PowerShell Contracts in Scotland

Windows PowerShell
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 119 94
Rank change year-on-year +72 -25 -31
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 91 45 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.12% 1.58% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.58% 4.53% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 28 47
10th Percentile £445 £413 £335
25th Percentile £485 £446 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% +3.35% +17.65%
75th Percentile £650 £546 £600
90th Percentile £718 £574 £713
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £47.25
90th Percentile - - £49.36
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.90 £50.00
% change year-on-year -33.22% +19.80% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 993 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.79% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 723 647
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £49.14 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.50 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for PowerShell in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for PowerShell in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +32 47 £575 +29.21% 4
South Lanarkshire - 18 £600 -
Edinburgh +45 16 £475 -9.52% 9
Renfrewshire +1 7 £525 -0.47%
PowerShell
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (21.98%) Confluence
3 7 (7.69%) IIS
4 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.20%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.10%) Apache
6 1 (1.10%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.10%) EPiServer
6 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.47%) Azure
2 14 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 9 (9.89%) AWS
4 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.10%) GitHub
7 1 (1.10%) npm
7 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.10%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 19 (20.88%) DNS
2 11 (12.09%) DHCP
3 8 (8.79%) Firewall
4 5 (5.49%) SAN
4 5 (5.49%) SMTP
4 5 (5.49%) VPN
5 4 (4.40%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.30%) LAN
6 3 (3.30%) VLAN
6 3 (3.30%) WAN
7 2 (2.20%) VSAN
8 1 (1.10%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (1.10%) Internet
8 1 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.79%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.20%) MySQL
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.10%) Big Data
5 1 (1.10%) DB2
5 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.10%) HBase
5 1 (1.10%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.10%) Power BI
5 1 (1.10%) Redis
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.10%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 21 (23.08%) JIRA
2 4 (4.40%) Git
3 3 (3.30%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.10%) GitLab
5 1 (1.10%) Gradle
5 1 (1.10%) gulp
5 1 (1.10%) Maven
5 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.10%) Travis CI
General
1 29 (31.87%) Public Sector
2 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Finance
5 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (21.98%) Senior
2 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (14.29%) Exchange Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) DBA
4 11 (12.09%) SQL DBA
5 10 (10.99%) Windows Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Consultant
6 9 (9.89%) Senior DBA
6 9 (9.89%) Senior SQL DBA
7 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 7 (7.69%) Security Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Senior SQL Server DBA
7 7 (7.69%) SQL Server DBA
7 7 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Active Directory Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Architect
10 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) .NET
1 5 (5.49%) LDAP
2 2 (2.20%) .NET Remoting
2 2 (2.20%) JSON
2 2 (2.20%) REST
2 2 (2.20%) XML
3 1 (1.10%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.10%) CSS
3 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.10%) HTML
3 1 (1.10%) Kafka
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.10%) Web Services
3 1 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Clustering
1 8 (8.79%) PKI
2 7 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.59%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) CMDB
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (46.15%) Windows
2 19 (20.88%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.69%) Unix
4 6 (6.59%) Linux
5 5 (5.49%) Mac OS
5 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (25.27%) Agile
3 21 (23.08%) High Availability
4 20 (21.98%) Problem Management
5 17 (18.68%) DevOps
6 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (12.09%) Roadmaps
9 10 (10.99%) Capacity Management
10 9 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (9.89%) Identity Management
10 9 (9.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (8.79%) Migration
11 8 (8.79%) Security Patching
12 7 (7.69%) Data Protection
12 7 (7.69%) Disk Encryption
12 7 (7.69%) Project Delivery
13 6 (6.59%) Identity Access Management
13 6 (6.59%) Refactoring
14 5 (5.49%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.88%) Python
2 14 (15.38%) T-SQL
3 10 (10.99%) SQL
4 4 (4.40%) Bash
4 4 (4.40%) Java
5 3 (3.30%) C#
6 2 (2.20%) Groovy
6 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.20%) Perl
7 1 (1.10%) Bicep
7 1 (1.10%) Go
7 1 (1.10%) PHP
7 1 (1.10%) Ruby
7 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (49.45%) Security Cleared
2 36 (39.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.38%) Degree
4 10 (10.99%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.30%) CCNA
5 3 (3.30%) CCNP
5 3 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) MCSE
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
2 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (52.75%) Active Directory
2 14 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.49%) BitLocker
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (5.49%) Terminal Services
5 3 (3.30%) vSphere
6 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (1.10%) Docker
7 1 (1.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 12 (13.19%) SCCM
3 7 (7.69%) vCenter Server
4 5 (5.49%) vMotion
5 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.20%) Ansible
6 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.20%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (2.20%) Terraform
6 2 (2.20%) WSUS
7 1 (1.10%) Grafana
7 1 (1.10%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 33 (36.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (24.18%) VMware
3 17 (18.68%) Atlassian
4 8 (8.79%) Splunk
5 7 (7.69%) Citrix
6 5 (5.49%) Infoblox
7 4 (4.40%) F5
8 3 (3.30%) HP
9 2 (2.20%) McAfee
9 2 (2.20%) Oracle
9 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.20%) Symantec
9 2 (2.20%) Veritas
10 1 (1.10%) CA
10 1 (1.10%) EMC
10 1 (1.10%) NetApp