PowerShell Contracts in the North West

Windows PowerShell
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 67 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 -19 +31
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 64 70 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.27% 2.56% 4.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.08% 10.57% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 47 94
10th Percentile £339 £296 £400
25th Percentile £411 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £547
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -17.77% +21.61%
75th Percentile £488 £559 £598
90th Percentile £518 £650 £668
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
England median hourly rate £73.23 £40.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +81.94% -32.92% +21.87%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 530 662 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.08% 24.18% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 482 653
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £542 £588
90th Percentile £623 £614 £650
England median daily rate £525 £543 £564
% change year-on-year -3.23% -3.81% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 37 17
10th Percentile £68.75 £38.08 £25.22
25th Percentile £70.88 £41.25 £37.75
Median hourly rate £80.75 £48.43 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +66.74% +4.87% -12.04%
75th Percentile £88.06 £71.87 £56.40
90th Percentile £91.88 £79.90 £65.85
England median hourly rate £61.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.20% - +19.05%

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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 2 June 2025.

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 2 June 2025. 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
Cheshire +13 34 £454 +11.29% 126
Manchester +4 22 £473 +3.56% 234
Cumbria +7 4 £465 -11.93% 6
Merseyside +1 3 £400 +61.62% 62
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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 25 (39.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 13 (20.31%) Skype for Business
4 8 (12.50%) Mattermost
5 2 (3.13%) Confluence
6 1 (1.56%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) Azure
2 29 (45.31%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (34.38%) Entra ID
4 11 (17.19%) IaaS
5 8 (12.50%) OneDrive
6 7 (10.94%) SaaS
7 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (4.69%) AWS
9 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) Firewall
2 14 (21.88%) Network Security
3 13 (20.31%) Skype
4 11 (17.19%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (15.63%) DHCP
6 9 (14.06%) WebEx
7 8 (12.50%) Softphone
7 8 (12.50%) Unified Communications
8 7 (10.94%) DNS
9 6 (9.38%) VPN
10 5 (7.81%) WAN
10 5 (7.81%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (6.25%) DMZ
11 4 (6.25%) LAN
11 4 (6.25%) VLAN
12 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
13 1 (1.56%) DWDM
13 1 (1.56%) Internet
13 1 (1.56%) MPLS
13 1 (1.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.56%) GIS
5 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) MSDE
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Git
1 7 (10.94%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Maven
3 1 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Telecoms
3 8 (12.50%) Finance
3 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Military
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) Analyst
1 14 (21.88%) Support Engineer
2 8 (12.50%) Messaging Engineer
2 8 (12.50%) Messaging Support
2 8 (12.50%) Messaging Support Engineer
2 8 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
2 8 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
2 8 (12.50%) Operations Support Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Architect
3 7 (10.94%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Operational Support Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Operations Support Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Support Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Build Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) XMPP
2 3 (4.69%) Software Packaging
3 2 (3.13%) ADO
3 2 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.56%) .NET
4 1 (1.56%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.69%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) Clustering
3 1 (1.56%) CMDB
3 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.56%) MISP
3 1 (1.56%) NHS
3 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (43.75%) Windows
2 19 (29.69%) Windows Server
3 10 (15.63%) Linux
4 7 (10.94%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.25%) Windows 7
6 3 (4.69%) Android
6 3 (4.69%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (21.88%) ITIL
2 14 (21.88%) Problem Management
3 12 (18.75%) Change Management
3 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 12 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (17.19%) Business Continuity
4 11 (17.19%) Data Loss Prevention
4 11 (17.19%) DevOps
4 11 (17.19%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (17.19%) Task Automation
4 11 (17.19%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 10 (15.63%) ITSM
5 10 (15.63%) Project Delivery
5 10 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (14.06%) B2B
6 9 (14.06%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (12.50%) BCP
7 8 (12.50%) Information Security
7 8 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.00%) SQL
2 11 (17.19%) Python
3 8 (12.50%) Bash
4 5 (7.81%) VB
4 5 (7.81%) VBScript
5 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.56%) Java
6 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.56%) Korn
6 1 (1.56%) Perl
6 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (26.56%) Microsoft Certification
1 17 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 12 (18.75%) Azure Certification
4 8 (12.50%) Degree
4 8 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.13%) MCSA
5 2 (3.13%) MCSE
6 1 (1.56%) CCIE
6 1 (1.56%) CCNA
6 1 (1.56%) CCNP
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) MCP
6 1 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (57.81%) Active Directory
2 12 (18.75%) vSphere
3 11 (17.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (7.81%) BitLocker
5 3 (4.69%) Docker
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (14.06%) SCCM
2 9 (14.06%) SCOM
3 8 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
5 6 (9.38%) Ansible
6 4 (6.25%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (4.69%) Terraform
8 1 (1.56%) Grafana
8 1 (1.56%) Graylog
8 1 (1.56%) Nagios
8 1 (1.56%) OpenVAS
8 1 (1.56%) Packer
8 1 (1.56%) Perfmon
8 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.56%) Puppet
8 1 (1.56%) QRadar
8 1 (1.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (78.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.31%) VMware
3 10 (15.63%) Splunk
4 9 (14.06%) Cisco
5 8 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 7 (10.94%) Dell
7 5 (7.81%) Oracle
7 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
8 4 (6.25%) CyberArk
9 3 (4.69%) HP
10 2 (3.13%) McAfee
10 2 (3.13%) Thycotic
11 1 (1.56%) ArcSight
11 1 (1.56%) Arista
11 1 (1.56%) Carbon Black
11 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.56%) Databricks
11 1 (1.56%) LogRhythm
11 1 (1.56%) Rapid7
11 1 (1.56%) Symantec