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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 60 44
Rank change year-on-year +17 -16 +30
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 84 55 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.59% 2.87% 4.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.03% 12.70% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 30 68
10th Percentile £300 £317 £217
25th Percentile £400 £391 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £413
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +26.67% -13.16%
75th Percentile £520 £584 £648
90th Percentile £592 £627 £741
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £17.55
25th Percentile - £65.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +278.38% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £19.50
90th Percentile - - £19.65
England median hourly rate £63.50 £58.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.52% +13.27%

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 466 433 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.45% 22.62% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 271 319
10th Percentile £322 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £398 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £648 £700
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 9
10th Percentile £30.25 £34.47 £17.43
25th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £56.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +204.05% -58.89%
75th Percentile - £59.69 £23.22
90th Percentile - £67.50 £50.75
England median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.08% - +13.04%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +28 34 £475 -5.00% 11
Warwickshire -18 15 £450 -21.88% 4
Coventry +2 10 £286 -50.26% 2
Worcestershire 0 10 £575 +43.75% 7
Solihull 0 6 £445 +28.99%
Shropshire -14 6 £325 +8.33% 8
Staffordshire +5 1 - - 10
Herefordshire - 1 £525 - 1
PowerShell
England

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (34.52%) Confluence
2 12 (14.29%) nginx
3 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.38%) IIS
6 1 (1.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (42.86%) AWS
2 30 (35.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 28 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 28 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 28 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 28 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 25 (29.76%) Azure
5 24 (28.57%) Amazon ELB
6 16 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (15.48%) Route 53
8 12 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
9 5 (5.95%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.95%) SaaS
10 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.76%) GitHub
10 4 (4.76%) IaaS
10 4 (4.76%) PaaS
10 4 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (36.90%) DNS
2 30 (35.71%) Firewall
3 24 (28.57%) SMTP
4 23 (27.38%) SSH
5 22 (26.19%) FTP
5 22 (26.19%) HTTP
6 12 (14.29%) IMAP
6 12 (14.29%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (8.33%) DHCP
8 4 (4.76%) BIG-IP
8 4 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (3.57%) Network Security
10 2 (2.38%) VLAN
10 2 (2.38%) WAN
11 1 (1.19%) BGP
11 1 (1.19%) EIGRP
11 1 (1.19%) IPsec
11 1 (1.19%) OSPF
11 1 (1.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.76%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.76%) Power BI
4 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.57%) Metadata
5 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (41.67%) JIRA
2 27 (32.14%) Jenkins
3 25 (29.76%) Git
4 24 (28.57%) Vagrant
5 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.57%) GitLab
7 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 28 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 13 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.19%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
2 20 (23.81%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (22.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 18 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
4 18 (21.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (11.90%) Administrator
6 10 (11.90%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Analyst
9 5 (5.95%) Network Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Senior
10 4 (4.76%) Consultant
10 4 (4.76%) JIRA Administrator
10 4 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) SCCM Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.48%) LDAP
2 3 (3.57%) .NET
2 3 (3.57%) REST
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Axis
3 2 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.38%) HTML
3 2 (2.38%) JSON
3 2 (2.38%) Middleware
3 2 (2.38%) Software Packaging
3 2 (2.38%) Web Services
3 2 (2.38%) XML
3 2 (2.38%) YAML
4 1 (1.19%) OAuth
4 1 (1.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.76%) Replication
2 4 (4.76%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.19%) PKI
5 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 58 (69.05%) Windows
2 43 (51.19%) Linux
3 24 (28.57%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (28.57%) VMS
4 11 (13.10%) Ubuntu
5 7 (8.33%) Unix
5 7 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.19%) AIX
8 1 (1.19%) Solaris
8 1 (1.19%) SUSE
8 1 (1.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.29%) Cloud Security
1 33 (39.29%) DevOps
2 31 (36.90%) Change Management
3 26 (30.95%) Configuration Management
3 26 (30.95%) Patch Management
4 25 (29.76%) Platform Engineering
5 19 (22.62%) ITIL
6 17 (20.24%) Agile
7 15 (17.86%) CI/CD
7 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (14.29%) Task Automation
10 11 (13.10%) Migration
11 10 (11.90%) SIEM
12 8 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (9.52%) Unit Testing
12 8 (9.52%) Workflow
13 7 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
13 7 (8.33%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 47 (55.95%) Python
2 24 (28.57%) Groovy
3 23 (27.38%) SQL
4 14 (16.67%) Java
5 12 (14.29%) Perl
6 5 (5.95%) Bash
6 5 (5.95%) VBScript
7 4 (4.76%) C#
8 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.38%) Ruby
9 1 (1.19%) Bicep
9 1 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.19%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 39 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.67%) Degree
4 13 (15.48%) AWS Certification
5 10 (11.90%) Azure Certification
6 9 (10.71%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.57%) CISSP
7 3 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.38%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (1.19%) CCNA
9 1 (1.19%) CCNP
9 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.19%) GIAC
9 1 (1.19%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.19%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) SLA
2 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.19%) NCSC
4 1 (1.19%) NIST
4 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (36.90%) Active Directory
2 28 (33.33%) Docker
3 22 (26.19%) DFS Replication
4 12 (14.29%) Dovecot
4 12 (14.29%) Postfix
4 12 (14.29%) Squid
5 4 (4.76%) Firmware
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (35.71%) Terraform
2 29 (34.52%) Grafana
3 27 (32.14%) Prometheus
4 13 (15.48%) SCCM
5 12 (14.29%) Nessus
6 10 (11.90%) Proxmox
7 8 (9.52%) Ansible
8 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
9 3 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.19%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.19%) PowerCLI
11 1 (1.19%) QRadar
11 1 (1.19%) SysTrack
11 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (38.10%) ServiceNow
2 25 (29.76%) Microsoft
3 12 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (10.71%) BeyondTrust
4 9 (10.71%) CyberArk
5 7 (8.33%) VMware
6 6 (7.14%) Cisco
7 5 (5.95%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.76%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.76%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.76%) Dynatrace
8 4 (4.76%) F5
8 4 (4.76%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.57%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.57%) Citrix
9 3 (3.57%) Splunk
9 3 (3.57%) Veeam
10 2 (2.38%) ArcSight
10 2 (2.38%) OpenText
11 1 (1.19%) KANA