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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 65 31
Rank change year-on-year +28 -34 +39
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 37 18 56
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.12% 2.22% 6.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.57% 4.32% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 36
10th Percentile £311 £310 £456
25th Percentile £358 £346 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -28.00% +40.45%
75th Percentile £475 £476 £693
90th Percentile £614 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £600
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +16.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.19 - -
25th Percentile £55.47 - -
Median hourly rate £56.86 - -
75th Percentile £59.19 - -
90th Percentile £60.03 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £56.86 £22.44 -
% change year-on-year +153.43% - -

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 254 417 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.18% 51.42% 41.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 215 248
10th Percentile £311 £300 £363
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -7.93% -10.65%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £613
90th Percentile £625 £578 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £469 £494
% change year-on-year -4.00% -5.11% +0.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £39.50 - £51.88
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.58%
75th Percentile £56.40 - £62.50
90th Percentile £58.91 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £23.77 £60.00
% change year-on-year +131.41% -60.39% -3.94%

PowerShell
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 18 April 2026.

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 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 14 (37.84%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) OpenShift
4 6 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) SAN
2 6 (16.22%) NAS
3 5 (13.51%) DHCP
3 5 (13.51%) DNS
3 5 (13.51%) LAN
3 5 (13.51%) WAN
4 4 (10.81%) Firewall
5 1 (2.70%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Jenkins
2 12 (32.43%) Git
3 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
3 4 (10.81%) JIRA
3 4 (10.81%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (8.11%) GitLab
General
1 15 (40.54%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Legal
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.11%) Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Automation Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Windows Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Security Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) PowerShell Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Site Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior
8 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Software Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Server Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) REST
2 8 (21.62%) Loki
3 4 (10.81%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 24 (64.86%) Windows
2 12 (32.43%) Windows Server
3 10 (27.03%) Unix
4 7 (18.92%) Linux
5 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (8.11%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) CI/CD
1 13 (35.14%) DevOps
1 13 (35.14%) Observability
1 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (27.03%) Agile
3 10 (27.03%) Data Protection
3 10 (27.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (21.62%) Refactoring
5 6 (16.22%) Analytical Thinking
5 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (16.22%) Data Deduplication
5 6 (16.22%) Task Automation
6 5 (13.51%) Cyber Resilience
7 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
7 4 (10.81%) Incident Response
7 4 (10.81%) Microservices
7 4 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.81%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (72.97%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) Perl
3 4 (10.81%) Java
3 4 (10.81%) Ruby
3 4 (10.81%) SQL
4 3 (8.11%) Bash
5 2 (5.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.11%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.70%) CEH
4 1 (2.70%) CISM
4 1 (2.70%) CISSP
4 1 (2.70%) NCDA
4 1 (2.70%) VCAP
4 1 (2.70%) VCP6
4 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
1 6 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.51%) vSphere
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Ansible
2 12 (32.43%) Kubernetes
3 9 (24.32%) Grafana
4 8 (21.62%) Prometheus
5 7 (18.92%) NetBackup
6 3 (8.11%) SCCM
6 3 (8.11%) Terraform
7 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.70%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.70%) vMotion
8 1 (2.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Veritas
2 6 (16.22%) VMware
3 5 (13.51%) Dell
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.81%) Splunk
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle
6 2 (5.41%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.70%) Brocade
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco
7 1 (2.70%) Citrix
7 1 (2.70%) Commvault
7 1 (2.70%) NetApp