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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 46 26
Rank change year-on-year +21 -20 +43
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 52 39 55
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.40% 4.73% 5.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 9.29% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 9 34
10th Percentile £310 £275 £400
25th Percentile £358 £313 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -39.13% +18.43%
75th Percentile £468 £475 £678
90th Percentile £536 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -10.53% -20.83% +16.85%
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 £22.44 -
% change year-on-year +153.43% - -

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 260 420 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 36.98% 50.91% 40.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 210 231
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
25th Percentile £375 £365 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -11.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £638
90th Percentile £593 £581 £725
Scotland median daily rate £450 £460 £500
% change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £41.00 - £51.50
25th Percentile £50.00 - £51.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -64.38% +1.80%
75th Percentile £60.59 - £57.50
90th Percentile £62.84 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £56.86 £22.44 £55.00
% change year-on-year +153.43% -59.20% -12.39%

PowerShell
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 13 March 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 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) AWS
2 18 (34.62%) Azure
3 9 (17.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (13.46%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (13.46%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (13.46%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (13.46%) Amazon MSK
4 7 (13.46%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (13.46%) OpenShift
4 7 (13.46%) Serverless
5 5 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.92%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) DNS
1 7 (13.46%) Firewall
1 7 (13.46%) SAN
2 6 (11.54%) NAS
3 4 (7.69%) DHCP
3 4 (7.69%) LAN
3 4 (7.69%) WAN
4 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.77%) VSAN
5 1 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 15 (28.85%) Git
3 7 (13.46%) Bitbucket
3 7 (13.46%) JIRA
3 7 (13.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (9.62%) GitLab
General
1 18 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
1 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 6 (11.54%) Banking
4 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.69%) Legal
6 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (23.08%) Windows Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) Security Engineer
5 9 (17.31%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (15.38%) PowerShell Engineer
6 8 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (13.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (11.54%) Senior
8 6 (11.54%) Site Engineer
9 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 4 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (7.69%) Azure Software Engineer
10 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 2 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
11 2 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) REST
2 8 (15.38%) Loki
3 7 (13.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) IVR
4 1 (1.92%) NHS
4 1 (1.92%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 27 (51.92%) Windows
2 13 (25.00%) Linux
3 12 (23.08%) Unix
3 12 (23.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.62%) Mac OS
5 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) DevOps
2 17 (32.69%) CI/CD
2 17 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (25.00%) Observability
4 12 (23.08%) Agile
5 11 (21.15%) Data Protection
5 11 (21.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (17.31%) Refactoring
7 8 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (15.38%) Task Automation
8 7 (13.46%) Microservices
9 6 (11.54%) Analytical Thinking
9 6 (11.54%) Containerisation
9 6 (11.54%) Data Deduplication
9 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
10 5 (9.62%) Cyber Resilience
10 5 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 39 (75.00%) Python
2 17 (32.69%) Perl
3 7 (13.46%) Bash
3 7 (13.46%) Java
3 7 (13.46%) Ruby
4 6 (11.54%) SQL
5 5 (9.62%) Go
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.77%) Degree
2 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.92%) CEH
4 1 (1.92%) CISM
4 1 (1.92%) CISSP
4 1 (1.92%) NCDA
4 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) VCAP
4 1 (1.92%) VCP6
4 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) NIST
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Docker
1 9 (17.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (13.46%) vSphere
3 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
4 4 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Ansible
2 15 (28.85%) Kubernetes
3 9 (17.31%) Grafana
4 8 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 7 (13.46%) NetBackup
6 6 (11.54%) SCCM
7 3 (5.77%) Terraform
8 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.85%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.85%) vRealize
9 1 (1.92%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.92%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
1 9 (17.31%) VMware
2 7 (13.46%) Veritas
3 6 (11.54%) Splunk
4 5 (9.62%) Oracle
5 4 (7.69%) Dell
6 2 (3.85%) Citrix
6 2 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.92%) Brocade
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco
7 1 (1.92%) Commvault
7 1 (1.92%) NetApp
7 1 (1.92%) Pega