PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Windows PowerShell
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 10 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 11.11% 2.78% 7.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 16.67% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £308 - £490
25th Percentile £320 £388 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% -22.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £370 £463 £575
90th Percentile £384 - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £344 £425 £525
% change year-on-year -19.12% -19.05% +23.53%

All Programming Languages
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 33.33% 16.67% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile £309 £363 £325
25th Percentile £323 £372 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -18.37% +22.50%
75th Percentile £413 £434 £575
90th Percentile £446 £451 -
Staffordshire median daily rate £388 £413 £490
% change year-on-year -6.06% -15.82% +28.52%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) AdminStudio
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) InstallShield
1 1 (50.00%) MSI
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Software Distribution
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft