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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 97 71
Rank change year-on-year +36 -26 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 269 87 102
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.52% 2.18% 2.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.35% 7.52% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 40 79
10th Percentile £319 £268 £375
25th Percentile £404 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £431 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -13.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £539 £488 £631
90th Percentile £613 £573 £675
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 £63.48 £64.25 £58.49
% change year-on-year -1.20% +9.85% -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 1,874 1,157 1,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.51% 29.01% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 819 698
10th Percentile £350 £315 £350
25th Percentile £413 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £575
90th Percentile £650 £606 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 13 26
10th Percentile £28.50 £30.35 £35.82
25th Percentile £46.53 £36.00 £37.55
Median hourly rate £67.50 £66.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £84.50 £62.19
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.75 £76.84
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +45 168 £475 +6.15% 58
Yorkshire +7 88 £518 +25.45% 22
North East -37 14 £500 - 13
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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 32 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.95%) Skype for Business
3 14 (5.20%) Confluence
3 14 (5.20%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.49%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.74%) Apache
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (7.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 138 (51.30%) Azure
2 74 (27.51%) AWS
3 50 (18.59%) Entra ID
4 48 (17.84%) GCP
5 43 (15.99%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (15.61%) GitHub
7 40 (14.87%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (13.75%) Power Platform
9 24 (8.92%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (5.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 13 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (4.83%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (4.09%) PowerApps
13 11 (4.09%) SaaS
14 10 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.72%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (3.35%) OneDrive
15 9 (3.35%) Power Automate
15 9 (3.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (13.38%) Firewall
2 28 (10.41%) DNS
3 21 (7.81%) Network Security
4 16 (5.95%) Skype
5 13 (4.83%) DHCP
5 13 (4.83%) VPN
6 12 (4.46%) SAN
6 12 (4.46%) WAN
7 11 (4.09%) NAS
7 11 (4.09%) SSL
7 11 (4.09%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (3.72%) VLAN
9 9 (3.35%) LAN
10 7 (2.60%) VSAN
11 5 (1.86%) Fibre Channel
11 5 (1.86%) TCP/IP
12 4 (1.49%) Internet
13 3 (1.12%) BGP
13 3 (1.12%) DMZ
13 3 (1.12%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.01%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.29%) Power BI
3 14 (5.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.72%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.35%) MySQL
6 6 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.23%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.86%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.49%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.49%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.74%) Big Data
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (11.52%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.32%) Git
2 17 (6.32%) GitLab
3 14 (5.20%) JIRA
4 6 (2.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.86%) Claude Code
5 5 (1.86%) MSI
5 5 (1.86%) Selenium
6 4 (1.49%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.49%) MSBuild
6 4 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.12%) Bugzilla
7 3 (1.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.74%) Postman
9 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.37%) Flyway
9 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
General
1 63 (23.42%) Finance
2 60 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.29%) Banking
5 12 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.97%) Legal
6 8 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Games
9 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Law
9 2 (0.74%) Military
10 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.37%) Local Government
10 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (13.01%) Security Engineer
2 23 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (7.43%) Senior
4 19 (7.06%) Desktop Engineer
5 16 (5.95%) Lead
6 15 (5.58%) Developer
6 15 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (5.20%) DBA
7 14 (5.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (5.20%) SQL DBA
7 14 (5.20%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.46%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 9 (3.35%) VMware Engineer
10 8 (2.97%) Architect
10 8 (2.97%) Network Engineer
10 8 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (2.97%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (2.60%) Splunk Engineer
11 7 (2.60%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (30.86%) Terraform
2 19 (7.06%) REST
3 14 (5.20%) JSON
4 12 (4.46%) ARM Templates
4 12 (4.46%) Microsoft Graph
5 11 (4.09%) Kafka
6 10 (3.72%) .NET
7 9 (3.35%) YAML
8 7 (2.60%) OAuth
9 6 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.23%) SailPoint
10 5 (1.86%) LDAP
10 5 (1.86%) Software Packaging
11 4 (1.49%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (1.49%) OpenID
11 4 (1.49%) SAML
11 4 (1.49%) XML
12 3 (1.12%) FIDO
12 3 (1.12%) WebAuthn
12 3 (1.12%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.04%) Replication
2 26 (9.67%) Cloud Native
3 25 (9.29%) Clustering
4 21 (7.81%) Security Posture
5 18 (6.69%) Management Information System
6 14 (5.20%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (4.46%) Data Centre
8 11 (4.09%) PKI
9 10 (3.72%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.97%) Data Structures
11 7 (2.60%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.60%) Cloud Security Posture
11 7 (2.60%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
14 3 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 147 (54.65%) Windows
2 77 (28.62%) Linux
3 50 (18.59%) Windows Server
4 27 (10.04%) Windows 10
5 24 (8.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (8.18%) Windows 7
7 11 (4.09%) Unix
8 9 (3.35%) Apple iOS
9 6 (2.23%) Mac OS
9 6 (2.23%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.49%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.12%) Solaris
11 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.74%) AIX
12 2 (0.74%) Android
12 2 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.74%) VMS
12 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (35.69%) DevOps
2 82 (30.48%) CI/CD
3 72 (26.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (18.22%) Agile
6 46 (17.10%) Cloud Security
7 43 (15.99%) Change Management
7 43 (15.99%) ITIL
8 42 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (14.50%) Observability
10 37 (13.75%) AI
11 36 (13.38%) Analytics
12 34 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
13 33 (12.27%) Infrastructure Automation
14 32 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 30 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
15 30 (11.15%) ITSM
15 30 (11.15%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (10.78%) RBAC
17 28 (10.41%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 122 (45.35%) Python
2 76 (28.25%) Bash
3 55 (20.45%) SQL
4 27 (10.04%) Bicep
5 26 (9.67%) Java
6 20 (7.43%) VBScript
7 16 (5.95%) VB
8 15 (5.58%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.46%) C#
10 9 (3.35%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (2.60%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (2.23%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.49%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.12%) Perl
15 2 (0.74%) BeanShell
15 2 (0.74%) Groovy
15 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
16 1 (0.37%) COBOL
16 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (23.05%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 47 (17.47%) Degree
4 37 (13.75%) Azure Certification
5 29 (10.78%) CISSP
6 27 (10.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (9.29%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (4.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (3.72%) VCAP
11 9 (3.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (2.97%) MCSA
12 8 (2.97%) MCSE
13 7 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (2.23%) GCIH
15 5 (1.86%) CCNP
15 5 (1.86%) GCFA
16 4 (1.49%) CCIE
16 4 (1.49%) DBS Check
17 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.72%) GDPR
2 9 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (2.60%) NIST
5 6 (2.23%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.23%) SLA
6 4 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.49%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.74%) QA
8 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 58 (21.56%) Active Directory
2 33 (12.27%) Docker
2 33 (12.27%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (11.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (7.43%) vSphere
5 19 (7.06%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (6.32%) BitLocker
7 11 (4.09%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (2.97%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.23%) Firmware
9 6 (2.23%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.74%) NFS
10 2 (0.74%) SRDF
11 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 67 (24.91%) Ansible
2 53 (19.70%) Kubernetes
3 38 (14.13%) SCCM
4 28 (10.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (10.04%) Progress Chef
6 16 (5.95%) vCenter Server
7 15 (5.58%) Grafana
8 11 (4.09%) Prometheus
9 9 (3.35%) SCOM
10 7 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.23%) Packer
12 5 (1.86%) CASB
12 5 (1.86%) PowerCLI
12 5 (1.86%) vMotion
13 3 (1.12%) HP ALM
13 3 (1.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (1.12%) vRealize
13 3 (1.12%) WMI
14 2 (0.74%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 143 (53.16%) Microsoft
2 46 (17.10%) ServiceNow
3 38 (14.13%) VMware
4 35 (13.01%) Splunk
5 31 (11.52%) Cisco
6 28 (10.41%) Google
7 22 (8.18%) Red Hat
8 15 (5.58%) BeyondTrust
8 15 (5.58%) CyberArk
9 14 (5.20%) Remedy
10 9 (3.35%) Oracle
11 7 (2.60%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.60%) Dell
11 7 (2.60%) Ivanti
11 7 (2.60%) Ribbon
12 6 (2.23%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.86%) BMC
13 5 (1.86%) Cribl.io
13 5 (1.86%) HP
13 5 (1.86%) IBM