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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 70 42
Rank change year-on-year -14 -28 +1
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 8 11 23
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.76% 1.48% 3.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.28% 2.80% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 17
10th Percentile £507 £339 £422
25th Percentile £568 £388 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £467 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.48% -18.78% +12.20%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £650
90th Percentile £685 £608 £788
Scotland median daily rate £478 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.40% +5.26% -8.65%

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 351 393 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.30% 52.89% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 212 169
10th Percentile £306 £313 £333
25th Percentile £320 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £509 £575 £513
90th Percentile £605 £606 £613
Scotland median daily rate £439 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.63% +5.56% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile - £22.57 £18.26
25th Percentile - £33.80 £27.82
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £36.25 £58.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -38.30% +2.17% -

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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 19 August 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 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DHCP
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JDBC
1 1 (12.50%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Runbook
3 2 (25.00%) Change Control
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Records Management
4 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Scala
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (25.00%) SCOM
3 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Splunk
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix
3 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
3 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft