The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Erskine region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Erskine 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 15.00% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
Average daily rate £370 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £125.00
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -76.00%
All Programming Languages
Erskine
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
21 34 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 35.00% 79.07% -
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 0
Average daily rate £370 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PowerShell
Renfrewshire

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Erskine 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 Erskine region.

Erskine PowerShell Daily Rate Trend

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PowerShell across the Erskine region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Erskine PowerShell Daily Rate Histogram

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 9 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 8 (88.89%) .NET Framework
2 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) Cryptography
2 8 (88.89%) XML Schema
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) XML
2 8 (88.89%) MCP
2 8 (88.89%) VBScript
2 8 (88.89%) .NET
3 7 (77.78%) MS Office
3 7 (77.78%) Document Management
3 7 (77.78%) SharePoint Server
3 7 (77.78%) Taxonomies
4 6 (66.67%) MS Excel
5 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
5 5 (55.56%) Migration
5 5 (55.56%) Service Management
6 4 (44.44%) C#
6 4 (44.44%) Information Security
7 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
7 3 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (33.33%) CISSP
7 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
7 3 (33.33%) MCSE

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 8 (88.89%) .NET Framework
1 8 (88.89%) XML Schema
1 8 (88.89%) XML
1 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (77.78%) MS Office
2 6 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
General
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Build Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Build Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Cryptography
2 7 (77.78%) Taxonomies
3 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 9 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 7 (77.78%) Document Management
3 5 (55.56%) Migration
3 5 (55.56%) Service Management
4 4 (44.44%) Information Security
5 1 (11.11%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) VBScript
2 4 (44.44%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) MCP
3 3 (33.33%) CISSP
3 3 (33.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) McAfee
2 1 (11.11%) Sophos
2 1 (11.11%) Lumension