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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 71 52
Rank change year-on-year -16 -19 -19
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 13 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.10% 1.37% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.28% 2.69% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £480 £435 £388
25th Percentile £561 £467 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +3.29% +18.33%
75th Percentile £675 £613 £638
90th Percentile £690 £625 £664
Scotland median daily rate £481 £500 £444
% change year-on-year -3.80% +12.68% -8.97%

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 396 372 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 33.53% 51.10% 33.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 191 165
10th Percentile £311 £313 £336
25th Percentile £325 £407 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £500
90th Percentile £588 £613 £598
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile - £26.31 £17.99
25th Percentile - £43.15 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +180.76% -65.93%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile - £61.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -41.67% +27.66% -20.38%

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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 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Rubrik
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DHCP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior SQL DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Senior SQL Server DBA
4 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Virtualisation Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) JDBC
1 1 (7.69%) ODBC
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Clustering
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) NVMe
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) ITSM
2 4 (30.77%) Validation
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 3 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (23.08%) Runbook
4 2 (15.38%) AI
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
3 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
4 1 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (7.69%) Firmware
4 1 (7.69%) KVM
4 1 (7.69%) UAG
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) SCCM
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) SCOM
3 2 (15.38%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
4 1 (7.69%) WMI
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Splunk
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) CyberArk
3 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Intel
4 1 (7.69%) Qualys