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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 65 39
Rank change year-on-year +16 -26 +21
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 30 12 31
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.67% 1.62% 3.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.91% 3.17% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 20
10th Percentile £294 £345 £399
25th Percentile £413 £375 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £467 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -18.78% +26.37%
75th Percentile £587 £550 £650
90th Percentile £625 £600 £788
Scotland median daily rate £469 £450 £535
% change year-on-year +4.17% -15.89% +4.19%
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 275 379 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.62% 51.15% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 194 216
10th Percentile £306 £300 £333
25th Percentile £320 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% +3.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £625 £579 £623
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £39.00 - £51.88
25th Percentile £45.00 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £15.09 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +264.48% -73.76% -2.58%
75th Percentile £57.79 - £62.50
90th Percentile £59.47 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £23.77 £57.50
% change year-on-year +131.41% -58.67% -2.59%

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 4 June 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) AWS
3 7 (23.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) SAN
2 6 (20.00%) NAS
3 5 (16.67%) DHCP
3 5 (16.67%) DNS
3 5 (16.67%) LAN
3 5 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (30.00%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Automation Engineer
2 13 (43.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
4 9 (30.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (23.33%) Security Engineer
6 5 (16.67%) PowerShell Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) Site Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Server Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
9 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Software Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
9 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) REST
2 8 (26.67%) Loki
3 1 (3.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 26 (86.67%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (30.00%) Unix
4 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (13.33%) Mac OS
6 2 (6.67%) Linux
7 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (33.33%) Agile
3 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 9 (30.00%) DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) Observability
5 8 (26.67%) Refactoring
6 7 (23.33%) Analytical Thinking
6 7 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Data Deduplication
8 5 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
9 3 (10.00%) Disk Encryption
10 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
10 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
10 2 (6.67%) Risk Management
10 2 (6.67%) Security Management
10 2 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Python
2 11 (36.67%) Perl
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) Ruby
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (3.33%) CEH
1 1 (3.33%) CISM
1 1 (3.33%) CISSP
1 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) NCDA
1 1 (3.33%) VCAP
1 1 (3.33%) VCP6
1 1 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) vSphere
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Ansible
2 9 (30.00%) Grafana
3 8 (26.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
4 7 (23.33%) NetBackup
5 4 (13.33%) SCCM
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.33%) PowerCLI
6 1 (3.33%) Terraform
6 1 (3.33%) vMotion
6 1 (3.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Veritas
2 6 (20.00%) VMware
3 5 (16.67%) Dell
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.00%) Splunk
5 2 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.33%) Brocade
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco
6 1 (3.33%) Citrix
6 1 (3.33%) Commvault
6 1 (3.33%) NetApp
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle