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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 36 28
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 +37
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 50 38 58
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.58% 5.10% 6.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.38% 11.01% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 7 38
10th Percentile £310 £259 £400
25th Percentile £358 £358 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -19.64% +28.88%
75th Percentile £438 £556 £650
90th Percentile £507 £638 £700
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £593
% change year-on-year -15.00% -15.61% +24.74%
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 £78.00
% change year-on-year +153.43% -71.23% -

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 272 345 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 41.21% 46.31% 38.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 172 211
10th Percentile £324 £350 £396
25th Percentile £386 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -16.00% +0.96%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £650
90th Percentile £588 £581 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £469 £511
% change year-on-year +1.28% -8.15% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £52.00 - £50.25
25th Percentile £55.00 - £50.63
Median hourly rate £58.73 £19.59 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +199.77% -62.69% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £55.63
90th Percentile £63.60 - £56.75
Scotland median hourly rate £59.36 £22.44 £60.50
% change year-on-year +164.57% -62.91% +7.86%

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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 25 January 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) AWS
2 19 (38.00%) Azure
3 10 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon MSK
4 7 (14.00%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (14.00%) Serverless
5 6 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) Firewall
2 5 (10.00%) DNS
2 5 (10.00%) SAN
3 4 (8.00%) NAS
4 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.00%) VSAN
5 2 (4.00%) DHCP
5 2 (4.00%) LAN
5 2 (4.00%) WAN
6 1 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) Git
2 13 (26.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (14.00%) Bitbucket
3 7 (14.00%) JIRA
3 7 (14.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (28.00%) Finance
4 6 (12.00%) Banking
4 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Legal
5 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Automation Engineer
1 13 (26.00%) Windows Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Security Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) PowerShell Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Senior
5 6 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Azure Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Site Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Developer
9 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Server Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) Node.js
2 6 (12.00%) REST
3 5 (10.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.00%) IVR
3 1 (2.00%) NHS
3 1 (2.00%) NVMe
3 1 (2.00%) SCADA
3 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (46.00%) Windows
2 13 (26.00%) Linux
3 11 (22.00%) Unix
4 8 (16.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (10.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) DevOps
2 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (24.00%) Agile
5 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (20.00%) Observability
5 10 (20.00%) Refactoring
5 10 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (18.00%) Task Automation
7 8 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
8 7 (14.00%) Data Protection
8 7 (14.00%) Microservices
9 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
10 5 (10.00%) Cyber Resilience
10 5 (10.00%) Disk Encryption
10 5 (10.00%) Incident Response
10 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (76.00%) Python
2 14 (28.00%) Perl
3 8 (16.00%) Java
4 7 (14.00%) Bash
4 7 (14.00%) Ruby
4 7 (14.00%) SQL
5 5 (10.00%) Go
6 1 (2.00%) Bicep
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) NCDA
4 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) VCAP
4 1 (2.00%) VCP6
4 1 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
2 7 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.00%) vSphere
4 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) Ansible
1 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.00%) Grafana
2 7 (14.00%) SCCM
3 6 (12.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (10.00%) NetBackup
5 4 (8.00%) Terraform
6 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.00%) vRealize
8 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) Splunk
3 7 (14.00%) VMware
4 6 (12.00%) Oracle
5 5 (10.00%) Veritas
6 2 (4.00%) Citrix
6 2 (4.00%) Dell
7 1 (2.00%) Brocade
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco
7 1 (2.00%) Commvault
7 1 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.00%) NetApp
7 1 (2.00%) Pega
7 1 (2.00%) SAP