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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 55 42
Rank change year-on-year -6 -13 +19
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 83 59 83
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.75% 3.23% 4.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.04% 14.05% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 34 65
10th Percentile £321 £375 £259
25th Percentile £425 £402 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -15.84%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £678 £738
England median daily rate £520 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -2.80% -0.93% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - £16.85 £17.50
25th Percentile - £17.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate - £18.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -
75th Percentile - £20.24 £19.25
90th Percentile - - £19.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year +14.55% +17.24% -12.00%

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 552 420 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.97% 23.03% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 244 282
10th Percentile £361 £350 £286
25th Percentile £450 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +9.89% -9.90%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £605
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
England median daily rate £513 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -6.57% -0.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 9
10th Percentile £47.20 £16.98 £17.43
25th Percentile - £17.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%
75th Percentile - £33.44 £19.25
90th Percentile - £53.25 £25.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.92
% change year-on-year - +4.97% -1.71%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 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
Birmingham +2 33 £475 -12.64% 16
Worcestershire -4 13 £575 +43.75% 4
Warwickshire -12 10 £517 +9.42% 2
Coventry -15 8 £670 +41.80% 4
Shropshire - 8 £363 - 1
Solihull +8 4 £450 +30.43% 2
Staffordshire -3 2 £300 -29.41% 5
Herefordshire - 1 £525 -
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 29 (34.94%) Confluence
2 12 (14.46%) nginx
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.20%) IIS
4 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (14.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (46.99%) AWS
2 32 (38.55%) Azure
3 27 (32.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 27 (32.53%) Amazon EC2
3 27 (32.53%) Amazon S3
3 27 (32.53%) AWS KMS
3 27 (32.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 23 (27.71%) Amazon ELB
5 18 (21.69%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (15.66%) Entra ID
6 13 (15.66%) Route 53
7 12 (14.46%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (13.25%) Amazon Glacier
9 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.82%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.82%) IaaS
10 4 (4.82%) PaaS
10 4 (4.82%) Serverless
11 3 (3.61%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 29 (34.94%) DNS
2 28 (33.73%) Firewall
3 24 (28.92%) SSH
4 23 (27.71%) SMTP
5 21 (25.30%) FTP
5 21 (25.30%) HTTP
6 12 (14.46%) IMAP
6 12 (14.46%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (8.43%) DHCP
8 4 (4.82%) VPN
9 3 (3.61%) Kerberos
9 3 (3.61%) WAN
10 2 (2.41%) LAN
10 2 (2.41%) VLAN
11 1 (1.20%) BGP
11 1 (1.20%) EIGRP
11 1 (1.20%) IPsec
11 1 (1.20%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.20%) OSPF
11 1 (1.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.92%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (15.66%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (14.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.20%) Metadata
5 1 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (37.35%) JIRA
2 25 (30.12%) Git
2 25 (30.12%) Jenkins
3 23 (27.71%) Vagrant
4 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.61%) InstallShield
5 3 (3.61%) MSI
6 1 (1.20%) AdminStudio
6 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.20%) GitLab
6 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.92%) Public Sector
3 14 (16.87%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.64%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.02%) Finance
7 4 (4.82%) Legal
8 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (28.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (24.10%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (22.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 19 (22.89%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (21.69%) AWS DevOps
4 18 (21.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Administrator
8 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Consultant
10 5 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) JIRA Administrator
11 4 (4.82%) Lead
11 4 (4.82%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) SailPoint Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Security Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Senior
12 3 (3.61%) Architect
12 3 (3.61%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) LDAP
2 7 (8.43%) REST
3 4 (4.82%) OAuth
3 4 (4.82%) SailPoint
3 4 (4.82%) SAML
3 4 (4.82%) SOAP
4 3 (3.61%) YAML
5 2 (2.41%) JSON
5 2 (2.41%) XML
6 1 (1.20%) .NET
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.20%) Middleware
6 1 (1.20%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 22 (26.51%) Replication
2 4 (4.82%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.41%) NHS
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) PKI
5 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (74.70%) Windows
2 45 (54.22%) Linux
3 23 (27.71%) Amazon Linux
3 23 (27.71%) VMS
4 11 (13.25%) Ubuntu
4 11 (13.25%) Windows Server
5 7 (8.43%) Unix
6 6 (7.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (6.02%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.61%) AIX
8 3 (3.61%) Solaris
9 1 (1.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.96%) Cloud Security
1 34 (40.96%) DevOps
2 31 (37.35%) Change Management
3 25 (30.12%) Configuration Management
4 23 (27.71%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (26.51%) Patch Management
6 16 (19.28%) Agile
6 16 (19.28%) CI/CD
7 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.66%) Task Automation
9 12 (14.46%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (14.46%) SIEM
10 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (12.05%) ITIL
11 9 (10.84%) SOAR
12 8 (9.64%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (9.64%) Migration
12 8 (9.64%) Unit Testing
13 7 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (8.43%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 46 (55.42%) Python
2 23 (27.71%) Groovy
3 17 (20.48%) SQL
4 15 (18.07%) Java
5 11 (13.25%) Perl
6 8 (9.64%) Bash
7 6 (7.23%) VBScript
8 4 (4.82%) BeanShell
9 2 (2.41%) Bicep
9 2 (2.41%) VB
10 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.20%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (54.22%) Security Cleared
2 39 (46.99%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.48%) Degree
4 13 (15.66%) AWS Certification
4 13 (15.66%) Azure Certification
5 6 (7.23%) DV Cleared
5 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (6.02%) CISSP
7 4 (4.82%) CISM
8 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.20%) CCNA
9 1 (1.20%) CCNP
9 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.20%) GIAC
9 1 (1.20%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.20%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.02%) NIST
3 3 (3.61%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.61%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) NCSC
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (45.78%) Active Directory
2 26 (31.33%) Docker
3 21 (25.30%) DFS Replication
4 12 (14.46%) Dovecot
4 12 (14.46%) Postfix
4 12 (14.46%) Squid
5 4 (4.82%) Firmware
6 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (34.94%) Terraform
2 24 (28.92%) Grafana
2 24 (28.92%) Prometheus
3 12 (14.46%) Nessus
4 11 (13.25%) SCCM
5 10 (12.05%) Proxmox
6 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (4.82%) Ansible
8 3 (3.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
10 1 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (1.20%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.20%) QRadar
10 1 (1.20%) SysTrack
10 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (33.73%) ServiceNow
2 27 (32.53%) Microsoft
3 13 (15.66%) CyberArk
4 12 (14.46%) Jaspersoft
5 11 (13.25%) BeyondTrust
6 8 (9.64%) VMware
7 5 (6.02%) Atlassian
7 5 (6.02%) Citrix
8 4 (4.82%) Splunk
9 3 (3.61%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.61%) Dynatrace
10 2 (2.41%) ArcSight
10 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.41%) Veeam
11 1 (1.20%) Cisco
11 1 (1.20%) Foundry
11 1 (1.20%) IBM
11 1 (1.20%) iManage
11 1 (1.20%) New Relic
11 1 (1.20%) Proofpoint