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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 46 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +33
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 90 69 88
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.31% 3.67% 4.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.79% 16.31% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 41 68
10th Percentile £314 £375 £259
25th Percentile £409 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +22.35% -15.84%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £575
90th Percentile £618 £627 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £17.65 £17.50
25th Percentile - £18.62 £17.56
Median hourly rate - £20.24 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.41% -
75th Percentile - £47.62 £19.25
90th Percentile - £64.05 £19.50
England median hourly rate £64.07 £58.49 £48.40
% change year-on-year +9.53% +20.85% -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 536 423 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.65% 22.49% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 252 313
10th Percentile £360 £350 £277
25th Percentile £449 £409 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% +10.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £600
90th Percentile £633 £662 £700
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 9
10th Percentile £33.91 £18.94 £17.43
25th Percentile £46.50 £23.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.93 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.36% +83.41% -42.19%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £19.25
90th Percentile - £66.00 £25.80
England median hourly rate £63.32 £65.00 £61.92
% change year-on-year -2.59% +4.97% +0.68%

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 17 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 17 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 +13 36 £475 -7.32% 18
Worcestershire -2 13 £575 +43.75% 2
Warwickshire -17 12 £508 -11.89% 4
Coventry -14 10 £369 -22.37% 3
Shropshire - 8 £363 -
Solihull +8 4 £450 +30.43% 3
Staffordshire +1 2 £300 -29.41% 9
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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 12 (13.33%) nginx
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.11%) IIS
5 1 (1.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (43.33%) AWS
2 31 (34.44%) Azure
3 29 (32.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 28 (31.11%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (31.11%) Amazon S3
4 28 (31.11%) AWS KMS
4 28 (31.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 24 (26.67%) Amazon ELB
6 17 (18.89%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (14.44%) Route 53
8 12 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (13.33%) Amazon Glacier
9 10 (11.11%) Entra ID
10 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.56%) SaaS
12 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.44%) IaaS
12 4 (4.44%) PaaS
12 4 (4.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (37.78%) DNS
1 34 (37.78%) Firewall
2 25 (27.78%) SSH
3 24 (26.67%) SMTP
4 22 (24.44%) FTP
4 22 (24.44%) HTTP
5 12 (13.33%) IMAP
5 12 (13.33%) OpenLDAP
6 9 (10.00%) DHCP
7 4 (4.44%) BIG-IP
7 4 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (4.44%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (4.44%) VPN
8 3 (3.33%) Kerberos
8 3 (3.33%) Network Security
8 3 (3.33%) WAN
9 2 (2.22%) LAN
9 2 (2.22%) VLAN
10 1 (1.11%) IPsec
10 1 (1.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.33%) Metadata
4 3 (3.33%) Power BI
5 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (41.11%) JIRA
2 26 (28.89%) Git
2 26 (28.89%) Jenkins
3 24 (26.67%) Vagrant
4 4 (4.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.22%) InstallShield
5 2 (2.22%) MSI
6 1 (1.11%) AdminStudio
6 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.11%) GitLab
6 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.89%) Public Sector
3 14 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.56%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Legal
6 3 (3.33%) Finance
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (21.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 19 (21.11%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 18 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 9 (10.00%) Administrator
8 6 (6.67%) Consultant
9 5 (5.56%) Analyst
9 5 (5.56%) Network Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Senior
10 4 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) JIRA Administrator
10 4 (4.44%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Management Consultant
11 3 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) LDAP
2 5 (5.56%) REST
3 3 (3.33%) OAuth
3 3 (3.33%) SAML
3 3 (3.33%) YAML
4 2 (2.22%) JSON
4 2 (2.22%) SailPoint
4 2 (2.22%) SOAP
4 2 (2.22%) XML
5 1 (1.11%) .NET
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.11%) Middleware
5 1 (1.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.56%) Replication
2 4 (4.44%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.22%) NHS
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) PKI
5 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (72.22%) Windows
2 47 (52.22%) Linux
3 24 (26.67%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (26.67%) VMS
4 11 (12.22%) Ubuntu
4 11 (12.22%) Windows Server
5 7 (7.78%) Unix
6 5 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.33%) AIX
8 3 (3.33%) Solaris
9 1 (1.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 35 (38.89%) DevOps
3 31 (34.44%) Change Management
4 26 (28.89%) Configuration Management
5 24 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
6 22 (24.44%) Patch Management
7 20 (22.22%) Agile
8 16 (17.78%) CI/CD
9 15 (16.67%) ITIL
10 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (14.44%) Migration
11 13 (14.44%) Task Automation
12 12 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (12.22%) SIEM
14 8 (8.89%) Identity Access Management
14 8 (8.89%) SOAR
14 8 (8.89%) Unit Testing
15 7 (7.78%) Regulatory Compliance
15 7 (7.78%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 49 (54.44%) Python
2 24 (26.67%) Groovy
3 17 (18.89%) SQL
4 14 (15.56%) Java
5 12 (13.33%) Perl
6 9 (10.00%) Bash
7 5 (5.56%) VBScript
8 2 (2.22%) BeanShell
8 2 (2.22%) Bicep
9 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.11%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (52.22%) Security Cleared
2 40 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.67%) Degree
4 14 (15.56%) AWS Certification
5 13 (14.44%) Azure Certification
6 8 (8.89%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.33%) CISSP
9 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (2.22%) CISM
9 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.11%) CCNA
10 1 (1.11%) CCNP
10 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.11%) GIAC
10 1 (1.11%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.11%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.44%) NIST
3 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.33%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.11%) NCSC
5 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (43.33%) Active Directory
2 27 (30.00%) Docker
3 22 (24.44%) DFS Replication
4 12 (13.33%) Dovecot
4 12 (13.33%) Postfix
4 12 (13.33%) Squid
5 4 (4.44%) Firmware
6 3 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (33.33%) Terraform
2 26 (28.89%) Grafana
2 26 (28.89%) Prometheus
3 12 (13.33%) Nessus
3 12 (13.33%) SCCM
4 10 (11.11%) Proxmox
5 7 (7.78%) Ansible
6 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.11%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.11%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.11%) QRadar
8 1 (1.11%) SysTrack
8 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (36.67%) ServiceNow
2 29 (32.22%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.33%) CyberArk
3 12 (13.33%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (12.22%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (8.89%) VMware
6 6 (6.67%) Cisco
7 5 (5.56%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.56%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.44%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.44%) Citrix
8 4 (4.44%) F5
8 4 (4.44%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.33%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
9 3 (3.33%) Splunk
10 2 (2.22%) ArcSight
10 2 (2.22%) OpenText
10 2 (2.22%) Veeam
11 1 (1.11%) Google