The first table below looks at the demand for WSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSH 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 Application Development category for the Slough 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 Script Host (WSH)
Rank 36 29 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing WSH 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 1.230% 0.490% -
As % of the Application Development category 4.000% 2.174% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £503 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+123.33% -
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
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
75 46 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 30.74% 22.55% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 52
Average daily rate £325 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £290 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 35
Average hourly rate £35.00 £14.40 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+143.05% -66.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSH
Berkshire

WSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough WSH Daily Rate Trend

WSH
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) VBScript
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 5 (100.00%) BMC
1 5 (100.00%) Nagios
1 5 (100.00%) Middleware
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) BT
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Banking

WSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 5 (100.00%) Middleware
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Leader
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) VBScript
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) BMC
2 2 (40.00%) BT