PowerShell Contracts in the North West

Windows PowerShell
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 41 78
Rank change year-on-year -27 +37 0
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 72 149 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.61% 4.66% 2.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.48% 16.04% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 110 94
10th Percentile £260 £212 £159
25th Percentile £363 £453 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% +18.42%
75th Percentile £542 £584 £609
90th Percentile £650 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +13.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.68
25th Percentile £37.63 - £50.78
Median hourly rate £46.18 - £53.85
75th Percentile - - £56.93
90th Percentile - - £58.02
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.90 £49.24
% change year-on-year -33.22% +21.65% +20.10%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 687 929 1,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.86% 29.08% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 700 1,090
10th Percentile £325 £325 £320
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.95%
75th Percentile £539 £594 £588
90th Percentile £612 £651 £663
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 14 33
10th Percentile £41.25 £20.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £37.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%
75th Percentile £69.53 £51.93 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.15 £62.95 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester -20 39 £450 -14.29% 18
Cheshire -8 23 £383 -25.58% 11
Lancashire +1 7 £650 +23.81% 4
Merseyside +3 1 £248 -61.92% 6
Cumbria -28 1 £528 +23.94%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (9.72%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (9.72%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (4.17%) Confluence
5 1 (1.39%) Apache
5 1 (1.39%) JBoss
5 1 (1.39%) nginx
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.39%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (1.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (52.78%) Azure
2 25 (34.72%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (19.44%) AWS
4 9 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 7 (9.72%) GCP
6 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (8.33%) Mimecast
7 5 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.17%) GitHub
8 3 (4.17%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.78%) SaaS
10 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.39%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.39%) IaaS
10 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.39%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) DNS
2 7 (9.72%) WAAS
3 5 (6.94%) Firewall
4 4 (5.56%) DHCP
4 4 (5.56%) LAN
4 4 (5.56%) VPN
4 4 (5.56%) WAN
5 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.17%) VLAN
5 3 (4.17%) VoIP
5 3 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.39%) DKIM
6 1 (1.39%) Network Security
6 1 (1.39%) SAN
6 1 (1.39%) Skype
6 1 (1.39%) Wireless
6 1 (1.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.06%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.50%) Power BI
3 7 (9.72%) Metadata
3 7 (9.72%) PowerPivot
3 7 (9.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Power View
5 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.39%) Essbase
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Hudson
2 3 (4.17%) GitLab
2 3 (4.17%) JIRA
2 3 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (4.17%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.39%) Git
General
1 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Publishing
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.56%) Finance
4 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.39%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (12.50%) Senior
2 8 (11.11%) Architect
2 8 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (9.72%) Lead
4 6 (8.33%) Consultant
4 6 (8.33%) SharePoint Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Administrator
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Architect
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Consultant
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 5 (6.94%) IT Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) PowerShell Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) SCCM Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 5 (6.94%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) CSS
1 7 (9.72%) HTML
2 3 (4.17%) RESTful
3 2 (2.78%) SAML
3 2 (2.78%) SOAP
4 1 (1.39%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.39%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (1.39%) LangChain
4 1 (1.39%) Middleware
4 1 (1.39%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.17%) Clustering
2 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.17%) Driving Licence
2 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.78%) CMDB
3 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) NHS
4 1 (1.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.78%) Windows
2 10 (13.89%) Windows 10
3 8 (11.11%) Linux
4 7 (9.72%) Mac OS
5 6 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 4 (5.56%) Apple iOS
6 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.39%) Unix
7 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (16.67%) DevOps
3 11 (15.28%) ITIL
3 11 (15.28%) Migration
4 10 (13.89%) CI/CD
4 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (11.11%) Agile
6 7 (9.72%) Metadata Management
7 6 (8.33%) Change Control
7 6 (8.33%) Information Architecture
7 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (8.33%) Statistics
8 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (6.94%) Open Source
8 5 (6.94%) Test Automation
9 4 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (5.56%) Change Management
9 4 (5.56%) Data Migration
9 4 (5.56%) Mobile Device Management
9 4 (5.56%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.83%) SQL
2 14 (19.44%) Python
3 10 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.94%) Go
5 4 (5.56%) Bash
5 4 (5.56%) C
5 4 (5.56%) C#
5 4 (5.56%) Java
6 2 (2.78%) C++
7 1 (1.39%) Bicep
7 1 (1.39%) Fortran
7 1 (1.39%) Groovy
7 1 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (19.44%) SC Cleared
1 14 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) Degree
3 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.78%) CCNA
4 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.78%) MCSE
4 2 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.39%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.39%) CISM
5 1 (1.39%) CISSP
5 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) MCP
5 1 (1.39%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) NIST
2 3 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (30.56%) Active Directory
2 12 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.94%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (18.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (16.67%) SCCM
3 6 (8.33%) Terraform
4 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.17%) Ansible
5 3 (4.17%) Autotask
5 3 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.78%) Nagios
6 2 (2.78%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 31 (43.06%) Microsoft
2 18 (25.00%) VMware
3 7 (9.72%) Sophos
4 4 (5.56%) Apple
5 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.17%) Datto
6 2 (2.78%) CA
6 2 (2.78%) Oracle
6 2 (2.78%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco
7 1 (1.39%) Citrix
7 1 (1.39%) Dell
7 1 (1.39%) HP
7 1 (1.39%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.39%) IBM
7 1 (1.39%) Meraki
7 1 (1.39%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.39%) Temenos
7 1 (1.39%) Veeam