PowerShell Contracts in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 43 56 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 +38 +5
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 24 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.84% 1.96% 1.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.94% 8.04% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 12
10th Percentile £150 £422 £428
25th Percentile £221 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £513 £625 £563
90th Percentile £538 £830 £624
Scotland median daily rate £459 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -20.26% +15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - -
Median hourly rate £22.44 - -
75th Percentile £24.38 - -
90th Percentile £29.48 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.44 - -

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 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (4.17%) IIS
1 1 (4.17%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Power Automate
1 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 5 (20.83%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) CloudFront
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.33%) MariaDB
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Power Query
2 2 (8.33%) Redis
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) JUnit
1 1 (4.17%) MSTest
1 1 (4.17%) NUnit
1 1 (4.17%) Postman
1 1 (4.17%) Ranorex
1 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 16 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Service Desk Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Service Desk Support
2 5 (20.83%) Support Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) CRM Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Security Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Security Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) JSON
1 3 (12.50%) YAML
2 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) Playwright
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) WebSockets
3 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Device Driver
2 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 9 (37.50%) ITIL
2 9 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 8 (33.33%) Customer Experience
4 6 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (20.83%) CRM
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.67%) DevOps
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (12.50%) Kanban
7 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 2 (8.33%) Analytics
8 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.33%) SIEM
8 2 (8.33%) Test Scripting
8 2 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) C#
1 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) Bash
3 3 (12.50%) Java
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) Bicep
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) CEH
2 1 (4.17%) CISSP
2 1 (4.17%) GCFA
2 1 (4.17%) GCIH
2 1 (4.17%) OSCP
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) Terminal Services
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
3 1 (4.17%) linkerd
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
2 2 (8.33%) Thycotic
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix
3 1 (4.17%) Commvault
3 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.17%) Dell
3 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.17%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.17%) SonicWALL
3 1 (4.17%) VMware