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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -89 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 41 76 63
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.18% 4.61% 3.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.23% 18.86% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 51 45
10th Percentile £409 £300 £329
25th Percentile £453 £373 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% +10.77%
75th Percentile £600 £491 £585
90th Percentile £731 £588 £638
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -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 £55.00 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.84% +16.21%

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 784 403 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.66% 24.42% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 250 268
10th Percentile £363 £249 £312
25th Percentile £413 £382 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £453 £473
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -4.06% -5.50%
75th Percentile £538 £524 £575
90th Percentile £638 £613 £638
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 11
10th Percentile £21.25 £28.18 £33.93
25th Percentile £29.38 £33.91 £40.25
Median hourly rate £58.00 £50.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -11.11% +128.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +5.94%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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
Warwickshire -23 13 £477 +6.00% 3
Birmingham -36 11 £525 +10.53% 8
Coventry -27 6 £488 +70.45% 3
Herefordshire 0 4 - - 2
Worcestershire -4 2 £568 -1.30% 3
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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 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.88%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (60.98%) Azure
2 15 (36.59%) AWS
3 13 (31.71%) Entra ID
3 13 (31.71%) GitHub
4 10 (24.39%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (24.39%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (21.95%) Power Platform
6 7 (17.07%) OpenShift
7 6 (14.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (14.63%) Datadog
8 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (7.32%) GCP
9 3 (7.32%) OneDrive
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (4.88%) Power Automate
10 2 (4.88%) SaaS
10 2 (4.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
1 2 (4.88%) SMTP
1 2 (4.88%) VPN
1 2 (4.88%) WAAS
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (2.44%) NAS
2 1 (2.44%) NetScaler
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) GitLab
2 10 (24.39%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.76%) MSI
4 3 (7.32%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.88%) Git
6 1 (2.44%) InstallShield
6 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Legal
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Finance
5 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Law
6 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (14.63%) Site Engineer
1 6 (14.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (9.76%) Lead
3 3 (7.32%) Applications Packager
3 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Consultant
4 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) PowerShell Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Python Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (9.76%) REST
3 2 (4.88%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (4.88%) FIDO
3 2 (4.88%) YAML
4 1 (2.44%) .NET
4 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.44%) JDBC
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (14.63%) Private Cloud
3 5 (12.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
5 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
5 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.44%) CMDB
7 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.44%) Replication
7 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Windows
2 14 (34.15%) Linux
3 6 (14.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (9.76%) Mac OS
5 3 (7.32%) Apple iOS
5 3 (7.32%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.44%) AIX
7 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (39.02%) Containerisation
2 16 (39.02%) DevOps
3 15 (36.59%) CI/CD
4 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (24.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (24.39%) Runbook
6 9 (21.95%) Agile
6 9 (21.95%) Data Protection
7 8 (19.51%) Observability
7 8 (19.51%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (19.51%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (17.07%) Information Security
8 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (17.07%) Migration
8 7 (17.07%) Problem Management
8 7 (17.07%) Task Automation
9 6 (14.63%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) Python
2 16 (39.02%) Bash
3 6 (14.63%) Go
4 3 (7.32%) SQL
4 3 (7.32%) VBScript
5 2 (4.88%) Bicep
6 1 (2.44%) BeanShell
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) Java
6 1 (2.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 12 (29.27%) DV Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (9.76%) CCNA
4 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.76%) MCSE
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (9.76%) RHCA
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Certification
5 3 (7.32%) CISSP
6 2 (4.88%) Degree
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.44%) CISM
7 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 3 (7.32%) NIST
4 2 (4.88%) GDPR
5 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Docker
2 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
3 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (14.63%) Hyper-V
5 4 (9.76%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.44%) BitLocker
7 1 (2.44%) Firmware
7 1 (2.44%) KVM
7 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (46.34%) Terraform
2 18 (43.90%) Ansible
3 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
4 9 (21.95%) Grafana
5 8 (19.51%) Prometheus
6 7 (17.07%) Progress Chef
6 7 (17.07%) Puppet
7 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (14.63%) SCCM
8 4 (9.76%) Podman
9 2 (4.88%) AirWatch
9 2 (4.88%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (4.88%) PowerCLI
10 1 (2.44%) Argo
10 1 (2.44%) Istio
10 1 (2.44%) Packer
10 1 (2.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.95%) Splunk
2 9 (21.95%) VMware
3 7 (17.07%) ServiceNow
4 6 (14.63%) Cisco
5 5 (12.20%) Citrix
6 4 (9.76%) Atlassian
7 3 (7.32%) Remedy
8 2 (4.88%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (4.88%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.44%) BMC
9 1 (2.44%) Brocade
9 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.44%) Dell
9 1 (2.44%) Isilon
9 1 (2.44%) Micro Focus
9 1 (2.44%) MobileIron
9 1 (2.44%) NetApp
9 1 (2.44%) Tanium