The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 17 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 Northamptonshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 0.813% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.762% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-5.47% +8.14%
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
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
42 95 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 17.07% 23.63% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 68 32
Average daily rate £325 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £429 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PowerShell
East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Northampton - 2 £300 -
PowerShell
East Midlands

PowerShell
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSL
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Intranet
1 2 (100.00%) InfoPath
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSL
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Intranet
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Developer
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared