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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 64 78
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 256 121 117
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.74% 3.51% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.76% 12.44% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 74 84
10th Percentile £313 £285 £361
25th Percentile £364 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -7.50% -2.72%
75th Percentile £565 £525 £638
90th Percentile £621 £575 £668
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £46.50 - -
25th Percentile - - £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £64.25 £40.25
% change year-on-year -14.40% +59.63% -32.92%

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 1,860 973 1,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.15% 28.22% 25.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,215 719 860
10th Percentile £350 £325 £315
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £607 £625
England median daily rate £514 £522 £538
% change year-on-year -1.53% -2.97% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 9 57
10th Percentile £30.10 £31.70 £37.55
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +47.37% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £84.20 £95.71 £76.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +15 141 £453 -0.17% 44
Yorkshire -7 115 £500 - 13
North East -35 2 £275 -21.43% 4
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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 52 (20.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (16.41%) SharePoint
3 17 (6.64%) Confluence
4 12 (4.69%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Camunda
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 107 (41.80%) Azure
2 66 (25.78%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (24.22%) Entra ID
4 51 (19.92%) AWS
5 40 (15.63%) GCP
6 37 (14.45%) GitHub
7 33 (12.89%) OneDrive
8 25 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (8.59%) Power Platform
11 20 (7.81%) Microsoft Purview
12 19 (7.42%) Microsoft Copilot
13 17 (6.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 13 (5.08%) OpenShift
15 12 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (3.91%) PowerApps
16 10 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (3.52%) SaaS
18 8 (3.13%) Azure Storage
18 8 (3.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.50%) Firewall
2 23 (8.98%) DNS
3 13 (5.08%) DHCP
3 13 (5.08%) WAN
3 13 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (4.69%) Skype
5 11 (4.30%) LAN
5 11 (4.30%) SAN
6 9 (3.52%) TCP/IP
7 8 (3.13%) NAS
7 8 (3.13%) VLAN
7 8 (3.13%) VPN
7 8 (3.13%) VSAN
8 7 (2.73%) Kerberos
9 6 (2.34%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.95%) Network Security
11 4 (1.56%) Internet
11 4 (1.56%) NetScaler
12 3 (1.17%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (1.17%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.69%) Power BI
3 11 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (2.73%) Db2
4 7 (2.73%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.95%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.56%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.39%) DTS
10 1 (0.39%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 24 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.03%) JIRA
3 9 (3.52%) Git
3 9 (3.52%) GitLab
4 4 (1.56%) Selenium
5 3 (1.17%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.78%) Flyway
6 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.78%) MSI
6 2 (0.78%) Postman
6 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.39%) Appium
7 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.39%) Subversion
7 1 (0.39%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 58 (22.66%) Finance
2 44 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.98%) Legal
5 19 (7.42%) Banking
6 11 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.78%) Law
9 2 (0.78%) Military
9 2 (0.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Local Government
10 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (11.72%) Architect
2 24 (9.38%) Senior
3 22 (8.59%) Security Engineer
4 19 (7.42%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 15 (5.86%) Developer
6 12 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (4.69%) Wintel Engineer
7 11 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (4.30%) DBA
7 11 (4.30%) Desktop Engineer
7 11 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (4.30%) SQL DBA
8 9 (3.52%) Administrator
8 9 (3.52%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (2.34%) Consultant
9 6 (2.34%) Support Engineer
9 6 (2.34%) Technical Specialist
9 6 (2.34%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.84%) Microsoft Graph
2 22 (8.59%) REST
3 11 (4.30%) LDAP
4 7 (2.73%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.34%) JSON
5 6 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (1.95%) .NET
6 5 (1.95%) Web Services
6 5 (1.95%) YAML
7 4 (1.56%) SailPoint
8 3 (1.17%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.17%) JDBC
8 3 (1.17%) Kafka
8 3 (1.17%) OAuth
8 3 (1.17%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.17%) SOAP
8 3 (1.17%) Swagger
8 3 (1.17%) XMPP
9 2 (0.78%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.78%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.72%) Replication
2 26 (10.16%) Clustering
3 20 (7.81%) Data Centre
4 17 (6.64%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.64%) Security Posture
5 16 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (4.69%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.69%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.52%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.34%) PKI
10 5 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.56%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.17%) IoT
12 3 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (51.56%) Windows
2 58 (22.66%) Linux
3 42 (16.41%) Windows Server
4 18 (7.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (6.64%) Windows 10
6 12 (4.69%) Windows 7
7 11 (4.30%) Unix
8 9 (3.52%) AIX
9 6 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (1.95%) Apple iOS
10 5 (1.95%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (1.17%) Solaris
12 3 (1.17%) VMS
13 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.17%) DevOps
2 66 (25.78%) CI/CD
3 52 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (17.58%) Observability
5 38 (14.84%) Agile
6 35 (13.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (13.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 33 (12.89%) Capacity Planning
8 33 (12.89%) High Availability
8 33 (12.89%) Performance Tuning
9 30 (11.72%) Change Management
9 30 (11.72%) Root Cause Analysis
10 28 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (10.94%) ITSM
10 28 (10.94%) Migration
11 27 (10.55%) Cloud Security
12 25 (9.77%) ITIL
12 25 (9.77%) Project Delivery
13 24 (9.38%) Network Virtualisation
14 23 (8.98%) AI
Programming Languages
1 98 (38.28%) Python
2 67 (26.17%) Bash
3 40 (15.63%) SQL
4 16 (6.25%) VBScript
5 15 (5.86%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (5.47%) Java
7 12 (4.69%) VB
8 10 (3.91%) Bicep
9 9 (3.52%) C#
10 7 (2.73%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.34%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.56%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.56%) Perl
13 3 (1.17%) Groovy
14 2 (0.78%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.39%) COBOL
15 1 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 50 (19.53%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.77%) Degree
4 23 (8.98%) Azure Certification
5 19 (7.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (7.03%) AWS Certification
6 18 (7.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 17 (6.64%) CISSP
8 14 (5.47%) VCAP
9 12 (4.69%) MCSA
9 12 (4.69%) MCSE
10 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.17%) CCNP
12 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.78%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.20%) GDPR
2 10 (3.91%) FINRA
2 10 (3.91%) MiFID
3 7 (2.73%) HIPAA
4 6 (2.34%) NIST
5 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.95%) SLA
6 4 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.78%) QA
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 56 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 41 (16.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (12.89%) Docker
5 30 (11.72%) vSphere
6 26 (10.16%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (7.42%) Hyper-V
8 15 (5.86%) KVM
9 13 (5.08%) BitLocker
10 10 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (3.13%) Firmware
12 6 (2.34%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.78%) NFS
13 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.78%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 52 (20.31%) Ansible
1 52 (20.31%) Terraform
2 40 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 27 (10.55%) vCenter Server
4 24 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (7.42%) SCCM
6 11 (4.30%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.91%) Grafana
7 10 (3.91%) PowerCLI
8 8 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (2.73%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.34%) Argo
10 6 (2.34%) IBM BigFix
11 5 (1.95%) Istio
11 5 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (1.17%) Packer
13 3 (1.17%) vRealize
14 2 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 128 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 46 (17.97%) VMware
3 29 (11.33%) Google
3 29 (11.33%) ServiceNow
4 26 (10.16%) Cisco
5 20 (7.81%) Splunk
6 19 (7.42%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.69%) IBM
7 12 (4.69%) Remedy
8 9 (3.52%) BeyondTrust
8 9 (3.52%) SolarWinds
9 8 (3.13%) CyberArk
10 7 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (2.73%) Oracle
10 7 (2.73%) Veeam
11 6 (2.34%) RedGate
12 5 (1.95%) BMC
12 5 (1.95%) Brocade
12 5 (1.95%) Citrix
12 5 (1.95%) Dynatrace