8.81%) Azure Certification
5 18 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.90%) CISSP
5 18 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 14 (5.36%) VCAP
7 12 (4.60%) MCSA
7 12 (4.60%) MCSE
8 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.15%) CCNP
10 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.28%) GDPR
2 10 (3.83%) FINRA
2 10 (3.83%) MiFID
3 7 (2.68%) HIPAA
4 6 (2.30%) NIST
5 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.92%) SLA
6 4 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.77%) QA
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 57 (21.84%) Active Directory
2 40 (15.33%) Virtual Machines
2 40 (15.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (12.64%) Docker
4 29 (11.11%) vSphere
5 26 (9.96%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (7.28%) Hyper-V
7 15 (5.75%) KVM
8 13 (4.98%) BitLocker
9 9 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (3.07%) Firmware
11 6 (2.30%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.77%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.77%) NFS
12 2 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.77%) SRDF
13 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 56 (21.46%) Terraform
2 55 (21.07%) Ansible
3 43 (16.48%) Kubernetes
4 27 (10.34%) vCenter Server
5 23 (8.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (6.90%) SCCM
7 11 (4.21%) Grafana
7 11 (4.21%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.83%) PowerCLI
9 8 (3.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (3.07%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (2.68%) Prometheus
11 6 (2.30%) Argo
11 6 (2.30%) IBM BigFix
11 6 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.92%) Istio
13 4 (1.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (1.15%) Packer
14 3 (1.15%) vRealize
15 2 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 130 (49.81%) Microsoft
2 45 (17.24%) VMware
3 31 (11.88%) Google
3 31 (11.88%) ServiceNow
4 26 (9.96%) Cisco
5 21 (8.05%) Splunk
6 19 (7.28%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.60%) IBM
7 12 (4.60%) Remedy
8 9 (3.45%) BeyondTrust
8 9 (3.45%) SolarWinds
9 8 (3.07%) CyberArk
9 8 (3.07%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (2.68%) Oracle
11 6 (2.30%) RedGate
11 6 (2.30%) Veeam
12 5 (1.92%) BMC
12 5 (1.92%) Brocade
12 5 (1.92%) Citrix