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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 66 105
Rank change year-on-year -14 +39 -26
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 110 196 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.34% 3.38% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.19% 11.58% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 142 132
10th Percentile £321 £235 £183
25th Percentile £377 £416 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +10.09%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £21.82
25th Percentile £37.63 - £32.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 - £50.20
75th Percentile - - £55.10
90th Percentile - - £57.29
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.90 £50.20
% change year-on-year -33.22% +19.32% +25.50%

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 1,197 1,693 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.50% 29.22% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1,252 1,735
10th Percentile £316 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £542 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.13% +2.69% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 29 43
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £38.50 £19.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +24.36% +50.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £50.60
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £59.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +14.94%

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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 4 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 4 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 -27 69 £425 -19.05% 38
Yorkshire +6 31 £550 +15.79% 31
North East +26 10 £475 -32.14% 5
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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 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
1 12 (10.91%) SharePoint
2 9 (8.18%) Confluence
3 7 (6.36%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (6.36%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.82%) Apache
4 2 (1.82%) IIS
4 2 (1.82%) nginx
5 1 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.91%) JBoss
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (0.91%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 57 (51.82%) Azure
2 28 (25.45%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (22.73%) AWS
4 14 (12.73%) GCP
5 13 (11.82%) GitHub
6 12 (10.91%) Power Platform
7 10 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (5.45%) Apigee
9 6 (5.45%) Entra ID
9 6 (5.45%) Kong
9 6 (5.45%) Mimecast
10 5 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.73%) PowerApps
13 2 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.82%) SaaS
13 2 (1.82%) Snowflake
14 1 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.27%) DNS
2 14 (12.73%) Firewall
3 11 (10.00%) VPN
4 8 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 7 (6.36%) WAAS
6 6 (5.45%) DHCP
6 6 (5.45%) HTTP
7 5 (4.55%) VLAN
8 4 (3.64%) LAN
8 4 (3.64%) WAN
9 3 (2.73%) SAN
9 3 (2.73%) VoIP
9 3 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.82%) AMQP
10 2 (1.82%) DMZ
10 2 (1.82%) Modbus
10 2 (1.82%) MQTT
10 2 (1.82%) NAS
11 1 (0.91%) DKIM
11 1 (0.91%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.09%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.91%) Power BI
3 9 (8.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.36%) Metadata
4 7 (6.36%) PowerPivot
4 7 (6.36%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Power View
6 5 (4.55%) Tableau
7 4 (3.64%) MySQL
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.82%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.91%) Essbase
9 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (12.73%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.91%) GitLab
3 8 (7.27%) JIRA
4 6 (5.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (5.45%) CircleCI
4 6 (5.45%) Git
4 6 (5.45%) Hudson
4 6 (5.45%) Travis CI
5 4 (3.64%) AppScan
5 4 (3.64%) Burp Suite
5 4 (3.64%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.73%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.73%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
General
1 27 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.00%) Finance
4 6 (5.45%) Publishing
5 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.64%) Banking
6 4 (3.64%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (10.91%) Senior
3 9 (8.18%) Architect
3 9 (8.18%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (7.27%) Consultant
4 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Administrator
5 7 (6.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Lead
6 6 (5.45%) Developer
6 6 (5.45%) SharePoint Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Azure Architect
7 5 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
7 5 (4.55%) DBA
7 5 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (4.55%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 5 (4.55%) IT Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) PowerShell Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 5 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.09%) CSS
1 10 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (9.09%) HTML
2 8 (7.27%) JSON
2 8 (7.27%) XML
3 6 (5.45%) YAML
4 5 (4.55%) REST
5 4 (3.64%) LDAP
6 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.73%) RESTful
7 2 (1.82%) ADSI
7 2 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.82%) SAML
7 2 (1.82%) SOAP
7 2 (1.82%) Web Services
7 2 (1.82%) XSLT
8 1 (0.91%) Hugging Face
8 1 (0.91%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (0.91%) Middleware
8 1 (0.91%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.45%) Clustering
2 6 (5.45%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.64%) CMDB
4 4 (3.64%) PKI
4 4 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.73%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.73%) IoT
6 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.82%) NHS
6 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.27%) Windows
2 16 (14.55%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.82%) Linux
4 10 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 7 (6.36%) Mac OS
5 7 (6.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.64%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.73%) VMS
9 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.91%) CentOS
10 1 (0.91%) Fedora
10 1 (0.91%) Rocky
10 1 (0.91%) Unix
10 1 (0.91%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.00%) DevOps
2 28 (25.45%) CI/CD
3 22 (20.00%) ITIL
4 20 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (15.45%) Agile
8 16 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (14.55%) Migration
9 13 (11.82%) Containerisation
10 12 (10.91%) Project Management
10 12 (10.91%) Task Automation
11 10 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (9.09%) Test Automation
12 9 (8.18%) Change Control
12 9 (8.18%) Scrum
13 8 (7.27%) Use Case
14 7 (6.36%) Configuration Management
14 7 (6.36%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.27%) Python
2 25 (22.73%) SQL
3 23 (20.91%) Bash
4 14 (12.73%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.55%) Perl
6 4 (3.64%) C#
6 4 (3.64%) Go
7 3 (2.73%) C
7 3 (2.73%) Java
8 1 (0.91%) Bicep
8 1 (0.91%) C++
8 1 (0.91%) Fortran
8 1 (0.91%) Groovy
8 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (13.64%) Degree
1 15 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.55%) MCSE
5 3 (2.73%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.91%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.91%) CCNA
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.91%) CISM
6 1 (0.91%) CISSP
6 1 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.91%) MCP
6 1 (0.91%) MCSA
6 1 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.45%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) NIST
2 3 (2.73%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.91%) GRC
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (24.55%) Active Directory
2 18 (16.36%) Docker
3 16 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (8.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.91%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.91%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (17.27%) Terraform
2 18 (16.36%) Ansible
3 17 (15.45%) Kubernetes
4 14 (12.73%) SCCM
5 13 (11.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (10.91%) Grafana
7 10 (9.09%) Progress Chef
7 10 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 10 (9.09%) Puppet
8 6 (5.45%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (5.45%) Kibana
8 6 (5.45%) logstash
8 6 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (4.55%) Graylog
10 4 (3.64%) HP Fortify
10 4 (3.64%) Nessus
10 4 (3.64%) WebInspect
11 3 (2.73%) Autotask
11 3 (2.73%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (2.73%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 40 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 24 (21.82%) VMware
3 10 (9.09%) Splunk
4 7 (6.36%) Sophos
5 6 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.55%) EMC
7 4 (3.64%) Apple
7 4 (3.64%) Checkmarx
7 4 (3.64%) Veracode
8 3 (2.73%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.73%) Datto
9 2 (1.82%) CA
9 2 (1.82%) Citrix
9 2 (1.82%) HP
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle
10 1 (0.91%) Cisco
10 1 (0.91%) Dell
10 1 (0.91%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.91%) IBM
10 1 (0.91%) Temenos