The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 66 67 54
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -13
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 3 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.403% 0.445% 0.327%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.938% 1.180% 1.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £125 - £388
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
320 339 195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 43.01% 37.75% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 217 109
Average daily rate £280 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £216 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 5
Average hourly rate £13.50 £17.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.58% -38.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.50 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £57.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PowerShell
West Yorkshire

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds PowerShell Daily Rate Trend

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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%) ITIL
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) VMware
3 5 (55.56%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
4 4 (44.44%) Change Management
5 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (33.33%) CMDB
5 3 (33.33%) vSphere
5 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 3 (33.33%) VBScript
5 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 3 (33.33%) Remedy
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (22.22%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) IIS
6 2 (22.22%) ASP
6 2 (22.22%) MCSE
6 2 (22.22%) DNS
6 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (22.22%) SLA
6 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
7 1 (11.11%) Service Management
7 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 1 (11.11%) ITSM
7 1 (11.11%) Wyse
7 1 (11.11%) Finance
7 1 (11.11%) Migration

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) ASP
2 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
1 5 (55.56%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (22.22%) IIS
3 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
3 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) Intranet
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Technician
2 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) Fat Client
2 1 (11.11%) iPhone
2 1 (11.11%) iPad
2 1 (11.11%) Thin Client
2 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 8
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
5 1 (11.11%) Release Management
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL V2
5 1 (11.11%) Software Deployment
5 1 (11.11%) ITSM
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 1 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) VBScript
2 1 (11.11%) VB
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) MCSE
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) vSphere
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) ZENworks
1 1 (11.11%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Remedy
4 1 (11.11%) Wyse
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) Novell
4 1 (11.11%) Apple