PowerShell Contracts in the Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 58 51
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +23
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 70 125 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.60% 3.83% 3.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.15% 14.72% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 97 150
10th Percentile £213 £258 £275
25th Percentile £308 £365 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +2.11% +26.67%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £548
90th Percentile £638 £713 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £26.48 -
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £50.09
% change year-on-year -32.92% +19.78% +22.18%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 628 849 1,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.29% 26.02% 26.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 622 966
10th Percentile £260 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £638 £675 £613
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 18
10th Percentile £22.42 £19.24 £16.97
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.00 £23.00
Median hourly rate £51.78 £26.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.54% -24.34% +6.87%
75th Percentile £58.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £89.00 £46.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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 Midlands -7 52 £363 -30.95% 32
East Midlands -1 18 £500 +12.36% 19
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 24 (34.29%) SharePoint
2 13 (18.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.29%) Apache
4 2 (2.86%) IIS
4 2 (2.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 45 (64.29%) Azure
2 35 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (20.00%) OneDrive
5 12 (17.14%) Power Platform
6 10 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 7 (10.00%) PaaS
7 7 (10.00%) Power Automate
8 6 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.57%) Azure Functions
8 6 (8.57%) PowerApps
8 6 (8.57%) Serverless
9 3 (4.29%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.29%) GitHub
9 3 (4.29%) IaaS
9 3 (4.29%) ShareGate
10 2 (2.86%) AWS
11 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (28.57%) DNS
2 11 (15.71%) Fibre Channel
2 11 (15.71%) SAN
3 8 (11.43%) Firewall
3 8 (11.43%) NetScaler
3 8 (11.43%) VPN
4 7 (10.00%) DHCP
4 7 (10.00%) LAN
4 7 (10.00%) WAN
5 6 (8.57%) Unified Communications
6 4 (5.71%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (4.29%) VLAN
7 3 (4.29%) VoIP
8 2 (2.86%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.86%) NAS
8 2 (2.86%) Wireless
9 1 (1.43%) DSL
9 1 (1.43%) Network Security
9 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (17.14%) Power BI
3 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.86%) EDRMS
3 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.43%) Metadata
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) GitLab
2 2 (2.86%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.86%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.43%) Hudson
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (5.71%) Finance
4 2 (2.86%) Local Government
5 1 (1.43%) Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Legal
5 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (14.29%) Administrator
2 8 (11.43%) Architect
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 7 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) SharePoint Administrator
4 6 (8.57%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Citrix Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Consultant
5 5 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Azure Administrator
6 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
6 4 (5.71%) Senior
6 4 (5.71%) Server Administrator
6 4 (5.71%) VMWare Administrator
7 3 (4.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 3 (4.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) JSON
1 3 (4.29%) LDAP
1 3 (4.29%) OAuth
1 3 (4.29%) OpenID
1 3 (4.29%) SailPoint
1 3 (4.29%) SAML
1 3 (4.29%) Web Services
2 2 (2.86%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.86%) LAMP
2 2 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.86%) YAML
3 1 (1.43%) .NET
3 1 (1.43%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.43%) CSS
3 1 (1.43%) HTML
3 1 (1.43%) HTML5
3 1 (1.43%) REST
3 1 (1.43%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) PKI
2 6 (8.57%) Digital Signage
3 4 (5.71%) Clustering
3 4 (5.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (5.71%) Replication
4 3 (4.29%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.29%) Fat Client
4 3 (4.29%) HP Storage
4 3 (4.29%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.43%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 48 (68.57%) Windows
2 31 (44.29%) Windows Server
3 16 (22.86%) Windows 10
4 13 (18.57%) Linux
5 12 (17.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (11.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (8.57%) Ubuntu
9 4 (5.71%) AIX
9 4 (5.71%) CentOS
9 4 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (5.71%) Solaris
10 3 (4.29%) Mac OS
10 3 (4.29%) VMS
10 3 (4.29%) Windows 7
11 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.86%) ITIL
2 13 (18.57%) DevOps
2 13 (18.57%) Patch Management
3 8 (11.43%) Application Packaging
3 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (11.43%) Change Management
3 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
3 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.00%) Agile
4 7 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (8.57%) Identity Management
5 6 (8.57%) Incident Management
5 6 (8.57%) Migration
5 6 (8.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 6 (8.57%) Proactive Management
5 6 (8.57%) Service Delivery
5 6 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.57%) Bash
2 7 (10.00%) Python
2 7 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (1.43%) C#
4 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.43%) Ruby
4 1 (1.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.00%) Degree
3 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.43%) MCSE
7 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) SLA
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 34 (48.57%) Active Directory
2 13 (18.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (11.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 8 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (11.43%) XenApp
3 8 (11.43%) XenDesktop
4 6 (8.57%) vSphere
5 4 (5.71%) BitLocker
5 4 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.71%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.71%) VMware Server
6 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (2.86%) Docker
7 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (17.14%) SCCM
3 8 (11.43%) Terraform
4 5 (7.14%) Ansible
4 5 (7.14%) SysTrack
5 4 (5.71%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (5.71%) vCenter Server
6 3 (4.29%) Autotask
6 3 (4.29%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (4.29%) HP Data Protector
6 3 (4.29%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (4.29%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.86%) SCOM
7 2 (2.86%) SCSM
8 1 (1.43%) Packer
8 1 (1.43%) Puppet
8 1 (1.43%) SELinux
Vendors
1 43 (61.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.00%) Citrix
3 11 (15.71%) VMware
4 9 (12.86%) Oracle
5 8 (11.43%) NetApp
6 5 (7.14%) Cisco
6 5 (7.14%) New Relic
6 5 (7.14%) OpenAI
7 4 (5.71%) Brocade
7 4 (5.71%) EMC
8 3 (4.29%) Apple
8 3 (4.29%) Datto
8 3 (4.29%) HP
8 3 (4.29%) Okta
8 3 (4.29%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.29%) Symantec
9 2 (2.86%) ProCurve
9 2 (2.86%) Synology
9 2 (2.86%) Veeam
9 2 (2.86%) Zerto