PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Windows PowerShell
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.46% - 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.88% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £400 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £478 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -4.50% +17.65% -15.84%

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 164 39 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 50.46% 31.45% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 31 3
10th Percentile £412 £420 -
25th Percentile £455 £438 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £325
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +50.77% -39.59%
75th Percentile £537 £540 £444
90th Percentile £553 £567 £508
West Midlands median daily rate £509 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.80% +8.70% -8.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Shropshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Telford - 5 £325 -
Shrewsbury - 2 £400 -
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (37.50%) AWS KMS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) PaaS
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
2 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) Kerberos
2 3 (37.50%) SSH
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Management Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
1 3 (37.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) AIX
3 3 (37.50%) Solaris
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Key Management
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
3 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (37.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (37.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) RBAC
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
1 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
1 3 (37.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) AppDynamics
1 3 (37.50%) BeyondTrust
1 3 (37.50%) CyberArk
1 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
23 PowerShell jobs in the West Midlands