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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 71 41
Rank change year-on-year +25 -30 +23
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 31 12 35
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.03% 1.56% 4.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.48% 2.96% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 22
10th Percentile £300 £345 £451
25th Percentile £367 £375 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £467 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -18.78% +27.78%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £650
90th Percentile £625 £600 £778
Scotland median daily rate £456 £459 £575
% change year-on-year -0.49% -20.26% +15.00%
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 270 406 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.11% 52.80% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 201 219
10th Percentile £306 £300 £348
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% -1.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £569
90th Percentile £625 £575 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £474 £475
% change year-on-year -5.01% -0.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £39.50 - £51.88
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £15.09 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +247.91% -73.76% -2.58%
75th Percentile £56.40 - £62.50
90th Percentile £58.91 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £22.88 £57.50
% change year-on-year +140.44% -60.22% -3.83%

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 19 May 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 (41.94%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) AWS
3 7 (22.58%) OpenShift
4 3 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) SAN
2 6 (19.35%) NAS
3 5 (16.13%) DHCP
3 5 (16.13%) DNS
3 5 (16.13%) LAN
3 5 (16.13%) WAN
4 1 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 9 (29.03%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (45.16%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Legal
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Automation Engineer
2 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Windows Engineer
4 8 (25.81%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (22.58%) Security Engineer
6 6 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (16.13%) PowerShell Engineer
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 4 (12.90%) Site Engineer
9 2 (6.45%) Server Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
10 1 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Azure Software Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
10 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) REST
2 8 (25.81%) Loki
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 25 (80.65%) Windows
2 12 (38.71%) Windows Server
3 11 (35.48%) Unix
4 5 (16.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (12.90%) Linux
5 4 (12.90%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
2 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (35.48%) DevOps
3 11 (35.48%) Observability
4 10 (32.26%) Agile
4 10 (32.26%) Data Protection
5 9 (29.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (25.81%) Refactoring
7 7 (22.58%) Analytical Thinking
7 7 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (19.35%) Data Deduplication
9 5 (16.13%) Cyber Resilience
10 4 (12.90%) Task Automation
11 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
11 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
11 3 (9.68%) Disk Encryption
11 3 (9.68%) High Availability
11 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 2 (6.45%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) Perl
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) SQL
4 1 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.23%) CEH
2 1 (3.23%) CISM
2 1 (3.23%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) NCDA
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) VCAP
2 1 (3.23%) VCP6
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.13%) vSphere
3 3 (9.68%) Docker
4 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) Ansible
2 9 (29.03%) Grafana
2 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
3 8 (25.81%) Prometheus
4 7 (22.58%) NetBackup
5 4 (12.90%) SCCM
6 3 (9.68%) Terraform
7 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (3.23%) PowerCLI
8 1 (3.23%) vMotion
8 1 (3.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Veritas
2 6 (19.35%) VMware
3 5 (16.13%) Dell
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.13%) Splunk
4 2 (6.45%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.23%) Brocade
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco
5 1 (3.23%) Citrix
5 1 (3.23%) Commvault
5 1 (3.23%) NetApp
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle