The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.703% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.091% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-5.47% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
55 68 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 29.73% 24.11% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 36
Average daily rate £338 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 8
Average hourly rate £24.38 £40.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.06% -15.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PowerShell
East of England

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PowerShell across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Bedfordshire PowerShell Jobs Demand Trend

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PowerShell across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire PowerShell Daily Rate Trend

PowerShell
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 5 £325 -
PowerShell
East of England

PowerShell
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing PowerShell also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PowerShell.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
3 5 (62.50%) IIS
3 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (62.50%) DNS
3 5 (62.50%) ITIL
3 5 (62.50%) DHCP
3 5 (62.50%) FTP
3 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
3 5 (62.50%) Publishing
3 5 (62.50%) SCOM
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Vista
4 3 (37.50%) SCCM
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Symantec
4 3 (37.50%) VBScript
4 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
5 2 (25.00%) SLA
5 2 (25.00%) HTTP
5 2 (25.00%) COM
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
5 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
6 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (12.50%) MS Project
6 1 (12.50%) MS Office

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing PowerShell also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PowerShell. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (12.50%) MS Project
2 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) FTP
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Vista
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
1 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCOM
2 3 (37.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Symantec