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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 41 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 +50
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 50 41 57
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.11% 5.28% 6.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.67% 10.82% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 9 38
10th Percentile £310 £275 £400
25th Percentile £358 £345 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -20.00% +29.46%
75th Percentile £451 £550 £650
90th Percentile £538 £638 £700
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £575
% change year-on-year -10.53% -17.39% +19.79%
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 £78.00
% change year-on-year +153.43% -71.23% -

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 283 379 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.26% 48.84% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 184 235
10th Percentile £317 £348 £379
25th Percentile £381 £363 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £441 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% -11.90% -8.55%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £650
90th Percentile £596 £579 £745
Scotland median daily rate £470 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +0.43% -6.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £42.50 - £51.38
25th Percentile £51.25 - £51.56
Median hourly rate £56.86 £19.59 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +190.26% -63.55% +13.16%
75th Percentile £62.02 - £56.56
90th Percentile £63.42 - £57.13
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £22.88 £60.50
% change year-on-year +162.30% -62.19% +1.37%

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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 11 February 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) AWS
2 18 (36.00%) Azure
3 10 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon MSK
4 7 (14.00%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (14.00%) Serverless
5 6 (12.00%) OpenShift
5 6 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) Firewall
2 6 (12.00%) SAN
3 5 (10.00%) DNS
3 5 (10.00%) NAS
4 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.00%) VSAN
5 2 (4.00%) DHCP
5 2 (4.00%) LAN
5 2 (4.00%) WAN
6 1 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (30.00%) Git
1 15 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.00%) Bitbucket
2 7 (14.00%) JIRA
2 7 (14.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 18 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
1 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Finance
3 6 (12.00%) Banking
3 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Legal
4 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
2 13 (26.00%) Windows Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Security Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) PowerShell Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) Senior
8 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Site Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Azure Software Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
10 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Developer
10 2 (4.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) REST
2 7 (14.00%) Loki
2 7 (14.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.00%) IVR
3 1 (2.00%) NHS
3 1 (2.00%) NVMe
3 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (48.00%) Windows
2 13 (26.00%) Linux
3 12 (24.00%) Unix
4 9 (18.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (10.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) DevOps
2 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.00%) Agile
5 12 (24.00%) Observability
6 11 (22.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (20.00%) Refactoring
8 9 (18.00%) Data Protection
9 8 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (16.00%) Task Automation
10 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (14.00%) Microservices
11 6 (12.00%) Containerisation
11 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
12 5 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
12 5 (10.00%) Cyber Resilience
12 5 (10.00%) Data Deduplication
12 5 (10.00%) Disk Encryption
12 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (78.00%) Python
2 16 (32.00%) Perl
3 7 (14.00%) Bash
3 7 (14.00%) Java
3 7 (14.00%) Ruby
4 6 (12.00%) SQL
5 5 (10.00%) Go
6 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) NCDA
4 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) VCAP
4 1 (2.00%) VCP6
4 1 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
2 7 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.00%) vSphere
4 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Ansible
2 14 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.00%) Grafana
4 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (14.00%) SCCM
5 6 (12.00%) NetBackup
6 4 (8.00%) Terraform
7 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (4.00%) vRealize
9 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) Splunk
3 7 (14.00%) VMware
4 6 (12.00%) Veritas
5 5 (10.00%) Oracle
6 2 (4.00%) Citrix
6 2 (4.00%) Dell
7 1 (2.00%) Brocade
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco
7 1 (2.00%) Commvault
7 1 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.00%) NetApp
7 1 (2.00%) Pega