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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 48 45
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 79 59 77
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.53% 3.55% 4.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.01% 14.82% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 37 59
10th Percentile £302 £370 £259
25th Percentile £400 £400 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -15.84%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £587
90th Percentile £625 £655 £738
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - £16.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £72.50 £17.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +316.67% -2.70% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £20.24 £19.25
90th Percentile - - £19.50
England median hourly rate £66.00 £56.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year +16.31% +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 564 398 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.18% 23.93% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 240 286
10th Percentile £360 £350 £288
25th Percentile £450 £408 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% +10.56% -11.98%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £600
90th Percentile £634 £689 £688
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 9
10th Percentile £43.00 £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 £63.75 £53.25 £25.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -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 18 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 18 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 28 £475 -13.92% 12
Worcestershire -6 14 £575 +43.75% 7
Warwickshire -6 13 £508 +19.41%
Coventry -19 8 £670 +42.55% 5
Shropshire - 8 £363 - 9
Solihull +1 2 £450 +30.43%
Staffordshire -1 2 £300 -29.41% 10
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 24 (30.38%) Confluence
2 11 (13.92%) nginx
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.27%) Apache
4 1 (1.27%) IIS
4 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.10%) AWS
2 33 (41.77%) Azure
3 23 (29.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 23 (29.11%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (29.11%) Amazon S3
3 23 (29.11%) AWS KMS
3 23 (29.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 19 (24.05%) Amazon ELB
5 17 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (15.19%) Entra ID
6 12 (15.19%) Route 53
7 11 (13.92%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (10.13%) Amazon Glacier
9 6 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.06%) Serverless
11 3 (3.80%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (3.80%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (32.91%) DNS
2 22 (27.85%) Firewall
3 21 (26.58%) SSH
4 19 (24.05%) SMTP
5 18 (22.78%) FTP
5 18 (22.78%) HTTP
6 11 (13.92%) IMAP
6 11 (13.92%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (8.86%) DHCP
8 4 (5.06%) VPN
9 3 (3.80%) Kerberos
10 2 (2.53%) LAN
10 2 (2.53%) WAN
11 1 (1.27%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.27%) NAS
11 1 (1.27%) SAN
11 1 (1.27%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.27%) VLAN
11 1 (1.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.32%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (13.92%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (32.91%) JIRA
2 21 (26.58%) Git
2 21 (26.58%) Jenkins
3 19 (24.05%) Vagrant
4 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.80%) InstallShield
5 3 (3.80%) MSI
6 2 (2.53%) GitLab
7 1 (1.27%) AdminStudio
7 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.58%) Public Sector
3 14 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.72%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (10.13%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.33%) Finance
6 4 (5.06%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (24.05%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (22.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 18 (22.78%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (21.52%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (21.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 9 (11.39%) Administrator
6 9 (11.39%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Architect
8 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Consultant
8 5 (6.33%) Senior
9 4 (5.06%) JIRA Administrator
9 4 (5.06%) Lead
9 4 (5.06%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) SailPoint Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.99%) LDAP
2 6 (7.59%) REST
3 4 (5.06%) Middleware
3 4 (5.06%) OAuth
3 4 (5.06%) SailPoint
3 4 (5.06%) SAML
3 4 (5.06%) SOAP
4 2 (2.53%) YAML
5 1 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.05%) Replication
2 6 (7.59%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.06%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.53%) NHS
6 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) PKI
6 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 59 (74.68%) Windows
2 42 (53.16%) Linux
3 19 (24.05%) Amazon Linux
3 19 (24.05%) VMS
4 11 (13.92%) Ubuntu
4 11 (13.92%) Windows Server
5 8 (10.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (8.86%) Unix
7 5 (6.33%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.80%) AIX
8 3 (3.80%) Solaris
9 1 (1.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.77%) DevOps
2 30 (37.97%) Change Management
2 30 (37.97%) Cloud Security
3 21 (26.58%) Configuration Management
4 19 (24.05%) CI/CD
4 19 (24.05%) Patch Management
4 19 (24.05%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (17.72%) SIEM
6 13 (16.46%) Agile
6 13 (16.46%) ITIL
6 13 (16.46%) Task Automation
7 11 (13.92%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (13.92%) SOAR
8 10 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (11.39%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.13%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (10.13%) Unit Testing
11 7 (8.86%) Regulatory Compliance
11 7 (8.86%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 47 (59.49%) Python
2 19 (24.05%) Groovy
3 15 (18.99%) SQL
4 12 (15.19%) Java
5 10 (12.66%) Bash
6 8 (10.13%) Perl
7 6 (7.59%) VBScript
8 4 (5.06%) BeanShell
9 2 (2.53%) VB
10 1 (1.27%) Bicep
10 1 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.27%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (55.70%) Security Cleared
2 37 (46.84%) SC Cleared
3 17 (21.52%) Degree
4 13 (16.46%) AWS Certification
4 13 (16.46%) Azure Certification
5 6 (7.59%) DV Cleared
5 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (6.33%) CISSP
7 4 (5.06%) CISM
8 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.27%) GIAC
9 1 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.33%) NIST
3 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.80%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) NCSC
4 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (43.04%) Active Directory
2 24 (30.38%) Docker
3 18 (22.78%) DFS Replication
4 11 (13.92%) Dovecot
4 11 (13.92%) Postfix
4 11 (13.92%) Squid
5 4 (5.06%) Firmware
6 3 (3.80%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (2.53%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (31.65%) Terraform
2 23 (29.11%) Grafana
2 23 (29.11%) Prometheus
3 11 (13.92%) Nessus
4 10 (12.66%) Proxmox
4 10 (12.66%) SCCM
5 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.06%) Ansible
6 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.27%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.27%) QRadar
8 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (35.44%) Microsoft
2 24 (30.38%) ServiceNow
3 13 (16.46%) CyberArk
4 11 (13.92%) BeyondTrust
4 11 (13.92%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (11.39%) Splunk
6 8 (10.13%) VMware
7 6 (7.59%) AppDynamics
7 6 (7.59%) Dynatrace
8 5 (6.33%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.53%) ArcSight
9 2 (2.53%) Citrix
9 2 (2.53%) Veeam
10 1 (1.27%) Commvault
10 1 (1.27%) Foundry
10 1 (1.27%) IBM
10 1 (1.27%) iManage
10 1 (1.27%) Proofpoint
10 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds