PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Windows PowerShell
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 13 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 9.35% 2.90% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.55% 25.00% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 0
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £478 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -4.50% +17.65% -15.84%

All Programming Languages
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 44 8 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 31.65% 11.59% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 4 22
10th Percentile - - £380
25th Percentile £525 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £406 £581
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -30.11% -3.13%
75th Percentile £650 £448 £610
90th Percentile £675 £502 £655
West Midlands median daily rate £509 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.80% +8.70% -8.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

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Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Worcestershire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing PowerShell

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Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Malvern - 5 £575 -
Worcester -4 4 £594 +48.44%
Kidderminster - 1 £263 -
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West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Application Integration Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Configuration Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Business Continuity
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) Coaching
3 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
3 4 (30.77%) Data Management
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Programme Delivery
3 4 (30.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (30.77%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (30.77%) Task Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Workflow
4 3 (23.08%) Application Packaging
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 3 (23.08%) Reverse Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) VBScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Firmware
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Atlassian
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) ArcSight
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk