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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 51 39
Rank change year-on-year -7 -12 +34
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 86 62 89
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.27% 3.28% 4.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.44% 14.45% 20.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 37 69
10th Percentile £303 £370 £257
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £544 £582 £575
90th Percentile £597 £627 £740
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £17.50
25th Percentile - £65.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +278.38% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £19.25
90th Percentile - - £19.50
England median hourly rate £64.07 £63.93 £49.73
% change year-on-year +0.21% +28.56% -9.58%

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 523 429 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.99% 22.72% 22.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 255 313
10th Percentile £358 £335 £292
25th Percentile £449 £403 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -12.62%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £627 £659 £700
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 9
10th Percentile £33.91 £34.25 £17.43
25th Percentile - £34.73 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +156.76% -58.89%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £19.25
90th Percentile - £70.50 £25.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.79%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 +12 34 £475 -5.00% 13
Warwickshire -17 13 £480 -16.67% 2
Worcestershire -1 12 £575 +43.75% 2
Coventry -8 10 £286 -45.52% 1
Shropshire - 9 £363 -
Solihull +1 6 £445 +28.99% 1
Staffordshire +3 1 - - 7
Herefordshire - 1 £525 - 1
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 30 (34.88%) Confluence
2 12 (13.95%) nginx
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.16%) IIS
4 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (13.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.19%) AWS
2 29 (33.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 29 (33.72%) Azure
3 28 (32.56%) Amazon EC2
3 28 (32.56%) Amazon S3
3 28 (32.56%) AWS KMS
3 28 (32.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 24 (27.91%) Amazon ELB
5 16 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (15.12%) Route 53
7 12 (13.95%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (13.95%) Amazon Glacier
8 7 (8.14%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.81%) SaaS
10 4 (4.65%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.65%) IaaS
10 4 (4.65%) PaaS
10 4 (4.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (39.53%) Firewall
2 33 (38.37%) DNS
3 25 (29.07%) SSH
4 24 (27.91%) SMTP
5 22 (25.58%) FTP
5 22 (25.58%) HTTP
6 12 (13.95%) IMAP
6 12 (13.95%) OpenLDAP
7 9 (10.47%) DHCP
8 4 (4.65%) BIG-IP
8 4 (4.65%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (4.65%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (4.65%) VPN
9 3 (3.49%) Kerberos
9 3 (3.49%) Network Security
9 3 (3.49%) WAN
10 2 (2.33%) LAN
10 2 (2.33%) VLAN
11 1 (1.16%) EIGRP
11 1 (1.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.07%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (15.12%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (13.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.49%) Metadata
4 3 (3.49%) Power BI
4 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (41.86%) JIRA
2 26 (30.23%) Git
2 26 (30.23%) Jenkins
3 24 (27.91%) Vagrant
4 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.33%) GitLab
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.16%) InstallShield
6 1 (1.16%) MSI
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 26 (30.23%) Public Sector
3 15 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (16.28%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Legal
7 2 (2.33%) Automotive
7 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.16%) Finance
8 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (23.26%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (22.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 19 (22.09%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (20.93%) AWS DevOps
4 18 (20.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 9 (10.47%) Administrator
8 6 (6.98%) Consultant
9 5 (5.81%) Network Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Senior
10 4 (4.65%) Analyst
10 4 (4.65%) JIRA Administrator
10 4 (4.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) SCCM Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Applications Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) AWS Administrator
11 3 (3.49%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) LDAP
2 3 (3.49%) OAuth
2 3 (3.49%) REST
2 3 (3.49%) SAML
2 3 (3.49%) YAML
3 2 (2.33%) JSON
3 2 (2.33%) Software Packaging
3 2 (2.33%) XML
4 1 (1.16%) .NET
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.07%) Replication
2 4 (4.65%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) NHS
4 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.16%) PKI
5 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (74.42%) Windows
2 45 (52.33%) Linux
3 24 (27.91%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (27.91%) VMS
4 11 (12.79%) Ubuntu
5 10 (11.63%) Windows Server
6 7 (8.14%) Unix
7 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (3.49%) AIX
8 3 (3.49%) Solaris
9 2 (2.33%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.16%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.70%) Cloud Security
2 33 (38.37%) DevOps
3 31 (36.05%) Change Management
4 26 (30.23%) Configuration Management
5 25 (29.07%) Patch Management
6 24 (27.91%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (20.93%) ITIL
8 17 (19.77%) Agile
9 15 (17.44%) CI/CD
10 14 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (13.95%) Task Automation
13 11 (12.79%) Migration
14 10 (11.63%) SIEM
15 8 (9.30%) Identity Access Management
15 8 (9.30%) Unit Testing
16 7 (8.14%) Application Packaging
16 7 (8.14%) Regulatory Compliance
16 7 (8.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 47 (54.65%) Python
2 24 (27.91%) Groovy
3 19 (22.09%) SQL
4 12 (13.95%) Java
4 12 (13.95%) Perl
5 9 (10.47%) Bash
6 6 (6.98%) VBScript
7 2 (2.33%) Bicep
8 1 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.16%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (54.65%) Security Cleared
2 40 (46.51%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.44%) AWS Certification
4 12 (13.95%) Azure Certification
5 11 (12.79%) Degree
6 8 (9.30%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.16%) CCNA
9 1 (1.16%) CCNP
9 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.16%) CISSP
9 1 (1.16%) GIAC
9 1 (1.16%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.16%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (5.81%) SLA
2 3 (3.49%) NIST
2 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.49%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (40.70%) Active Directory
2 27 (31.40%) Docker
3 22 (25.58%) DFS Replication
4 12 (13.95%) Dovecot
4 12 (13.95%) Postfix
4 12 (13.95%) Squid
5 4 (4.65%) Firmware
6 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (33.72%) Terraform
2 26 (30.23%) Grafana
2 26 (30.23%) Prometheus
3 14 (16.28%) SCCM
4 12 (13.95%) Nessus
5 10 (11.63%) Proxmox
6 7 (8.14%) Ansible
7 3 (3.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.16%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.16%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.16%) QRadar
8 1 (1.16%) SysTrack
8 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (37.21%) ServiceNow
2 26 (30.23%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.95%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (12.79%) BeyondTrust
4 11 (12.79%) CyberArk
5 8 (9.30%) VMware
6 6 (6.98%) Cisco
7 5 (5.81%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.65%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.65%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.65%) Citrix
8 4 (4.65%) Dynatrace
8 4 (4.65%) F5
8 4 (4.65%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.49%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.49%) Splunk
10 2 (2.33%) ArcSight
10 2 (2.33%) OpenText
10 2 (2.33%) Veeam
11 1 (1.16%) KANA