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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 56 87
Rank change year-on-year -6 +31 -26
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 228 125 105
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.77% 3.86% 2.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.76% 13.78% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 84 74
10th Percentile £313 £356 £316
25th Percentile £400 £406 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £567 £528 £536
90th Percentile £621 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £526 £540
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.69% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £72.82 - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +62.41% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.70 £41.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.16% +4.38% -30.23%

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 1,657 907 1,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.43% 28.01% 25.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,127 659 854
10th Percentile £346 £350 £319
25th Percentile £403 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £621 £638 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 15 47
10th Percentile £42.25 £35.66 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.81 £58.63 £43.57
Median hourly rate £66.25 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +57.89% +1.49%
75th Percentile £74.26 £92.70 £66.25
90th Percentile £84.65 £100.62 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year +3.59% +1.87% -1.44%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +7 132 £531 +14.25% 34
Yorkshire -26 91 £460 -3.16% 16
North East -8 10 £550 +18.28% 13
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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 57 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (20.61%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.70%) Confluence
4 9 (3.95%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (39.91%) Azure
2 67 (29.39%) Entra ID
3 65 (28.51%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (17.54%) AWS
5 36 (15.79%) OneDrive
6 28 (12.28%) GCP
7 24 (10.53%) GitHub
8 23 (10.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (5.26%) OpenShift
10 12 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 12 (5.26%) SaaS
11 11 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (4.82%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (4.82%) PaaS
12 9 (3.95%) Azure AKS
12 9 (3.95%) Azure Storage
13 8 (3.51%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 41 (17.98%) DNS
2 37 (16.23%) Firewall
3 25 (10.96%) DHCP
4 20 (8.77%) VLAN
5 18 (7.89%) LAN
5 18 (7.89%) WAN
6 16 (7.02%) TCP/IP
6 16 (7.02%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (6.58%) VPN
8 13 (5.70%) Network Security
9 11 (4.82%) WebEx
10 9 (3.95%) BGP
10 9 (3.95%) Skype
11 8 (3.51%) Software-Defined Networking
11 8 (3.51%) VSAN
12 7 (3.07%) Kerberos
13 6 (2.63%) SAN
13 6 (2.63%) Unified Communications
14 5 (2.19%) NetScaler
15 4 (1.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (3.07%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.63%) DB2
5 6 (2.63%) Power BI
6 4 (1.75%) Metadata
7 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.88%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 19 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 19 (8.33%) JIRA
2 10 (4.39%) Git
2 10 (4.39%) GitLab
3 5 (2.19%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.32%) Selenium
5 2 (0.88%) Flyway
5 2 (0.88%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.88%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.88%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.44%) Appium
6 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.44%) gulp
6 1 (0.44%) Postman
6 1 (0.44%) Subversion
6 1 (0.44%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.44%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 38 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.79%) Finance
3 35 (15.35%) Legal
4 31 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.70%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (5.26%) Banking
8 6 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.75%) Retail
10 3 (1.32%) Law
11 2 (0.88%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Military
12 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (14.04%) Architect
2 24 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (7.89%) Senior
4 15 (6.58%) Administrator
4 15 (6.58%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 15 (6.58%) Security Engineer
5 13 (5.70%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (3.95%) VMware Engineer
9 8 (3.51%) DBA
9 8 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.51%) SQL DBA
9 8 (3.51%) Wintel Engineer
10 7 (3.07%) Server Engineer
10 7 (3.07%) Technical Architect
10 7 (3.07%) Windows Engineer
11 6 (2.63%) Developer
11 6 (2.63%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (2.63%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.23%) Microsoft Graph
2 16 (7.02%) REST
3 11 (4.82%) LDAP
3 11 (4.82%) XMPP
4 9 (3.95%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.19%) .NET
5 5 (2.19%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.19%) Swagger
6 4 (1.75%) Web Services
7 3 (1.32%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.32%) JSON
7 3 (1.32%) Kafka
7 3 (1.32%) Node.js
7 3 (1.32%) SOAP
7 3 (1.32%) SPFx
8 2 (0.88%) JDBC
8 2 (0.88%) OAuth
8 2 (0.88%) pytest
8 2 (0.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.53%) Clustering
1 24 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.65%) Replication
3 19 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.82%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.39%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.07%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.19%) Fat Client
8 5 (2.19%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.19%) Thin Client
9 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.32%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 120 (52.63%) Windows
2 54 (23.68%) Linux
3 50 (21.93%) Windows Server
4 24 (10.53%) Windows 10
5 21 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.95%) Unix
6 9 (3.95%) Windows 7
7 7 (3.07%) AIX
8 6 (2.63%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.32%) Android
10 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.32%) VMS
11 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.44%) Solaris
12 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (21.93%) CI/CD
3 45 (19.74%) DevOps
4 39 (17.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 35 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (15.35%) Root Cause Analysis
6 33 (14.47%) Platform Engineering
7 32 (14.04%) Service Management
8 31 (13.60%) High Availability
8 31 (13.60%) Observability
9 29 (12.72%) ITSM
10 27 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (11.84%) Identity Access Management
10 27 (11.84%) Performance Tuning
11 26 (11.40%) Capacity Planning
11 26 (11.40%) Containerisation
11 26 (11.40%) Migration
12 25 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.53%) Agile
14 23 (10.09%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 79 (34.65%) Python
2 70 (30.70%) Bash
3 27 (11.84%) SQL
4 17 (7.46%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (6.14%) Bicep
6 13 (5.70%) Perl
7 9 (3.95%) C#
7 9 (3.95%) VB
7 9 (3.95%) VBScript
8 8 (3.51%) Java
9 6 (2.63%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.19%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.32%) Go
11 3 (1.32%) Groovy
12 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.44%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.44%) C
13 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 56 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.46%) Azure Certification
4 16 (7.02%) Degree
4 16 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (5.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (4.39%) VCAP
7 9 (3.95%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.95%) CCDP
7 9 (3.95%) CCNA
7 9 (3.95%) CCNP
7 9 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.95%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.51%) MCSA
8 8 (3.51%) MCSE
9 7 (3.07%) CISSP
10 6 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.40%) GDPR
2 13 (5.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.39%) FINRA
3 10 (4.39%) MiFID
4 8 (3.51%) NIST
5 7 (3.07%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.19%) SLA
7 4 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.32%) QA
9 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.44%) GRC
System Software
1 74 (32.46%) Active Directory
2 43 (18.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (14.04%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (12.28%) Docker
5 26 (11.40%) vSphere
6 22 (9.65%) Hyper-V
6 22 (9.65%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (6.58%) KVM
8 9 (3.95%) BitLocker
9 7 (3.07%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (2.63%) VMware NSX
11 5 (2.19%) Firmware
12 2 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.44%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.44%) NFS
13 1 (0.44%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 47 (20.61%) Terraform
2 40 (17.54%) Ansible
3 36 (15.79%) Kubernetes
4 23 (10.09%) vCenter Server
5 22 (9.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (8.77%) SCCM
7 15 (6.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (4.39%) Grafana
8 10 (4.39%) PowerCLI
9 7 (3.07%) Istio
9 7 (3.07%) Prometheus
9 7 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.63%) IBM BigFix
10 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (2.63%) Nagios
11 5 (2.19%) Argo
11 5 (2.19%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.32%) vRealize
14 2 (0.88%) vMotion
Vendors
1 120 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 51 (22.37%) VMware
3 23 (10.09%) Cisco
3 23 (10.09%) Red Hat
4 20 (8.77%) Citrix
5 19 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 13 (5.70%) Google
6 13 (5.70%) SolarWinds
6 13 (5.70%) Splunk
7 8 (3.51%) Veeam
8 7 (3.07%) CyberArk
8 7 (3.07%) IBM
8 7 (3.07%) Oracle
9 6 (2.63%) RedGate
10 5 (2.19%) Dynatrace
10 5 (2.19%) Remedy
11 4 (1.75%) F5
12 3 (1.32%) Alibaba
12 3 (1.32%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.88%) CrowdStrike