PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 39 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 +24
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 38 40 60
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.24% 5.31% 6.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.45% 12.86% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 42
10th Percentile £311 £267 -
25th Percentile £358 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £444 £516 £650
90th Percentile £564 £638 £700
Scotland median daily rate £423 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -6.11% -21.74% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.86 - -
Median hourly rate £58.73 - -
75th Percentile £60.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 - £78.00

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 332 311 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 45.79% 41.25% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 165 215
10th Percentile £347 £350 £391
25th Percentile £401 £365 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% -16.67% +4.22%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £650
90th Percentile £606 £617 £745
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £501
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.59% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £52.06 £17.45 -
25th Percentile £55.15 £18.26 -
Median hourly rate £59.36 £19.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +203.02% -60.82% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile £63.79 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £33.30 £60.02
% change year-on-year +80.21% -44.52% +14.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Glasgow over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Glasgow

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Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing PowerShell

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) AWS
2 12 (31.58%) Azure
3 10 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (18.42%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (18.42%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (18.42%) Amazon MSK
4 7 (18.42%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (18.42%) Serverless
5 6 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (2.63%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.89%) VSAN
3 2 (5.26%) NAS
3 2 (5.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.63%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Git
2 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
3 7 (18.42%) Bitbucket
3 7 (18.42%) JIRA
3 7 (18.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (13.16%) GitLab
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Banking
5 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Windows Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Security Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Software Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Developer
6 3 (7.89%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) Node.js
2 4 (10.53%) REST
3 3 (7.89%) Loki
4 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.26%) IVR
2 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) NHS
3 1 (2.63%) SCADA
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Linux
2 10 (26.32%) Windows
3 9 (23.68%) Unix
4 4 (10.53%) Mac OS
5 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) DevOps
2 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (23.68%) Task Automation
5 8 (21.05%) Observability
6 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
6 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (18.42%) Microservices
6 7 (18.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (13.16%) Agile
8 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (13.16%) Data Protection
8 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
8 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.53%) Disk Encryption
9 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
9 4 (10.53%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (78.95%) Python
2 11 (28.95%) Perl
3 9 (23.68%) Java
4 7 (18.42%) Ruby
5 6 (15.79%) Bash
5 6 (15.79%) SQL
6 5 (13.16%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.63%) GDPR
1 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.89%) vSphere
4 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 10 (26.32%) Ansible
3 5 (13.16%) SCCM
3 5 (13.16%) Terraform
4 4 (10.53%) Grafana
4 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (7.89%) NetBackup
6 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
1 7 (18.42%) Splunk
2 6 (15.79%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) VMware
4 3 (7.89%) Veritas
5 2 (5.26%) Pega
6 1 (2.63%) Citrix
6 1 (2.63%) SAP