The first table below looks at the demand for WSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 England 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 489 532 555
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +23
Contract jobs citing WSH 24 27 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.058% 0.051% 0.028%
As % of the Application Development category 0.212% 0.194% 0.101%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 10
Average daily rate £400 £265 £419
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.94% -36.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £344
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £360 £433
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
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11342 13944 15844
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.28% 26.14% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7269 8358 9412
Average daily rate £375 £360 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 366 550
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSH
UK

WSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England WSH Daily Rate Trend

WSH
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WSH across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England WSH Daily Rate Histogram

WSH
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WSH across the England region.

England WSH Hourly Rate Trend

WSH
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSH within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +40 20 £270 +12.50%
South East +16 4 £480 +113.33%
WSH
UK

WSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 35 (94.59%) Windows
2 23 (62.16%) PowerShell
3 19 (51.35%) Linux
3 19 (51.35%) UNIX
4 16 (43.24%) Hyper-V
5 15 (40.54%) HP
5 15 (40.54%) BMC
6 13 (35.14%) VBScript
7 12 (32.43%) VB
7 12 (32.43%) SQL Server
7 12 (32.43%) Windows Server 2003
7 12 (32.43%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (32.43%) Windows Server 2008
7 12 (32.43%) VMware
8 11 (29.73%) Load Balancing
8 11 (29.73%) Nagios
8 11 (29.73%) Middleware
8 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
8 11 (29.73%) ITIL
9 10 (27.03%) IIS
9 10 (27.03%) Java
9 10 (27.03%) Python
9 10 (27.03%) Windows XP
9 10 (27.03%) SQL Server 2008
9 10 (27.03%) Windows 7
9 10 (27.03%) Bash shell
9 10 (27.03%) SQL Server 2005
10 9 (24.32%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (24.32%) BladeLogic
10 9 (24.32%) Application Packaging

WSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 11 (29.73%) Middleware
2 9 (24.32%) Application Packaging
3 3 (8.108%) .NET
4 2 (5.405%) SOAP
4 2 (5.405%) Web Services
4 2 (5.405%) XML
4 2 (5.405%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 10 (27.03%) IIS
2 7 (18.92%) Confluence
3 2 (5.405%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (5.405%) ESB
4 1 (2.703%) CloudStack
Business Applications
1 2 (5.405%) LongView
1 2 (5.405%) HFM
1 2 (5.405%) Khalix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
2 3 (8.108%) Firewall
2 3 (8.108%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (8.108%) DHCP
2 3 (8.108%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.703%) IPsec
3 1 (2.703%) IPv4
3 1 (2.703%) SSL
3 1 (2.703%) BGP-4
3 1 (2.703%) OSPF
3 1 (2.703%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) SQL Server
2 10 (27.03%) SQL Server 2008
2 10 (27.03%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (5.405%) OLAP
3 2 (5.405%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (5.405%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (5.405%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (5.405%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (5.405%) Essbase
3 2 (5.405%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (2.703%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.703%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) MSI
1 9 (24.32%) Wise Package Studio
2 8 (21.62%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (18.92%) JIRA
4 3 (8.108%) ClearCase
5 2 (5.405%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 2 (5.405%) Subversion
General
1 7 (18.92%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
2 4 (10.81%) Retail
3 2 (5.405%) Back Office
3 2 (5.405%) Games
4 1 (2.703%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Applications Packager
2 7 (18.92%) Technical Leader
3 5 (13.51%) Administrator
4 4 (10.81%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.108%) Windows Administrator
5 3 (8.108%) Development Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Consultant
6 2 (5.405%) Technical Developer
6 2 (5.405%) VMware Consultant
6 2 (5.405%) BizTalk Administrator
6 2 (5.405%) BizTalk Developer
6 2 (5.405%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (2.703%) SQL DBA
7 1 (2.703%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.703%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.703%) Operations Manager
7 1 (2.703%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.405%) PaaS
1 2 (5.405%) IaaS
2 1 (2.703%) Statistics
2 1 (2.703%) Replication
2 1 (2.703%) Clustering
2 1 (2.703%) CMDB
2 1 (2.703%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 35 (94.59%) Windows
2 19 (51.35%) Linux
2 19 (51.35%) UNIX
3 12 (32.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (32.43%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (27.03%) Windows XP
4 10 (27.03%) Windows 7
5 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (21.62%) Solaris
5 8 (21.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (8.108%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Load Balancing
1 11 (29.73%) ITIL
2 7 (18.92%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (18.92%) OO
2 7 (18.92%) Configuration Management
3 6 (16.22%) Scrum
4 3 (8.108%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (8.108%) SOA
5 2 (5.405%) Data Modelling
5 2 (5.405%) Performance Testing
5 2 (5.405%) Service Management
5 2 (5.405%) Change Management
5 2 (5.405%) Workflow
5 2 (5.405%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (5.405%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (5.405%) Performance Improvement
5 2 (5.405%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) PowerShell
2 13 (35.14%) VBScript
3 12 (32.43%) VB
4 10 (27.03%) Java
4 10 (27.03%) Python
4 10 (27.03%) Bash shell
5 9 (24.32%) SQL
6 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
7 3 (8.108%) T-SQL
7 3 (8.108%) Perl
7 3 (8.108%) C++
8 2 (5.405%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.405%) XQuery
8 2 (5.405%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (13.51%) Degree
3 1 (2.703%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.703%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.703%) MCDBA
3 1 (2.703%) MCT
System Software
1 16 (43.24%) Hyper-V
2 12 (32.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (24.32%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.405%) vSphere
5 2 (5.405%) vCloud
5 2 (5.405%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.703%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) Nagios
2 9 (24.32%) BladeLogic
3 7 (18.92%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 7 (18.92%) Puppet
4 3 (8.108%) Splunk
4 3 (8.108%) Tivoli
4 3 (8.108%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) HP
1 15 (40.54%) BMC
2 12 (32.43%) VMware
3 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
4 6 (16.22%) NetIQ
4 6 (16.22%) Atlassian
5 5 (13.51%) Cisco
6 3 (8.108%) Tableau
6 3 (8.108%) Altiris
7 2 (5.405%) Oracle
7 2 (5.405%) Hyperion
7 2 (5.405%) IBM
7 2 (5.405%) Infoblox
7 2 (5.405%) BT
8 1 (2.703%) Citrix