PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Windows PowerShell
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 29 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.61% 1.56% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.00% 5.45% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - -61.54%
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% +2.86%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 50 55 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 20.08% 28.65% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 28
10th Percentile £311 £428 £200
25th Percentile £400 £463 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +31.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £606 £631 £500
90th Percentile £630 £675 £541
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £51.80 £42.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +1.07% -0.26%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
County Antrim -2 4 £400 - 1
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 4 (100.00%) Parquet
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Migration Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Test Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared