PowerShell Contracts in the West Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 56 49
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 73 60 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.72% 2.90% 3.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.48% 13.79% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 44 72
10th Percentile £285 £213 £275
25th Percentile £388 £349 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £541 £587 £700
90th Percentile £689 £638 £731
England median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £64.25 £43.84 £60.11
% change year-on-year +46.56% -27.06% +19.73%

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 395 435 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.53% 21.04% 24.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 307 375
10th Percentile £277 £260 £313
25th Percentile £400 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £564 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 8
10th Percentile £28.18 £36.36 £21.73
25th Percentile £33.91 £47.75 £23.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile - £72.50 £98.25
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +17.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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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 6 July 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 +21 30 £513 +36.67% 23
Warwickshire -6 19 £450 -21.88% 4
Coventry +6 10 £286 -31.90% 5
Solihull +10 6 £448 +98.89% 4
Shropshire -1 5 £325 +8.33% 6
Staffordshire - 1 £200 - 20
Herefordshire - 1 £525 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.33%) Confluence
2 5 (6.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.48%) IIS
3 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.74%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.92%) AWS
1 16 (21.92%) Azure
2 14 (19.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 12 (16.44%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (16.44%) Amazon S3
3 12 (16.44%) AWS KMS
3 12 (16.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (13.70%) Entra ID
5 9 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (10.96%) Amazon ELB
7 7 (9.59%) SaaS
8 6 (8.22%) Amazon Glacier
8 6 (8.22%) Power Platform
9 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.48%) IaaS
9 4 (5.48%) PaaS
9 4 (5.48%) Serverless
10 3 (4.11%) GitHub
10 3 (4.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.92%) Firewall
2 15 (20.55%) DNS
3 10 (13.70%) SMTP
4 6 (8.22%) DHCP
4 6 (8.22%) FTP
4 6 (8.22%) HTTP
4 6 (8.22%) SSH
5 4 (5.48%) BIG-IP
5 4 (5.48%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (5.48%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (4.11%) Network Security
7 2 (2.74%) IMAP
7 2 (2.74%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (2.74%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (2.74%) VLAN
7 2 (2.74%) WAN
8 1 (1.37%) BGP
8 1 (1.37%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.37%) LAN
8 1 (1.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.85%) Power BI
3 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.74%) Metadata
5 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (19.18%) JIRA
2 9 (12.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.96%) Git
3 8 (10.96%) Vagrant
4 6 (8.22%) MSI
5 2 (2.74%) GitLab
General
1 29 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.44%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.74%) Automotive
5 2 (2.74%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.22%) SCCM Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Analyst
4 5 (6.85%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Administrator
5 4 (5.48%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Senior
6 3 (4.11%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Administrator
6 3 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.70%) Software Packaging
2 4 (5.48%) .NET
3 3 (4.11%) Apache Axis
3 3 (4.11%) HTML
3 3 (4.11%) Middleware
3 3 (4.11%) REST
4 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.74%) JSON
4 2 (2.74%) LDAP
4 2 (2.74%) Web Services
4 2 (2.74%) XML
5 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Replication
2 4 (5.48%) SCADA
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.74%) PKI
4 2 (2.74%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.37%) CCTV
5 1 (1.37%) Clustering
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (57.53%) Windows
2 21 (28.77%) Linux
3 8 (10.96%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (10.96%) VMS
4 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.48%) Windows 10
6 3 (4.11%) Windows 7
6 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (4.11%) Windows XP
7 2 (2.74%) Android
7 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.74%) Unix
8 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.37%) SUSE
8 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.29%) Agile
2 16 (21.92%) ITIL
3 14 (19.18%) Migration
4 12 (16.44%) DevOps
5 11 (15.07%) Change Management
5 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (15.07%) Patch Management
5 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (12.33%) Cloud Security
6 9 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (10.96%) Configuration Management
8 7 (9.59%) Data Analysis
8 7 (9.59%) Software Delivery
8 7 (9.59%) Software Deployment
9 6 (8.22%) Software Distribution
9 6 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (6.85%) High Availability
10 5 (6.85%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (6.85%) Workflow
11 4 (5.48%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.21%) Python
2 14 (19.18%) SQL
3 9 (12.33%) Bash
3 9 (12.33%) Java
4 8 (10.96%) Groovy
4 8 (10.96%) Perl
5 6 (8.22%) C#
6 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.11%) Ruby
6 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.74%) VBScript
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 32 (43.84%) Security Cleared
2 26 (35.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) CISSP
3 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) Degree
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (4.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (2.74%) CEH
6 2 (2.74%) CISM
6 2 (2.74%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.37%) CCNA
7 1 (1.37%) CCNP
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.37%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) SLA
2 4 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.37%) NCSC
4 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 29 (39.73%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.70%) Docker
3 6 (8.22%) DFS Replication
4 4 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.74%) Dovecot
5 2 (2.74%) Postfix
5 2 (2.74%) Squid
6 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.37%) vSphere
6 1 (1.37%) XenApp
6 1 (1.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (19.18%) Grafana
2 13 (17.81%) Ansible
2 13 (17.81%) SCCM
3 12 (16.44%) Prometheus
3 12 (16.44%) Terraform
4 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.74%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (2.74%) Nessus
8 1 (1.37%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.37%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.37%) SysTrack
8 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (34.25%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.55%) ServiceNow
3 7 (9.59%) VMware
4 6 (8.22%) Cisco
4 6 (8.22%) Tanium
5 5 (6.85%) SolarWinds
6 4 (5.48%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.48%) Citrix
6 4 (5.48%) Dynatrace
6 4 (5.48%) F5
6 4 (5.48%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.11%) AppDynamics
7 3 (4.11%) Dell
7 3 (4.11%) Foundry
7 3 (4.11%) HP
7 3 (4.11%) Veeam
8 2 (2.74%) BMC
8 2 (2.74%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (2.74%) OpenText
8 2 (2.74%) Proofpoint