The first table below looks at the demand for WSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSH over the 3 months to 22 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 North West 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Script Host (WSH)
Rank - - 125
Contract jobs citing WSH 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - - 0.033%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
634 930 736
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.93% 29.28% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 505 421
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 21
Average hourly rate £30.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+71.33% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £147.94 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSH
England

WSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West WSH Daily Rate Trend

WSH
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VBScript
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) soapUI
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) XPath
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) XQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MCDBA
2 1 (50.00%) MCT
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) XML

WSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 (50.00%) soapUI
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VBScript
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) XPath
2 1 (50.00%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCDBA
1 1 (50.00%) MCT
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft