PowerShell Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PowerShell Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median PowerShell Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 - 403
Rank change year-on-year - - +55
Contract jobs requiring a PowerShell Engineer 9 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.042% - 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% - 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £340
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.52%
75th Percentile - - £608
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £466 £558 £605
% change year-on-year -16.41% -7.85% +21.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,491 12,329 19,753
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.32% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,618 7,717 12,328
10th Percentile £250 £209 £210
25th Percentile £385 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £594
90th Percentile £675 £671 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,099 683 2,059
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.26 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.97 £15.66
Median hourly rate £33.17 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% -1.71% -14.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -1.44% +6.06% -18.67%

PowerShell Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'PowerShell Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PowerShell Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PowerShell Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PowerShell Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PowerShell Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

PowerShell Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for PowerShell Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for PowerShell Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

PowerShell Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
Scotland - 8 - - 1
South East - 1 £410 - 10
PowerShell Engineer
UK

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 March 2026, PowerShell Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring PowerShell Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (55.56%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) API Development
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Cyber Resilience
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Refactoring
3 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
3 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) ArcGIS
4 1 (11.11%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (11.11%) Puppet
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
4 1 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines

PowerShell Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (11.11%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) API Development
1 4 (44.44%) Cyber Resilience
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) Refactoring
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (55.56%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform