PowerShell Contracts in Yorkshire

Windows PowerShell
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 68 81
Rank change year-on-year +32 +13 +18
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 58 32 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.70% 1.89% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.13% 7.24% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 32
10th Percentile £358 £429 £242
25th Percentile £406 £445 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +20.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £538
90th Percentile £625 £676 £668
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 320 442 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.47% 26.17% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 319 423
10th Percentile £350 £300 £395
25th Percentile £405 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £31.62 - £42.67
25th Percentile £44.87 £61.25 £47.40
Median hourly rate £91.05 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.68% - +126.98%
75th Percentile £101.14 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +28 31 £475 -5.00% 21
South Yorkshire +18 25 £473 -24.22% 9
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
PowerShell
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 13 (22.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Azure
1 12 (20.69%) GitHub
2 11 (18.97%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.62%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) Power Automate
3 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.62%) PowerApps
4 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.17%) GCP
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.45%) NuGet
6 2 (3.45%) PaaS
6 2 (3.45%) Serverless
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.72%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (34.48%) DNS
2 9 (15.52%) SMTP
3 6 (10.34%) SAN
4 4 (6.90%) NAS
5 2 (3.45%) DHCP
6 1 (1.72%) Firewall
6 1 (1.72%) Intranet
6 1 (1.72%) LAN
6 1 (1.72%) SSL
6 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.72%) VLAN
6 1 (1.72%) VPN
6 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Git
2 5 (8.62%) GitLab
2 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.90%) Selenium
4 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.17%) JIRA
4 3 (5.17%) Vagrant
4 3 (5.17%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.45%) JMeter
5 2 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.45%) TestNG
6 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.72%) MSI
General
1 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Finance
3 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Banking
4 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 10 (17.24%) Engineering Specialist
3 6 (10.34%) IT Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Developer
4 5 (8.62%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) SharePoint Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.45%) IP Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) REST
2 4 (6.90%) Middleware
2 4 (6.90%) React
3 3 (5.17%) CSS
3 3 (5.17%) Gherkin
3 3 (5.17%) HTML
3 3 (5.17%) SPFx
4 2 (3.45%) pytest
5 1 (1.72%) .NET
5 1 (1.72%) LDAP
5 1 (1.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (12.07%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (56.90%) Windows
2 24 (41.38%) Linux
3 22 (37.93%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.72%) CentOS
5 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (37.93%) Agile
3 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (25.86%) Microservices
4 15 (25.86%) Security Management
5 14 (24.14%) Server Management
6 13 (22.41%) Migration
6 13 (22.41%) SOA
7 10 (17.24%) DevOps
7 10 (17.24%) ITSM
7 10 (17.24%) SIEM
8 7 (12.07%) Roadmaps
9 6 (10.34%) Configuration Management
9 6 (10.34%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (8.62%) Change Management
10 5 (8.62%) Technology Roadmap
11 4 (6.90%) CI/CD
11 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (6.90%) Scrum
11 4 (6.90%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.93%) Bash
2 18 (31.03%) SQL
3 16 (27.59%) Python
4 14 (24.14%) PL/SQL
5 13 (22.41%) Perl
6 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.17%) Ruby
7 3 (5.17%) VBA
8 2 (3.45%) C#
9 1 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (36.21%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (25.86%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) Degree
5 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.72%) CISM
6 1 (1.72%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (5.17%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 34 (58.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.34%) VMware NSX
3 4 (6.90%) vSphere
4 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.17%) VirtualBox
5 2 (3.45%) Docker
5 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Ansible
2 7 (12.07%) Puppet
2 7 (12.07%) vRealize
3 5 (8.62%) Terraform
3 5 (8.62%) vCenter Server
4 4 (6.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) Cisco
2 16 (27.59%) Oracle
3 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
4 10 (17.24%) VMware
5 4 (6.90%) Splunk
6 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.45%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.45%) Brocade
7 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.45%) EMC
7 2 (3.45%) HP
7 2 (3.45%) Infoblox
7 2 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (3.45%) Veeam
8 1 (1.72%) Centrify
8 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.72%) Thycotic