PowerShell Contracts in Scotland

Windows PowerShell
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 57 116
Rank change year-on-year -25 +59 -22
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 33 77 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.07% 3.54% 2.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.16% 12.13% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 40 35
10th Percentile £193 £424 £413
25th Percentile £345 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £548
90th Percentile £550 £788 £578
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - -
Median hourly rate £22.44 - -
75th Percentile £24.38 - -
90th Percentile £29.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.66 £40.13 £60.00
% change year-on-year -38.54% -33.13% +18.85%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 639 635 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.16% 29.17% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 418 691
10th Percentile £310 £363 £406
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -3.55% +3.68%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £563
90th Percentile £575 £650 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 13
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.43
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -2.59% +29.03%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.18 £60.94
% change year-on-year +0.52% +2.03% +21.88%

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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 9 May 2025.

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 9 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +15 21 £450 -5.26% 8
Glasgow -33 12 £467 -18.78% 13
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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 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.06%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (3.03%) IIS
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.03%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) Power Automate
2 6 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (15.15%) PowerApps
4 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) AWS
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (6.06%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.03%) CloudFront
6 1 (3.03%) Cohesity
6 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.06%) MariaDB
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) Power Query
2 2 (6.06%) Redis
3 1 (3.03%) KDB
3 1 (3.03%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) JUnit
3 1 (3.03%) MSTest
3 1 (3.03%) NUnit
3 1 (3.03%) Postman
3 1 (3.03%) Ranorex
3 1 (3.03%) Selenium
General
1 21 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 8 (24.24%) Finance
4 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Service Desk Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Administrator
2 5 (15.15%) Service Desk Support
2 5 (15.15%) Support Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Windows Support Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) JIRA Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) SharePoint Administrator
5 1 (3.03%) ICT Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) .NET
1 3 (9.09%) JSON
1 3 (9.09%) LDAP
1 3 (9.09%) X-Windows
1 3 (9.09%) YAML
2 2 (6.06%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.06%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (6.06%) SPFx
3 1 (3.03%) Playwright
3 1 (3.03%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) SOAP
3 1 (3.03%) WebSockets
3 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Device Driver
2 2 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.06%) Low-Code
2 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Insider Threat
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 8 (24.24%) Linux
3 7 (21.21%) Unix
3 7 (21.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (9.09%) Mac OS
5 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (39.39%) Task Automation
3 10 (30.30%) ITIL
4 9 (27.27%) Customer Service
5 8 (24.24%) Customer Experience
6 5 (15.15%) Agile
6 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.15%) Data Protection
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
7 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (12.12%) Kanban
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (9.09%) Line Management
8 3 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
8 3 (9.09%) Risk Management
8 3 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (9.09%) Scrum
8 3 (9.09%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) C#
3 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 3 (9.09%) Java
4 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 3 (9.09%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Bicep
5 2 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.06%) Groovy
6 1 (3.03%) C++
6 1 (3.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (24.24%) A+ Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.03%) CEH
3 1 (3.03%) CISSP
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) GCFA
3 1 (3.03%) GCIH
3 1 (3.03%) HNC
3 1 (3.03%) OSCP
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.18%) Docker
3 4 (12.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (3.03%) Terminal Services
5 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Ansible
2 5 (15.15%) Progress Chef
3 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Terraform
4 2 (6.06%) Grafana
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.06%) NetBackup
4 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.06%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.03%) linkerd
5 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.06%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (6.06%) Thycotic
3 2 (6.06%) Veritas
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Citrix
4 1 (3.03%) Commvault
4 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.03%) Dell
4 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.03%) SonicWALL
4 1 (3.03%) VMware