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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 51 34
Rank change year-on-year -20 -17 +14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 10 14 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.38% 2.06% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.67% 6.17% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 30
10th Percentile £435 £408 -
25th Percentile £467 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -0.55%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £550
90th Percentile £625 £788 £580
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%

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 374 227 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 51.44% 33.38% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 166 184
10th Percentile £313 £346 £400
25th Percentile £408 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £500 £592
90th Percentile £613 £602 £725
Scotland median daily rate £500 £453 £485
% change year-on-year +10.38% -6.60% +1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £26.31 £17.72 £48.87
25th Percentile £43.15 £18.92 £51.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.80 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.21% -30.79% +21.05%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £64.61
90th Percentile £61.00 - £67.66
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £53.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year +12.15% -9.37% +19.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell 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 18 September 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 and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) GIS
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) LDAP
1 3 (30.00%) X-Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) IVR
1 1 (10.00%) SCADA
1 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Unix
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Mac OS
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security
3 3 (30.00%) Line Management
3 3 (30.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Disk Encryption
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Runbook
5 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Bicep
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
1 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (30.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Pega
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas