The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 103 142 154
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +12
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 130 98 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.668% 0.966% 0.954%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.043% 3.228% 2.829%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 42 43
Average daily rate £350 £400 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £251 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 £37.37 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.03% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -
All Programming Languages
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2578 3036 3499
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 33.08% 29.92% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1284 1472 1535
Average daily rate £343 £329 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.18% +1.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 203 293
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £20.50 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PowerShell
England

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East PowerShell Daily Rate Histogram

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East PowerShell Hourly Rate Trend

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PowerShell across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East PowerShell Hourly 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 South East 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
Berkshire +26 46 £350 -12.50%
Surrey +24 30 £325 -18.75%
Hampshire -9 22 £375 +25.90%
Buckinghamshire +14 14 £358 +16.73%
West Sussex +23 7 - -
Kent - 7 £325 -
Middlesex +3 2 £450 +5.88%
East Sussex +9 1 £425 -
PowerShell
England

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 149 (83.71%) Windows
2 100 (56.18%) Microsoft
3 82 (46.07%) Active Directory
4 76 (42.70%) VMware
5 62 (34.83%) Windows Server 2008
6 54 (30.34%) SQL
7 48 (26.97%) VBScript
8 47 (26.40%) MS Exchange
9 43 (24.16%) SQL Server
10 41 (23.03%) Windows Server 2003
11 36 (20.22%) SCOM
12 35 (19.66%) Citrix
12 35 (19.66%) IIS
12 35 (19.66%) SharePoint
13 34 (19.10%) Security Cleared
13 34 (19.10%) vSphere
14 33 (18.54%) SCCM
15 32 (17.98%) Exchange Server 2010
16 31 (17.42%) VB
17 30 (16.85%) SC Cleared
18 29 (16.29%) HP
19 28 (15.73%) UNIX
19 28 (15.73%) Retail
19 28 (15.73%) Windows 7
20 26 (14.61%) VMware Infrastructure
20 26 (14.61%) SQL Server 2008
20 26 (14.61%) Firewall
21 25 (14.04%) Migration
22 24 (13.48%) ITIL
22 24 (13.48%) MS Office

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 13 (7.303%) XML
2 10 (5.618%) ADSI
3 9 (5.056%) soapUI
3 9 (5.056%) Java EE
4 7 (3.933%) SOAP
5 6 (3.371%) WSH
5 6 (3.371%) Middleware
6 5 (2.809%) DOM
6 5 (2.809%) Application Packaging
7 3 (1.685%) .NET
7 3 (1.685%) Web Services
8 2 (1.124%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.124%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.124%) COM
8 2 (1.124%) XML Schema
8 2 (1.124%) WCF
8 2 (1.124%) jQuery
9 1 (0.562%) XHTML
9 1 (0.562%) HTML
9 1 (0.562%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 47 (26.40%) MS Exchange
2 35 (19.66%) IIS
2 35 (19.66%) SharePoint
3 32 (17.98%) Exchange Server 2010
4 23 (12.92%) Exchange Server 2007
5 14 (7.865%) SharePoint 2010
6 12 (6.742%) Lync
7 10 (5.618%) BizTalk Server
8 9 (5.056%) ESB
9 6 (3.371%) Exchange Server 2003
10 3 (1.685%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (1.124%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.562%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.562%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.562%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 24 (13.48%) MS Office
2 14 (7.865%) MS Excel
3 8 (4.494%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.809%) Office 365
5 4 (2.247%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (0.562%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.61%) Firewall
2 20 (11.24%) WAN
2 20 (11.24%) SAN
3 17 (9.551%) LAN
4 15 (8.427%) TCP/IP
5 14 (7.865%) DNS
5 14 (7.865%) DHCP
6 12 (6.742%) VPN
7 7 (3.933%) HTTP
8 6 (3.371%) IPsec
8 6 (3.371%) SSH
8 6 (3.371%) SNMP
8 6 (3.371%) FTP
8 6 (3.371%) SSL
9 5 (2.809%) NetScaler
9 5 (2.809%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (2.809%) IPv6
10 4 (2.247%) WLAN
10 4 (2.247%) iSCSI
11 3 (1.685%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (24.16%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.61%) SQL Server 2008
3 19 (10.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (6.180%) MySQL
5 3 (1.685%) IDOL
6 2 (1.124%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (1.124%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.562%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.562%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.562%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.562%) Oracle 9i
7 1 (0.562%) DB2
7 1 (0.562%) DB2 UDB
7 1 (0.562%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.562%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.562%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (10.11%) MSBuild
2 10 (5.618%) Visual Studio
3 9 (5.056%) TeamCity
3 9 (5.056%) Git (software)
3 9 (5.056%) Ant
3 9 (5.056%) Maven
4 6 (3.371%) MSI
5 3 (1.685%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.685%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.562%) Hudson
6 1 (0.562%) dbdeploy
6 1 (0.562%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.562%) JUnit
6 1 (0.562%) JIRA
General
1 28 (15.73%) Retail
2 9 (5.056%) Finance
3 8 (4.494%) Games
4 2 (1.124%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.124%) Multimedia
4 2 (1.124%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (12.36%) Support Engineer
2 20 (11.24%) Analyst
3 17 (9.551%) Systems Engineer
4 16 (8.989%) Server Engineer
5 15 (8.427%) 3rd Line Support
6 13 (7.303%) Support Analyst
7 12 (6.742%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 11 (6.180%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (6.180%) Administrator
8 11 (6.180%) Integration Engineer
8 11 (6.180%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.056%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (5.056%) Consultant
9 9 (5.056%) Developer
10 8 (4.494%) Build Manager
11 7 (3.933%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
11 7 (3.933%) Release Manager
12 6 (3.371%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 6 (3.371%) Applications Support
12 6 (3.371%) Applications Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.180%) Blackberry
2 9 (5.056%) PKI
3 5 (2.809%) Clustering
4 4 (2.247%) EFT
4 4 (2.247%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.685%) Replication
6 2 (1.124%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.124%) Statistics
6 2 (1.124%) Mathematics
6 2 (1.124%) MPEG
6 2 (1.124%) NHS
7 1 (0.562%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.562%) HACMP
7 1 (0.562%) W3C
7 1 (0.562%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.562%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 149 (83.71%) Windows
2 62 (34.83%) Windows Server 2008
3 41 (23.03%) Windows Server 2003
4 28 (15.73%) UNIX
4 28 (15.73%) Windows 7
5 22 (12.36%) Linux
6 18 (10.11%) Windows XP
7 7 (3.933%) Windows 2000 Server
8 6 (3.371%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.685%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.685%) Solaris
10 2 (1.124%) Windows XP Embedded
10 2 (1.124%) HPUX
11 1 (0.562%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.562%) AIX
11 1 (0.562%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (14.04%) Migration
2 24 (13.48%) ITIL
3 17 (9.551%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (6.180%) Release Management
5 10 (5.618%) Configuration Management
6 9 (5.056%) Test Scripting
6 9 (5.056%) Software Engineering
7 8 (4.494%) Change Control
7 8 (4.494%) Test Automation
8 7 (3.933%) Project Management
8 7 (3.933%) PRINCE2
8 7 (3.933%) Service Management
9 6 (3.371%) Build Automation
10 5 (2.809%) CRM
10 5 (2.809%) Workflow
11 4 (2.247%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (2.247%) B2B
11 4 (2.247%) System Testing
12 3 (1.685%) PRINCE
12 3 (1.685%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.34%) SQL
2 48 (26.97%) VBScript
3 31 (17.42%) VB
4 17 (9.551%) C#
5 12 (6.742%) Python
6 10 (5.618%) Perl
6 10 (5.618%) Bash shell
7 9 (5.056%) T-SQL
7 9 (5.056%) Java
8 4 (2.247%) Korn
8 4 (2.247%) C
9 3 (1.685%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.124%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 34 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (9.551%) MCSE
5 12 (6.742%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (4.494%) MCP
7 6 (3.371%) MCITP
7 6 (3.371%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.371%) CCNA
8 5 (2.809%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.685%) MCSD
10 2 (1.124%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.562%) CCEE
11 1 (0.562%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.562%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.371%) QA
2 4 (2.247%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (46.07%) Active Directory
2 34 (19.10%) vSphere
3 26 (14.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (12.92%) VMware ESX
5 18 (10.11%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (6.742%) XenApp
7 11 (6.180%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (5.618%) Terminal Services
9 6 (3.371%) Xen
9 6 (3.371%) Hyper-V
10 4 (2.247%) ISA Server
11 2 (1.124%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (1.124%) XenDesktop
11 2 (1.124%) UAG
12 1 (0.562%) Shibboleth
12 1 (0.562%) Forefront TMG
12 1 (0.562%) IAG
12 1 (0.562%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.562%) XenServer
12 1 (0.562%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 36 (20.22%) SCOM
2 33 (18.54%) SCCM
3 8 (4.494%) NetBackup
4 6 (3.371%) MIMEsweeper
4 6 (3.371%) Nagios
5 5 (2.809%) WMI
6 4 (2.247%) Backup Exec
6 4 (2.247%) WSUS
7 3 (1.685%) Opalis
8 2 (1.124%) AppDNA
9 1 (0.562%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.562%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.562%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.562%) Puppet
9 1 (0.562%) MIIS
9 1 (0.562%) OpenView Configuration Management
9 1 (0.562%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 100 (56.18%) Microsoft
2 76 (42.70%) VMware
3 35 (19.66%) Citrix
4 29 (16.29%) HP
5 13 (7.303%) Oracle
6 12 (6.742%) Dell
7 11 (6.180%) Cisco
8 9 (5.056%) EMC
8 9 (5.056%) Symantec
9 8 (4.494%) CA
10 6 (3.371%) Clearswift
10 6 (3.371%) BMC
10 6 (3.371%) NetApp
10 6 (3.371%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.809%) Juniper
11 5 (2.809%) LANDesk
12 4 (2.247%) Brocade
13 2 (1.124%) Perforce
13 2 (1.124%) BT
13 2 (1.124%) AppSense
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