WSH Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WSH 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 WSH over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Script Host (WSH)
Rank 216 242 252
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +10
Contract jobs citing WSH 4 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.050% 0.030% 0.010%
As % of the Application Development category 0.205% 0.129% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £480 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+113.33% -
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
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 1954 2318 2690
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.67% 22.82% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1020 1151 1233
Average daily rate £350 £328 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.87% +0.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 105 196
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.60 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £40.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSH
England

WSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East WSH Daily Rate Trend

WSH
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East WSH Hourly Rate Trend

WSH
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSH within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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 +13 4 £480 +113.33%
WSH
England

WSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 9 (100.00%) UNIX
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Nagios
2 6 (66.67%) Middleware
2 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) VBScript
2 6 (66.67%) HP
2 6 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (66.67%) BMC
2 6 (66.67%) Bash shell
3 3 (33.33%) Degree
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (33.33%) Altiris
3 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) Tivoli
3 3 (33.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (33.33%) VB
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) DHCP
3 3 (33.33%) NetWare
3 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco

WSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 6 (66.67%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Leader
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 6 (66.67%) Java
1 6 (66.67%) VBScript
1 6 (66.67%) Bash shell
2 3 (33.33%) VB
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Nagios
2 3 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 3 (33.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) HP
1 6 (66.67%) BMC
2 3 (33.33%) Altiris
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) BT
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