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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 53 45
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +13
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 82 60 74
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.56% 3.58% 4.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.41% 14.63% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 36 53
10th Percentile £300 £369 £259
25th Percentile £375 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% -15.84%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £663 £718
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +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 £67.70 £56.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year +19.31% +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 569 410 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.71% 24.49% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 239 285
10th Percentile £358 £352 £294
25th Percentile £449 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £637 £700 £688
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £40.20 £16.98 £17.43
25th Percentile £46.50 £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 £56.88 £33.44 £19.25
90th Percentile £69.25 £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 27 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 27 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 -1 28 £475 -12.23% 26
Warwickshire -7 16 £480 +12.94% 4
Worcestershire -5 14 £575 +43.75% 12
Coventry -15 8 £670 +42.55% 3
Shropshire - 8 £363 - 10
Staffordshire 0 3 £344 -19.12% 15
Solihull +2 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 22 (26.83%) Confluence
2 10 (12.20%) nginx
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.22%) Apache
4 1 (1.22%) IIS
4 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (47.56%) AWS
2 36 (43.90%) Azure
3 21 (25.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (25.61%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (25.61%) Amazon S3
3 21 (25.61%) AWS KMS
3 21 (25.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 17 (20.73%) Amazon ELB
5 16 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (14.63%) Entra ID
7 11 (13.41%) Route 53
8 10 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (8.54%) Amazon Glacier
10 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.32%) Datadog
10 6 (7.32%) GCP
11 4 (4.88%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.88%) Serverless
12 3 (3.66%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.49%) DNS
2 21 (25.61%) Firewall
3 20 (24.39%) SSH
4 17 (20.73%) FTP
4 17 (20.73%) HTTP
4 17 (20.73%) SMTP
5 10 (12.20%) IMAP
5 10 (12.20%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (8.54%) DHCP
7 4 (4.88%) VPN
8 3 (3.66%) Kerberos
9 2 (2.44%) LAN
9 2 (2.44%) WAN
10 1 (1.22%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.22%) NAS
10 1 (1.22%) SAN
10 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.22%) VLAN
10 1 (1.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.95%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (12.20%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.22%) Metadata
4 1 (1.22%) MySQL
4 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (29.27%) JIRA
2 19 (23.17%) Git
2 19 (23.17%) Jenkins
3 17 (20.73%) Vagrant
4 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.66%) GitLab
5 3 (3.66%) InstallShield
5 3 (3.66%) MSI
6 1 (1.22%) AdminStudio
6 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.22%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.39%) Public Sector
3 17 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (17.07%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.10%) Finance
7 4 (4.88%) Legal
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (23.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (21.95%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (20.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 17 (20.73%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (19.51%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (19.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.20%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 9 (10.98%) Administrator
7 8 (9.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Architect
10 5 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Consultant
10 5 (6.10%) Senior
11 4 (4.88%) JIRA Administrator
11 4 (4.88%) Lead
11 4 (4.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) SailPoint Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Security Engineer
12 3 (3.66%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.07%) LDAP
2 8 (9.76%) Middleware
3 6 (7.32%) REST
4 4 (4.88%) OAuth
4 4 (4.88%) SailPoint
4 4 (4.88%) SAML
4 4 (4.88%) SOAP
5 2 (2.44%) YAML
6 1 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.22%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.95%) Replication
2 10 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.88%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.44%) NHS
7 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.22%) PKI
7 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 59 (71.95%) Windows
2 41 (50.00%) Linux
3 17 (20.73%) Amazon Linux
3 17 (20.73%) VMS
4 11 (13.41%) Ubuntu
4 11 (13.41%) Windows Server
5 8 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (8.54%) Unix
7 5 (6.10%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.66%) AIX
8 3 (3.66%) Solaris
9 1 (1.22%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (42.68%) DevOps
2 31 (37.80%) Change Management
3 28 (34.15%) Cloud Security
4 22 (26.83%) CI/CD
5 19 (23.17%) Configuration Management
6 18 (21.95%) Patch Management
7 17 (20.73%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (19.51%) ITIL
9 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.07%) SIEM
9 14 (17.07%) Task Automation
10 13 (15.85%) Agile
11 12 (14.63%) Mentoring
12 11 (13.41%) SOAR
13 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (9.76%) Identity Access Management
14 8 (9.76%) Unit Testing
15 7 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
15 7 (8.54%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 49 (59.76%) Python
2 17 (20.73%) Groovy
3 14 (17.07%) SQL
4 13 (15.85%) Bash
5 11 (13.41%) Java
6 7 (8.54%) Perl
7 6 (7.32%) VBScript
8 4 (4.88%) BeanShell
9 2 (2.44%) VB
10 1 (1.22%) Bicep
10 1 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.22%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (56.10%) Security Cleared
2 39 (47.56%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.73%) Degree
4 13 (15.85%) AWS Certification
4 13 (15.85%) Azure Certification
5 6 (7.32%) DV Cleared
5 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (6.10%) CISSP
7 4 (4.88%) CISM
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.22%) GIAC
9 1 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.32%) NIST
3 3 (3.66%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.66%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.22%) GDPR
4 1 (1.22%) NCSC
4 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (40.24%) Active Directory
2 25 (30.49%) Docker
3 17 (20.73%) DFS Replication
4 10 (12.20%) Dovecot
4 10 (12.20%) Postfix
4 10 (12.20%) Squid
5 4 (4.88%) Firmware
6 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (29.27%) Grafana
1 24 (29.27%) Prometheus
2 23 (28.05%) Terraform
3 10 (12.20%) Nessus
3 10 (12.20%) Proxmox
3 10 (12.20%) SCCM
4 8 (9.76%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.88%) Ansible
5 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.22%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.22%) QRadar
7 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (34.15%) Microsoft
2 22 (26.83%) ServiceNow
3 14 (17.07%) CyberArk
4 12 (14.63%) Splunk
5 11 (13.41%) BeyondTrust
6 10 (12.20%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (10.98%) AppDynamics
7 9 (10.98%) Dynatrace
8 8 (9.76%) VMware
9 5 (6.10%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.44%) ArcSight
10 2 (2.44%) Citrix
10 2 (2.44%) Veeam
11 1 (1.22%) Commvault
11 1 (1.22%) Foundry
11 1 (1.22%) Google
11 1 (1.22%) IBM
11 1 (1.22%) Proofpoint
11 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.22%) SolarWinds