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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 85 66
Rank change year-on-year +19 -19 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 258 106 103
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.41% 2.65% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.86% 9.41% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 57 79
10th Percentile £313 £295 £375
25th Percentile £401 £378 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £447 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% -14.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £631
90th Percentile £610 £574 £675
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -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 £63.14 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -2.87% +4.84% +9.76%

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 1,862 1,127 1,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.64% 28.21% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,184 798 721
10th Percentile £350 £315 £338
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £452 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -7.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 13 28
10th Percentile £28.50 £30.35 £37.05
25th Percentile £46.80 £36.00 £37.55
Median hourly rate £67.50 £66.50 £50.13
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +32.67% +8.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £84.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.75 £75.90
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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +37 161 £453 -1.52% 77
Yorkshire -14 85 £500 +21.21% 30
North East -28 13 £500 - 16
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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 35 (13.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (6.98%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.20%) Skype for Business
4 15 (5.81%) Confluence
5 4 (1.55%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.78%) Apache
6 2 (0.78%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.39%) Camunda
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (3.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 132 (51.16%) Azure
2 69 (26.74%) AWS
3 51 (19.77%) Entra ID
4 46 (17.83%) GitHub
5 45 (17.44%) GCP
6 43 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
7 41 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (12.79%) Power Platform
9 25 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (5.04%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 12 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.26%) PowerApps
13 11 (4.26%) SaaS
14 9 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (3.49%) Azure AKS
14 9 (3.49%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (3.49%) OneDrive
14 9 (3.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.79%) Firewall
2 26 (10.08%) DNS
3 20 (7.75%) Network Security
4 16 (6.20%) Skype
5 13 (5.04%) DHCP
6 12 (4.65%) SAN
6 12 (4.65%) VPN
6 12 (4.65%) WAN
7 11 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (3.88%) NAS
8 10 (3.88%) VLAN
9 9 (3.49%) LAN
10 8 (3.10%) VSAN
11 7 (2.71%) SSL
12 6 (2.33%) TCP/IP
13 4 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.55%) Internet
14 3 (1.16%) BGP
14 3 (1.16%) DMZ
14 3 (1.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.14%) Power BI
3 10 (3.88%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.94%) MySQL
5 5 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.55%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.55%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.78%) Big Data
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.39%) DataStage
9 1 (0.39%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 33 (12.79%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.36%) Git
3 17 (6.59%) GitLab
4 15 (5.81%) JIRA
5 6 (2.33%) Selenium
5 6 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.94%) Claude Code
6 5 (1.94%) MSI
7 4 (1.55%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.55%) MSBuild
7 4 (1.55%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.16%) Bugzilla
8 3 (1.16%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.78%) Postman
9 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.39%) Flyway
10 1 (0.39%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 57 (22.09%) Finance
2 55 (21.32%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.69%) Banking
5 14 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.71%) Legal
8 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Games
10 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Law
10 2 (0.78%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (12.79%) Security Engineer
2 20 (7.75%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (7.75%) Senior
3 19 (7.36%) Developer
4 16 (6.20%) Desktop Engineer
5 14 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (5.04%) Support Engineer
7 12 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (4.65%) Lead
8 11 (4.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 10 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (3.88%) DBA
9 10 (3.88%) SQL DBA
9 10 (3.88%) VMware Engineer
10 8 (3.10%) Architect
10 8 (3.10%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.10%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (2.71%) Splunk Engineer
11 7 (2.71%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (30.62%) Terraform
2 22 (8.53%) REST
3 16 (6.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 14 (5.43%) JSON
5 13 (5.04%) .NET
6 11 (4.26%) Kafka
7 10 (3.88%) ARM Templates
8 9 (3.49%) YAML
9 6 (2.33%) OAuth
9 6 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.33%) SailPoint
10 5 (1.94%) LDAP
10 5 (1.94%) Web Services
11 4 (1.55%) .NET Framework
11 4 (1.55%) Software Packaging
11 4 (1.55%) XML
12 3 (1.16%) Jakarta EE
12 3 (1.16%) JDBC
12 3 (1.16%) Node.js
12 3 (1.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.91%) Replication
3 20 (7.75%) Clustering
3 20 (7.75%) Security Posture
4 17 (6.59%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.04%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.10%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.71%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.71%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.71%) PKI
8 7 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.55%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.16%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 137 (53.10%) Windows
2 72 (27.91%) Linux
3 44 (17.05%) Windows Server
4 28 (10.85%) Windows 10
5 22 (8.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (8.14%) Windows 7
7 10 (3.88%) Unix
8 8 (3.10%) Apple iOS
9 6 (2.33%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.94%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.55%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.16%) Solaris
12 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.78%) AIX
13 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.78%) VMS
13 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.39%) Android
14 1 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.50%) DevOps
2 81 (31.40%) CI/CD
3 67 (25.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (18.22%) Agile
6 44 (17.05%) Cloud Security
7 41 (15.89%) Observability
8 39 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (14.73%) AI
9 38 (14.73%) Change Management
10 36 (13.95%) Analytics
10 36 (13.95%) ITIL
11 32 (12.40%) Disaster Recovery
12 31 (12.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (12.02%) Platform Engineering
13 30 (11.63%) Containerisation
13 30 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (11.63%) ITSM
14 27 (10.47%) RBAC
15 26 (10.08%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (45.35%) Python
2 73 (28.29%) Bash
3 50 (19.38%) SQL
4 26 (10.08%) Bicep
5 24 (9.30%) Java
6 20 (7.75%) VBScript
7 16 (6.20%) VB
8 15 (5.81%) C#
9 12 (4.65%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (4.26%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.33%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.55%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.16%) JavaScript
13 3 (1.16%) Perl
14 2 (0.78%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.78%) Groovy
15 1 (0.39%) COBOL
15 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 52 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 42 (16.28%) Degree
4 32 (12.40%) Azure Certification
5 27 (10.47%) CISSP
6 23 (8.91%) AWS Certification
7 22 (8.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (3.88%) VCAP
10 8 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (3.10%) MCSA
10 8 (3.10%) MCSE
11 7 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.33%) GCIH
13 5 (1.94%) CCNP
13 5 (1.94%) GCFA
13 5 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (1.55%) CCIE
14 4 (1.55%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.88%) GDPR
2 9 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (2.71%) NIST
5 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.33%) SLA
6 4 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.55%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.16%) QA
8 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 53 (20.54%) Active Directory
2 34 (13.18%) Docker
3 31 (12.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (10.85%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (8.14%) vSphere
6 19 (7.36%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (6.59%) BitLocker
8 11 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (3.10%) Hyper-V
10 7 (2.71%) VMware NSX
11 5 (1.94%) Firmware
12 2 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.78%) NFS
12 2 (0.78%) SRDF
13 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (26.74%) Ansible
2 54 (20.93%) Kubernetes
3 33 (12.79%) SCCM
4 27 (10.47%) Progress Chef
5 26 (10.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (5.81%) Grafana
6 15 (5.81%) vCenter Server
7 11 (4.26%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (2.33%) Packer
9 6 (2.33%) PowerCLI
10 5 (1.94%) CASB
10 5 (1.94%) SCOM
10 5 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.55%) vMotion
12 3 (1.16%) Argo
12 3 (1.16%) HP ALM
12 3 (1.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (1.16%) vRealize
12 3 (1.16%) WMI
Vendors
1 133 (51.55%) Microsoft
2 42 (16.28%) ServiceNow
3 40 (15.50%) VMware
4 35 (13.57%) Splunk
5 30 (11.63%) Cisco
6 27 (10.47%) Google
7 21 (8.14%) Red Hat
8 14 (5.43%) CyberArk
8 14 (5.43%) Remedy
9 12 (4.65%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (3.49%) Oracle
11 7 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.71%) Ribbon
12 6 (2.33%) Dell
12 6 (2.33%) Dynatrace
12 6 (2.33%) HP
12 6 (2.33%) Ivanti
13 5 (1.94%) BMC
13 5 (1.94%) Cribl.io
13 5 (1.94%) IBM