PowerShell Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 63 50 36
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -14
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 7 31 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.843% 2.914% 4.636%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.893% 12.16% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 19 23
Average daily rate £425 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-5.47% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -
All Programming Languages
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 242 255 375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 29.16% 23.97% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 105 167
Average daily rate £350 £375 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 15
Average hourly rate £17.00 £44.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.36% +83.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.20 £14.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.50 £44.00 £38.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PowerShell
Berkshire

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading PowerShell Daily Rate Trend

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading PowerShell Hourly Rate Trend

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (94.44%) Windows
3 16 (88.89%) Active Directory
4 13 (72.22%) SQL Server
4 13 (72.22%) MS Office
4 13 (72.22%) Retail
5 12 (66.67%) VMware
5 12 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
6 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2003
6 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (44.44%) SQL
8 8 (44.44%) SharePoint
8 8 (44.44%) MS Exchange
8 8 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2007
9 7 (38.89%) MS Visio
9 7 (38.89%) SharePoint 2010
10 6 (33.33%) vSphere
10 6 (33.33%) Clearswift
10 6 (33.33%) SCOM
11 4 (22.22%) System Testing
11 4 (22.22%) SCCM
11 4 (22.22%) ISA Server
12 3 (16.67%) HP
12 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
12 3 (16.67%) Windows XP
12 3 (16.67%) IIS
12 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
12 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (5.556%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) SharePoint
1 8 (44.44%) MS Exchange
1 8 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (38.89%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (16.67%) IIS
4 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (5.556%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (72.22%) MS Office
2 7 (38.89%) MS Visio
3 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) LDAP
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
1 1 (5.556%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.556%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (72.22%) SQL Server
2 12 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (16.67%) IDOL
5 1 (5.556%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) StarTeam
General
1 13 (72.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Systems Administrator
1 7 (38.89%) Administrator
2 5 (27.78%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 4 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 1 (5.556%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Information Architect
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.556%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Design Authority
5 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Replication
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Smartcard
3 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
3 3 (16.67%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Vista
4 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) System Testing
2 3 (16.67%) Validation
2 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.11%) Network Design
4 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.556%) Identity Management
4 1 (5.556%) Information Management
4 1 (5.556%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) MCP
2 2 (11.11%) MCSE
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.556%) MCSD
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (33.33%) vSphere
4 4 (22.22%) ISA Server
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (11.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (5.556%) DFS Replication
6 1 (5.556%) Shibboleth
6 1 (5.556%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) SCOM
2 4 (22.22%) SCCM
3 1 (5.556%) MIIS
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (66.67%) VMware
3 6 (33.33%) Clearswift
4 3 (16.67%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) CA
5 2 (11.11%) Veritas
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
6 1 (5.556%) Meridio
6 1 (5.556%) Borland
6 1 (5.556%) Remedy
6 1 (5.556%) Websense
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