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 citing PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 27 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	67	93	74
Rank change year-on-year	+26	-19	+5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell	281	106	91
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England	3.67%	2.46%	2.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category	14.25%	8.35%	9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted	175	62	58
10^th Percentile	£319	£310	£361
25^th Percentile	£402	£378	£406
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	£442	£487
Median % change year-on-year	+7.41%	-9.24%	+8.28%
75^th Percentile	£538	£550	£588
90^th Percentile	£610	£586	£646
England median daily rate	£525	£513	£525
% change year-on-year	+2.44%	-2.38%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	5	2
10^th Percentile	-	£62.19	£51.13
25^th Percentile	-	£65.75	£54.69
Median hourly rate	£28.00	£74.26	£63.75
Median % change year-on-year	-62.29%	+16.49%	-
75^th Percentile	-	-	£72.19
90^th Percentile	-	-	£75.38
England median hourly rate	£67.47	£64.07	£63.93
% change year-on-year	+5.31%	+0.21%	+28.56%

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 citing coding skills in the North of England.

	6 months to 27 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing coding skills	1,972	1,270	973
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England	25.76%	29.47%	24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,255	887	624
10^th Percentile	£350	£314	£326
25^th Percentile	£413	£375	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£481	£450	£475
Median % change year-on-year	+6.89%	-5.26%	-5.00%
75^th Percentile	£570	£538	£565
90^th Percentile	£640	£636	£625
England median daily rate	£525	£513	£539
% change year-on-year	+2.44%	-4.96%	-1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted	104	19	30
10^th Percentile	£28.50	£34.80	£35.20
25^th Percentile	£57.50	£46.88	£37.55
Median hourly rate	£70.00	£66.50	£46.18
Median % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+44.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£75.00	£74.26	£65.00
90^th Percentile	£77.00	£87.80	£80.00
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£62.50	£65.00
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-3.85%	+4.00%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PowerShell.

PowerShell 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 27 October 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.

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 27 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
North West	+32	167	£454	+2.66%	40
Yorkshire	+16	95	£523	+23.06%	25
North East	-31	19	£500	-9.09%	13
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PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 27 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region citing PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	56.6%	159
2	Azure	53.7%	151
3	Python	48.8%	137
4	Windows	47.3%	133
5	DevOps	37.0%	104
6	Terraform	35.2%	99
7	CI/CD	33.8%	95
8	Infrastructure as Code	30.2%	85
9	Bash	27.8%	78
10	Active Directory	25.3%	71
11	AWS	24.9%	70
12	Entra ID	24.6%	69
13	Linux	23.8%	67
14	Ansible	20.6%	58
14	Kubernetes	20.6%	58
16	Security Cleared	19.9%	56
17	GCP	19.6%	55
17	SQL	19.6%	55
19	Cloud Security	18.5%	52
20	Microsoft 365	17.8%	50
21	Problem-Solving	17.4%	49
22	Azure DevOps	17.1%	48
22	Change Management	17.1%	48
22	GitHub	17.1%	48
22	SC Cleared	17.1%	48
26	Windows Server	16.4%	46
27	Agile	16.0%	45
27	Degree	16.0%	45
27	ServiceNow	16.0%	45
30	ITIL	15.7%	44

PowerShell Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	48.8%	137
2	Bash	27.8%	78
3	SQL	19.6%	55
4	Bicep	10.7%	30
5	Java	8.9%	25
6	VBScript	7.1%	20
7	C#	5.7%	16
7	VB	5.7%	16
9	T-SQL	4.6%	13
10	Kusto Query Language	3.9%	11
10	TypeScript	3.9%	11
12	Search Processing Language	3.2%	9
13	JavaScript	2.5%	7
14	Groovy	2.1%	6
15	Shell Script	1.8%	5
16	Perl	1.1%	3
17	PHP	0.7%	2
18	C	0.4%	1
18	COBOL	0.4%	1