The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 34 68 -
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.476% 0.146% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.685% 0.249% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £310 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.62% -
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
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
149 402 200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 54.98% 58.86% 46.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 226 85
Average daily rate £400 £450 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 29 40
Average hourly rate £39.00 £34.50 £34.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.04% -0.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £25.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.00 £36.00
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 Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire PowerShell Daily Rate Trend

PowerShell
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Cheltenham +35 4 £310 -22.62%
PowerShell
South West

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (77.78%) MSI
1 7 (77.78%) Software Packaging
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 6 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) Application Packaging
3 5 (55.56%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) Service Management
4 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
5 2 (22.22%) Spring
5 2 (22.22%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (22.22%) QA
5 2 (22.22%) Linux
5 2 (22.22%) OO
5 2 (22.22%) Apache
5 2 (22.22%) Python
5 2 (22.22%) C#
5 2 (22.22%) Delphi
5 2 (22.22%) PHP
5 2 (22.22%) MySQL
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 2 (22.22%) IIS

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (77.78%) Software Packaging
2 5 (55.56%) Application Packaging
3 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) MSI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Applications Packager
2 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
1 6 (66.67%) Windows XP
1 6 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C#
1 2 (22.22%) Delphi
1 2 (22.22%) PHP
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft