PowerShell Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 40 51
Rank change year-on-year -38 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 67 63 63
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.67% 4.19% 3.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.09% 16.58% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 42 42
10th Percentile £276 £364 £213
25th Percentile £391 £422 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +20.59% -19.05%
75th Percentile £600 £689 £575
90th Percentile £619 £700 £649
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £16.85 £17.58
25th Percentile £72.50 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +316.67% -2.70% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £20.24 £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £55.62 £43.84
% change year-on-year +33.51% +26.89% -21.95%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 604 380 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.10% 25.30% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 218 301
10th Percentile £365 £350 £260
25th Percentile £449 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £633 £696 £675
England median daily rate £512 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -3.03% -4.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 12
10th Percentile £40.20 £16.98 £17.50
25th Percentile £46.50 £17.81 £17.69
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +109.47% -30.31% +55.68%
75th Percentile £56.88 £33.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £53.25 £71.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the West Midlands

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
Birmingham -24 22 £592 -6.44% 10
Warwickshire -8 20 £306 -31.94% 4
Coventry -14 8 £670 +42.55% 3
Worcestershire -8 7 £550 +37.50% 2
Shropshire - 4 £400 -
Staffordshire 0 3 £344 +71.88% 4
Solihull - 2 £510 -
PowerShell
England

PowerShell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (14.93%) Confluence
2 6 (8.96%) nginx
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.49%) Apache
4 1 (1.49%) IIS
4 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (49.25%) Azure
2 25 (37.31%) AWS
3 15 (22.39%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (20.90%) Entra ID
5 8 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (11.94%) Amazon ELB
5 8 (11.94%) Amazon S3
5 8 (11.94%) AWS KMS
5 8 (11.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (10.45%) Datadog
6 7 (10.45%) GCP
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (8.96%) Route 53
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.99%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (2.99%) GitHub
11 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.90%) Firewall
2 11 (16.42%) DNS
3 10 (14.93%) SSH
4 8 (11.94%) FTP
4 8 (11.94%) HTTP
4 8 (11.94%) SMTP
5 6 (8.96%) IMAP
5 6 (8.96%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (4.48%) VPN
7 2 (2.99%) DHCP
7 2 (2.99%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.49%) LAN
8 1 (1.49%) NAS
8 1 (1.49%) SAN
8 1 (1.49%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.49%) WAAS
8 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) JIRA
2 10 (14.93%) Git
3 9 (13.43%) Jenkins
4 8 (11.94%) Vagrant
5 4 (5.97%) InstallShield
5 4 (5.97%) MSI
6 3 (4.48%) GitLab
7 1 (1.49%) AdminStudio
7 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (49.25%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.42%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.94%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (8.96%) Finance
6 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Legal
8 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (11.94%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (11.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 8 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (11.94%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (10.45%) Architect
3 6 (8.96%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (8.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) Security Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Senior
5 4 (5.97%) Consultant
5 4 (5.97%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Lead
5 4 (5.97%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) SailPoint Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) CyberArk Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) LDAP
1 10 (14.93%) Middleware
2 6 (8.96%) REST
3 5 (7.46%) SailPoint
4 4 (5.97%) SAML
4 4 (5.97%) SOAP
5 3 (4.48%) OAuth
6 2 (2.99%) YAML
7 1 (1.49%) .NET
7 1 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.49%) Software Packaging
7 1 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (11.94%) Replication
3 7 (10.45%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.48%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.99%) Life Science
6 2 (2.99%) NHS
7 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (59.70%) Windows
2 25 (37.31%) Linux
3 8 (11.94%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (11.94%) VMS
4 7 (10.45%) Windows 10
4 7 (10.45%) Windows Server
5 6 (8.96%) Ubuntu
5 6 (8.96%) Unix
6 4 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.99%) AIX
7 2 (2.99%) Solaris
8 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.49%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) DevOps
2 19 (28.36%) Change Management
2 19 (28.36%) CI/CD
3 18 (26.87%) Cloud Security
4 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (20.90%) ITIL
6 13 (19.40%) Agile
6 13 (19.40%) Mentoring
6 13 (19.40%) SIEM
7 11 (16.42%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (16.42%) SOAR
8 10 (14.93%) Configuration Management
9 9 (13.43%) Patch Management
9 9 (13.43%) Task Automation
10 8 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (11.94%) Observability
10 8 (11.94%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (11.94%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (10.45%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (59.70%) Python
2 14 (20.90%) Bash
3 9 (13.43%) SQL
4 8 (11.94%) Groovy
5 6 (8.96%) Java
6 4 (5.97%) BeanShell
6 4 (5.97%) VBScript
7 3 (4.48%) VB
8 2 (2.99%) Bicep
8 2 (2.99%) Perl
9 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 33 (49.25%) Security Cleared
2 29 (43.28%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.90%) Degree
4 9 (13.43%) Azure Certification
5 8 (11.94%) AWS Certification
6 6 (8.96%) CISSP
6 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (7.46%) CISM
8 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.49%) CEH
10 1 (1.49%) GIAC
10 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (10.45%) NIST
3 2 (2.99%) GxP
3 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.99%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) NCSC
4 1 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (37.31%) Active Directory
2 17 (25.37%) Docker
3 8 (11.94%) DFS Replication
4 6 (8.96%) Dovecot
4 6 (8.96%) Postfix
4 6 (8.96%) Squid
5 5 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (5.97%) Hyper-V
7 3 (4.48%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.49%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.49%) KVM
8 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (23.88%) Grafana
1 16 (23.88%) Prometheus
2 13 (19.40%) Terraform
3 10 (14.93%) Kubernetes
4 7 (10.45%) SCCM
5 6 (8.96%) Nessus
5 6 (8.96%) Proxmox
6 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (5.97%) Ansible
8 1 (1.49%) AirWatch
8 1 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.49%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.49%) QRadar
8 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (34.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.39%) ServiceNow
3 13 (19.40%) CyberArk
3 13 (19.40%) Splunk
4 9 (13.43%) BeyondTrust
5 7 (10.45%) AppDynamics
5 7 (10.45%) Dynatrace
6 6 (8.96%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (8.96%) VMware
7 3 (4.48%) Citrix
8 2 (2.99%) Proofpoint
8 2 (2.99%) Workday
9 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.49%) Commvault
9 1 (1.49%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.49%) Foundry
9 1 (1.49%) Google
9 1 (1.49%) IBM
9 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.49%) SAP