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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 38 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 +26
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 40 40 60
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.71% 5.30% 6.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.78% 12.50% 17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 42
10th Percentile £311 £267 -
25th Percentile £358 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £444 £516 £650
90th Percentile £564 £638 £700
Scotland median daily rate £410 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -8.89% -21.74% +26.10%
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 £22.88 £78.00
% change year-on-year +148.58% -70.67% -

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 313 320 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 44.71% 42.38% 39.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 165 213
10th Percentile £337 £350 £389
25th Percentile £401 £365 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -16.67% +1.94%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £650
90th Percentile £611 £617 £748
Scotland median daily rate £500 £464 £510
% change year-on-year +7.82% -9.07% +6.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £52.00 £17.45 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £18.26 -
Median hourly rate £58.73 £19.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +199.77% -60.82% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £63.60 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £59.36 £22.88 £60.02
% change year-on-year +159.51% -61.88% +14.31%

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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 31 December 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 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) AWS
2 13 (32.50%) Azure
3 10 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (17.50%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (17.50%) Amazon MSK
4 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (17.50%) Serverless
5 6 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (7.50%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) DNS
2 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.50%) VSAN
3 2 (5.00%) NAS
3 2 (5.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Git
2 11 (27.50%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.50%) Bitbucket
3 7 (17.50%) JIRA
3 7 (17.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Banking
4 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Security Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) PowerShell Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Software Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Site Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Specialist
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Support
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Node.js
2 4 (10.00%) REST
3 3 (7.50%) Loki
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.00%) IVR
2 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) SCADA
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Linux
1 12 (30.00%) Windows
2 9 (22.50%) Unix
3 4 (10.00%) Mac OS
4 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) DevOps
2 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (22.50%) Task Automation
5 8 (20.00%) Observability
5 8 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Agile
6 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.50%) Microservices
7 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (15.00%) Refactoring
7 6 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (12.50%) Data Protection
8 5 (12.50%) Disk Encryption
8 5 (12.50%) Incident Response
8 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (80.00%) Python
2 11 (27.50%) Perl
3 9 (22.50%) Java
4 7 (17.50%) Ruby
5 6 (15.00%) Bash
5 6 (15.00%) SQL
6 5 (12.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) Bicep
7 1 (2.50%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.50%) vSphere
4 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (25.00%) Ansible
3 6 (15.00%) SCCM
4 5 (12.50%) Terraform
5 4 (10.00%) Grafana
5 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (7.50%) NetBackup
7 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (20.00%) Splunk
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle
3 4 (10.00%) VMware
4 3 (7.50%) Veritas
5 2 (5.00%) Pega
6 1 (2.50%) Citrix
6 1 (2.50%) SAP