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

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	61	105	73
Rank change year-on-year	+44	-32	+5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell	286	91	106
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England	3.69%	2.17%	2.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category	14.63%	7.33%	10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted	181	49	71
10^th Percentile	£318	£310	£363
25^th Percentile	£402	£368	£406
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£477	£425	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+12.24%	-15.00%	+11.11%
75^th Percentile	£538	£488	£594
90^th Percentile	£613	£600	£645
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	1	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	£65.75	£48.75
Median hourly rate	£28.00	£66.50	£52.50
Median % change year-on-year	-57.89%	+26.67%	-
75^th Percentile	-	£67.25	£56.25
90^th 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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	1,955	1,241	1,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England	25.20%	29.58%	24.92%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,246	864	669
10^th Percentile	£350	£315	£328
25^th Percentile	£413	£375	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£485	£453	£485
Median % change year-on-year	+7.06%	-6.60%	-3.00%
75^th Percentile	£575	£538	£567
90^th Percentile	£650	£626	£638
England median daily rate	£525	£513	£543
% change year-on-year	+2.44%	-5.53%	-1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted	104	13	30
10^th Percentile	£28.50	£31.20	£35.20
25^th Percentile	£53.75	£41.94	£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	£84.50	£64.69
90^th Percentile	£77.00	£93.20	£80.00
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£59.00	£65.00
% change year-on-year	+10.17%	-9.23%	+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 16 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 16 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	+46	171	£455	+8.98%	78
Yorkshire	+16	97	£519	+22.12%	53
North East	-26	19	£500	-16.67%	26
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PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 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 with a requirement for PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	57.0%	163
2	Azure	51.0%	146
2	Windows	51.0%	146
4	Python	46.2%	132
5	DevOps	35.3%	101
6	Terraform	33.2%	95
7	CI/CD	31.8%	91
8	Infrastructure as Code	29.0%	83
9	Bash	26.9%	77
10	AWS	24.8%	71
11	Active Directory	24.5%	70
11	Entra ID	24.5%	70
13	Linux	23.8%	68
14	Ansible	22.7%	65
15	Security Cleared	22.4%	64
16	SQL	19.9%	57
17	Kubernetes	19.6%	56
17	SC Cleared	19.6%	56
19	Windows Server	18.9%	54
20	Problem-Solving	18.5%	53
21	GCP	17.8%	51
22	Cloud Security	17.5%	50
23	Microsoft 365	17.1%	49
24	Agile	16.8%	48
25	Change Management	16.4%	47
25	ITIL	16.4%	47
27	Azure DevOps	16.1%	46
27	ServiceNow	16.1%	46
29	Degree	15.7%	45
29	GitHub	15.7%	45

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	46.2%	132
2	Bash	26.9%	77
3	SQL	19.9%	57
4	Bicep	10.1%	29
5	Java	9.1%	26
6	VBScript	7.0%	20
7	VB	5.6%	16
8	C#	4.9%	14
8	T-SQL	4.9%	14
10	Kusto Query Language	3.1%	9
10	TypeScript	3.1%	9
12	Search Processing Language	2.4%	7
13	Shell Script	2.1%	6
14	JavaScript	1.7%	5
15	Groovy	1.4%	4
16	Perl	1.0%	3
17	PHP	0.7%	2
18	BeanShell	0.3%	1
18	C	0.3%	1
18	COBOL	0.3%	1