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 requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 63 72
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 250 117 118
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.82% 3.54% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.12% 12.58% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 72 84
10th Percentile £313 £328 £361
25th Percentile £363 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -4.62% -4.88%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £638
90th Percentile £621 £598 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.73 £73.23 £40.25
% change year-on-year -15.70% +81.94% -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 1,770 930 1,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.07% 28.11% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 686 854
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -1.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £610 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 10 53
10th Percentile £36.28 £31.73 £37.56
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.88 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.82 £74.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.68% +56.84% -3.13%
75th Percentile £74.26 £88.06 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.65 £95.36 £74.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

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 29 May 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

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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 29 May 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 +18 143 £458 -1.51% 35
Yorkshire -7 104 £485 -3.05% 13
North East -23 5 £400 +14.29% 10
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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 (20.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (16.80%) SharePoint
3 14 (5.60%) Confluence
4 12 (4.80%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Camunda
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 104 (41.60%) Azure
2 66 (26.40%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (24.80%) Entra ID
4 54 (21.60%) AWS
5 39 (15.60%) GCP
6 36 (14.40%) GitHub
7 35 (14.00%) OneDrive
8 26 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (8.80%) Power Platform
11 21 (8.40%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (6.80%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (5.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 13 (5.20%) OpenShift
15 10 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (4.00%) PowerApps
15 10 (4.00%) SaaS
16 8 (3.20%) Azure Storage
16 8 (3.20%) Nutanix
16 8 (3.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.80%) Firewall
2 29 (11.60%) DNS
3 15 (6.00%) DHCP
4 14 (5.60%) TCP/IP
5 12 (4.80%) Skype
5 12 (4.80%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (4.40%) Network Security
6 11 (4.40%) WAN
7 10 (4.00%) LAN
7 10 (4.00%) SAN
8 8 (3.20%) VPN
8 8 (3.20%) VSAN
9 7 (2.80%) Kerberos
9 7 (2.80%) NAS
9 7 (2.80%) VLAN
10 6 (2.40%) Unified Communications
11 5 (2.00%) NetScaler
12 3 (1.20%) DKIM
12 3 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (1.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.80%) Power BI
3 9 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (2.80%) DB2
4 7 (2.80%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.80%) Metadata
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 23 (9.20%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.40%) JIRA
3 10 (4.00%) GitLab
4 9 (3.60%) Git
5 5 (2.00%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.60%) Selenium
7 2 (0.80%) Flyway
7 2 (0.80%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.80%) MSI
7 2 (0.80%) Postman
7 2 (0.80%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.40%) Appium
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.40%) gulp
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.40%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.40%) Yeoman
General
1 54 (21.60%) Finance
2 43 (17.20%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.20%) Legal
5 20 (8.00%) Banking
6 14 (5.60%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.00%) Law
10 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.80%) Military
11 2 (0.80%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Local Government
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (13.60%) Architect
2 22 (8.80%) Security Engineer
3 21 (8.40%) Senior
4 19 (7.60%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 16 (6.40%) Wintel Engineer
6 12 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (4.40%) Desktop Engineer
7 11 (4.40%) Developer
8 10 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.60%) Administrator
9 9 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (3.60%) DBA
9 9 (3.60%) SQL DBA
9 9 (3.60%) VMware Engineer
10 7 (2.80%) Lead
10 7 (2.80%) Server Engineer
11 6 (2.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.40%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.60%) Microsoft Graph
2 20 (8.00%) REST
3 11 (4.40%) LDAP
4 7 (2.80%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.00%) .NET
5 5 (2.00%) Web Services
5 5 (2.00%) YAML
6 4 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.20%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.20%) JDBC
7 3 (1.20%) JSON
7 3 (1.20%) Kafka
7 3 (1.20%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.20%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.20%) SOAP
7 3 (1.20%) Software Packaging
7 3 (1.20%) SPFx
7 3 (1.20%) Swagger
7 3 (1.20%) XMPP
8 2 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.60%) Clustering
1 34 (13.60%) Replication
2 20 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (5.20%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.20%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.80%) Cloud Native
6 11 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.60%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.60%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.60%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.60%) PKI
9 4 (1.60%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.20%) Fat Client
10 3 (1.20%) IoT
10 3 (1.20%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 137 (54.80%) Windows
2 50 (20.00%) Linux
3 45 (18.00%) Windows Server
4 22 (8.80%) Windows 10
5 15 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (4.80%) Windows 7
7 11 (4.40%) Unix
8 9 (3.60%) AIX
8 9 (3.60%) Mac OS
9 7 (2.80%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (2.40%) Apple iOS
11 5 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (1.20%) VMS
14 2 (0.80%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (23.60%) DevOps
2 58 (23.20%) CI/CD
3 53 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (17.60%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (17.20%) Observability
6 37 (14.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (14.00%) Capacity Planning
7 35 (14.00%) High Availability
7 35 (14.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 33 (13.20%) Agile
9 31 (12.40%) Performance Tuning
10 29 (11.60%) Network Virtualisation
11 27 (10.80%) Project Delivery
12 26 (10.40%) Migration
13 25 (10.00%) Analytics
13 25 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
14 24 (9.60%) Cloud Security
14 24 (9.60%) Identity Access Management
14 24 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (9.60%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 92 (36.80%) Python
2 67 (26.80%) Bash
3 33 (13.20%) SQL
4 16 (6.40%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (5.60%) Java
6 13 (5.20%) VBScript
7 11 (4.40%) VB
8 9 (3.60%) Bicep
9 7 (2.80%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.40%) C#
10 6 (2.40%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.60%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.20%) Go
12 3 (1.20%) Groovy
13 2 (0.80%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.80%) Perl
13 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.40%) COBOL
14 1 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 59 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 50 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.80%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (8.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 21 (8.40%) Degree
5 20 (8.00%) Azure Certification
6 18 (7.20%) VCAP
7 16 (6.40%) MCSA
7 16 (6.40%) MCSE
8 15 (6.00%) AWS Certification
9 14 (5.60%) CISSP
10 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.60%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.80%) CCNP
12 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.80%) NCDA
12 2 (0.80%) NCIE
13 1 (0.40%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.20%) GDPR
2 10 (4.00%) FINRA
2 10 (4.00%) MiFID
3 9 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.80%) HIPAA
4 7 (2.80%) SLA
5 6 (2.40%) NIST
6 4 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.20%) QA
8 2 (0.80%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 64 (25.60%) Active Directory
2 49 (19.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (17.60%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (14.00%) vSphere
5 32 (12.80%) Docker
6 30 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (9.60%) Hyper-V
8 15 (6.00%) KVM
9 12 (4.80%) BitLocker
9 12 (4.80%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.80%) Firmware
11 6 (2.40%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.80%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.80%) NFS
12 2 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.80%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 57 (22.80%) Ansible
2 56 (22.40%) Terraform
3 40 (16.00%) Kubernetes
4 31 (12.40%) vCenter Server
5 25 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (9.60%) SCCM
7 11 (4.40%) Grafana
8 10 (4.00%) PowerCLI
9 9 (3.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (3.60%) Progress Chef
10 8 (3.20%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (2.80%) Nagios
11 7 (2.80%) Prometheus
12 6 (2.40%) Argo
12 6 (2.40%) IBM BigFix
12 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (2.00%) Istio
13 5 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 3 (1.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 127 (50.80%) Microsoft
2 54 (21.60%) VMware
3 30 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 28 (11.20%) Cisco
5 26 (10.40%) Google
6 21 (8.40%) Splunk
7 16 (6.40%) Red Hat
8 15 (6.00%) SolarWinds
9 12 (4.80%) IBM
9 12 (4.80%) Remedy
10 9 (3.60%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (3.60%) Citrix
10 9 (3.60%) CyberArk
11 8 (3.20%) Veeam
12 7 (2.80%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (2.80%) Oracle
13 6 (2.40%) RedGate
14 5 (2.00%) BMC
14 5 (2.00%) Brocade
15 4 (1.60%) F5