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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 66 66
Rank change year-on-year +15 0 +42
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 13 4 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.17% 0.61% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.05% 1.99% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £475 - £437
25th Percentile £493 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -15.61% +21.54%
75th Percentile £537 - £625
90th Percentile £545 - £830
Scotland median daily rate £420 £475 £575
% change year-on-year -11.58% -17.39% +27.78%

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 215 201 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.95% 30.50% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 111 179
10th Percentile £395 £380 £398
25th Percentile £431 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -1.04% +2.13%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £543
90th Percentile £625 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £496 £459 £500
% change year-on-year +8.06% -8.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £58.25 - £44.99
25th Percentile £65.00 - £50.59
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £56.85
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +31.93% +16.62%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £61.75
90th Percentile - - £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £61.23 £19.59 £59.52
% change year-on-year +212.53% -67.08% +13.99%

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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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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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
1 5 (38.46%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (38.46%) Power Automate
1 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
1 5 (38.46%) PowerApps
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DHCP
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Local Government
4 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) ForgeRock Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) CRM
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Change Management
6 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (7.69%) ITSM
6 1 (7.69%) Pair Programming
6 1 (7.69%) SIEM
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) PSD2
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) linkerd
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) vRealize
2 1 (7.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) ForgeRock
2 2 (15.38%) Ping Identity
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (7.69%) VMware