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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 72 78
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 10 3 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.57% 0.36% 1.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 1.49% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 11
10th Percentile £450 - £450
25th Percentile £453 £410 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -23.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £432 £586
90th Percentile £513 £432 £588
Scotland median daily rate £500 £444 £488
% change year-on-year +12.68% -8.97% +4.84%

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 219 201 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 34.49% 24.30% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 117 242
10th Percentile £413 £378 £388
25th Percentile £456 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -0.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £625 £623 £575
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £56.25 - £39.90
25th Percentile £60.00 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +42.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile £74.00 - £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £47.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year +27.66% -20.38% +19.71%

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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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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 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 2 (20.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (40.00%) PowerApps
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power Query
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Local Government
4 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (40.00%) CRM
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Behavioural Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (10.00%) Fintech
6 1 (10.00%) Log Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
6 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) Go
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Bicep
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) CEH
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) GCFA
2 1 (10.00%) GCIH
2 1 (10.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) linkerd
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) HAProxy
3 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (10.00%) Ping Identity