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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 105 73
Rank change year-on-year +44 -32 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 286 90 106
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.73% 2.17% 2.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.86% 7.33% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 47 71
10th Percentile £317 £310 £363
25th Percentile £402 £365 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £594
90th Percentile £613 £593 £645
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.75 £48.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £66.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +26.67% -
75th Percentile - £67.25 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £63.00 £58.49
% change year-on-year +6.35% +7.71% -2.52%

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 1,924 1,228 1,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.08% 29.60% 24.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 861 670
10th Percentile £350 £316 £325
25th Percentile £413 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -4.15% -3.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £567
90th Percentile £650 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £543
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 14 30
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.80 £35.20
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.58 £37.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% +28.30% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.88 £64.69
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.30 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +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 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

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 13 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.

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 13 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +40 171 £454 +5.33% 79
Yorkshire +19 97 £519 +23.94% 52
North East -29 19 £500 -16.67% 24
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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 30 (10.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.59%) Skype for Business
3 13 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 12 (4.20%) Confluence
5 4 (1.40%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.05%) Apache
7 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.70%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.35%) Camunda
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 146 (51.05%) Azure
2 71 (24.83%) AWS
3 69 (24.13%) Entra ID
4 51 (17.83%) GCP
5 49 (17.13%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (15.73%) GitHub
8 33 (11.54%) Power Platform
9 30 (10.49%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (6.99%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (4.90%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (3.50%) IaaS
14 9 (3.15%) Power Automate
14 9 (3.15%) PowerApps
14 9 (3.15%) SaaS
14 9 (3.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (15.03%) Firewall
2 30 (10.49%) DNS
3 25 (8.74%) Network Security
4 18 (6.29%) VPN
5 16 (5.59%) Skype
6 13 (4.55%) DHCP
7 11 (3.85%) SSL
7 11 (3.85%) VLAN
8 10 (3.50%) WAN
9 9 (3.15%) SAN
9 9 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.80%) NAS
11 7 (2.45%) LAN
12 6 (2.10%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (2.10%) TCP/IP
13 5 (1.75%) Internet
14 4 (1.40%) iSCSI
15 3 (1.05%) DMZ
15 3 (1.05%) MPLS
15 3 (1.05%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.34%) SQL Server
2 22 (7.69%) Power BI
3 13 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.15%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.15%) MySQL
5 6 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.10%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.40%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.05%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.70%) Big Data
9 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.70%) Pentaho
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (12.24%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.34%) Git
3 18 (6.29%) GitLab
4 13 (4.55%) JIRA
5 8 (2.80%) Claude Code
5 8 (2.80%) MSI
6 7 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.40%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.40%) MSBuild
7 4 (1.40%) Selenium
7 4 (1.40%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.05%) Bugzilla
8 3 (1.05%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.70%) Postman
10 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.35%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.35%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 1 (0.35%) WinAutomation
General
1 70 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.73%) Finance
3 28 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.09%) Banking
5 12 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.15%) Legal
6 9 (3.15%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.40%) Law
7 4 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.05%) Military
9 2 (0.70%) Games
9 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (13.29%) Security Engineer
2 30 (10.49%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (6.29%) Desktop Engineer
5 18 (6.29%) Lead
5 18 (6.29%) Senior
6 17 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.24%) Developer
8 14 (4.90%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.55%) DBA
9 13 (4.55%) SQL DBA
10 12 (4.20%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 12 (4.20%) Network Engineer
11 10 (3.50%) Applications Packager
12 9 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Consultant
13 8 (2.80%) Wintel Engineer
14 7 (2.45%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (33.22%) Terraform
2 22 (7.69%) REST
3 17 (5.94%) JSON
4 13 (4.55%) YAML
5 12 (4.20%) ARM Templates
5 12 (4.20%) Kafka
6 11 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
7 10 (3.50%) .NET
8 9 (3.15%) OAuth
9 7 (2.45%) SAML
10 6 (2.10%) OpenID
10 6 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.10%) XML
11 5 (1.75%) FIDO
11 5 (1.75%) OAuth2
11 5 (1.75%) Software Packaging
11 5 (1.75%) WebAuthn
12 4 (1.40%) Azure Blueprints
12 4 (1.40%) SailPoint
13 3 (1.05%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.74%) Cloud Native
1 25 (8.74%) Security Posture
2 23 (8.04%) Clustering
2 23 (8.04%) Replication
3 18 (6.29%) Data Centre
3 18 (6.29%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.24%) PKI
5 13 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.80%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.45%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.45%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 146 (51.05%) Windows
2 69 (24.13%) Linux
3 53 (18.53%) Windows Server
4 32 (11.19%) Windows 10
5 22 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (7.69%) Windows 7
6 11 (3.85%) Apple iOS
6 11 (3.85%) Unix
7 6 (2.10%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.40%) macOS
9 3 (1.05%) Solaris
9 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.70%) AIX
10 2 (0.70%) Android
10 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.35%) CentOS
11 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (35.66%) DevOps
2 91 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 84 (29.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (17.48%) Cloud Security
6 48 (16.78%) Agile
7 47 (16.43%) Change Management
7 47 (16.43%) ITIL
8 44 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (13.99%) AI
9 40 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 38 (13.29%) Observability
11 37 (12.94%) Analytics
11 37 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
11 37 (12.94%) Identity Access Management
12 34 (11.89%) Infrastructure Automation
13 32 (11.19%) Migration
13 32 (11.19%) Service Management
14 31 (10.84%) RBAC
15 30 (10.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 133 (46.50%) Python
2 77 (26.92%) Bash
3 57 (19.93%) SQL
4 29 (10.14%) Bicep
5 26 (9.09%) Java
6 20 (6.99%) VBScript
7 16 (5.59%) VB
8 14 (4.90%) C#
8 14 (4.90%) T-SQL
9 9 (3.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (3.15%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.45%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (2.10%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.10%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.40%) Groovy
13 3 (1.05%) Perl
14 2 (0.70%) PHP
15 1 (0.35%) BeanShell
15 1 (0.35%) C
15 1 (0.35%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 64 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.58%) SC Cleared
3 45 (15.73%) Degree
4 37 (12.94%) Azure Certification
5 27 (9.44%) CISSP
5 27 (9.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (8.04%) AWS Certification
7 17 (5.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 9 (3.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (2.80%) MCSA
9 8 (2.80%) MCSE
9 8 (2.80%) VCAP
10 7 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (2.10%) DBS Check
11 6 (2.10%) GCIH
12 5 (1.75%) CCNP
12 5 (1.75%) GCFA
13 4 (1.40%) CCIE
14 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (3.50%) NIST
2 9 (3.15%) GDPR
2 9 (3.15%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (1.75%) SLA
5 4 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.70%) QA
7 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 69 (24.13%) Active Directory
2 33 (11.54%) Docker
3 30 (10.49%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (8.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (5.94%) BitLocker
6 14 (4.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (4.90%) vSphere
7 13 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.10%) Firmware
8 6 (2.10%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.40%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.70%) NFS
11 1 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.35%) etcd
11 1 (0.35%) KVM
11 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.35%) SRDF
11 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (23.08%) Ansible
2 56 (19.58%) Kubernetes
3 43 (15.03%) SCCM
4 34 (11.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (10.49%) Progress Chef
6 15 (5.24%) Grafana
7 14 (4.90%) vCenter Server
8 11 (3.85%) Prometheus
8 11 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (3.15%) SCOM
10 5 (1.75%) CASB
10 5 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.75%) Packer
11 4 (1.40%) vMotion
12 3 (1.05%) HP ALM
12 3 (1.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (1.05%) WMI
13 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.70%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 162 (56.64%) Microsoft
2 47 (16.43%) ServiceNow
3 33 (11.54%) Splunk
4 32 (11.19%) Google
4 32 (11.19%) VMware
5 30 (10.49%) Cisco
6 21 (7.34%) Red Hat
7 14 (4.90%) BeyondTrust
8 12 (4.20%) CyberArk
9 11 (3.85%) Remedy
10 9 (3.15%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.80%) Ivanti
11 8 (2.80%) Oracle
12 7 (2.45%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (2.45%) Okta
12 7 (2.45%) Ribbon
13 6 (2.10%) Apple
13 6 (2.10%) Dell
13 6 (2.10%) SolarWinds
13 6 (2.10%) Veeam