PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Windows PowerShell
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 35 26
Rank change year-on-year -21 -9 +19
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 4 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.74% 0.40% 3.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.74% 1.23% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - £428
25th Percentile - £325 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -26.32% -29.63%
75th Percentile £444 £375 £497
90th Percentile £470 - £575
North East median daily rate £400 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% -26.32% -32.14%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 146 81 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 27.04% 32.79% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 62 28
10th Percentile £356 £325 £340
25th Percentile £400 £359 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -6.11% -20.35%
75th Percentile £550 £490 £500
90th Percentile £625 £575 £565
North East median daily rate £450 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +5.88% -8.11% -18.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 9
10th Percentile £56.57 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £68.47 £52.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.67% +9.47% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £67.50 £52.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +29.81% +9.47% +16.56%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -20 4 £400 +14.29% 7
PowerShell
North East

PowerShell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Blazor
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Software Packaging
1 1 (25.00%) WebAssembly
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Icinga
1 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) VMware