PowerShell Contracts in the West Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 62 49
Rank change year-on-year +23 -13 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 62 49 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.61% 2.52% 4.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.08% 11.53% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 35 80
10th Percentile £345 £213 £300
25th Percentile £440 £350 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.60% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £689 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £638 £714
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £16.85 - -
25th Percentile £17.00 - -
Median hourly rate £18.00 - -
75th Percentile £20.24 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £59.90
% change year-on-year -27.50% -33.22% +19.80%

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 343 425 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.50% 21.83% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 308 439
10th Percentile £235 £260 £362
25th Percentile £401 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £689 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 8
10th Percentile £16.85 £40.10 £21.73
25th Percentile £17.87 £55.00 £23.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%
75th Percentile £31.33 £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £33.91 £69.75 £98.25
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the West Midlands

PowerShell
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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 1 May 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 +15 25 £650 +67.74% 17
Warwickshire +18 18 £450 +26.32% 12
Coventry +5 8 £460 +17.95% 6
Staffordshire +6 6 £200 -46.67% 22
Solihull +16 1 £460 +104.44% 1
Shropshire -4 1 - - 3
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 12 (19.35%) SharePoint
2 7 (11.29%) IIS
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (19.35%) Azure
3 11 (17.74%) Entra ID
4 7 (11.29%) Power Platform
4 7 (11.29%) PowerApps
5 6 (9.68%) Power Automate
6 5 (8.06%) ShareGate
7 3 (4.84%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.23%) AWS
8 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.23%) GitHub
8 2 (3.23%) SaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Akamai
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.61%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.61%) GCP
9 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Firewall
1 3 (4.84%) NetScaler
2 2 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (3.23%) SMTP
2 2 (3.23%) SSL
3 1 (1.61%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) EDRMS
2 2 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.23%) Power BI
2 2 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) MSI
2 1 (1.61%) GitLab
2 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Legal
3 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Local Government
6 1 (1.61%) Finance
6 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (9.68%) Senior
2 5 (8.06%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (8.06%) Support Officer
3 4 (6.45%) Active Directory Engineer
3 4 (6.45%) Architect
3 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (6.45%) Developer
3 4 (6.45%) ICT Officer
3 4 (6.45%) ICT Support
3 4 (6.45%) ICT Support Officer
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 4 (6.45%) Senior ICT Officer
4 3 (4.84%) Administrator
4 3 (4.84%) Analyst
4 3 (4.84%) Applications Support
4 3 (4.84%) Applications Support Engineer
4 3 (4.84%) Consultant
4 3 (4.84%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (4.84%) Software Developer
4 3 (4.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.52%) HTML
2 8 (12.90%) Middleware
2 8 (12.90%) Software Packaging
3 4 (6.45%) React
4 3 (4.84%) .NET
4 3 (4.84%) Apache Axis
4 3 (4.84%) CSS
4 3 (4.84%) SPFx
5 2 (3.23%) LDAP
5 2 (3.23%) OAuth
5 2 (3.23%) SAML
5 2 (3.23%) Web Services
6 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.61%) REST
6 1 (1.61%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) SCADA
2 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.23%) PKI
3 2 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.61%) CCTV
4 1 (1.61%) Clustering
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (41.94%) Windows
2 6 (9.68%) Linux
2 6 (9.68%) Windows 10
2 6 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.84%) Windows 7
3 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (4.84%) Windows XP
4 2 (3.23%) Android
4 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.23%) Unix
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (17.74%) Migration
3 9 (14.52%) Agile
4 8 (12.90%) ITIL
4 8 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (11.29%) Incident Management
5 7 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (11.29%) Software Delivery
5 7 (11.29%) Software Deployment
6 6 (9.68%) Software Distribution
7 5 (8.06%) Data Analysis
7 5 (8.06%) Task Automation
8 4 (6.45%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (6.45%) DevOps
8 4 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (6.45%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (6.45%) Project Management
8 4 (6.45%) RBAC
8 4 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (4.84%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) Python
2 10 (16.13%) SQL
3 9 (14.52%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.90%) Bash
5 6 (9.68%) C#
6 4 (6.45%) Perl
6 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.84%) Java
7 3 (4.84%) Ruby
7 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (37.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) CISSP
4 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.84%) CEH
5 3 (4.84%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (4.84%) Degree
6 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.23%) CISM
6 2 (3.23%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.61%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.61%) GIAC
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.61%) NCSC
2 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 22 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.61%) Docker
3 1 (1.61%) vSphere
3 1 (1.61%) XenApp
3 1 (1.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) SCCM
2 8 (12.90%) Ansible
3 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (8.06%) Grafana
5 4 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.23%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (3.23%) Terraform
8 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (46.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Tanium
3 5 (8.06%) Dell
3 5 (8.06%) HP
3 5 (8.06%) VMware
4 3 (4.84%) Foundry
5 2 (3.23%) BMC
5 2 (3.23%) IBM
5 2 (3.23%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.61%) Apple
6 1 (1.61%) Citrix
6 1 (1.61%) F5
6 1 (1.61%) Imperva
6 1 (1.61%) Okta
6 1 (1.61%) Veeam