PowerShell Contracts in Glasgow

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 42 58
Rank change year-on-year -33 +16 -4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 11 25 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.38% 3.26% 2.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.74% 8.45% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 13
10th Percentile £342 £441 -
25th Percentile £363 £518 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £550
90th Percentile £600 £788 -
Scotland median daily rate £484 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -9.63% +1.90% +5.00%

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 402 296 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 50.25% 38.64% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 205 198
10th Percentile £300 £336 £400
25th Percentile £396 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £521
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -13.67% +4.25%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £615
90th Percentile £582 £650 £738
Scotland median daily rate £475 £453 £488
% change year-on-year +4.86% -7.08% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
10th Percentile £22.57 £37.52 £51.99
25th Percentile £33.80 £51.88 £56.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -6.82% +31.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.06
90th Percentile - - £67.66
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +25.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
2 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Cohesity
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) SharePoint Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
1 3 (27.27%) X-Windows
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (9.09%) Insider Threat
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
1 7 (63.64%) Unix
2 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Data Protection
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Business Continuity
3 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) Information Security
3 3 (27.27%) Line Management
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Storage Management
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (18.18%) Secrets Management
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
2 2 (18.18%) NetBackup
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (18.18%) CyberArk
2 2 (18.18%) Veritas