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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 73 47
Rank change year-on-year -15 -26 -4
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 9 11 21
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.81% 1.49% 3.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.44% 2.89% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £493 £339 £415
25th Percentile £565 £388 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £467 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.83% -22.17% +25.65%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £682
90th Percentile £688 £608 £788
Scotland median daily rate £481 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.26% - -6.86%

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 369 381 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.30% 51.77% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 200 168
10th Percentile £311 £313 £333
25th Percentile £325 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £474 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +5.28% -10.00%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £513
90th Percentile £600 £600 £613
Scotland median daily rate £440 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.37% +5.56% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile - £22.57 £17.99
25th Percentile - £33.80 £19.59
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £58.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.43% -2.08% +4.35%

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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 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 (22.22%) Rubrik
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Hyper-V Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) JDBC
1 1 (11.11%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) NVMe
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (33.33%) Runbook
3 3 (33.33%) Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) ITSM
4 2 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Firmware
3 1 (11.11%) KVM
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 3 (33.33%) SCOM
3 2 (22.22%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (22.22%) NetBackup
4 1 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (11.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 2 (22.22%) CyberArk
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) Intel
4 1 (11.11%) Qualys