The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerShell 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 Programming Languages category for the Docklands, 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 PowerShell
Rank 27 29 52
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +23
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 3 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 1.754% 0.948% 0.829%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.615% 3.030% 1.672%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
Average daily rate £400 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -22.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -
All Programming Languages
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
65 66 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 38.01% 31.28% 49.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 131
Average daily rate £450 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £360 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PowerShell
London

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London PowerShell Daily Rate Trend

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (50.00%) AppSense
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) XenApp
2 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 2 (50.00%) VBScript
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL V3
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (25.00%) CCAA
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) CCA
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XSLT
1 1 (25.00%) WF
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Lync
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (25.00%) PBX
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Messaging Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL V3
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) VBScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCAA
1 1 (25.00%) CCA
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (50.00%) XenApp
1 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) AppSense
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix