PowerShell Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Windows PowerShell
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 40 51
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 18 18 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.82% 4.01% 1.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.84% 12.41% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 5
10th Percentile £308 £461 -
25th Percentile £383 £491 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £622 £225
Median % change year-on-year -33.68% +176.44% -55.00%
75th Percentile £517 £641 £238
90th Percentile £593 £648 £455
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £550 £415
% change year-on-year -25.00% +32.53% -17.00%

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 263 145 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 41.22% 32.29% 25.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 99 77
10th Percentile £317 £375 £308
25th Percentile £389 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -10.63% +6.81%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £625
90th Percentile £626 £646 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.86% +2.44%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in South Yorkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Sheffield -16 18 £413 -33.68% 2
PowerShell
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
2 7 (38.89%) NAS
2 7 (38.89%) SAN
3 3 (16.67%) Firewall
4 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (5.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Git
3 7 (38.89%) GitLab
4 3 (16.67%) JIRA
5 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.56%) Vagrant
5 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Server Migration Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Server Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Linux
3 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (16.67%) VMS
5 1 (5.56%) Android
5 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (61.11%) Migration
3 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (38.89%) Kanban
4 7 (38.89%) Scrum
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) Server Management
7 3 (16.67%) Server Migrations
8 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.11%) User Experience
9 1 (5.56%) Application Virtualisation
9 1 (5.56%) Data Flow Diagram
9 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 4 (22.22%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) VCAP
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 9 (50.00%) vSphere
3 7 (38.89%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.56%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Ansible
2 9 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 7 (38.89%) vRealize
4 3 (16.67%) Terraform
5 2 (11.11%) PowerCLI
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (5.56%) Puppet
6 1 (5.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) VMware
2 5 (27.78%) F5
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) Broadcom
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix
5 1 (5.56%) Sophos
5 1 (5.56%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) WatchGuard