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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 60 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 -16
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 224 116 107
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.60% 3.50% 2.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.26% 12.33% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 74 77
10th Percentile £313 £334 £325
25th Percentile £358 £391 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -6.50% -
75th Percentile £565 £538 £622
90th Percentile £621 £600 £650
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -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 £64.07 £41.75 £40.13
% change year-on-year +53.46% +4.05% -33.01%

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 1,689 941 1,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.16% 28.41% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 690 841
10th Percentile £344 £352 £325
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £569
90th Percentile £625 £626 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 15 50
10th Percentile £40.74 £35.66 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.72% +65.45% -2.55%
75th Percentile £74.26 £92.70 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.62 £74.97
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 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 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

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 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 +14 132 £465 -0.09% 39
Yorkshire -23 89 £458 -8.50% 16
North East -13 5 £438 +25.00% 11
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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 46 (20.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (18.30%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.80%) Confluence
4 9 (4.02%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.34%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 92 (41.07%) Azure
2 61 (27.23%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (25.89%) Entra ID
4 48 (21.43%) AWS
5 34 (15.18%) OneDrive
6 31 (13.84%) GCP
7 27 (12.05%) GitHub
8 22 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (9.82%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (9.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (8.48%) Power Platform
10 14 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (5.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 12 (5.36%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (4.02%) Azure AKS
13 9 (4.02%) Azure Storage
13 9 (4.02%) SaaS
14 8 (3.57%) PaaS
14 8 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.61%) DNS
2 25 (11.16%) Firewall
3 13 (5.80%) DHCP
4 12 (5.36%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.91%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (4.46%) LAN
6 10 (4.46%) Network Security
6 10 (4.46%) WAN
7 9 (4.02%) Skype
8 8 (3.57%) VSAN
9 7 (3.13%) Kerberos
9 7 (3.13%) SAN
9 7 (3.13%) VLAN
10 6 (2.68%) Unified Communications
10 6 (2.68%) VPN
11 5 (2.23%) NAS
11 5 (2.23%) NetScaler
12 3 (1.34%) DKIM
12 3 (1.34%) DMARC
12 3 (1.34%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.48%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.46%) Power BI
3 9 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.68%) DB2
6 3 (1.34%) Metadata
6 3 (1.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.89%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (8.48%) Jenkins
1 19 (8.48%) JIRA
2 10 (4.46%) GitLab
3 9 (4.02%) Git
4 5 (2.23%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.34%) MSI
5 3 (1.34%) 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 (0.45%) Appium
7 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.45%) gulp
7 1 (0.45%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.45%) Postman
7 1 (0.45%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.45%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 43 (19.20%) Finance
1 43 (19.20%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.16%) Legal
3 23 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.70%) Banking
6 12 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.79%) Law
9 3 (1.34%) Retail
10 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (14.29%) Architect
2 18 (8.04%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 18 (8.04%) Security Engineer
2 18 (8.04%) Senior
3 14 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
4 13 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (4.02%) Administrator
7 9 (4.02%) DBA
7 9 (4.02%) SQL DBA
7 9 (4.02%) VMware Engineer
8 8 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.13%) Desktop Engineer
9 7 (3.13%) Server Engineer
9 7 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (2.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.68%) Developer
10 6 (2.68%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.52%) Microsoft Graph
2 17 (7.59%) REST
3 11 (4.91%) LDAP
4 8 (3.57%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.23%) .NET
5 5 (2.23%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.23%) Swagger
5 5 (2.23%) Web Services
6 4 (1.79%) YAML
7 3 (1.34%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.34%) JDBC
7 3 (1.34%) Kafka
7 3 (1.34%) Node.js
7 3 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.34%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.34%) SOAP
7 3 (1.34%) Software Packaging
7 3 (1.34%) XMPP
8 2 (0.89%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.29%) Clustering
2 30 (13.39%) Replication
3 15 (6.70%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.36%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.91%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.91%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.46%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.57%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.13%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.79%) PKI
9 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.34%) Fat Client
10 3 (1.34%) IoT
10 3 (1.34%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 119 (53.13%) Windows
2 44 (19.64%) Linux
3 42 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 20 (8.93%) Windows 10
5 10 (4.46%) Unix
6 9 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.02%) Windows 7
7 8 (3.57%) AIX
7 8 (3.57%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (2.23%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.34%) VMS
12 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.45%) Solaris
13 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (21.88%) CI/CD
2 48 (21.43%) DevOps
3 46 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 35 (15.63%) Observability
6 33 (14.73%) High Availability
7 32 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
7 32 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 28 (12.50%) Agile
8 28 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
9 26 (11.61%) Network Virtualisation
10 24 (10.71%) Migration
10 24 (10.71%) Project Delivery
11 23 (10.27%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (9.82%) Incident Response
13 21 (9.38%) Analytics
13 21 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
13 21 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (8.48%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 77 (34.38%) Python
2 57 (25.45%) Bash
3 28 (12.50%) SQL
4 16 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
5 13 (5.80%) Bicep
6 9 (4.02%) Java
6 9 (4.02%) VBScript
7 8 (3.57%) C#
7 8 (3.57%) VB
8 6 (2.68%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.23%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.34%) Go
10 3 (1.34%) Groovy
10 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.89%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.89%) Perl
11 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 47 (20.98%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 16 (7.14%) VCAP
6 14 (6.25%) MCSA
6 14 (6.25%) MCSE
7 13 (5.80%) Degree
8 11 (4.91%) AWS Certification
9 9 (4.02%) CISSP
10 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.45%) CCNA
11 1 (0.45%) CCNP
11 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.45%) NCDA
11 1 (0.45%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.16%) GDPR
2 10 (4.46%) FINRA
2 10 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.46%) MiFID
3 7 (3.13%) HIPAA
4 6 (2.68%) NIST
5 5 (2.23%) SLA
6 4 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.34%) QA
8 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
System Software
1 58 (25.89%) Active Directory
2 45 (20.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (16.96%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (14.29%) vSphere
5 28 (12.50%) Docker
5 28 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
6 22 (9.82%) Hyper-V
7 15 (6.70%) KVM
8 10 (4.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (4.02%) BitLocker
10 6 (2.68%) Firmware
10 6 (2.68%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.45%) NFS
12 1 (0.45%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 48 (21.43%) Ansible
2 46 (20.54%) Terraform
3 36 (16.07%) Kubernetes
4 29 (12.95%) vCenter Server
5 24 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (9.38%) SCCM
7 10 (4.46%) Grafana
7 10 (4.46%) PowerCLI
8 9 (4.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (3.13%) Istio
9 7 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (3.13%) Nagios
9 7 (3.13%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.68%) IBM BigFix
10 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (2.23%) Argo
11 5 (2.23%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.34%) vRealize
14 2 (0.89%) vMotion
Vendors
1 119 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 49 (21.88%) VMware
3 23 (10.27%) ServiceNow
4 21 (9.38%) Cisco
5 17 (7.59%) Splunk
6 16 (7.14%) Google
7 14 (6.25%) SolarWinds
8 11 (4.91%) Red Hat
9 9 (4.02%) Citrix
9 9 (4.02%) IBM
9 9 (4.02%) Remedy
10 8 (3.57%) CyberArk
10 8 (3.57%) Veeam
11 7 (3.13%) BeyondTrust
11 7 (3.13%) Oracle
12 6 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (2.68%) RedGate
13 5 (2.23%) Dynatrace
14 4 (1.79%) BMC
14 4 (1.79%) F5