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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 70 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 -25 +18
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 29 11 28
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.26% 1.46% 3.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.54% 2.86% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 17
10th Percentile £325 £342 £441
25th Percentile £413 £363 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -18.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £650
90th Percentile £625 £600 £788
Scotland median daily rate £469 £459 £550
% change year-on-year +2.24% -16.64% +4.76%
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 304 385 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.16% 50.93% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 194 202
10th Percentile £306 £300 £333
25th Percentile £320 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £513
90th Percentile £625 £589 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% -6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £39.00 £22.57 £51.88
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.80 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.58%
75th Percentile £57.79 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £59.47 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £31.08 £57.50
% change year-on-year +76.96% -45.95% -1.31%

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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 16 June 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 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) SAN
2 6 (20.69%) NAS
3 5 (17.24%) DHCP
3 5 (17.24%) DNS
3 5 (17.24%) LAN
3 5 (17.24%) WAN
4 1 (3.45%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
2 8 (27.59%) Git
General
1 14 (48.28%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Legal
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Automation Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (31.03%) Windows Engineer
4 8 (27.59%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (24.14%) Security Engineer
6 5 (17.24%) PowerShell Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Site Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Server Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) Administrator
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Software Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) REST
2 8 (27.59%) Loki
3 1 (3.45%) JDBC
3 1 (3.45%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Clustering
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) NVMe
3 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (89.66%) Windows
2 13 (44.83%) Windows Server
3 9 (31.03%) Unix
4 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (13.79%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.45%) Linux
6 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (34.48%) Data Protection
4 9 (31.03%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 9 (31.03%) Observability
5 8 (27.59%) DevOps
6 7 (24.14%) Analytical Thinking
6 7 (24.14%) Refactoring
6 7 (24.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (20.69%) Data Deduplication
8 5 (17.24%) Cyber Resilience
9 3 (10.34%) Disk Encryption
10 2 (6.90%) Decision-Making
10 2 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
11 1 (3.45%) BCP
11 1 (3.45%) Risk Management
11 1 (3.45%) Security Management
11 1 (3.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) Perl
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) CEH
1 1 (3.45%) CISM
1 1 (3.45%) CISSP
1 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) NCDA
1 1 (3.45%) VCAP
1 1 (3.45%) VCP6
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.24%) vSphere
3 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Ansible
2 9 (31.03%) Grafana
3 8 (27.59%) Prometheus
4 7 (24.14%) NetBackup
5 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
6 4 (13.79%) SCCM
7 1 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.45%) PowerCLI
7 1 (3.45%) vMotion
7 1 (3.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Veritas
2 6 (20.69%) VMware
3 5 (17.24%) Dell
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) Splunk
5 2 (6.90%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.45%) Brocade
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix
6 1 (3.45%) Commvault
6 1 (3.45%) NetApp