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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 60 51
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +24
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 87 108 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.12% 3.30% 3.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.28% 12.59% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 84 154
10th Percentile £213 £254 £273
25th Percentile £340 £359 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £540
90th Percentile £638 £729 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £14.30 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £18.87 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.48 -
Median % change year-on-year +164.35% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £48.48
% change year-on-year -32.92% +23.76% +15.43%

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 655 858 1,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.46% 26.24% 26.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 626 970
10th Percentile £260 £313 £319
25th Percentile £350 £375 £380
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 £634 £688 £621
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 17
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.74 £16.55
25th Percentile £30.37 £24.47 £20.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £41.69 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.92% +19.12% +45.83%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.06 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.75 £44.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

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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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +6 67 £400 -23.81% 29
East Midlands +3 20 £463 +3.93% 17
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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 (27.59%) SharePoint
2 15 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.60%) Apache
4 2 (2.30%) IIS
4 2 (2.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) InfoPath
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (49.43%) Azure
2 37 (42.53%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (17.24%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (16.09%) OneDrive
5 12 (13.79%) Power Platform
6 10 (11.49%) Entra ID
7 7 (8.05%) PaaS
7 7 (8.05%) Power Automate
8 6 (6.90%) Azure Functions
8 6 (6.90%) PowerApps
8 6 (6.90%) Serverless
9 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.45%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.45%) IaaS
10 3 (3.45%) ShareGate
11 2 (2.30%) AWS
11 2 (2.30%) GitHub
12 1 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (24.14%) DNS
2 11 (12.64%) Fibre Channel
2 11 (12.64%) SAN
3 8 (9.20%) DHCP
3 8 (9.20%) Firewall
3 8 (9.20%) NetScaler
3 8 (9.20%) VPN
4 7 (8.05%) LAN
4 7 (8.05%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (8.05%) WAN
5 6 (6.90%) Unified Communications
6 4 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (3.45%) VLAN
7 3 (3.45%) VoIP
8 2 (2.30%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.30%) NAS
8 2 (2.30%) Wireless
9 1 (1.15%) DSL
9 1 (1.15%) Network Security
9 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) SQL Server
2 12 (13.79%) Power BI
3 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.30%) EDRMS
3 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.15%) Metadata
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (14.94%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) GitLab
3 3 (3.45%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.30%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.15%) Hudson
5 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.45%) Finance
4 3 (3.45%) Local Government
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Banking
5 1 (1.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (11.49%) Administrator
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 7 (8.05%) Architect
3 7 (8.05%) Deployment Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) SharePoint Administrator
4 6 (6.90%) Support Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Citrix Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Consultant
5 5 (5.75%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Administrator
6 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
6 4 (4.60%) Server Administrator
6 4 (4.60%) VMWare Administrator
7 3 (3.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.94%) YAML
2 3 (3.45%) JSON
2 3 (3.45%) LDAP
2 3 (3.45%) OAuth
2 3 (3.45%) OpenID
2 3 (3.45%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.45%) SAML
2 3 (3.45%) Web Services
3 2 (2.30%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.30%) LAMP
3 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.30%) REST
4 1 (1.15%) .NET
4 1 (1.15%) CSS
4 1 (1.15%) HTML
4 1 (1.15%) HTML5
4 1 (1.15%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) PKI
2 6 (6.90%) Digital Signage
3 4 (4.60%) Clustering
3 4 (4.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (4.60%) Replication
4 3 (3.45%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.45%) Fat Client
4 3 (3.45%) HP Storage
4 3 (3.45%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 66 (75.86%) Windows
2 33 (37.93%) Windows Server
3 24 (27.59%) Linux
4 17 (19.54%) Windows 10
5 16 (18.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (9.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (6.90%) Ubuntu
10 4 (4.60%) AIX
10 4 (4.60%) CentOS
10 4 (4.60%) Solaris
11 3 (3.45%) Mac OS
11 3 (3.45%) VMS
11 3 (3.45%) Windows 7
12 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (19.54%) ITIL
3 16 (18.39%) Validation
4 15 (17.24%) DevOps
4 15 (17.24%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 13 (14.94%) Patch Management
6 12 (13.79%) Configuration Management
6 12 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (9.20%) Application Packaging
8 8 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (9.20%) Change Management
8 8 (9.20%) CI/CD
8 8 (9.20%) Migration
9 7 (8.05%) Agile
9 7 (8.05%) Customer Service
9 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (6.90%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (6.90%) Proactive Management
10 6 (6.90%) Web SSO
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.94%) Bash
2 8 (9.20%) Python
3 7 (8.05%) SQL
4 2 (2.30%) Bicep
5 1 (1.15%) C#
5 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.15%) Ruby
5 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Degree
4 5 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.15%) MCP
8 1 (1.15%) MCSE
8 1 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) QA
1 2 (2.30%) SLA
2 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (41.38%) Active Directory
2 23 (26.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (18.39%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (17.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (9.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (9.20%) XenApp
5 8 (9.20%) XenDesktop
6 7 (8.05%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (6.90%) vSphere
8 4 (4.60%) BitLocker
8 4 (4.60%) VMware NSX
8 4 (4.60%) VMware Server
9 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
9 3 (3.45%) VMFS
10 2 (2.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (22.99%) Terraform
2 17 (19.54%) Ansible
3 16 (18.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (17.24%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (14.94%) Progress Chef
5 13 (14.94%) SCCM
6 12 (13.79%) Puppet
7 11 (12.64%) Salt
8 5 (5.75%) SysTrack
9 4 (4.60%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (4.60%) vCenter Server
10 3 (3.45%) Autotask
10 3 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (3.45%) HP Data Protector
10 3 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
10 3 (3.45%) NetBackup
10 3 (3.45%) SCOM
11 2 (2.30%) SCSM
12 1 (1.15%) SELinux
Vendors
1 45 (51.72%) Microsoft
2 28 (32.18%) VMware
3 15 (17.24%) Citrix
4 14 (16.09%) Red Hat
5 9 (10.34%) Oracle
5 9 (10.34%) SaltStack
6 8 (9.20%) NetApp
7 5 (5.75%) Cisco
7 5 (5.75%) New Relic
7 5 (5.75%) OpenAI
8 4 (4.60%) Brocade
8 4 (4.60%) EMC
9 3 (3.45%) Apple
9 3 (3.45%) Datto
9 3 (3.45%) HP
9 3 (3.45%) Okta
9 3 (3.45%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.45%) Symantec
10 2 (2.30%) Synology
10 2 (2.30%) Zerto