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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 36 29
Rank change year-on-year -21 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 25 33 50
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.37% 4.76% 6.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.79% 13.25% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 36
10th Percentile £367 £310 -
25th Percentile £391 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £444 £478
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% -7.07% +5.52%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £580
90th Percentile £615 £638 £700
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £532
% change year-on-year +11.00% -15.33% +11.89%

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 368 249 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 49.66% 35.88% 36.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 154 193
10th Percentile £338 £333 £390
25th Percentile £403 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £500 £637
90th Percentile £621 £592 £750
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% +3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £30.05 £17.45 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.26 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -60.82% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £63.60 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.61 £19.59 £59.03
% change year-on-year +209.41% -66.81% +38.08%

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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 20 October 2025.

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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) AWS
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (12.00%) Serverless
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
1 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (12.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) GIS
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (8.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Administrator
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) LDAP
1 3 (12.00%) Node.js
1 3 (12.00%) X-Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.00%) IVR
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) NHS
3 1 (4.00%) SCADA
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 8 (32.00%) Windows
3 6 (24.00%) Mac OS
3 6 (24.00%) Unix
4 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) DevOps
2 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (28.00%) Task Automation
4 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (12.00%) Agile
7 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity
7 3 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (12.00%) Disk Encryption
7 3 (12.00%) Information Security
7 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (12.00%) Line Management
7 3 (12.00%) Microservices
7 3 (12.00%) Storage Management
8 2 (8.00%) API Development
8 2 (8.00%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) Bash
4 3 (12.00%) Go
4 3 (12.00%) Perl
4 3 (12.00%) Ruby
4 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Bicep
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (12.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (12.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) SCCM
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.00%) Terraform
4 1 (4.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Splunk
2 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle
4 2 (8.00%) Pega
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (4.00%) SAP