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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 43 74
Rank change year-on-year -25 +31 0
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 67 148 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.51% 4.74% 2.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.15% 16.12% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 107 91
10th Percentile £263 £276 £159
25th Percentile £366 £453 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £541 £581 £606
90th Percentile £644 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +11.11%
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 £40.25 £59.90 £50.20
% change year-on-year -32.80% +19.32% +25.50%

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 660 918 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.72% 29.41% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 686 1,074
10th Percentile £325 £325 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £550 £593 £588
90th Percentile £613 £658 £663
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 15 30
10th Percentile £38.96 £24.29 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.80 £16.83
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% +21.16% +11.67%
75th Percentile £71.87 £54.69 £55.63
90th Percentile £80.63 £65.90 £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%

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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 7 May 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 7 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
Manchester -15 35 £450 -11.11% 18
Cheshire -10 22 £383 -25.58% 13
Lancashire +4 7 £650 +23.81% 3
Merseyside +3 1 £248 -61.92% 5
Cumbria -23 1 £528 +24.09%
PowerShell
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 11 (16.42%) SharePoint
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (10.45%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (10.45%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (4.48%) Confluence
5 1 (1.49%) Apache
5 1 (1.49%) JBoss
5 1 (1.49%) nginx
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.49%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (1.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 35 (52.24%) Azure
2 24 (35.82%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (20.90%) AWS
4 9 (13.43%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.45%) GCP
6 6 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (8.96%) Mimecast
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.48%) GitHub
8 3 (4.48%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.99%) SaaS
10 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.49%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.49%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.49%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) DNS
2 7 (10.45%) WAAS
3 5 (7.46%) Firewall
4 4 (5.97%) LAN
4 4 (5.97%) VPN
4 4 (5.97%) WAN
5 3 (4.48%) DHCP
5 3 (4.48%) VLAN
5 3 (4.48%) VoIP
5 3 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.49%) Network Security
7 1 (1.49%) SAN
7 1 (1.49%) Skype
7 1 (1.49%) Wireless
7 1 (1.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.43%) Power BI
3 7 (10.45%) Metadata
3 7 (10.45%) PowerPivot
3 7 (10.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Power View
5 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.49%) Essbase
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Hudson
2 3 (4.48%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (4.48%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.99%) GitLab
3 2 (2.99%) JIRA
4 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (13.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Publishing
3 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Finance
5 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (13.43%) Senior
2 8 (11.94%) Architect
2 8 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Lead
4 6 (8.96%) Consultant
4 6 (8.96%) SharePoint Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Administrator
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Consultant
5 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 5 (7.46%) IT Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) PowerShell Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) SCCM Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 5 (7.46%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.97%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (5.97%) Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) CSS
1 7 (10.45%) HTML
2 2 (2.99%) RESTful
2 2 (2.99%) SAML
2 2 (2.99%) SOAP
3 1 (1.49%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (1.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.48%) Clustering
2 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.48%) Driving Licence
2 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.49%) CMDB
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.49%) NHS
4 1 (1.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.87%) Windows
2 10 (14.93%) Windows 10
3 7 (10.45%) Mac OS
4 6 (8.96%) Linux
5 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
6 4 (5.97%) Apple iOS
6 4 (5.97%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (5.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.49%) Unix
7 1 (1.49%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (16.42%) DevOps
2 11 (16.42%) Migration
3 10 (14.93%) ITIL
4 9 (13.43%) CI/CD
5 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (10.45%) Agile
6 7 (10.45%) Metadata Management
7 6 (8.96%) Information Architecture
7 6 (8.96%) Statistics
8 5 (7.46%) Change Control
8 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (5.97%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (5.97%) Data Migration
9 4 (5.97%) Mobile Device Management
9 4 (5.97%) Open Source
9 4 (5.97%) SDET
9 4 (5.97%) Test Automation
10 3 (4.48%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) SQL
2 10 (14.93%) Python
3 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.97%) Bash
4 4 (5.97%) C#
4 4 (5.97%) Go
5 3 (4.48%) C
5 3 (4.48%) Java
6 1 (1.49%) Bicep
6 1 (1.49%) C++
6 1 (1.49%) Fortran
6 1 (1.49%) Groovy
6 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) Degree
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.99%) MCSE
5 1 (1.49%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.49%) CCNA
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.49%) CISM
5 1 (1.49%) CISSP
5 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) MCP
5 1 (1.49%) MCSA
5 1 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) NIST
2 3 (4.48%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (32.84%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (17.91%) SCCM
3 5 (7.46%) Terraform
4 3 (4.48%) Ansible
4 3 (4.48%) Autotask
4 3 (4.48%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (4.48%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.49%) Nagios
5 1 (1.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (43.28%) Microsoft
2 18 (26.87%) VMware
3 7 (10.45%) Sophos
4 4 (5.97%) Apple
5 3 (4.48%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.48%) Datto
6 2 (2.99%) CA
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle
7 1 (1.49%) Cisco
7 1 (1.49%) Citrix
7 1 (1.49%) Dell
7 1 (1.49%) HP
7 1 (1.49%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.49%) IBM
7 1 (1.49%) Meraki
7 1 (1.49%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.49%) Temenos
7 1 (1.49%) Veeam