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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 41 32
Rank change year-on-year +17 -9 +36
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 49 40 53
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.02% 4.88% 5.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.60% 9.41% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 10 32
10th Percentile £310 £282 £468
25th Percentile £358 £321 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +33.88%
75th Percentile £458 £475 £693
90th Percentile £591 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £425 £467 £600
% change year-on-year -8.99% -22.17% +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 250 425 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.82% 51.89% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 214 238
10th Percentile £312 £313 £363
25th Percentile £369 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £637
90th Percentile £606 £575 £722
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.12% -7.10% +2.04%
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
75th Percentile £56.40 - £62.50
90th Percentile £58.91 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £22.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year +140.44% -61.88% -4.42%

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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 26 March 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 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) AWS
1 18 (36.73%) Azure
2 9 (18.37%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
3 7 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 7 (14.29%) Serverless
4 5 (10.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.04%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.04%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.33%) DNS
2 7 (14.29%) Firewall
2 7 (14.29%) SAN
3 6 (12.24%) NAS
4 5 (10.20%) DHCP
4 5 (10.20%) LAN
4 5 (10.20%) WAN
5 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
5 3 (6.12%) VSAN
6 1 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (32.65%) Jenkins
2 15 (30.61%) Git
3 7 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 7 (14.29%) JIRA
3 7 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (10.20%) GitLab
General
1 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.61%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (28.57%) Finance
4 6 (12.24%) Banking
5 5 (10.20%) Legal
5 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Automation Engineer
2 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Windows Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) PowerShell Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Security Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Senior
6 6 (12.24%) Site Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (8.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Server Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.37%) REST
2 8 (16.33%) Loki
3 7 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) IVR
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 25 (51.02%) Windows
2 13 (26.53%) Linux
2 13 (26.53%) Windows Server
3 10 (20.41%) Unix
4 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (6.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
2 16 (32.65%) DevOps
3 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (26.53%) Observability
5 10 (20.41%) Agile
5 10 (20.41%) Data Protection
5 10 (20.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (16.33%) Refactoring
6 8 (16.33%) Task Automation
7 7 (14.29%) Microservices
8 6 (12.24%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (12.24%) Containerisation
8 6 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (12.24%) Data Deduplication
8 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (12.24%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.20%) Cyber Resilience
9 5 (10.20%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (8.16%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 36 (73.47%) Python
2 17 (34.69%) Perl
3 7 (14.29%) Java
3 7 (14.29%) Ruby
4 6 (12.24%) Bash
4 6 (12.24%) SQL
5 5 (10.20%) Go
6 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.12%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) CEH
4 1 (2.04%) CISM
4 1 (2.04%) CISSP
4 1 (2.04%) NCDA
4 1 (2.04%) VCAP
4 1 (2.04%) VCP6
4 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (18.37%) Docker
3 8 (16.33%) vSphere
4 7 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 4 (8.16%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (32.65%) Ansible
2 15 (30.61%) Kubernetes
3 9 (18.37%) Grafana
4 8 (16.33%) Prometheus
5 7 (14.29%) NetBackup
6 4 (8.16%) SCCM
7 3 (6.12%) Terraform
8 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
8 2 (4.08%) vRealize
9 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (2.04%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.04%) vMotion
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) VMware
2 7 (14.29%) Veritas
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.20%) Dell
4 5 (10.20%) Oracle
5 4 (8.16%) Splunk
6 2 (4.08%) Citrix
6 2 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.04%) Brocade
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco
7 1 (2.04%) Commvault
7 1 (2.04%) NetApp
7 1 (2.04%) Pega