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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 41 44
Rank change year-on-year -34 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 72 63 66
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.04% 4.01% 3.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.20% 15.87% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 40 44
10th Percentile £294 £361 £259
25th Percentile £400 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £689 £638
90th Percentile £620 £700 £715
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £16.85 £17.58
25th Percentile £72.50 £17.00 £17.69
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £56.75 £45.01
% change year-on-year +30.87% +26.07% -18.16%

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 590 397 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.88% 25.25% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 228 294
10th Percentile £386 £356 £263
25th Percentile £456 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £575
90th Percentile £633 £700 £675
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 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £53.25 £61.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -10 26 £500 -20.95% 4
Warwickshire -2 18 £393 -7.50% 3
Worcestershire -9 10 £575 +43.75% 4
Coventry -18 7 £670 +42.55% 2
Shropshire - 4 £400 - 3
Staffordshire -2 3 £344 +71.88% 5
Solihull 0 2 £510 +47.83%
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 16 (22.22%) Confluence
2 8 (11.11%) nginx
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.22%) Azure
2 30 (41.67%) AWS
3 16 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
4 12 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 12 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 12 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 12 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (11.11%) Route 53
6 7 (9.72%) Datadog
6 7 (9.72%) GCP
7 4 (5.56%) Amazon Glacier
7 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.78%) GitHub
9 1 (1.39%) IaaS
9 1 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.61%) Firewall
2 16 (22.22%) DNS
3 14 (19.44%) SSH
4 12 (16.67%) FTP
4 12 (16.67%) HTTP
4 12 (16.67%) SMTP
5 8 (11.11%) IMAP
5 8 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (5.56%) VPN
7 3 (4.17%) DHCP
8 2 (2.78%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.39%) LAN
9 1 (1.39%) NAS
9 1 (1.39%) SAN
9 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.39%) WAAS
9 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.39%) MySQL
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Power BI
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (23.61%) JIRA
2 14 (19.44%) Git
2 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 12 (16.67%) Vagrant
4 3 (4.17%) GitLab
4 3 (4.17%) InstallShield
4 3 (4.17%) MSI
5 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.39%) AdminStudio
6 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.39%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.94%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.94%) Finance
6 3 (4.17%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) AWS Engineer
1 13 (18.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 12 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (15.28%) AWS DevOps
3 11 (15.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Architect
6 6 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Security Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Senior
8 4 (5.56%) Consultant
8 4 (5.56%) Lead
8 4 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) SailPoint Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Analyst
9 3 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) CyberArk Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) LDAP
2 10 (13.89%) Middleware
3 5 (6.94%) REST
4 4 (5.56%) SailPoint
4 4 (5.56%) SOAP
5 3 (4.17%) OAuth
5 3 (4.17%) SAML
6 2 (2.78%) YAML
7 1 (1.39%) .NET
7 1 (1.39%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.39%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 12 (16.67%) Replication
2 7 (9.72%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.78%) Life Science
4 2 (2.78%) NHS
4 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (66.67%) Windows
2 31 (43.06%) Linux
3 12 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (16.67%) VMS
4 8 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 8 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 7 (9.72%) Unix
6 6 (8.33%) Windows 10
7 5 (6.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.78%) AIX
8 2 (2.78%) Solaris
9 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.67%) DevOps
2 24 (33.33%) Change Management
3 23 (31.94%) Cloud Security
4 21 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 16 (22.22%) ITIL
5 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (19.44%) Configuration Management
6 14 (19.44%) SIEM
7 13 (18.06%) Agile
7 13 (18.06%) Mentoring
7 13 (18.06%) Patch Management
8 12 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (16.67%) SOAR
8 12 (16.67%) Task Automation
9 10 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (11.11%) Observability
10 8 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (61.11%) Python
2 14 (19.44%) Bash
3 12 (16.67%) Groovy
4 11 (15.28%) SQL
5 8 (11.11%) Java
6 4 (5.56%) BeanShell
6 4 (5.56%) Perl
6 4 (5.56%) VBScript
7 2 (2.78%) Bicep
7 2 (2.78%) VB
8 1 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.39%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 40 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 35 (48.61%) SC Cleared
3 16 (22.22%) Degree
4 11 (15.28%) Azure Certification
5 10 (13.89%) AWS Certification
6 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (6.94%) CISSP
8 4 (5.56%) CISM
8 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
9 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.39%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (9.72%) NIST
3 2 (2.78%) GxP
3 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) NCSC
4 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (34.72%) Active Directory
2 22 (30.56%) Docker
3 12 (16.67%) DFS Replication
4 8 (11.11%) Dovecot
4 8 (11.11%) Postfix
4 8 (11.11%) Squid
5 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.78%) Firmware
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.39%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 20 (27.78%) Grafana
1 20 (27.78%) Prometheus
2 17 (23.61%) Terraform
3 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
4 9 (12.50%) SCCM
5 8 (11.11%) Nessus
5 8 (11.11%) Proxmox
6 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (4.17%) Ansible
8 1 (1.39%) AirWatch
8 1 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.39%) QRadar
8 1 (1.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (31.94%) Microsoft
2 18 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 14 (19.44%) CyberArk
4 13 (18.06%) Splunk
5 10 (13.89%) BeyondTrust
6 8 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (9.72%) AppDynamics
7 7 (9.72%) Dynatrace
8 6 (8.33%) VMware
9 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.78%) Citrix
10 2 (2.78%) Workday
11 1 (1.39%) ArcSight
11 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.39%) Commvault
11 1 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.39%) Google
11 1 (1.39%) IBM
11 1 (1.39%) MobileIron
11 1 (1.39%) Red Hat