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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 51 58
Rank change year-on-year -70 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 46 82 55
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.29% 4.50% 2.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.67% 17.56% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 52 30
10th Percentile £403 £300 £317
25th Percentile £429 £389 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £523
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.09% +22.94%
75th Percentile £600 £524 £584
90th Percentile £744 £593 £627
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
75th Percentile £67.84 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £63.25 £63.93
% change year-on-year +0.36% -1.07% +6.55%

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 812 467 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.70% 25.60% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 295 273
10th Percentile £381 £322 £313
25th Percentile £419 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.73% +3.47%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £575
90th Percentile £663 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 6
10th Percentile £19.65 - £34.47
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.91 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £50.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -11.11% +204.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £59.69
90th Percentile - - £67.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -

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

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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 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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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 25 September 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
Warwickshire -15 14 £477 -0.63% 12
Birmingham -31 14 £510 +7.37% 33
Herefordshire +7 6 - - 2
Coventry -30 4 £425 +48.60% 1
Worcestershire -2 2 £575 - 2
Staffordshire -11 1 £725 - 8
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England

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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 (21.74%) SharePoint
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.35%) Apache
3 2 (4.35%) Skype for Business
4 1 (2.17%) Confluence
4 1 (2.17%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (60.87%) Azure
2 16 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (32.61%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (32.61%) Entra ID
3 15 (32.61%) GitHub
4 13 (28.26%) AWS
5 10 (21.74%) Power Platform
6 8 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (13.04%) Datadog
7 6 (13.04%) OpenShift
7 6 (13.04%) Power Automate
8 5 (10.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (8.70%) Serverless
10 3 (6.52%) Azure AI
10 3 (6.52%) Azure Functions
10 3 (6.52%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (6.52%) GCP
10 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (6.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) DHCP
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (4.35%) SAN
2 2 (4.35%) Skype
2 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.35%) WAAS
3 1 (2.17%) LAN
3 1 (2.17%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Power BI
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) GitLab
1 10 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Legal
4 3 (6.52%) Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Site Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) PowerShell Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Lead
5 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco Voice Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Consultant
5 3 (6.52%) CyberArk Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Onboarding Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) Voice Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) Terraform
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (15.22%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (15.22%) REST
4 4 (8.70%) JSON
4 4 (8.70%) OAuth
4 4 (8.70%) OpenID
4 4 (8.70%) SAML
5 3 (6.52%) LangChain
5 3 (6.52%) LangGraph
5 3 (6.52%) Semantic Kernel
6 2 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (4.35%) FIDO
6 2 (4.35%) YAML
7 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.17%) React
7 1 (2.17%) SailPoint
7 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 6 (13.04%) Private Cloud
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.52%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) CMDB
6 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 21 (45.65%) Windows
2 18 (39.13%) Linux
3 7 (15.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.70%) Mac OS
5 3 (6.52%) Apple iOS
5 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.35%) CentOS
6 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.17%) VMS
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) DevOps
1 18 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 14 (30.43%) Containerisation
4 11 (23.91%) Runbook
5 9 (19.57%) Analytics
5 9 (19.57%) ITSM
5 9 (19.57%) Observability
6 8 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (17.39%) Task Automation
7 7 (15.22%) Data Protection
7 7 (15.22%) Migration
7 7 (15.22%) Problem Management
7 7 (15.22%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (13.04%) Business Continuity
8 6 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
8 6 (13.04%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 27 (58.70%) Python
2 16 (34.78%) Bash
3 6 (13.04%) Go
4 2 (4.35%) Bicep
4 2 (4.35%) SQL
5 1 (2.17%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.26%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) CCNA
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.70%) CISSP
4 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 4 (8.70%) MCSE
4 4 (8.70%) RHCA
4 4 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.35%) NIST
3 2 (4.35%) QA
4 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (30.43%) Docker
2 13 (28.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (13.04%) Hyper-V
5 4 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (36.96%) Kubernetes
2 15 (32.61%) Ansible
3 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (17.39%) Grafana
4 8 (17.39%) Prometheus
5 7 (15.22%) Progress Chef
5 7 (15.22%) Puppet
6 4 (8.70%) Podman
6 4 (8.70%) SCCM
6 4 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (4.35%) AirWatch
7 2 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (2.17%) Argo
8 1 (2.17%) Istio
8 1 (2.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 23 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.91%) Splunk
3 8 (17.39%) Cisco
3 8 (17.39%) ServiceNow
3 8 (17.39%) VMware
4 5 (10.87%) BeyondTrust
4 5 (10.87%) CyberArk
5 4 (8.70%) Atlassian
6 3 (6.52%) Foundry
6 3 (6.52%) OpenAI
6 3 (6.52%) Remedy
6 3 (6.52%) Ribbon
7 2 (4.35%) Citrix
7 2 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.17%) BMC
8 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.17%) Dell
8 1 (2.17%) EMC
8 1 (2.17%) Micro Focus