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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 73 44
Rank change year-on-year -6 -29 +12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 13 13 25
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.24% 1.62% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.61% 3.16% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 18
10th Percentile £424 £345 £424
25th Percentile £497 £375 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £467 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.80% -18.78% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £600 £788
Scotland median daily rate £481 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.80% +5.26% -5.00%

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 360 411 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.38% 51.18% 37.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 220 204
10th Percentile £306 £306 £335
25th Percentile £320 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £449
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.68% -10.20%
75th Percentile £517 £550 £513
90th Percentile £621 £607 £613
Scotland median daily rate £438 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile - £22.57 £34.09
25th Percentile - £33.80 £51.56
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% -2.58%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -9.89%

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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 23 July 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 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DHCP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) LAN
2 3 (23.08%) WAN
3 2 (15.38%) NAS
3 2 (15.38%) SAN
4 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Site Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Loki
1 3 (23.08%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) JDBC
2 1 (7.69%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 2 (15.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Data Protection
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (23.08%) Observability
4 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (15.38%) Data Deduplication
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (15.38%) Runbook
6 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
6 1 (7.69%) Refactoring
6 1 (7.69%) Statistics
6 1 (7.69%) Use Case
6 1 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) CEH
2 1 (7.69%) CISM
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) NetBackup
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Dell
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 2 (15.38%) Veritas
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds