PowerShell Contracts in the West Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 45 47
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 68 66 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.60% 3.23% 3.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.71% 14.90% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 46 66
10th Percentile £282 £213 £263
25th Percentile £400 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £469
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -4.00% -4.34%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £700
90th Percentile £692 £638 £731
England median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £64.25 £42.05 £60.00
% change year-on-year +52.81% -29.93% +19.78%

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 384 443 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.98% 21.66% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 313 366
10th Percentile £277 £260 £313
25th Percentile £400 £345 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £557 £600
90th Percentile £643 £638 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £560
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 8
10th Percentile £28.18 £36.36 £21.73
25th Percentile £33.91 £47.75 £23.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile - £72.50 £98.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 24 June 2025. 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 +19 28 £583 +21.04% 25
Warwickshire -2 20 £450 -22.68% 5
Coventry +4 10 £286 -31.90% 3
Solihull +11 6 £448 +98.89% 7
Shropshire 0 2 - - 2
Staffordshire +4 1 £200 -46.67% 17
Herefordshire - 1 £525 - 1
PowerShell
England

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.29%) Confluence
2 5 (7.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.88%) IIS
3 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.94%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.65%) Azure
2 10 (14.71%) AWS
3 9 (13.24%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (10.29%) Entra ID
6 6 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (8.82%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (8.82%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.82%) AWS KMS
6 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon Glacier
7 4 (5.88%) SaaS
8 3 (4.41%) GCP
8 3 (4.41%) GitHub
8 3 (4.41%) OneDrive
8 3 (4.41%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.94%) Nutanix
9 2 (2.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.59%) Firewall
2 9 (13.24%) DNS
3 8 (11.76%) SMTP
4 4 (5.88%) BIG-IP
4 4 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (5.88%) FTP
4 4 (5.88%) HTTP
4 4 (5.88%) SSH
5 3 (4.41%) Network Security
6 2 (2.94%) DHCP
6 2 (2.94%) IMAP
6 2 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.94%) NetScaler
6 2 (2.94%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.47%) BGP
7 1 (1.47%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.47%) OSPF
7 1 (1.47%) SSL
7 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.35%) Power BI
3 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.94%) Metadata
4 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) JIRA
2 7 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.82%) Git
3 6 (8.82%) MSI
3 6 (8.82%) Vagrant
4 2 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 29 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.94%) Automotive
5 2 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (8.82%) SCCM Engineer
2 5 (7.35%) Analyst
2 5 (7.35%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (7.35%) Network Engineer
3 4 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Architect
4 3 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Consultant
4 3 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Security Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Support Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (2.94%) Applications Architect
5 2 (2.94%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (2.94%) Data Analyst
5 2 (2.94%) Security Architect
5 2 (2.94%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) Software Packaging
2 4 (5.88%) .NET
2 4 (5.88%) Middleware
3 3 (4.41%) Apache Axis
3 3 (4.41%) HTML
3 3 (4.41%) REST
4 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.94%) JSON
4 2 (2.94%) LDAP
4 2 (2.94%) Web Services
4 2 (2.94%) XML
5 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Replication
2 4 (5.88%) SCADA
3 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.47%) CCTV
5 1 (1.47%) Clustering
5 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) PKI
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (54.41%) Windows
2 15 (22.06%) Linux
3 6 (8.82%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (8.82%) VMS
3 6 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.41%) Windows 7
5 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (4.41%) Windows XP
6 2 (2.94%) Android
6 2 (2.94%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.94%) Unix
7 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.00%) Agile
2 16 (23.53%) ITIL
3 13 (19.12%) Migration
4 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.24%) DevOps
5 9 (13.24%) Patch Management
6 8 (11.76%) Change Management
7 7 (10.29%) Cloud Security
7 7 (10.29%) Data Analysis
7 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (10.29%) Software Delivery
7 7 (10.29%) Software Deployment
8 6 (8.82%) Configuration Management
8 6 (8.82%) Software Distribution
8 6 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (7.35%) High Availability
9 5 (7.35%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (7.35%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (5.88%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.06%) Python
2 12 (17.65%) SQL
3 9 (13.24%) Bash
4 7 (10.29%) Java
4 7 (10.29%) Perl
5 6 (8.82%) C#
5 6 (8.82%) Groovy
6 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.41%) Ruby
6 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.94%) VBScript
8 1 (1.47%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 31 (45.59%) Security Cleared
2 25 (36.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) CISSP
3 5 (7.35%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.88%) Degree
5 3 (4.41%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (4.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.94%) CEH
6 2 (2.94%) CISM
6 2 (2.94%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.47%) CCNA
7 1 (1.47%) CCNP
7 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.47%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.47%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.47%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) SLA
2 4 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.47%) NCSC
4 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 23 (33.82%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.76%) Docker
3 4 (5.88%) DFS Replication
3 4 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.94%) Dovecot
5 2 (2.94%) Postfix
5 2 (2.94%) Squid
6 1 (1.47%) vSphere
6 1 (1.47%) XenApp
6 1 (1.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (19.12%) Ansible
1 13 (19.12%) SCCM
2 12 (17.65%) Grafana
3 10 (14.71%) Prometheus
4 9 (13.24%) Terraform
5 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
7 3 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.94%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (2.94%) Nessus
9 1 (1.47%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.47%) SysTrack
9 1 (1.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (30.88%) Microsoft
2 13 (19.12%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.82%) Cisco
3 6 (8.82%) Tanium
3 6 (8.82%) VMware
4 5 (7.35%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.88%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.88%) Citrix
5 4 (5.88%) Dell
5 4 (5.88%) F5
5 4 (5.88%) HP
5 4 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.41%) Foundry
7 2 (2.94%) BMC
7 2 (2.94%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (2.94%) OpenText
7 2 (2.94%) Proofpoint
7 2 (2.94%) Veeam
8 1 (1.47%) Commvault
8 1 (1.47%) KANA