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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 42 55
Rank change year-on-year -82 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 43 70 60
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.28% 4.66% 2.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.80% 18.13% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 48 44
10th Percentile £409 £284 £213
25th Percentile £449 £397 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -4.00%
75th Percentile £594 £551 £587
90th Percentile £615 £690 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 £53.75 £64.25 £43.84
% change year-on-year -16.34% +46.56% -26.93%

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 742 386 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.06% 25.68% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 240 307
10th Percentile £358 £273 £260
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £564
90th Percentile £625 £638 £638
England median daily rate £519 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -0.16% -3.70% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 22 15
10th Percentile £46.25 £28.18 £36.36
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.91 £47.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £50.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% -13.04% +96.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £58.75
90th Percentile £69.77 - £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +4.00%

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 3 July 2026.

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 3 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 -18 17 £477 +6.00% 2
Birmingham -46 10 £463 -9.76% 9
Coventry -24 6 £488 +70.45%
Herefordshire -3 3 - -
Worcestershire - 2 £568 - 2
Solihull -18 1 £510 +13.97% 3
PowerShell
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 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (11.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (60.47%) Azure
2 18 (41.86%) Entra ID
3 13 (30.23%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (25.58%) AWS
5 10 (23.26%) Power Platform
6 9 (20.93%) GitHub
7 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (11.63%) OpenShift
9 4 (9.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (9.30%) Datadog
10 3 (6.98%) GCP
10 3 (6.98%) OneDrive
11 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
11 2 (4.65%) SaaS
11 2 (4.65%) Serverless
12 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) WAAS
3 2 (4.65%) SMTP
3 2 (4.65%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) DNS
4 1 (2.33%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.33%) NAS
4 1 (2.33%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.33%) Network Security
4 1 (2.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) GitLab
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.30%) MSI
4 3 (6.98%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.65%) Git
6 1 (2.33%) InstallShield
6 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Legal
4 3 (6.98%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Law
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (11.63%) Senior
3 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Security Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Site Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Applications Packager
4 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 2 (4.65%) Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) PowerShell Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Splunk Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (9.30%) REST
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.65%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.65%) FIDO
4 2 (4.65%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.33%) JDBC
5 1 (2.33%) LDAP
5 1 (2.33%) SAML
5 1 (2.33%) SOAP
5 1 (2.33%) Web Services
5 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.30%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.30%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.33%) CMDB
5 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Life Science
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (41.86%) Windows
2 11 (25.58%) Linux
3 5 (11.63%) Mac OS
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (9.30%) Apple iOS
4 4 (9.30%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.33%) AIX
6 1 (2.33%) VMS
6 1 (2.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
4 12 (27.91%) DevOps
5 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
6 10 (23.26%) Agile
7 8 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (18.60%) Migration
7 8 (18.60%) Runbook
8 7 (16.28%) Information Security
8 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (16.28%) ITIL
9 6 (13.95%) Analytics
9 6 (13.95%) Data Protection
9 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (13.95%) Problem Management
9 6 (13.95%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (13.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (51.16%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) Bash
3 4 (9.30%) Go
3 4 (9.30%) SQL
4 3 (6.98%) VBScript
5 2 (4.65%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) BeanShell
6 1 (2.33%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) Java
6 1 (2.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) DV Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.30%) CISSP
4 4 (9.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (6.98%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.98%) CCNA
5 3 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.98%) Degree
5 3 (6.98%) MCSE
5 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.98%) RHCA
6 2 (4.65%) CISM
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.33%) CEH
7 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.30%) NIST
3 3 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (4.65%) GDPR
5 1 (2.33%) GxP
5 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) Active Directory
2 10 (23.26%) Docker
3 7 (16.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (11.63%) Hyper-V
5 4 (9.30%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (4.65%) BitLocker
6 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.33%) Firmware
7 1 (2.33%) KVM
7 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Terraform
2 14 (32.56%) Ansible
3 12 (27.91%) Kubernetes
4 7 (16.28%) SCCM
5 6 (13.95%) Grafana
5 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (11.63%) Progress Chef
6 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
6 5 (11.63%) Puppet
7 3 (6.98%) AirWatch
7 3 (6.98%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (6.98%) Podman
8 2 (4.65%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.33%) Argo
9 1 (2.33%) Istio
9 1 (2.33%) Packer
9 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (2.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (46.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.93%) ServiceNow
2 9 (20.93%) VMware
3 7 (16.28%) Splunk
4 5 (11.63%) Cisco
5 4 (9.30%) Citrix
6 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
6 3 (6.98%) Remedy
7 2 (4.65%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
7 2 (4.65%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (4.65%) MobileIron
7 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.33%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (2.33%) Brocade
8 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.33%) Micro Focus
8 1 (2.33%) Okta
8 1 (2.33%) Tanium
8 1 (2.33%) Workday