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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 91 72
Rank change year-on-year +26 -19 -4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 256 104 98
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.44% 2.61% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.73% 9.32% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 55 75
10th Percentile £318 £288 £377
25th Percentile £404 £378 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £447 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% -14.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £544 £488 £638
90th Percentile £619 £575 £675
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £37.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.13 £65.75 £48.75
Median hourly rate £74.26 £66.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% +26.67% -
75th Percentile - £67.25 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £65.69
% change year-on-year -2.87% -1.05% +27.92%

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 1,865 1,116 1,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.08% 27.98% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 799 712
10th Percentile £352 £315 £350
25th Percentile £413 £379 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -4.76% -2.35%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £603 £638
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 13 32
10th Percentile £28.65 £30.35 £37.50
25th Percentile £46.98 £36.00 £44.02
Median hourly rate £68.25 £66.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +23.72% +16.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £84.50 £71.59
90th Percentile £76.90 £93.75 £82.62
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 15 August 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
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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +27 163 £479 +4.02% 72
Yorkshire -14 82 £500 +21.21% 27
North East - 12 £500 - 16
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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 38 (14.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (7.42%) SharePoint
3 17 (6.64%) Confluence
4 16 (6.25%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
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%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (6.64%) 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
1 132 (51.56%) Azure
2 74 (28.91%) AWS
3 51 (19.92%) GCP
4 46 (17.97%) GitHub
5 45 (17.58%) Entra ID
6 40 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (11.33%) Power Platform
8 26 (10.16%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (7.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 18 (7.03%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.69%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.30%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (4.30%) OpenShift
13 11 (4.30%) PowerApps
13 11 (4.30%) SaaS
14 10 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.91%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.50%) Firewall
2 23 (8.98%) DNS
3 17 (6.64%) Network Security
4 16 (6.25%) Skype
5 12 (4.69%) DHCP
5 12 (4.69%) SAN
5 12 (4.69%) VPN
5 12 (4.69%) WAN
6 11 (4.30%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (3.91%) NAS
8 9 (3.52%) LAN
8 9 (3.52%) VLAN
9 8 (3.13%) VSAN
10 7 (2.73%) SSL
11 6 (2.34%) TCP/IP
12 4 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.56%) Internet
13 3 (1.17%) BGP
13 3 (1.17%) DMZ
13 3 (1.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.67%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.42%) Power BI
3 12 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (2.73%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.95%) MySQL
7 5 (1.95%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.95%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.56%) Db2
9 3 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 36 (14.06%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.81%) Git
3 19 (7.42%) GitLab
4 17 (6.64%) JIRA
5 6 (2.34%) Selenium
5 6 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.95%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.56%) MSBuild
7 4 (1.56%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.17%) Bugzilla
8 3 (1.17%) MSI
8 3 (1.17%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.78%) Flyway
9 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.78%) Postman
9 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 57 (22.27%) Finance
2 50 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 28 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.77%) Banking
5 12 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.91%) Legal
7 9 (3.52%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Games
10 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Law
10 2 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (13.28%) Security Engineer
2 24 (9.38%) Senior
3 21 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (7.42%) Developer
5 16 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (5.47%) Desktop Engineer
7 12 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.30%) Lead
9 10 (3.91%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 10 (3.91%) DBA
9 10 (3.91%) SQL DBA
9 10 (3.91%) VMware Engineer
10 9 (3.52%) Architect
11 8 (3.13%) Administrator
11 8 (3.13%) Wintel Engineer
12 7 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.73%) Splunk Engineer
12 7 (2.73%) Support Engineer
13 6 (2.34%) Analyst
13 6 (2.34%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.20%) REST
2 17 (6.64%) Microsoft Graph
3 14 (5.47%) JSON
4 13 (5.08%) .NET
5 10 (3.91%) Kafka
6 9 (3.52%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.52%) YAML
7 6 (2.34%) OAuth
7 6 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.34%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.95%) LDAP
8 5 (1.95%) Web Services
9 4 (1.56%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.56%) XML
10 3 (1.17%) JDBC
10 3 (1.17%) Node.js
10 3 (1.17%) SOAP
10 3 (1.17%) WireMock
11 2 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
11 2 (0.78%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.16%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.77%) Replication
3 23 (8.98%) Security Posture
4 21 (8.20%) Clustering
5 17 (6.64%) Management Information System
6 16 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (3.91%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.52%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.52%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.13%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.73%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (2.73%) PKI
10 7 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.34%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (2.34%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.56%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 135 (52.73%) Windows
2 72 (28.13%) Linux
3 46 (17.97%) Windows Server
4 27 (10.55%) Windows 10
5 24 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (8.20%) Windows 7
7 11 (4.30%) Unix
8 6 (2.34%) AIX
8 6 (2.34%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.34%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.56%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.17%) Solaris
11 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.78%) VMS
12 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.39%) CentOS
13 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (36.72%) DevOps
2 84 (32.81%) CI/CD
3 64 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (19.53%) Agile
5 48 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 46 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (17.58%) Observability
8 39 (15.23%) Change Management
9 37 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (13.67%) AI
11 34 (13.28%) Analytics
11 34 (13.28%) Containerisation
12 32 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (11.72%) ITSM
13 30 (11.72%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (11.33%) ITIL
14 29 (11.33%) Performance Tuning
14 29 (11.33%) SIEM
15 28 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 120 (46.88%) Python
2 80 (31.25%) Bash
3 51 (19.92%) SQL
4 25 (9.77%) Bicep
5 21 (8.20%) Java
6 20 (7.81%) VBScript
7 16 (6.25%) VB
8 15 (5.86%) C#
9 11 (4.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (4.30%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.34%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (1.56%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
13 3 (1.17%) Perl
14 2 (0.78%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.78%) Groovy
14 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.39%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 60 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 52 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 38 (14.84%) Degree
4 35 (13.67%) Azure Certification
5 29 (11.33%) CISSP
6 26 (10.16%) AWS Certification
7 19 (7.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (5.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (3.91%) VCAP
10 8 (3.13%) MCSA
10 8 (3.13%) MCSE
11 7 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.34%) GCIH
13 5 (1.95%) GCFA
13 5 (1.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (1.56%) CCIE
14 4 (1.56%) CCNP
14 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (1.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.69%) GDPR
2 8 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.73%) NIST
4 6 (2.34%) HIPAA
4 6 (2.34%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.95%) SLA
6 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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 51 (19.92%) Active Directory
2 41 (16.02%) Docker
3 32 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (11.72%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (8.59%) vSphere
6 20 (7.81%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (6.64%) BitLocker
8 12 (4.69%) Hyper-V
9 9 (3.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.73%) VMware NSX
11 5 (1.95%) Firmware
11 5 (1.95%) KVM
12 2 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.78%) NFS
12 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.78%) SRDF
13 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 79 (30.86%) Terraform
2 66 (25.78%) Ansible
3 59 (23.05%) Kubernetes
4 27 (10.55%) SCCM
5 24 (9.38%) Progress Chef
6 21 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (7.03%) vCenter Server
8 16 (6.25%) Grafana
9 12 (4.69%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.73%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (2.73%) PowerCLI
11 6 (2.34%) Argo
12 5 (1.95%) CASB
12 5 (1.95%) SCOM
13 4 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (1.17%) HP ALM
14 3 (1.17%) IBM BigFix
14 3 (1.17%) vRealize
14 3 (1.17%) WMI
Vendors
1 127 (49.61%) Microsoft
2 42 (16.41%) ServiceNow
3 41 (16.02%) VMware
4 33 (12.89%) Splunk
5 31 (12.11%) Cisco
6 29 (11.33%) Google
7 23 (8.98%) Red Hat
8 14 (5.47%) CyberArk
8 14 (5.47%) Remedy
9 10 (3.91%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (3.52%) IBM
10 9 (3.52%) Oracle
11 7 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (2.34%) Dynatrace
12 6 (2.34%) HP
12 6 (2.34%) Ribbon
13 5 (1.95%) BMC
13 5 (1.95%) Brocade
13 5 (1.95%) Dell
13 5 (1.95%) Ivanti