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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 31 48
Rank change year-on-year -68 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 60 69 67
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.09% 5.12% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.49% 21.10% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 50 48
10th Percentile £300 £374 £213
25th Percentile £381 £419 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £575
90th Percentile £619 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £533 £538
% change year-on-year -1.41% -0.93% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £16.85 £17.55
25th Percentile £72.50 £17.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +316.67% -2.70% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £20.24 £19.00
90th Percentile - - £19.15
England median hourly rate £74.26 £49.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.27% +24.38% -30.23%

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 707 327 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.57% 24.28% 22.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 202 317
10th Percentile £350 £282 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £476 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% +5.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £689 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 14
10th Percentile £35.33 £16.75 £17.90
25th Percentile £48.94 £17.00 £32.78
Median hourly rate £58.00 £20.24 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +186.56% -64.02% +91.86%
75th Percentile £64.00 £28.47 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.10 £28.75 £68.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -15 19 £306 -31.94% 2
Birmingham -33 16 £600 -1.23% 10
Coventry -21 12 £670 +42.55% 1
Worcestershire - 5 £555 - 2
Shropshire - 4 £400 -
Staffordshire -7 2 £344 +71.88% 7
Solihull -9 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 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) Apache
2 2 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) Azure
2 21 (35.00%) Entra ID
3 18 (30.00%) AWS
4 12 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (13.33%) GCP
6 7 (11.67%) Datadog
7 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 4 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.00%) OneDrive
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.33%) GitHub
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.67%) Serverless
11 1 (1.67%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Firewall
2 5 (8.33%) VPN
3 4 (6.67%) DNS
4 2 (3.33%) DHCP
4 2 (3.33%) Kerberos
4 2 (3.33%) NAS
4 2 (3.33%) SAN
4 2 (3.33%) SMTP
4 2 (3.33%) SSH
5 1 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.67%) LAN
5 1 (1.67%) Network Security
5 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.67%) WAAS
5 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) MSI
2 4 (6.67%) GitLab
2 4 (6.67%) InstallShield
3 3 (5.00%) Git
3 3 (5.00%) JIRA
4 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.67%) AdminStudio
5 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.00%) Legal
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Publishing
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (11.67%) Architect
2 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) SailPoint Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Senior
4 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Lead
4 4 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Applications Packager
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Consultant
5 3 (5.00%) CyberArk Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Management Consultant
6 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Senior Applications Packager
7 1 (1.67%) Senior Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) Middleware
2 8 (13.33%) REST
3 6 (10.00%) SailPoint
4 5 (8.33%) SOAP
5 4 (6.67%) LDAP
5 4 (6.67%) SAML
6 3 (5.00%) OAuth
6 3 (5.00%) YAML
7 2 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.67%) .NET
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.67%) JDBC
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (1.67%) Software Packaging
8 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Life Science
5 2 (3.33%) NHS
5 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (46.67%) Windows
2 12 (20.00%) Linux
3 9 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.00%) AIX
7 2 (3.33%) Solaris
8 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) DevOps
2 16 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (25.00%) Agile
3 15 (25.00%) ITIL
4 14 (23.33%) Mentoring
5 12 (20.00%) Change Management
6 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (15.00%) AI
8 9 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (13.33%) Observability
9 8 (13.33%) Zero Trust
10 7 (11.67%) Analytics
10 7 (11.67%) Application Performance Management
10 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (11.67%) Microservices
10 7 (11.67%) Performance Management
10 7 (11.67%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) Python
2 15 (25.00%) Bash
3 6 (10.00%) VBScript
4 5 (8.33%) BeanShell
4 5 (8.33%) Java
4 5 (8.33%) SQL
5 4 (6.67%) Bicep
6 3 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.00%) Degree
4 6 (10.00%) CISM
4 6 (10.00%) CISSP
4 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) CEH
7 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (13.33%) NIST
3 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.00%) GDPR
4 2 (3.33%) GxP
4 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.33%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.67%) NCSC
5 1 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (15.00%) Docker
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.67%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.67%) Firmware
5 1 (1.67%) KVM
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.33%) Grafana
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (13.33%) Terraform
3 7 (11.67%) Prometheus
3 7 (11.67%) SCCM
4 6 (10.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.67%) AirWatch
5 1 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.67%) Packer
5 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.00%) Splunk
3 9 (15.00%) ServiceNow
4 7 (11.67%) AppDynamics
4 7 (11.67%) Dynatrace
4 7 (11.67%) VMware
5 6 (10.00%) CyberArk
6 5 (8.33%) Citrix
7 2 (3.33%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (3.33%) Proofpoint
7 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.33%) Workday
8 1 (1.67%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (1.67%) Commvault
8 1 (1.67%) Foundry
8 1 (1.67%) MobileIron
8 1 (1.67%) NetApp
8 1 (1.67%) Okta
8 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.67%) Veeam