PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 58 77
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 20 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.75% 1.41% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.49% 4.17% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 3
10th Percentile £424 £450 -
25th Percentile £438 £453 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +16.07% -20.00%
75th Percentile £507 £500 £432
90th Percentile £565 £513 £432
Scotland median daily rate £481 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.80% +11.11% -10.00%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 174 216 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.97% 33.75% 23.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 121 115
10th Percentile £400 £413 £377
25th Percentile £413 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £538
90th Percentile £576 £625 £604
Scotland median daily rate £440 £500 £452
% change year-on-year -12.00% +10.68% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +42.86%
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -41.67% - +2.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (10.00%) Apache
1 2 (10.00%) IIS
1 2 (10.00%) nginx
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (20.00%) PowerApps
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.00%) CloudFront
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) Power Query
4 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) DBA
2 5 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) SQL DBA
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.00%) OAuth
3 2 (10.00%) OpenID
3 2 (10.00%) SAML
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (20.00%) Linux
4 3 (15.00%) Unix
5 2 (10.00%) AIX
5 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (20.00%) AI
5 4 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (15.00%) Identity Management
6 3 (15.00%) Observability
6 3 (15.00%) Runbook
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Bash
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 6 (30.00%) Bicep
4 3 (15.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Go
5 2 (10.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) Grafana
2 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.00%) linkerd
4 1 (5.00%) Argo
4 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) RedGate
2 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Okta
3 2 (10.00%) Qualys
3 2 (10.00%) Rapid7
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.00%) Tenable
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) New Relic
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk