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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 51 55
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 77 56 61
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.29% 3.56% 3.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.32% 14.58% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 34 41
10th Percentile £300 £350 £259
25th Percentile £400 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -11.33%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £650
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 £70.98 £56.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year +25.09% +17.24% -12.00%

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 578 384 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.73% 24.38% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 223 283
10th Percentile £366 £353 £277
25th Percentile £452 £413 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
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 7
10th Percentile £40.20 £16.98 £17.35
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 £19.25
90th Percentile £69.25 £53.25 £31.55
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.18
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.52% -4.34%

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 18 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 18 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 -3 28 £475 -20.00% 6
Warwickshire -10 17 £393 -7.50% 2
Worcestershire -7 13 £575 +43.75% 2
Coventry -15 8 £670 +42.55% 1
Shropshire - 5 £400 - 2
Staffordshire +1 3 £344 +71.88% 6
Solihull +1 1 - -
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 19 (24.68%) Confluence
2 9 (11.69%) nginx
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.30%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) IIS
4 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (42.86%) AWS
1 33 (42.86%) Azure
2 16 (20.78%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
3 14 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 14 (18.18%) AWS KMS
3 14 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (11.69%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (11.69%) Entra ID
4 9 (11.69%) Route 53
5 7 (9.09%) Datadog
5 7 (9.09%) GCP
6 5 (6.49%) Amazon Glacier
6 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.90%) GitHub
8 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 18 (23.38%) DNS
1 18 (23.38%) Firewall
2 17 (22.08%) SSH
3 14 (18.18%) FTP
3 14 (18.18%) HTTP
3 14 (18.18%) SMTP
4 9 (11.69%) IMAP
4 9 (11.69%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (5.19%) VPN
6 3 (3.90%) DHCP
6 3 (3.90%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.30%) LAN
7 1 (1.30%) NAS
7 1 (1.30%) SAN
7 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.30%) MySQL
4 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (27.27%) JIRA
2 16 (20.78%) Git
2 16 (20.78%) Jenkins
3 14 (18.18%) Vagrant
4 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.90%) GitLab
4 3 (3.90%) InstallShield
4 3 (3.90%) MSI
5 1 (1.30%) AdminStudio
5 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.30%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (23.38%) Public Sector
4 12 (15.58%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (10.39%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.49%) Finance
7 4 (5.19%) Legal
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (20.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (19.48%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 14 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (16.88%) AWS DevOps
4 13 (16.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 9 (11.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Architect
6 7 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Administrator
8 5 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Consultant
9 4 (5.19%) Lead
9 4 (5.19%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) SailPoint Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Integration Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Management Consultant
10 3 (3.90%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.88%) LDAP
2 10 (12.99%) Middleware
3 5 (6.49%) REST
4 4 (5.19%) OAuth
4 4 (5.19%) SailPoint
4 4 (5.19%) SAML
4 4 (5.19%) SOAP
5 3 (3.90%) YAML
6 1 (1.30%) .NET
6 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.30%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Replication
2 12 (15.58%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.90%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.60%) NHS
5 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Life Science
6 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (68.83%) Windows
2 36 (46.75%) Linux
3 14 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
3 14 (18.18%) VMS
4 10 (12.99%) Windows Server
5 9 (11.69%) Ubuntu
6 7 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (9.09%) Unix
7 5 (6.49%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.90%) AIX
8 3 (3.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.16%) DevOps
2 27 (35.06%) Change Management
3 25 (32.47%) Cloud Security
4 23 (29.87%) CI/CD
5 16 (20.78%) Configuration Management
5 16 (20.78%) ITIL
6 15 (19.48%) Patch Management
7 14 (18.18%) Agile
7 14 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (18.18%) SIEM
8 13 (16.88%) Mentoring
8 13 (16.88%) Task Automation
9 11 (14.29%) SOAR
10 9 (11.69%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (11.69%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (10.39%) Privileged Access Management
11 8 (10.39%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (10.39%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (62.34%) Python
2 15 (19.48%) Bash
3 14 (18.18%) Groovy
4 11 (14.29%) SQL
5 9 (11.69%) Java
6 6 (7.79%) VBScript
7 5 (6.49%) Perl
8 4 (5.19%) BeanShell
9 2 (2.60%) Bicep
9 2 (2.60%) VB
10 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 45 (58.44%) Security Cleared
2 38 (49.35%) SC Cleared
3 16 (20.78%) Degree
4 12 (15.58%) Azure Certification
5 11 (14.29%) AWS Certification
6 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared
6 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (6.49%) CISSP
8 4 (5.19%) CISM
9 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.30%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (9.09%) NIST
3 3 (3.90%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.90%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) GxP
4 1 (1.30%) NCSC
4 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (35.06%) Active Directory
2 24 (31.17%) Docker
3 14 (18.18%) DFS Replication
4 9 (11.69%) Dovecot
4 9 (11.69%) Postfix
4 9 (11.69%) Squid
5 3 (3.90%) Firmware
5 3 (3.90%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 22 (28.57%) Grafana
1 22 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 20 (25.97%) Terraform
3 10 (12.99%) Kubernetes
4 9 (11.69%) Nessus
4 9 (11.69%) Proxmox
4 9 (11.69%) SCCM
5 4 (5.19%) Ansible
5 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.30%) QRadar
6 1 (1.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (29.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (25.97%) ServiceNow
3 15 (19.48%) CyberArk
4 13 (16.88%) Splunk
5 11 (14.29%) BeyondTrust
6 9 (11.69%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (9.09%) AppDynamics
7 7 (9.09%) Dynatrace
7 7 (9.09%) VMware
8 4 (5.19%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.60%) ArcSight
9 2 (2.60%) Citrix
10 1 (1.30%) Commvault
10 1 (1.30%) Foundry
10 1 (1.30%) IBM
10 1 (1.30%) Proofpoint
10 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.30%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.30%) Veeam
10 1 (1.30%) Workday