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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 44 52
Rank change year-on-year -82 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 42 83 58
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.20% 4.55% 3.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.54% 18.20% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 53 32
10th Percentile £408 £301 £321
25th Percentile £463 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -6.86% +23.64%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £583
90th Percentile £705 £593 £627
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 £63.48 £64.25 £58.49
% change year-on-year -1.20% +9.85% -2.52%

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 758 456 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.57% 25.00% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 286 268
10th Percentile £369 £314 £313
25th Percentile £417 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £549 £575
90th Percentile £656 £629 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 5
10th Percentile £19.65 £30.25 £34.36
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.91 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +136.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -27 15 £493 +3.68% 14
Warwickshire -16 12 £481 +6.89% 3
Herefordshire +5 6 - - 2
Worcestershire -1 3 £575 -1.08% 3
Coventry -29 1 £445 +55.59% 1
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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 10 (23.81%) SharePoint
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (7.14%) Apache
4 2 (4.76%) Skype for Business
5 1 (2.38%) Confluence
5 1 (2.38%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (59.52%) Azure
2 16 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (33.33%) GitHub
4 13 (30.95%) AWS
4 13 (30.95%) Entra ID
5 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
6 8 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (14.29%) Datadog
7 6 (14.29%) OpenShift
8 5 (11.90%) Power Automate
9 4 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (9.52%) OneDrive
9 4 (9.52%) Serverless
10 3 (7.14%) GCP
11 2 (4.76%) Azure AI
11 2 (4.76%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) DNS
3 2 (4.76%) DHCP
3 2 (4.76%) SAN
3 2 (4.76%) Skype
3 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.76%) WAAS
4 1 (2.38%) LAN
4 1 (2.38%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.38%) SMTP
4 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Power BI
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) GitLab
2 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.52%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.38%) Git
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Legal
4 3 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) PowerShell Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Cisco Voice Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) Voice Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
7 2 (4.76%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (45.24%) Terraform
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (14.29%) REST
5 3 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (7.14%) JSON
6 2 (4.76%) FIDO
6 2 (4.76%) LangChain
6 2 (4.76%) LangGraph
6 2 (4.76%) Semantic Kernel
6 2 (4.76%) YAML
7 1 (2.38%) .NET
7 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.38%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.38%) OAuth
7 1 (2.38%) OpenID
7 1 (2.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
4 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.76%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.38%) CMDB
6 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (47.62%) Windows
2 16 (38.10%) Linux
3 8 (19.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (9.52%) Mac OS
5 3 (7.14%) Apple iOS
5 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.14%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.76%) CentOS
6 2 (4.76%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.38%) VMS
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (45.24%) DevOps
3 16 (38.10%) Containerisation
3 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 9 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (21.43%) Observability
5 9 (21.43%) Runbook
6 8 (19.05%) Analytics
6 8 (19.05%) ITSM
6 8 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 7 (16.67%) Migration
7 7 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 7 (16.67%) Task Automation
8 6 (14.29%) Business Continuity
8 6 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (14.29%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) Bash
3 6 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (4.76%) Bicep
4 2 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (2.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (9.52%) CCNA
5 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (9.52%) Degree
5 4 (9.52%) MCSE
5 4 (9.52%) RHCA
5 4 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.76%) CISSP
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (11.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (7.14%) NIST
4 2 (4.76%) QA
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Docker
2 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 7 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (40.48%) Ansible
3 9 (21.43%) Grafana
3 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (19.05%) Prometheus
5 7 (16.67%) Progress Chef
5 7 (16.67%) Puppet
6 4 (9.52%) Podman
6 4 (9.52%) SCCM
7 2 (4.76%) AirWatch
7 2 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (2.38%) Argo
8 1 (2.38%) Istio
8 1 (2.38%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (28.57%) Splunk
3 8 (19.05%) Cisco
3 8 (19.05%) VMware
4 7 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 4 (9.52%) Atlassian
6 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.14%) Remedy
6 3 (7.14%) Ribbon
7 2 (4.76%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (4.76%) Citrix
7 2 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (4.76%) Foundry
7 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
8 1 (2.38%) BMC
8 1 (2.38%) Isilon
8 1 (2.38%) Micro Focus
8 1 (2.38%) MobileIron
8 1 (2.38%) Proofpoint
8 1 (2.38%) Tanium