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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 107 100
Rank change year-on-year +48 -7 -39
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 59 57 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.75% 2.13% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.93% 6.44% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 35 54
10th Percentile £408 £433 £404
25th Percentile £455 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £504
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +4.27% +15.48%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £600
90th Percentile £688 £582 £709
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £31.00
75th Percentile - - £48.13
90th Percentile - - £49.71
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -32.92% +18.18% +8.02%

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 594 885 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.72% 33.12% 30.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 616 745
10th Percentile £350 £400 £390
25th Percentile £409 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +1.03% +14.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £613 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £41.90 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £50.37 £32.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.27 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% +23.97% +2.17%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.11 £55.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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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 12 June 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 June 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 +21 29 £575 +9.52% 5
South Lanarkshire - 13 £600 - 1
Edinburgh +20 9 £475 -5.00% 14
Renfrewshire 0 4 £425 -19.81%
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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 22 (37.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (20.34%) Confluence
3 3 (5.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.98%) Azure
2 14 (23.73%) Entra ID
3 4 (6.78%) AWS
3 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.39%) GitHub
5 2 (3.39%) PaaS
5 2 (3.39%) Serverless
6 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) DHCP
1 5 (8.47%) DNS
2 3 (5.08%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) SMTP
2 3 (5.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) MySQL
4 1 (1.69%) Power BI
4 1 (1.69%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Git
General
1 20 (33.90%) Public Sector
2 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Finance
5 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Exchange Engineer
1 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (18.64%) Senior
3 9 (15.25%) Windows Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Security Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Active Directory Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Consultant
7 3 (5.08%) DBA
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Exchange Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) SQL DBA
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Specialist
8 2 (3.39%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (3.39%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Active Directory Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) .NET
1 3 (5.08%) .NET Core
1 3 (5.08%) LDAP
2 2 (3.39%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.39%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.39%) CSS
2 2 (3.39%) Entity Framework
2 2 (3.39%) jQuery
2 2 (3.39%) OAuth
2 2 (3.39%) OAuth2
2 2 (3.39%) OpenID
2 2 (3.39%) RESTful
2 2 (3.39%) SOAP
2 2 (3.39%) WCF
2 2 (3.39%) Web Services
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.78%) Clustering
3 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.08%) PKI
4 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (40.68%) Windows
2 6 (10.17%) Unix
3 5 (8.47%) Mac OS
4 4 (6.78%) Linux
4 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.81%) Agile
1 17 (28.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (23.73%) Problem Management
2 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (22.03%) DevOps
4 12 (20.34%) High Availability
5 9 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (15.25%) Identity Management
6 8 (13.56%) Migration
6 8 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (11.86%) Capacity Management
7 7 (11.86%) Disk Encryption
7 7 (11.86%) Roadmaps
8 6 (10.17%) Refactoring
8 6 (10.17%) Security Patching
9 4 (6.78%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (5.08%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (5.08%) Data Protection
10 3 (5.08%) Identity Access Management
10 3 (5.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.34%) Python
2 8 (13.56%) T-SQL
3 7 (11.86%) SQL
4 3 (5.08%) C#
5 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (37.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 13 (22.03%) Degree
4 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.69%) HNC
6 1 (1.69%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 31 (52.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.08%) BitLocker
2 3 (5.08%) Hyper-V
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (5.08%) Terminal Services
2 3 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (16.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (15.25%) SCCM
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.08%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.08%) vMotion
5 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.34%) Atlassian
3 7 (11.86%) Splunk
4 5 (8.47%) VMware
5 3 (5.08%) Citrix
5 3 (5.08%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds