PowerShell Contracts in the North of England

Windows PowerShell
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 67 108
Rank change year-on-year -10 +41 -43
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 117 170 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.41% 3.12% 2.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.41% 11.12% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 119 122
10th Percentile £361 £243 £159
25th Percentile £400 £428 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £439
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +16.81% -0.28%
75th Percentile £638 £589 £523
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - £17.74
25th Percentile £37.63 - -
Median hourly rate £46.18 - £21.78
75th Percentile - - £51.45
90th Percentile - - £55.83
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £49.99
% change year-on-year -32.92% +20.04% +21.91%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,244 1,529 2,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.68% 28.10% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1,113 1,688
10th Percentile £319 £351 £325
25th Percentile £403 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £699 £663
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 49
10th Percentile £37.55 £28.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £47.75 £47.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +11.76% +63.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.90 £65.90 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West -18 69 £481 -10.00% 52
Yorkshire +8 40 £573 +21.49% 27
North East +14 8 £475 -32.14% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (10.26%) Confluence
2 11 (9.40%) SharePoint
3 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (5.98%) SharePoint 2010
4 7 (5.98%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.71%) Apache
5 2 (1.71%) IIS
5 2 (1.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.85%) JBoss
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.85%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (0.85%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 67 (57.26%) Azure
2 32 (27.35%) AWS
3 26 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (16.24%) GCP
5 16 (13.68%) GitHub
6 15 (12.82%) Power Platform
7 10 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (7.69%) Kong
9 7 (5.98%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.13%) Apigee
10 6 (5.13%) Mimecast
11 5 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.42%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (2.56%) IaaS
13 3 (2.56%) PaaS
13 3 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.51%) DNS
2 17 (14.53%) Firewall
3 15 (12.82%) VPN
4 13 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 9 (7.69%) HTTP
6 8 (6.84%) DHCP
7 7 (5.98%) VLAN
8 5 (4.27%) LAN
8 5 (4.27%) WAN
9 4 (3.42%) VoIP
9 4 (3.42%) WAAS
9 4 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.56%) BIG-IP
10 3 (2.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (2.56%) SAN
10 3 (2.56%) SSL
11 2 (1.71%) NAS
11 2 (1.71%) Network Security
12 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.80%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.11%) Power BI
3 10 (8.55%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (5.98%) Metadata
5 7 (5.98%) PowerPivot
5 7 (5.98%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Power View
7 4 (3.42%) MySQL
8 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.56%) Tableau
9 2 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.71%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.85%) Essbase
10 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (17.95%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.68%) GitLab
3 14 (11.97%) Git
4 11 (9.40%) JIRA
5 9 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (7.69%) CircleCI
5 9 (7.69%) Travis CI
6 6 (5.13%) Hudson
7 4 (3.42%) AppScan
7 4 (3.42%) Burp Suite
7 4 (3.42%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.56%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.71%) AdminStudio
9 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.71%) InstallShield
9 2 (1.71%) MSI
10 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 34 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.40%) Finance
4 7 (5.98%) Publishing
5 5 (4.27%) Banking
6 4 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (7.69%) Architect
2 9 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (7.69%) Senior
3 8 (6.84%) Developer
3 8 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (5.98%) Consultant
4 7 (5.98%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 7 (5.98%) Lead
5 6 (5.13%) Administrator
5 6 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (5.13%) DBA
5 6 (5.13%) SharePoint Engineer
6 5 (4.27%) Analyst
6 5 (4.27%) Azure Architect
6 5 (4.27%) Azure Consultant
6 5 (4.27%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (4.27%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 5 (4.27%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.42%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (8.55%) CSS
2 10 (8.55%) HTML
3 9 (7.69%) JSON
3 9 (7.69%) XML
3 9 (7.69%) YAML
4 6 (5.13%) REST
5 4 (3.42%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.42%) LDAP
6 3 (2.56%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.71%) ADSI
7 2 (1.71%) RESTful
7 2 (1.71%) SAML
7 2 (1.71%) SOAP
8 1 (0.85%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (0.85%) Kafka
8 1 (0.85%) Middleware
8 1 (0.85%) OLE
8 1 (0.85%) pytest
8 1 (0.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.98%) Clustering
2 7 (5.98%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.27%) CMDB
5 4 (3.42%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.71%) NHS
7 2 (1.71%) PKI
8 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.64%) Windows
2 15 (12.82%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.11%) Linux
4 11 (9.40%) Windows 10
5 8 (6.84%) Mac OS
6 6 (5.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (4.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (3.42%) Apple iOS
9 3 (2.56%) VMS
10 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.85%) CentOS
11 1 (0.85%) Fedora
11 1 (0.85%) Rocky
11 1 (0.85%) Unix
11 1 (0.85%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (36.75%) DevOps
2 35 (29.91%) CI/CD
3 34 (29.06%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (18.80%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (17.95%) ITIL
7 20 (17.09%) Agile
7 20 (17.09%) Containerisation
8 18 (15.38%) Task Automation
9 16 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (13.68%) Migration
10 15 (12.82%) Project Management
10 15 (12.82%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.26%) Scrum
11 12 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (9.40%) DevSecOps
13 10 (8.55%) API Development
13 10 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (8.55%) Collaborative Working
13 10 (8.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 40 (34.19%) Python
2 28 (23.93%) Bash
3 27 (23.08%) SQL
4 14 (11.97%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.27%) C#
5 5 (4.27%) Go
5 5 (4.27%) Perl
5 5 (4.27%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.42%) Java
7 3 (2.56%) ActionScript
7 3 (2.56%) C
8 2 (1.71%) C++
8 2 (1.71%) VB
9 1 (0.85%) Fortran
9 1 (0.85%) Groovy
9 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (16.24%) Degree
2 13 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 11 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.42%) MCSE
6 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.71%) CCNA
7 2 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.71%) CISSP
7 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.71%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.85%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) CEH
8 1 (0.85%) CISM
8 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.85%) MCP
8 1 (0.85%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.80%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.56%) NIST
2 3 (2.56%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.71%) GRC
4 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 23 (19.66%) Docker
3 17 (14.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.56%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.85%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.85%) Firmware
6 1 (0.85%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (22.22%) Terraform
2 25 (21.37%) Ansible
2 25 (21.37%) Kubernetes
3 17 (14.53%) Puppet
4 16 (13.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (11.11%) Grafana
5 13 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 13 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 13 (11.11%) SCCM
6 9 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (7.69%) Kibana
6 9 (7.69%) logstash
7 6 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.27%) Graylog
9 4 (3.42%) Autotask
9 4 (3.42%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (3.42%) HP Fortify
9 4 (3.42%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (3.42%) Nessus
9 4 (3.42%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 39 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.80%) VMware
3 15 (12.82%) Splunk
4 8 (6.84%) Sophos
5 6 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.27%) EMC
7 4 (3.42%) Apple
7 4 (3.42%) Checkmarx
7 4 (3.42%) Datto
7 4 (3.42%) Veracode
8 3 (2.56%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.56%) F5
9 2 (1.71%) CA
9 2 (1.71%) Citrix
9 2 (1.71%) HP
9 2 (1.71%) Oracle
9 2 (1.71%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.85%) Cisco
10 1 (0.85%) Dell
10 1 (0.85%) IBM