Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

LinkWindows PowerShell
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank387413583
Rank change year-on-year
Up+26Up+170
Matching contract IT job ads1062817
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.219 %0.071 %0.021 %
As % of the Programming Languages category0.568 %0.228 %0.059 %
Daily rates quoted5063
Average daily rate£365£375£500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.660 %-25.00 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£365£324£338
% change year-on-year
+12.65 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted500
Average hourly rate£20.88--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.88--
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
186521229128637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK38.61 %31.16 %34.84 %
Daily rates quoted921542679243
Average daily rate£414£363£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.06 %-9.370 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted9069362052
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--11.76 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£15.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.50£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.780 %-13.57 %

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.

PowerShell
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PowerShell within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

PowerShell Demand Trend

PowerShell
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PowerShell within the UK.

PowerShell Daily Rate Trend

PowerShell
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PowerShell within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

PowerShell Daily Rate Histogram

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PowerShell within the UK.

PowerShell Hourly Rate Trend

PowerShell
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PowerShell within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

PowerShell Hourly Rate Histogram

PowerShell
Top 29 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+33105£365-2.66 %
LondonDown-1868£358-28.50 %
South EastUp+2026£370+28.91 %
City of LondonDown-5914£438+2.94 %
BerkshireNew entry-11£365-
BuckinghamshireNo change08£250-12.89 %
SurreyNew entry-5£400-
South WestNew entry-5£355-
North WestDown-14£260-
ReadingNew entry-4£375-
East of EnglandUp+153£325-18.75 %
CambridgeshireUp+93£325-18.75 %
WiltshireNew entry-3£355-
CheshireNew entry-3--
LeatherheadNew entry-3£400-
Milton KeynesDown-22£365+12.65 %
CambridgeNew entry-2£325-
UxbridgeNew entry-2£325-
GloucestershireNew entry-2--
Docklands, LondonDown-81--
Canary WharfNew entry-1£380-
ScotlandNew entry-1--
MiddlesexNew entry-1--
LancashireNew entry-1£260-
HampshireNew entry-1£475-
SwindonNew entry-1£355-
EdinburghNew entry-1--
BracknellNew entry-1--
BeaconsfieldNew entry-1--

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1118 (70.24 %)Windows
276 (45.24 %)Active Directory
367 (39.88 %)Windows Server 2003
464 (38.10 %)VBScript
562 (36.90 %)C#
655 (32.74 %).NET
753 (31.55 %)Microsoft
846 (27.38 %)Windows Server 2008
945 (26.79 %)MS Exchange
1044 (26.19 %)Banking
1138 (22.62 %)Exchange Server 2007
1237 (22.02 %)SQL Server
1332 (19.05 %)WMI
1332 (19.05 %)Exchange Server 2003
1332 (19.05 %)VMware
1430 (17.86 %)VB
1430 (17.86 %)SQL
1430 (17.86 %)Citrix
1529 (17.26 %)SQL Server 2005
1529 (17.26 %)SCCM
1529 (17.26 %)Security Cleared
1628 (16.67 %)XML
1727 (16.07 %)Visual Studio
1727 (16.07 %)DNS
1826 (15.48 %)VB.NET
1924 (14.29 %)DHCP
2022 (13.10 %)ASP.NET
2022 (13.10 %)Windows 7
2022 (13.10 %)Migration
2121 (12.50 %)VMware Infrastructure

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
155 (32.74 %).NET
232 (19.05 %)WMI
328 (16.67 %)XML
422 (13.10 %)ASP.NET
517 (10.12 %)WCF
613 (7.738 %)Web Services
613 (7.738 %)AJAX
710 (5.952 %)XHTML
710 (5.952 %)CSS
87 (4.167 %)XSLT
96 (3.571 %)WSH
105 (2.976 %)XSD
105 (2.976 %)jQuery
114 (2.381 %)Software Packaging
114 (2.381 %)Application Packaging
114 (2.381 %)ADSI
123 (1.786 %)HTML
123 (1.786 %)JSP
123 (1.786 %)ASP.NET 2.0
131 (0.595 %)COM
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
145 (26.79 %)MS Exchange
238 (22.62 %)Exchange Server 2007
332 (19.05 %)Exchange Server 2003
410 (5.952 %)SharePoint
56 (3.571 %)IIS
65 (2.976 %)SharePoint Server 2007
74 (2.381 %)Office Communications Server
83 (1.786 %)Lotus Domino
83 (1.786 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
92 (1.190 %)Exchange Server 5.5
101 (0.595 %)Rendezvous
101 (0.595 %)Exchange Server 2000
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (4.167 %)MS Excel
23 (1.786 %)MS Office
31 (0.595 %)MS Visio
31 (0.595 %)S-PLUS
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
127 (16.07 %)DNS
224 (14.29 %)DHCP
319 (11.31 %)SMS
417 (10.12 %)SAN
512 (7.143 %)TCP/IP
610 (5.952 %)LDAP
78 (4.762 %)iSCSI
87 (4.167 %)Firewall
95 (2.976 %)HTTPS
95 (2.976 %)HTTP
95 (2.976 %)Internet
95 (2.976 %)X.500
104 (2.381 %)VPN
113 (1.786 %)SMTP
113 (1.786 %)NAS
122 (1.190 %)S/MIME
131 (0.595 %)SSL
131 (0.595 %)Kerberos
131 (0.595 %)SNMP
131 (0.595 %)WAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
137 (22.02 %)SQL Server
229 (17.26 %)SQL Server 2005
318 (10.71 %)SQL Server Integration Services
415 (8.929 %)SQL Server 2008
56 (3.571 %)Datawarehouse
63 (1.786 %)ETL
72 (1.190 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
72 (1.190 %)Oracle Reports
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
127 (16.07 %)Visual Studio
220 (11.90 %)Team Foundation Server
32 (1.190 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
144 (26.19 %)Banking
214 (8.333 %)Investment Banking
310 (5.952 %)Government
49 (5.357 %)Finance
54 (2.381 %)Multimedia
63 (1.786 %)Marketing
63 (1.786 %)Wholesale Banking
71 (0.595 %)Front Office
71 (0.595 %)Legal
71 (0.595 %)Auditing
71 (0.595 %)Corporate Banking
71 (0.595 %)Home Office
71 (0.595 %)Military
71 (0.595 %)Insurance
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
129 (17.26 %)Developer
217 (10.12 %)Server Engineer
316 (9.524 %)Consultant
412 (7.143 %)Windows Server Engineer
412 (7.143 %)C# Developer
510 (5.952 %)Administrator
69 (5.357 %)Windows Engineer
69 (5.357 %)Exchange Engineer
78 (4.762 %).NET Developer
78 (4.762 %)Desktop Engineer
78 (4.762 %)SQL Developer
78 (4.762 %)Support Engineer
78 (4.762 %)Analyst
87 (4.167 %)Server Support
87 (4.167 %)Wintel Engineer
95 (2.976 %)Desktop Support
95 (2.976 %)Server Support Engineer
95 (2.976 %)Senior Server Engineer
95 (2.976 %)Senior Windows Server Engineer
95 (2.976 %)Windows Support Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
113 (7.738 %)Blackberry
25 (2.976 %)Clustering
33 (1.786 %)PKI
42 (1.190 %)Replication
42 (1.190 %)Fat Client
42 (1.190 %)Amazon EC2
42 (1.190 %)Cloud Computing
42 (1.190 %)NHS
42 (1.190 %)Thin Client
42 (1.190 %)Mainframe
51 (0.595 %)Client/Server
51 (0.595 %)FMCG
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1118 (70.24 %)Windows
267 (39.88 %)Windows Server 2003
346 (27.38 %)Windows Server 2008
422 (13.10 %)Windows 7
520 (11.90 %)Windows XP
613 (7.738 %)Linux
79 (5.357 %)Windows Vista
87 (4.167 %)Windows 2000
94 (2.381 %)Windows 2000 Server
102 (1.190 %)Windows NT
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
122 (13.10 %)Migration
213 (7.738 %)Agile Software Development
39 (5.357 %)Configuration Management
47 (4.167 %)ITIL
53 (1.786 %)UML
53 (1.786 %)OO
53 (1.786 %)CRM
53 (1.786 %)Change Management
53 (1.786 %)Load Balancing
53 (1.786 %)Release Management
53 (1.786 %)SysML
62 (1.190 %)Automated Testing
62 (1.190 %)Scrum
62 (1.190 %)Validation
62 (1.190 %)Incident Management
62 (1.190 %)Technical Architecture
62 (1.190 %)Unit Testing
62 (1.190 %)Integration Testing
62 (1.190 %)Continuous Integration
62 (1.190 %)Disaster Recovery
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
164 (38.10 %)VBScript
262 (36.90 %)C#
330 (17.86 %)VB
330 (17.86 %)SQL
426 (15.48 %)VB.NET
521 (12.50 %)C
614 (8.333 %)JavaScript
78 (4.762 %)T-SQL
84 (2.381 %)Shell Script
84 (2.381 %)C++
92 (1.190 %)Perl
101 (0.595 %)Java
101 (0.595 %)VB6
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
129 (17.26 %)Security Cleared
219 (11.31 %)Microsoft Certification
318 (10.71 %)MCSE
415 (8.929 %)SC Cleared
56 (3.571 %)DV Cleared
65 (2.976 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
73 (1.786 %)MCSA
82 (1.190 %)Cisco Certification
82 (1.190 %)CCNA
82 (1.190 %)MCP
91 (0.595 %)CCA
91 (0.595 %)Citrix Certification
91 (0.595 %)BC Cleared
91 (0.595 %)MCTS
91 (0.595 %)MCITP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (1.190 %)ISO27001
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
176 (45.24 %)Active Directory
221 (12.50 %)VMware Infrastructure
314 (8.333 %)Hyper-V
411 (6.548 %)VMware ESX
58 (4.762 %)Citrix Presentation Server
66 (3.571 %)Terminal Services
75 (2.976 %)Terminal Server
75 (2.976 %)VMware Workstation
84 (2.381 %)MailMarshal
84 (2.381 %)Postfix
84 (2.381 %)XenApp
84 (2.381 %)XenDesktop
84 (2.381 %)ISA Server
91 (0.595 %)DFS Replication
91 (0.595 %)Xen
91 (0.595 %)vSphere
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
129 (17.26 %)SCCM
212 (7.143 %)MSI
39 (5.357 %)SCOM
47 (4.167 %)MOM
56 (3.571 %)MIIS
65 (2.976 %)OpenView Configuration Management
74 (2.381 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
83 (1.786 %)Tivoli
83 (1.786 %)NetBackup
92 (1.190 %)Backup Exec
92 (1.190 %)WSUS
92 (1.190 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
92 (1.190 %)Legato
92 (1.190 %)OpenView
101 (0.595 %)ServiceCenter
101 (0.595 %)RepliStor
101 (0.595 %)McAfee ePO
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
153 (31.55 %)Microsoft
232 (19.05 %)VMware
330 (17.86 %)Citrix
416 (9.524 %)Cisco
512 (7.143 %)HP
69 (5.357 %)Altiris
78 (4.762 %)BladeLogic
85 (2.976 %)telerik
94 (2.381 %)Oracle
103 (1.786 %)Sybase
112 (1.190 %)Leostream
112 (1.190 %)Wyse
112 (1.190 %)CheckPoint
112 (1.190 %)Peregrine
112 (1.190 %)Reuters
112 (1.190 %)Bloomberg
112 (1.190 %)Symantec
112 (1.190 %)Remedy
112 (1.190 %)McAfee
112 (1.190 %)IBM