PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Windows PowerShell
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.83% 3.25% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.69% 11.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £368 -
25th Percentile £238 £373 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.52% - -
75th Percentile £313 £500 -
90th Percentile - £553 -
East Midlands median daily rate £449 £450 £473
% change year-on-year -0.33% -4.76% +6.18%

All Programming Languages
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 26 43 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 10.79% 27.92% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 34
10th Percentile £367 £350 £350
25th Percentile £460 £384 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +16.47% -15.00%
75th Percentile £672 £526 £522
90th Percentile £717 £545 £685
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £440
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.09% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £7.58
25th Percentile - - £9.09
Median hourly rate - £12.92 £12.78
Median % change year-on-year - +1.10% -51.74%
75th Percentile - - £16.35
90th Percentile - - £17.79
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £30.50
% change year-on-year +33.87% -41.93% +15.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing PowerShell

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Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
Nottingham -11 2 £275 -34.52% 12
PowerShell
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) VMware