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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 114 102
Rank change year-on-year +59 -12 -50
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 76 57 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.51% 2.06% 2.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.06% 6.01% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 36 47
10th Percentile £424 £413 £335
25th Percentile £463 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +14.68%
75th Percentile £650 £546 £600
90th Percentile £788 £575 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
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 £40.13 £60.00 £50.20
% change year-on-year -33.13% +19.52% +9.13%

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 630 949 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 29.06% 34.35% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 680 659
10th Percentile £363 £406 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £650 £660 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 19
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £33.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £54.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.10
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.95% +23.68% +16.28%

PowerShell
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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +29 39 £575 +27.78% 2
Edinburgh +33 14 £475 -5.00% 6
South Lanarkshire - 14 £600 -
Renfrewshire -1 6 £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 (27.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (19.74%) Confluence
3 3 (3.95%) IIS
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.32%) EPiServer
4 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.32%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.58%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) Entra ID
3 7 (9.21%) AWS
4 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.32%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.32%) npm
5 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.79%) DNS
2 9 (11.84%) DHCP
3 7 (9.21%) Firewall
4 5 (6.58%) SMTP
4 5 (6.58%) VPN
5 3 (3.95%) SAN
5 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.63%) LAN
6 2 (2.63%) VLAN
6 2 (2.63%) WAN
7 1 (1.32%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.32%) Internet
7 1 (1.32%) Network Security
7 1 (1.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.63%) MySQL
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.32%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) DB2
5 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.32%) HBase
5 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.32%) Power BI
5 1 (1.32%) Redis
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 16 (21.05%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.32%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.32%) Git
3 1 (1.32%) Gradle
3 1 (1.32%) gulp
3 1 (1.32%) Maven
3 1 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.32%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Finance
5 3 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Senior
2 15 (19.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (17.11%) Exchange Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) Windows Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) DBA
5 8 (10.53%) SQL DBA
6 7 (9.21%) Consultant
6 7 (9.21%) Security Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Senior DBA
7 6 (7.89%) Senior SQL DBA
7 6 (7.89%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Active Directory Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Senior SQL Server DBA
8 5 (6.58%) SQL Server DBA
9 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Exchange Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) LDAP
2 3 (3.95%) .NET
3 1 (1.32%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.32%) CSS
3 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.32%) HTML
3 1 (1.32%) Kafka
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.32%) Web Services
3 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Clustering
1 7 (9.21%) PKI
2 6 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.58%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (43.42%) Windows
2 11 (14.47%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.89%) Unix
4 5 (6.58%) Linux
4 5 (6.58%) Mac OS
5 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (25.00%) Agile
2 19 (25.00%) High Availability
3 18 (23.68%) Problem Management
4 14 (18.42%) DevOps
5 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (13.16%) Capacity Management
6 10 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (13.16%) Roadmaps
7 9 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (11.84%) Identity Management
7 9 (11.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (10.53%) Security Patching
9 7 (9.21%) Disk Encryption
9 7 (9.21%) Migration
10 6 (7.89%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (7.89%) Project Delivery
10 6 (7.89%) Refactoring
11 5 (6.58%) Customer Requirements
11 5 (6.58%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.05%) Python
2 11 (14.47%) T-SQL
3 8 (10.53%) SQL
4 3 (3.95%) Bash
4 3 (3.95%) C#
4 3 (3.95%) Java
5 2 (2.63%) Groovy
5 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.32%) Bicep
6 1 (1.32%) Go
6 1 (1.32%) Perl
6 1 (1.32%) PHP
6 1 (1.32%) Ruby
6 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (44.74%) Security Cleared
2 27 (35.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.42%) Degree
4 7 (9.21%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.63%) CCNA
5 2 (2.63%) CCNP
5 2 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) MCSE
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.16%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (7.89%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.58%) BitLocker
4 5 (6.58%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (6.58%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.32%) Docker
5 1 (1.32%) HDFS
5 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (14.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (11.84%) SCCM
3 6 (7.89%) vCenter Server
4 5 (6.58%) vMotion
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.63%) Ansible
6 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.63%) Terraform
7 1 (1.32%) Grafana
7 1 (1.32%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (1.32%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (38.16%) Microsoft
2 15 (19.74%) Atlassian
2 15 (19.74%) VMware
3 8 (10.53%) Splunk
4 6 (7.89%) Citrix
5 5 (6.58%) Infoblox
6 3 (3.95%) F5
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle
7 2 (2.63%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.32%) CA
8 1 (1.32%) HP
8 1 (1.32%) McAfee
8 1 (1.32%) Symantec
8 1 (1.32%) Veritas