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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 37 53
Rank change year-on-year -88 +16 -10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 44 86 61
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.28% 4.93% 3.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.95% 19.55% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 54 38
10th Percentile £409 £302 £337
25th Percentile £470 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% - +20.58%
75th Percentile £600 £518 £582
90th Percentile £731 £592 £627
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
75th Percentile £67.84 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -2.87% +4.84% +9.76%

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 739 440 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.46% 25.21% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 272 268
10th Percentile £367 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -2.40% -
75th Percentile £570 £539 £575
90th Percentile £656 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 7
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.25 £32.51
25th Percentile £25.00 £33.91 £34.47
Median hourly rate £56.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +129.17%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £65.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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

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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 28 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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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 28 August 2026. 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 -33 15 £493 +3.68% 18
Warwickshire -12 12 £485 +7.78% 2
Herefordshire +3 5 - -
Coventry -28 4 £570 +99.30% 3
Worcestershire -4 3 £575 -1.08% 4
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England

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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 10 (22.73%) SharePoint
2 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (6.82%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) Confluence
4 1 (2.27%) IIS
4 1 (2.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (56.82%) Azure
2 17 (38.64%) Entra ID
3 16 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (34.09%) AWS
5 12 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (27.27%) GitHub
6 10 (22.73%) Power Platform
7 8 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (13.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 6 (13.64%) Datadog
8 6 (13.64%) OneDrive
8 6 (13.64%) OpenShift
9 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (6.82%) GCP
10 3 (6.82%) Power Automate
11 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (4.55%) SaaS
11 2 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (4.55%) SAN
2 2 (4.55%) SMTP
2 2 (4.55%) WAAS
3 1 (2.27%) DHCP
3 1 (2.27%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.27%) LAN
3 1 (2.27%) NAS
3 1 (2.27%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.27%) Skype
3 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) Power BI
2 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) GitLab
2 10 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.55%) MSI
5 1 (2.27%) Git
5 1 (2.27%) JIRA
5 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Legal
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Site Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) PowerShell Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Lead
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Cisco Voice Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Consultant
6 3 (6.82%) Voice Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (4.55%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior
7 2 (4.55%) Splunk Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (43.18%) Terraform
2 7 (15.91%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (11.36%) REST
4 3 (6.82%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (4.55%) FIDO
5 2 (4.55%) YAML
6 1 (2.27%) .NET
6 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.27%) JDBC
6 1 (2.27%) JSON
6 1 (2.27%) OAuth
6 1 (2.27%) OpenID
6 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
6 1 (2.27%) SAML
6 1 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (13.64%) Private Cloud
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (11.36%) Management Information System
4 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
6 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.27%) CMDB
7 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (47.73%) Windows
2 15 (34.09%) Linux
3 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (9.09%) Mac OS
5 3 (6.82%) Apple iOS
5 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.27%) AIX
6 1 (2.27%) CentOS
6 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.27%) VMS
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (38.64%) DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 16 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (34.09%) CI/CD
5 9 (20.45%) Data Protection
5 9 (20.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (20.45%) Observability
5 9 (20.45%) Runbook
6 8 (18.18%) Agile
6 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (15.91%) Analytics
7 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (15.91%) Information Security
7 7 (15.91%) ITIL
7 7 (15.91%) Migration
7 7 (15.91%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (15.91%) Problem Management
7 7 (15.91%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (52.27%) Python
2 17 (38.64%) Bash
3 6 (13.64%) Go
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) Bicep
5 2 (4.55%) VBScript
6 1 (2.27%) BeanShell
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.82%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.36%) Degree
5 4 (9.09%) CCNA
5 4 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (9.09%) MCSE
5 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (9.09%) RHCA
5 4 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Certification
6 3 (6.82%) CISSP
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.27%) CISM
8 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (11.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (6.82%) NIST
4 2 (4.55%) QA
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 11 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (13.64%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (2.27%) BitLocker
6 1 (2.27%) Firmware
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 17 (38.64%) Ansible
3 9 (20.45%) Grafana
3 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 7 (15.91%) Progress Chef
5 7 (15.91%) Puppet
6 5 (11.36%) SCCM
7 4 (9.09%) Podman
8 2 (4.55%) AirWatch
8 2 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (2.27%) Argo
9 1 (2.27%) Istio
9 1 (2.27%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (2.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 20 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (27.27%) Splunk
3 9 (20.45%) Cisco
3 9 (20.45%) VMware
4 6 (13.64%) ServiceNow
5 4 (9.09%) Atlassian
6 3 (6.82%) Citrix
6 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.82%) Remedy
6 3 (6.82%) Ribbon
7 2 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.27%) BMC
8 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.27%) Isilon
8 1 (2.27%) Micro Focus
8 1 (2.27%) MobileIron
8 1 (2.27%) NetApp
8 1 (2.27%) Proofpoint
8 1 (2.27%) Tanium