PowerShell Contracts in the North of England

Windows PowerShell
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 68 102
Rank change year-on-year -4 +34 -19
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 116 181 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.49% 3.24% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.66% 11.30% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 126 126
10th Percentile £361 £275 £159
25th Percentile £400 £426 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +12.50% +9.76%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £524
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - £17.74
25th Percentile £37.63 - -
Median hourly rate £46.18 - £21.78
75th Percentile - - £51.45
90th Percentile - - £55.83
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £48.48
% change year-on-year -32.92% +23.76% +18.24%

All Programming Languages
North of England

PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,201 1,602 2,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.80% 28.69% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,167 1,702
10th Percentile £325 £362 £325
25th Percentile £404 £423 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £549 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.40% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 29 51
10th Percentile £37.56 £29.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.80 £21.64
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +15.29% +63.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.30 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +20.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the North of England

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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 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the North of England

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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 25 May 2024. 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 -20 68 £456 -16.21% 55
Yorkshire +7 40 £565 +29.14% 36
North East +18 8 £475 -32.14% 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (10.34%) Confluence
2 11 (9.48%) SharePoint
3 10 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (6.03%) SharePoint 2010
4 7 (6.03%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.72%) Apache
5 2 (1.72%) IIS
5 2 (1.72%) nginx
6 1 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.86%) JBoss
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.86%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (0.86%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 63 (54.31%) Azure
2 29 (25.00%) AWS
3 26 (22.41%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (15.52%) GCP
5 16 (13.79%) GitHub
6 14 (12.07%) Power Platform
7 10 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (7.76%) Kong
9 7 (6.03%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.17%) Apigee
10 6 (5.17%) Mimecast
11 5 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (2.59%) PowerApps
14 2 (1.72%) Azure AKS
14 2 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (1.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.69%) DNS
2 16 (13.79%) Firewall
3 14 (12.07%) VPN
4 13 (11.21%) TCP/IP
5 9 (7.76%) HTTP
6 8 (6.90%) DHCP
7 6 (5.17%) VLAN
7 6 (5.17%) WAAS
8 4 (3.45%) LAN
8 4 (3.45%) WAN
9 3 (2.59%) BIG-IP
9 3 (2.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (2.59%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (2.59%) SAN
9 3 (2.59%) SSL
9 3 (2.59%) VoIP
9 3 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.72%) NAS
10 2 (1.72%) Network Security
11 1 (0.86%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.10%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.21%) Power BI
3 10 (8.62%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (7.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (6.03%) Metadata
5 7 (6.03%) PowerPivot
5 7 (6.03%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Power View
7 4 (3.45%) MySQL
7 4 (3.45%) Tableau
8 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.72%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.86%) Essbase
10 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (18.10%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.79%) GitLab
3 14 (12.07%) Git
4 11 (9.48%) JIRA
5 9 (7.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (7.76%) CircleCI
5 9 (7.76%) Travis CI
6 6 (5.17%) Hudson
7 4 (3.45%) AppScan
7 4 (3.45%) Burp Suite
7 4 (3.45%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.59%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.59%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.72%) AdminStudio
9 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.72%) InstallShield
9 2 (1.72%) MSI
General
1 31 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.48%) Finance
4 6 (5.17%) Publishing
5 5 (4.31%) Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.59%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (14.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (7.76%) Architect
2 9 (7.76%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (7.76%) Senior
3 8 (6.90%) Consultant
3 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (6.03%) Developer
4 7 (6.03%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 7 (6.03%) Lead
5 6 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (5.17%) SharePoint Engineer
6 5 (4.31%) Administrator
6 5 (4.31%) Analyst
6 5 (4.31%) Azure Architect
6 5 (4.31%) Azure Consultant
6 5 (4.31%) DBA
6 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (4.31%) IT Engineer
6 5 (4.31%) PowerShell Engineer
6 5 (4.31%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.21%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (8.62%) CSS
2 10 (8.62%) HTML
2 10 (8.62%) JSON
2 10 (8.62%) XML
3 9 (7.76%) YAML
4 5 (4.31%) REST
5 4 (3.45%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.45%) LDAP
6 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.72%) ADSI
7 2 (1.72%) RESTful
7 2 (1.72%) SAML
7 2 (1.72%) SOAP
8 1 (0.86%) .NET
8 1 (0.86%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (0.86%) J2EE
8 1 (0.86%) Middleware
8 1 (0.86%) Web Services
8 1 (0.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.76%) Data Structures
2 7 (6.03%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.17%) Clustering
3 6 (5.17%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.31%) CMDB
5 4 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.59%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.59%) PKI
6 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.72%) NHS
8 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.86%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.86%) IoT
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.72%) Windows
2 15 (12.93%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.21%) Linux
4 11 (9.48%) Windows 10
5 7 (6.03%) Mac OS
5 7 (6.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.59%) VMS
9 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.86%) CentOS
10 1 (0.86%) Fedora
10 1 (0.86%) Rocky
10 1 (0.86%) Unix
10 1 (0.86%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.34%) DevOps
2 34 (29.31%) CI/CD
3 31 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (18.97%) Continuous Integration
4 22 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (18.97%) ITIL
5 20 (17.24%) Agile
5 20 (17.24%) Containerisation
6 18 (15.52%) Task Automation
7 16 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (13.79%) Migration
8 15 (12.93%) Project Management
9 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
10 12 (10.34%) Scrum
10 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (8.62%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (8.62%) DevSecOps
11 10 (8.62%) Use Case
11 10 (8.62%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.62%) Python
2 27 (23.28%) SQL
3 26 (22.41%) Bash
4 14 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.31%) C#
5 5 (4.31%) Perl
5 5 (4.31%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.45%) Go
7 3 (2.59%) ActionScript
7 3 (2.59%) C
7 3 (2.59%) Java
8 2 (1.72%) VB
9 1 (0.86%) C++
9 1 (0.86%) Fortran
9 1 (0.86%) Groovy
9 1 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (14.66%) Degree
2 14 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.45%) MCSE
6 3 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.72%) CCNA
7 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.86%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.86%) CISM
8 1 (0.86%) CISSP
8 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.86%) MCP
8 1 (0.86%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.97%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.59%) NIST
2 3 (2.59%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.72%) GRC
4 1 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (22.41%) Active Directory
2 24 (20.69%) Docker
3 17 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (7.76%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.59%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.86%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.86%) Firmware
7 1 (0.86%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (21.55%) Ansible
1 25 (21.55%) Terraform
2 24 (20.69%) Kubernetes
3 17 (14.66%) Puppet
4 15 (12.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (12.93%) SCCM
5 14 (12.07%) Grafana
6 13 (11.21%) Progress Chef
6 13 (11.21%) Prometheus
7 9 (7.76%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (7.76%) Kibana
7 9 (7.76%) logstash
8 6 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (4.31%) Graylog
10 4 (3.45%) HP Fortify
10 4 (3.45%) Nessus
10 4 (3.45%) WebInspect
11 3 (2.59%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (2.59%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (2.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (33.62%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.97%) VMware
3 14 (12.07%) Splunk
4 7 (6.03%) Sophos
5 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.31%) EMC
7 4 (3.45%) Apple
7 4 (3.45%) Checkmarx
7 4 (3.45%) Veracode
8 3 (2.59%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.59%) Datto
8 3 (2.59%) F5
9 2 (1.72%) CA
9 2 (1.72%) Citrix
9 2 (1.72%) HP
9 2 (1.72%) Oracle
9 2 (1.72%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.86%) Cisco
10 1 (0.86%) Dell
10 1 (0.86%) IBM