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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 41 63
Rank change year-on-year -59 +22 -14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 59 62 51
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.88% 4.60% 2.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.54% 18.02% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 41 37
10th Percentile £294 £345 £213
25th Percentile £378 £440 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £501 £375
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +33.60% -28.57%
75th Percentile £604 £689 £488
90th Percentile £636 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £16.85 -
25th Percentile £58.43 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +250.75% - -
75th Percentile £70.25 £20.24 -
90th Percentile £74.60 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +124.14% -27.50% -33.22%

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 691 344 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.02% 25.54% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 213 309
10th Percentile £345 £239 £260
25th Percentile £412 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £619 £689 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £542
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.05% -4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 13
10th Percentile £48.75 £16.85 £40.10
25th Percentile £56.50 £17.87 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.32 £27.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +122.97% -52.17% +96.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £31.33 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £33.91 £69.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.56%

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 4 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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 4 May 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 -14 22 £353 -21.53% 2
Birmingham -35 15 £604 -7.08% 6
Coventry -15 10 £670 +45.65%
Worcestershire - 4 £560 - 1
Herefordshire - 3 - - 1
Staffordshire -3 2 £344 +71.88% 7
Solihull -14 1 £510 +10.87%
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 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.47%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (49.15%) Azure
2 21 (35.59%) Entra ID
3 15 (25.42%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (23.73%) AWS
5 8 (13.56%) Datadog
5 8 (13.56%) GCP
6 7 (11.86%) Power Platform
7 6 (10.17%) GitHub
8 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (5.08%) OneDrive
10 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.69%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) WAAS
3 2 (3.39%) DNS
3 2 (3.39%) NAS
3 2 (3.39%) SAN
3 2 (3.39%) SMTP
3 2 (3.39%) VPN
4 1 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.69%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) Power BI
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) GitLab
1 6 (10.17%) MSI
2 3 (5.08%) Artifactory
2 3 (5.08%) InstallShield
3 2 (3.39%) Git
3 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.69%) AdminStudio
4 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.47%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (11.86%) Architect
1 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (10.17%) Senior
3 5 (8.47%) Security Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Analyst
4 4 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) SailPoint Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Applications Packager
5 3 (5.08%) CyberArk Architect
5 3 (5.08%) Lead
5 3 (5.08%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) SCCM Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Software Engineer
7 1 (1.69%) Backup Administrator
7 1 (1.69%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (1.69%) SAN Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) Middleware
2 8 (13.56%) REST
3 5 (8.47%) SailPoint
4 4 (6.78%) SOAP
5 3 (5.08%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.39%) LDAP
6 2 (3.39%) SAML
6 2 (3.39%) YAML
7 1 (1.69%) .NET
7 1 (1.69%) JDBC
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.69%) OAuth
7 1 (1.69%) Software Packaging
7 1 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (16.95%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Life Science
5 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (44.07%) Windows
2 15 (25.42%) Linux
3 7 (11.86%) Windows 10
3 7 (11.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.08%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.69%) AIX
7 1 (1.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.20%) DevOps
2 17 (28.81%) CI/CD
3 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (20.34%) Agile
4 12 (20.34%) ITIL
5 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (18.64%) Mentoring
6 10 (16.95%) Change Management
6 10 (16.95%) Problem Management
6 10 (16.95%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
7 9 (15.25%) Observability
8 8 (13.56%) AI
8 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (13.56%) Migration
9 7 (11.86%) Application Performance Management
9 7 (11.86%) Microservices
9 7 (11.86%) Performance Management
9 7 (11.86%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.85%) Python
2 14 (23.73%) Bash
3 6 (10.17%) SQL
4 5 (8.47%) VBScript
5 4 (6.78%) BeanShell
5 4 (6.78%) Java
6 3 (5.08%) Bicep
7 2 (3.39%) VB
8 1 (1.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (40.68%) Security Cleared
2 18 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.25%) Degree
4 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
5 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (8.47%) CISM
6 5 (8.47%) CISSP
7 4 (6.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (5.08%) CCNA
8 3 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (5.08%) MCSE
8 3 (5.08%) RHCA
9 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.69%) CEH
10 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.17%) NIST
3 3 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.08%) GDPR
4 2 (3.39%) GxP
5 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Active Directory
2 13 (22.03%) Docker
3 7 (11.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (10.17%) Hyper-V
5 5 (8.47%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (3.39%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.69%) Firmware
7 1 (1.69%) KVM
7 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (27.12%) Kubernetes
2 13 (22.03%) Terraform
3 12 (20.34%) Ansible
4 9 (15.25%) Grafana
5 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (13.56%) Prometheus
5 8 (13.56%) SCCM
6 3 (5.08%) AirWatch
6 3 (5.08%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (5.08%) Podman
7 1 (1.69%) Packer
7 1 (1.69%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.69%) Puppet
7 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.03%) Splunk
3 9 (15.25%) VMware
4 8 (13.56%) ServiceNow
5 7 (11.86%) AppDynamics
5 7 (11.86%) Dynatrace
6 5 (8.47%) Citrix
7 4 (6.78%) Atlassian
7 4 (6.78%) Cisco
7 4 (6.78%) CyberArk
8 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.39%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.39%) MobileIron
9 2 (3.39%) Workday
10 1 (1.69%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (1.69%) Foundry
10 1 (1.69%) Okta
10 1 (1.69%) Proofpoint
10 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.69%) Veeam