The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 81 72 87
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +15
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 22 22 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.442% 1.383% 0.973%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.636% 3.741% 2.446%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 10
Average daily rate £375 £298 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.90% -23.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £238 £321
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £403 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.37 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.34% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -
All Programming Languages
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
605 588 736
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 39.65% 36.96% 39.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 265 285
Average daily rate £325 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £438 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 84 99
Average hourly rate £36.00 £36.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £22.98 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PowerShell
South East

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hampshire PowerShell Daily Rate Histogram

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire PowerShell Hourly 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 Hampshire 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
Basingstoke -8 9 £400 -
Southampton - 5 £295 -
Portsmouth - 1 - -
PowerShell
South East

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 26 (96.30%) Windows
2 15 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (51.85%) IIS
4 10 (37.04%) SQL Server
4 10 (37.04%) VMware
5 9 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
5 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 9 (33.33%) C#
5 9 (33.33%) TeamCity
5 9 (33.33%) Git (software)
5 9 (33.33%) Maven
5 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 9 (33.33%) Java EE
5 9 (33.33%) ESB
5 9 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 9 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (33.33%) soapUI
5 9 (33.33%) MSBuild
6 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
7 7 (25.93%) Citrix
7 7 (25.93%) SOAP
7 7 (25.93%) Windows 7
7 7 (25.93%) SCCM
7 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
7 7 (25.93%) vSphere
7 7 (25.93%) Release Management
8 6 (22.22%) XenApp
8 6 (22.22%) VBScript
8 6 (22.22%) MS Exchange
9 5 (18.52%) SharePoint

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 9 (33.33%) Java EE
1 9 (33.33%) soapUI
2 7 (25.93%) SOAP
3 3 (11.11%) Application Packaging
4 1 (3.704%) XML
4 1 (3.704%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 14 (51.85%) IIS
2 9 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (33.33%) ESB
3 6 (22.22%) MS Exchange
4 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
4 5 (18.52%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (3.704%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (3.704%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.704%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) IPv4
1 3 (11.11%) LAN
1 3 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (7.407%) DVB
3 1 (3.704%) SMS
3 1 (3.704%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) TeamCity
1 9 (33.33%) Git (software)
1 9 (33.33%) Maven
1 9 (33.33%) MSBuild
2 3 (11.11%) MSI
2 3 (11.11%) AdminStudio
3 1 (3.704%) InstallShield
General
1 2 (7.407%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Release Manager
1 7 (25.93%) Build Manager
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Consultant
3 3 (11.11%) Applications Packager
4 2 (7.407%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (7.407%) Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Server Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Design Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.704%) Architect
5 1 (3.704%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.704%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Linux Support
5 1 (3.704%) Wintel Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.407%) MPEG
2 1 (3.704%) Clustering
2 1 (3.704%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (96.30%) Windows
2 15 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (25.93%) Windows 7
4 3 (11.11%) UNIX
4 3 (11.11%) Linux
4 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.407%) HPUX
5 2 (7.407%) Solaris
6 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 9 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 9 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
2 7 (25.93%) Release Management
3 5 (18.52%) ITIL
4 2 (7.407%) Migration
4 2 (7.407%) Scrum
4 2 (7.407%) SOA
5 1 (3.704%) Document Management
5 1 (3.704%) Service Management
5 1 (3.704%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.704%) Validation
5 1 (3.704%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.704%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.704%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.704%) Security Architecture
5 1 (3.704%) Fault Management
5 1 (3.704%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.704%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) C#
2 6 (22.22%) VBScript
3 5 (18.52%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) Korn
4 3 (11.11%) Bash shell
5 2 (7.407%) C
5 2 (7.407%) Java
6 1 (3.704%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.704%) CCNA
3 1 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.704%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.704%) MCITP
3 1 (3.704%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) vSphere
3 6 (22.22%) XenApp
4 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.704%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) SCCM
2 4 (14.81%) SCOM
3 1 (3.704%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.704%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (3.704%) WSUS
3 1 (3.704%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.704%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (3.704%) Puppet
3 1 (3.704%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) VMware
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.93%) Citrix
4 4 (14.81%) Oracle
5 1 (3.704%) Apple
5 1 (3.704%) HP
5 1 (3.704%) EMC
5 1 (3.704%) McAfee
5 1 (3.704%) LogLogic
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