The first table below looks at the demand for WSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSH over the 3 months to 24 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 Application Development category for the City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Script Host (WSH)
Rank 202 217 236
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +19
Contract jobs citing WSH 1 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.013% 0.092%
As % of the Application Development category 0.055% 0.050% 0.328%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
Average daily rate £475 £238 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -42.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £480 £265 £60
% change year-on-year
+81.13% +341.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1821 2016 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.55% 25.63% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1439 1499 2137
Average daily rate £405 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.00 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSH
London

WSH
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WSH across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London WSH Jobs Demand Trend

WSH
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WSH across the City of London region.

City of London WSH Daily Rate Trend

WSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WSH 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 WSH.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) HFM
2 2 (66.67%) Khalix
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (66.67%) OLAP
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (66.67%) Hyperion
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) LongView
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Essbase
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003

WSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WSH 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 WSH. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) HFM
1 2 (66.67%) Khalix
1 2 (66.67%) LongView
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (66.67%) OLAP
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (66.67%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) BladeLogic
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Hyperion
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau