The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 20 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 Bristol 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 46 55 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 3 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.568% 0.834% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.840% 2.857% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 0
Average daily rate - £403 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £365 £339
% change year-on-year
-5.47% +7.74%
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
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
163 245 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 30.87% 29.20% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 156 74
Average daily rate £313 £300 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +8.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £415 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 22 11
Average hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £37.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.07% -12.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.73 £23.00 £16.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PowerShell
South West

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol PowerShell Daily Rate Trend

PowerShell
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 3 (50.00%) Subversion
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) CentOS
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL V3
2 3 (50.00%) MSBuild
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (33.33%) UML
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) CruiseControl
1 3 (50.00%) Subversion
1 3 (50.00%) MSBuild
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Configuration Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Software Configuration Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Software Manager
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) MVC
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL V3
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, South West
JOB TITLE- Software Configuration Manager (maternity cover)SALARY- £40,000DURATION- 6-12 monthsLOCATION- Cribbs Causeway, BristolConfiguration Manager, Source Control Manager, SCM, Subversion, Apache, Tortoise, CruiseControl.NET (CCNet), MSBuild...
Brightside Group
Rate: £35,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 20 May 2013