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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 43 48
Rank change year-on-year -78 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 47 74 62
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.38% 4.60% 3.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.09% 18.32% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 51 45
10th Percentile £409 £286 £247
25th Percentile £456 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £540 £585
90th Percentile £724 £689 £638
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 £55.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -15.38% +40.75% -23.03%

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 772 404 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.70% 25.09% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 251 300
10th Percentile £358 £250 £260
25th Percentile £413 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £455 £460
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -1.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £645 £638
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year +0.05% -3.75% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 22 15
10th Percentile £21.25 £28.18 £36.36
25th Percentile £38.75 £33.91 £47.75
Median hourly rate £58.00 £50.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -13.04% +133.50%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% -5.38% +4.00%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 £477 +6.00% 1
Birmingham -42 13 £494 +3.95% 7
Coventry -30 6 £488 +70.45% 1
Herefordshire -2 3 - - 2
Worcestershire -4 2 £568 -1.30% 3
Solihull -24 1 £510 +13.97% 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 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (63.83%) Azure
2 18 (38.30%) Entra ID
3 15 (31.91%) AWS
4 13 (27.66%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (25.53%) GitHub
6 10 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (21.28%) Power Platform
7 9 (19.15%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (14.89%) OpenShift
9 6 (12.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (12.77%) Datadog
10 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (6.38%) GCP
11 3 (6.38%) OneDrive
12 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
12 2 (4.26%) SaaS
12 2 (4.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) WAAS
3 2 (4.26%) SMTP
3 2 (4.26%) VPN
4 1 (2.13%) DNS
4 1 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.13%) NAS
4 1 (2.13%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.13%) Network Security
4 1 (2.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) GitLab
2 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) MSI
4 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.26%) Git
6 1 (2.13%) InstallShield
6 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Legal
4 3 (6.38%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Finance
5 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Law
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (12.77%) Site Engineer
1 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (10.64%) Senior
3 4 (8.51%) Lead
3 4 (8.51%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Applications Packager
4 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Consultant
5 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (4.26%) PowerShell Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Splunk Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Applications Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (10.64%) REST
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.26%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.26%) FIDO
4 2 (4.26%) SailPoint
4 2 (4.26%) YAML
5 1 (2.13%) .NET
5 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.13%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.13%) JDBC
5 1 (2.13%) JSON
5 1 (2.13%) LDAP
5 1 (2.13%) SAML
5 1 (2.13%) SOAP
5 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.77%) Private Cloud
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.51%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.13%) CMDB
6 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Life Science
6 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (40.43%) Windows
2 13 (27.66%) Linux
3 5 (10.64%) Mac OS
3 5 (10.64%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.51%) Apple iOS
4 4 (8.51%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.13%) AIX
6 1 (2.13%) VMS
6 1 (2.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (34.04%) DevOps
2 16 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (31.91%) CI/CD
3 15 (31.91%) Containerisation
4 11 (23.40%) Agile
5 10 (21.28%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (21.28%) Runbook
6 9 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (19.15%) Data Protection
7 8 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (17.02%) Migration
7 8 (17.02%) Observability
7 8 (17.02%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (17.02%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (14.89%) Information Security
8 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (14.89%) ITIL
8 7 (14.89%) Task Automation
9 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (55.32%) Python
2 15 (31.91%) Bash
3 6 (12.77%) Go
4 4 (8.51%) SQL
5 3 (6.38%) VBScript
6 2 (4.26%) Bicep
7 1 (2.13%) BeanShell
7 1 (2.13%) C#
7 1 (2.13%) Java
7 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) CISSP
4 4 (8.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.38%) CCNA
5 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.38%) Degree
5 3 (6.38%) MCSE
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.38%) RHCA
6 2 (4.26%) CISM
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.13%) CEH
7 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.51%) NIST
3 3 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (4.26%) GDPR
5 1 (2.13%) GxP
5 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 16 (34.04%) Active Directory
2 13 (27.66%) Docker
3 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.64%) Hyper-V
5 4 (8.51%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (4.26%) BitLocker
6 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.13%) Firmware
7 1 (2.13%) KVM
7 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (38.30%) Terraform
2 17 (36.17%) Ansible
3 15 (31.91%) Kubernetes
4 9 (19.15%) Grafana
5 8 (17.02%) Prometheus
6 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (14.89%) Progress Chef
6 7 (14.89%) Puppet
6 7 (14.89%) SCCM
7 3 (6.38%) AirWatch
7 3 (6.38%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (6.38%) Podman
8 2 (4.26%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.13%) Argo
9 1 (2.13%) Istio
9 1 (2.13%) Packer
9 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (2.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (44.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) ServiceNow
2 9 (19.15%) Splunk
2 9 (19.15%) VMware
3 5 (10.64%) Cisco
3 5 (10.64%) Citrix
4 3 (6.38%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.38%) Remedy
5 2 (4.26%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (4.26%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.26%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.26%) MobileIron
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.13%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (2.13%) Brocade
6 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.13%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.13%) Okta
6 1 (2.13%) Tanium
6 1 (2.13%) Workday