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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 100 67
Rank change year-on-year +41 -33 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 283 88 109
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.71% 2.17% 2.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.93% 7.39% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 46 74
10th Percentile £321 £310 £375
25th Percentile £402 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £592
90th Percentile £614 £580 £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 £63.48 £63.00 £58.49
% change year-on-year +0.76% +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 1,896 1,190 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.82% 29.28% 25.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 839 674
10th Percentile £350 £315 £330
25th Percentile £413 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £455 £486
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -6.53% -2.75%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £568
90th Percentile £650 £628 £638
England median daily rate £525 £514 £543
% change year-on-year +2.14% -5.25% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 13 29
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.20 £35.93
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.94 £37.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £66.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £84.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.20 £80.84
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% -

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 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the North of England

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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 6 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 +43 170 £456 +4.23% 102
Yorkshire +16 95 £519 +22.12% 65
North East -24 19 £500 - 31
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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 (10.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.65%) Skype for Business
3 13 (4.59%) SharePoint
4 11 (3.89%) Confluence
5 4 (1.41%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.71%) Apache
6 2 (0.71%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (7.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 148 (52.30%) Azure
2 73 (25.80%) AWS
3 65 (22.97%) Entra ID
4 51 (18.02%) GCP
5 47 (16.61%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (15.55%) GitHub
8 34 (12.01%) Power Platform
9 29 (10.25%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (4.95%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (4.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (4.95%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (3.53%) IaaS
14 9 (3.18%) Power Automate
14 9 (3.18%) PowerApps
14 9 (3.18%) SaaS
14 9 (3.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (15.19%) Firewall
2 29 (10.25%) DNS
3 26 (9.19%) Network Security
4 18 (6.36%) VPN
5 16 (5.65%) Skype
6 13 (4.59%) DHCP
7 11 (3.89%) SSL
8 10 (3.53%) SAN
8 10 (3.53%) VLAN
8 10 (3.53%) WAN
9 9 (3.18%) NAS
9 9 (3.18%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.47%) LAN
11 6 (2.12%) TCP/IP
12 5 (1.77%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.41%) Internet
14 3 (1.06%) DMZ
14 3 (1.06%) MPLS
14 3 (1.06%) OSPF
14 3 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.49%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.13%) Power BI
3 13 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.18%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.18%) MySQL
5 6 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.41%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.06%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.71%) Big Data
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.71%) Pentaho
9 2 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.35%) Db2
Development Applications
1 33 (11.66%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.71%) Git
3 17 (6.01%) GitLab
4 12 (4.24%) JIRA
5 8 (2.83%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.47%) MSI
7 6 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.41%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.41%) MSBuild
8 4 (1.41%) Selenium
8 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.06%) Bugzilla
9 3 (1.06%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.71%) Postman
11 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 70 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.55%) Finance
3 31 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.48%) Banking
5 13 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.18%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.47%) Legal
8 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.41%) Law
8 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Military
10 2 (0.71%) Games
10 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (13.78%) Security Engineer
2 29 (10.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (6.36%) Desktop Engineer
4 18 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (6.36%) Lead
5 17 (6.01%) Senior
6 16 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.30%) Developer
8 14 (4.95%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.59%) DBA
9 13 (4.59%) SQL DBA
10 12 (4.24%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 12 (4.24%) Network Engineer
11 10 (3.53%) Applications Packager
12 9 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) Architect
13 8 (2.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) Consultant
13 8 (2.83%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (32.51%) Terraform
2 20 (7.07%) REST
3 17 (6.01%) JSON
4 13 (4.59%) YAML
5 12 (4.24%) ARM Templates
6 11 (3.89%) Kafka
6 11 (3.89%) Microsoft Graph
7 10 (3.53%) .NET
8 8 (2.83%) OAuth
9 6 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.12%) XML
10 5 (1.77%) OpenID
10 5 (1.77%) SAML
10 5 (1.77%) Software Packaging
11 4 (1.41%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (1.41%) FIDO
11 4 (1.41%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.41%) SailPoint
11 4 (1.41%) WebAuthn
12 3 (1.06%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.19%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.83%) Security Posture
3 23 (8.13%) Clustering
3 23 (8.13%) Replication
4 19 (6.71%) Data Centre
5 18 (6.36%) Management Information System
6 13 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (4.59%) PKI
7 10 (3.53%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.83%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.47%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.47%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 146 (51.59%) Windows
2 69 (24.38%) Linux
3 52 (18.37%) Windows Server
4 31 (10.95%) Windows 10
5 22 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (7.77%) Windows 7
6 12 (4.24%) Apple iOS
7 11 (3.89%) Unix
8 6 (2.12%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.77%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.06%) Solaris
11 2 (0.71%) AIX
11 2 (0.71%) Android
11 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.35%) CentOS
12 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (35.69%) DevOps
2 91 (32.16%) CI/CD
3 84 (29.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (18.37%) Cloud Security
6 47 (16.61%) Agile
7 45 (15.90%) Change Management
7 45 (15.90%) ITIL
8 44 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (14.13%) AI
10 39 (13.78%) Analytics
10 39 (13.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 38 (13.43%) Observability
12 36 (12.72%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (12.01%) Migration
14 33 (11.66%) Identity Access Management
14 33 (11.66%) Infrastructure Automation
15 32 (11.31%) RBAC
16 31 (10.95%) Service Management
16 31 (10.95%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 132 (46.64%) Python
2 77 (27.21%) Bash
3 57 (20.14%) SQL
4 29 (10.25%) Bicep
5 26 (9.19%) Java
6 20 (7.07%) VBScript
7 16 (5.65%) VB
8 14 (4.95%) C#
8 14 (4.95%) T-SQL
9 9 (3.18%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (3.18%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.47%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (2.12%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.06%) Perl
13 2 (0.71%) Groovy
13 2 (0.71%) PHP
14 1 (0.35%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.35%) C
14 1 (0.35%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 66 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 45 (15.90%) Degree
4 40 (14.13%) Azure Certification
5 28 (9.89%) CISSP
5 28 (9.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (8.48%) AWS Certification
7 17 (6.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (3.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 8 (2.83%) MCSA
10 8 (2.83%) MCSE
10 8 (2.83%) VCAP
11 7 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.12%) DBS Check
12 6 (2.12%) GCIH
13 5 (1.77%) CCNP
13 5 (1.77%) GCFA
14 4 (1.41%) CCIE
15 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.53%) GDPR
2 10 (3.53%) NIST
3 9 (3.18%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.77%) SLA
6 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.71%) QA
8 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 68 (24.03%) Active Directory
2 33 (11.66%) Docker
3 30 (10.60%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (8.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (6.01%) BitLocker
6 14 (4.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (4.95%) vSphere
7 13 (4.59%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (2.47%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.12%) Firmware
10 4 (1.41%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.71%) NFS
11 2 (0.71%) SRDF
12 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (23.32%) Ansible
2 55 (19.43%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.84%) SCCM
4 33 (11.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (10.60%) Progress Chef
6 15 (5.30%) Grafana
7 14 (4.95%) vCenter Server
8 11 (3.89%) Prometheus
9 9 (3.18%) SCOM
9 9 (3.18%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.77%) CASB
10 5 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.77%) Packer
11 3 (1.06%) HP ALM
11 3 (1.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (1.06%) vMotion
11 3 (1.06%) WMI
12 2 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.71%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.71%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 160 (56.54%) Microsoft
2 46 (16.25%) ServiceNow
3 34 (12.01%) Splunk
4 32 (11.31%) VMware
5 31 (10.95%) Cisco
5 31 (10.95%) Google
6 21 (7.42%) Red Hat
7 14 (4.95%) BeyondTrust
7 14 (4.95%) CyberArk
8 12 (4.24%) Remedy
9 8 (2.83%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.83%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.83%) Ivanti
9 8 (2.83%) Oracle
10 7 (2.47%) Dell
10 7 (2.47%) Ribbon
10 7 (2.47%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.47%) Veeam
11 6 (2.12%) Apple
11 6 (2.12%) Citrix