PowerShell Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 92 101 103
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +2
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 26 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.066% 0.338% 0.290%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.479% 1.406% 0.983%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 5
Average daily rate £361 - £265
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 - £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £391 - £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 1049 640 814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.01% 24.06% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 290 405
Average daily rate £363 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.75 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £34.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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

Scotland PowerShell Daily Rate Histogram

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -11 11 £360 -
Renfrewshire - 8 £370 -
Edinburgh +10 5 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 27 (84.38%) Windows
2 22 (68.75%) Windows 7
3 20 (62.50%) VBScript
4 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
5 16 (50.00%) Windows XP
5 16 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 16 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 15 (46.88%) .NET
7 14 (43.75%) MS Excel
7 14 (43.75%) .NET Framework
8 13 (40.63%) Security Architecture
8 13 (40.63%) XML
9 12 (37.50%) Migration
9 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
10 11 (34.38%) XML Schema
11 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (31.25%) C#
11 10 (31.25%) SharePoint Server
11 10 (31.25%) SCCM
11 10 (31.25%) Cryptography
11 10 (31.25%) Document Management
12 9 (28.13%) Taxonomies
12 9 (28.13%) MS Office
12 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
12 9 (28.13%) MCP
13 7 (21.88%) VMware
13 7 (21.88%) Service Management
14 6 (18.75%) Finance
14 6 (18.75%) AdminStudio
14 6 (18.75%) MCSE

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 15 (46.88%) .NET
2 14 (43.75%) .NET Framework
3 13 (40.63%) XML
4 11 (34.38%) XML Schema
5 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.125%) Regular Expression
6 1 (3.125%) Java EE
6 1 (3.125%) XSD
6 1 (3.125%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 10 (31.25%) SharePoint Server
2 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.250%) IIS
3 2 (6.250%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (3.125%) Lync
4 1 (3.125%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (3.125%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 14 (43.75%) MS Excel
2 9 (28.13%) MS Office
3 1 (3.125%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.375%) DNS
1 3 (9.375%) Internet
2 2 (6.250%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.250%) Network Security
3 1 (3.125%) VLAN
3 1 (3.125%) LDAP
3 1 (3.125%) Firewall
3 1 (3.125%) Extranet
3 1 (3.125%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) AdminStudio
2 5 (15.63%) MSI
2 5 (15.63%) InstallShield
3 4 (12.50%) Wise Package Studio
4 3 (9.375%) Visual Studio
5 2 (6.250%) Subversion
5 2 (6.250%) MSBuild
6 1 (3.125%) MSTest
6 1 (3.125%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.125%) Ant
General
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (6.250%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.125%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Applications Packager
2 8 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Build Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior Build Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (6.250%) Developer
5 2 (6.250%) Analyst
5 2 (6.250%) Configuration Manager
5 2 (6.250%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) Web Hosting Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) Web Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.125%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.125%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (3.125%) Build Manager
6 1 (3.125%) SharePoint Administrator
6 1 (3.125%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (3.125%) Administrator
6 1 (3.125%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Cryptography
2 9 (28.13%) Taxonomies
3 5 (15.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.125%) Visualisation
4 1 (3.125%) SaaS
4 1 (3.125%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (84.38%) Windows
2 22 (68.75%) Windows 7
3 16 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (9.375%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (6.250%) Windows 2000
7 1 (3.125%) Solaris
7 1 (3.125%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Security Architecture
2 12 (37.50%) Migration
3 10 (31.25%) Document Management
4 7 (21.88%) Service Management
5 6 (18.75%) Information Security
6 4 (12.50%) Software Deployment
7 3 (9.375%) Configuration Management
8 2 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (6.250%) Release Management
8 2 (6.250%) Performance Testing
9 1 (3.125%) Build Automation
9 1 (3.125%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (3.125%) Performance Management
9 1 (3.125%) OO
9 1 (3.125%) ERP
9 1 (3.125%) ITIL
9 1 (3.125%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) VBScript
2 10 (31.25%) C#
3 6 (18.75%) VB.NET
4 5 (15.63%) VB
5 4 (12.50%) SQL
6 2 (6.250%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.250%) Java
7 1 (3.125%) Bourne shell
7 1 (3.125%) Korn
7 1 (3.125%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.125%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (28.13%) MCP
5 6 (18.75%) MCSE
6 5 (15.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) QA
1 1 (3.125%) JSP 440
System Software
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.50%) XenApp
4 2 (6.250%) Terminal Services
4 2 (6.250%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) SCCM
2 4 (12.50%) ZENworks
3 3 (9.375%) WMI
3 3 (9.375%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (3.125%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 1 (3.125%) HP SiteScope
4 1 (3.125%) HP UCMDB
4 1 (3.125%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) Novell
3 4 (12.50%) HP
3 4 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (3.125%) Lumension
4 1 (3.125%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.125%) McAfee
4 1 (3.125%) Sophos
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