The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 23 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 Birmingham 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 43 53 46
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -7
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 1 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.229% 0.479% 0.580%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.758% 1.220% 2.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £170 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-57.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £354 £330
% change year-on-year
-2.47% +7.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.25 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+13.63% -
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
132 246 146
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 30.21% 39.30% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 138 89
Average daily rate £325 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £31.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PowerShell
West Midlands

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham PowerShell Daily Rate Trend

PowerShell
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (66.67%) VBA
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (33.33%) InfoPath
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 1 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) InfoPath
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) VBA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory