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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 54 81
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 -17
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 225 130 112
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.67% 3.94% 2.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.43% 13.86% 9.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 85 79
10th Percentile £313 £356 £323
25th Percentile £363 £406 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £568 £525 £608
90th Percentile £624 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +124.14% -27.50% -33.22%

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 1,675 938 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.34% 28.42% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 686 869
10th Percentile £344 £356 £319
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £542
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.05% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 14 46
10th Percentile £41.94 £34.68 £38.01
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.31 £45.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +60.53% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £94.67 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.40 £100.97 £75.84
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% +4.17%

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 2 May 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 2 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 +6 134 £483 +3.87% 35
Yorkshire -23 88 £460 -3.16% 16
North East -19 5 £438 -5.91% 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 51 (22.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (18.22%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.78%) Confluence
4 11 (4.89%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.33%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 13 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (40.44%) Azure
2 61 (27.11%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 43 (19.11%) AWS
5 35 (15.56%) OneDrive
6 29 (12.89%) GCP
7 25 (11.11%) GitHub
8 23 (10.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.67%) Power Platform
11 12 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 12 (5.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (5.33%) OpenShift
12 11 (4.89%) SaaS
13 10 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.44%) PaaS
14 9 (4.00%) Azure AKS
14 9 (4.00%) Azure Storage
15 8 (3.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 34 (15.11%) DNS
2 27 (12.00%) Firewall
3 19 (8.44%) DHCP
4 14 (6.22%) LAN
4 14 (6.22%) WAN
4 14 (6.22%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (5.78%) TCP/IP
6 11 (4.89%) Skype
6 11 (4.89%) VPN
7 10 (4.44%) Network Security
7 10 (4.44%) VLAN
8 8 (3.56%) VSAN
9 7 (3.11%) Kerberos
10 6 (2.67%) SAN
10 6 (2.67%) Unified Communications
11 5 (2.22%) NetScaler
11 5 (2.22%) WebEx
12 4 (1.78%) NAS
13 3 (1.33%) DKIM
13 3 (1.33%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.44%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (3.56%) Power BI
4 7 (3.11%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.67%) DB2
6 4 (1.78%) Metadata
7 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (0.89%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (8.44%) Jenkins
1 19 (8.44%) JIRA
2 10 (4.44%) GitLab
3 9 (4.00%) Git
4 5 (2.22%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.33%) MSI
5 3 (1.33%) Selenium
6 2 (0.89%) Flyway
6 2 (0.89%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.89%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.89%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.44%) Appium
7 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.44%) gulp
7 1 (0.44%) Postman
7 1 (0.44%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.44%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 40 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.89%) Finance
3 28 (12.44%) Legal
4 22 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.33%) Banking
6 12 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.78%) Retail
9 3 (1.33%) Law
10 2 (0.89%) Local Government
10 2 (0.89%) Military
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (14.67%) Architect
2 18 (8.00%) Senior
3 16 (7.11%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 16 (7.11%) Security Engineer
4 14 (6.22%) Wintel Engineer
5 13 (5.78%) Administrator
5 13 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (4.00%) DBA
8 9 (4.00%) SQL DBA
8 9 (4.00%) VMware Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.11%) Server Engineer
10 7 (3.11%) Technical Architect
10 7 (3.11%) Windows Engineer
11 6 (2.67%) Desktop Engineer
11 6 (2.67%) Developer
11 6 (2.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.44%) Microsoft Graph
2 18 (8.00%) REST
3 11 (4.89%) LDAP
4 9 (4.00%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.22%) .NET
5 5 (2.22%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.22%) Swagger
5 5 (2.22%) Web Services
5 5 (2.22%) XMPP
6 3 (1.33%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.33%) JDBC
6 3 (1.33%) Kafka
6 3 (1.33%) Node.js
6 3 (1.33%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.33%) SOAP
6 3 (1.33%) Software Packaging
6 3 (1.33%) SPFx
7 2 (0.89%) pytest
7 2 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.78%) Clustering
2 29 (12.89%) Replication
3 14 (6.22%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.89%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.89%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.11%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.22%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.22%) Fat Client
8 5 (2.22%) Thin Client
9 4 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.78%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.33%) IoT
10 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 119 (52.89%) Windows
2 43 (19.11%) Linux
3 41 (18.22%) Windows Server
4 23 (10.22%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.89%) Windows 7
6 10 (4.44%) Unix
7 9 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (3.11%) AIX
8 7 (3.11%) Mac OS
9 6 (2.67%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.78%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.33%) VMS
12 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.44%) Android
13 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.44%) Solaris
13 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (20.89%) CI/CD
1 47 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (20.00%) DevOps
2 45 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 34 (15.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (15.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 33 (14.67%) High Availability
4 33 (14.67%) Observability
5 32 (14.22%) Capacity Planning
6 27 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
7 26 (11.56%) Agile
7 26 (11.56%) Network Virtualisation
8 24 (10.67%) Project Delivery
9 23 (10.22%) Incident Response
9 23 (10.22%) Migration
10 22 (9.78%) Identity Access Management
10 22 (9.78%) Platform Engineering
10 22 (9.78%) Service Management
11 21 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
12 20 (8.89%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 70 (31.11%) Python
2 56 (24.89%) Bash
3 28 (12.44%) SQL
4 16 (7.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (6.22%) Bicep
6 11 (4.89%) VBScript
7 10 (4.44%) VB
8 9 (4.00%) C#
8 9 (4.00%) Java
9 6 (2.67%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.22%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.33%) Go
11 3 (1.33%) Groovy
11 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.89%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.89%) Perl
12 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (26.22%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (7.11%) Azure Certification
5 16 (7.11%) VCAP
6 14 (6.22%) MCSA
6 14 (6.22%) MCSE
7 13 (5.78%) Degree
8 10 (4.44%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.56%) CISSP
10 7 (3.11%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.44%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.44%) NCDA
13 1 (0.44%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.56%) GDPR
2 12 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.44%) FINRA
3 10 (4.44%) MiFID
4 7 (3.11%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.67%) NIST
6 5 (2.22%) SLA
7 4 (1.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.33%) QA
9 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.44%) GRC
System Software
1 62 (27.56%) Active Directory
2 45 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (16.89%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (14.22%) vSphere
5 28 (12.44%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (11.11%) Docker
7 22 (9.78%) Hyper-V
8 15 (6.67%) KVM
9 11 (4.89%) BitLocker
10 8 (3.56%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (2.67%) VMware NSX
12 5 (2.22%) Firmware
13 2 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.44%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.44%) NFS
14 1 (0.44%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 46 (20.44%) Ansible
1 46 (20.44%) Terraform
2 33 (14.67%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.89%) vCenter Server
4 23 (10.22%) SCCM
5 22 (9.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (4.44%) Grafana
6 10 (4.44%) PowerCLI
7 9 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (3.11%) Istio
8 7 (3.11%) Nagios
8 7 (3.11%) Prometheus
9 6 (2.67%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.22%) Argo
10 5 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (2.22%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.33%) vRealize
12 2 (0.89%) vMotion
Vendors
1 123 (54.67%) Microsoft
2 48 (21.33%) VMware
3 24 (10.67%) ServiceNow
4 22 (9.78%) Cisco
5 15 (6.67%) Splunk
6 14 (6.22%) Google
6 14 (6.22%) SolarWinds
7 11 (4.89%) Citrix
7 11 (4.89%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.56%) IBM
8 8 (3.56%) Remedy
8 8 (3.56%) Veeam
9 7 (3.11%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.11%) Oracle
10 6 (2.67%) RedGate
11 5 (2.22%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.78%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.78%) BMC
12 4 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.78%) F5