WSH Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WSH skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 504 550 567
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +17
Contract jobs citing WSH 25 34 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.054% 0.058% 0.028%
As % of the Application Development category 0.197% 0.229% 0.101%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 10
Average daily rate £400 £265 £419
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.94% -36.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £344
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £360 £433
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12670 14829 16814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.43% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7931 8681 9832
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 388 570
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

WSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

WSH Daily Rate Trend

WSH
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WSH within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

WSH Daily Rate Histogram

WSH
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WSH Hourly Rate Trend

WSH
Top 7 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 UK 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
England +43 24 £400 +50.94%
London +40 20 £270 +12.50%
Berkshire +18 4 £480 +113.33%
South East +16 4 £480 +113.33%
Slough -7 3 £503 +123.33%
Canary Wharf -2 2 - -
City of London +15 1 £475 +100.00%

WSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 35 (92.11%) Windows
2 23 (60.53%) PowerShell
3 19 (50.00%) Linux
3 19 (50.00%) UNIX
4 16 (42.11%) Hyper-V
5 15 (39.47%) HP
5 15 (39.47%) BMC
6 13 (34.21%) VBScript
7 12 (31.58%) VB
7 12 (31.58%) SQL Server
7 12 (31.58%) Windows Server 2003
7 12 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (31.58%) Windows Server 2008
7 12 (31.58%) VMware
8 11 (28.95%) Load Balancing
8 11 (28.95%) Nagios
8 11 (28.95%) Middleware
8 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
8 11 (28.95%) ITIL
9 10 (26.32%) IIS
9 10 (26.32%) Java
9 10 (26.32%) Python
9 10 (26.32%) Windows XP
9 10 (26.32%) SQL Server 2005
9 10 (26.32%) SQL Server 2008
9 10 (26.32%) Windows 7
9 10 (26.32%) Bash shell
10 9 (23.68%) Wise Package Studio
10 9 (23.68%) BladeLogic
10 9 (23.68%) Application Packaging

WSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 11 (28.95%) Middleware
2 9 (23.68%) Application Packaging
3 3 (7.895%) .NET
4 2 (5.263%) SOAP
4 2 (5.263%) Web Services
4 2 (5.263%) XML
4 2 (5.263%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 10 (26.32%) IIS
2 7 (18.42%) Confluence
3 2 (5.263%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (5.263%) ESB
4 1 (2.632%) CloudStack
Business Applications
1 2 (5.263%) LongView
1 2 (5.263%) HFM
1 2 (5.263%) Khalix
2 1 (2.632%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.632%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) DNS
2 3 (7.895%) Firewall
2 3 (7.895%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (7.895%) DHCP
2 3 (7.895%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.632%) IPsec
3 1 (2.632%) IPv4
3 1 (2.632%) SSL
3 1 (2.632%) BGP-4
3 1 (2.632%) OSPF
3 1 (2.632%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (26.32%) SQL Server 2005
2 10 (26.32%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.263%) OLAP
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (5.263%) Essbase
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Wise Package Studio
1 9 (23.68%) MSI
2 8 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (18.42%) JIRA
4 3 (7.895%) ClearCase
5 2 (5.263%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 2 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 7 (18.42%) Finance
2 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
2 4 (10.53%) Retail
3 2 (5.263%) Back Office
3 2 (5.263%) Games
4 1 (2.632%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Applications Packager
2 7 (18.42%) Technical Leader
3 5 (13.16%) Administrator
4 4 (10.53%) Developer
4 4 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Windows Administrator
5 3 (7.895%) Development Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Consultant
6 2 (5.263%) Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Technical Developer
6 2 (5.263%) VMware Consultant
6 2 (5.263%) BizTalk Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (5.263%) BizTalk Administrator
7 1 (2.632%) Oracle Supply Chain Functional Consultant
7 1 (2.632%) SQL DBA
7 1 (2.632%) Oracle Consultant
7 1 (2.632%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 1 (2.632%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.263%) IaaS
1 2 (5.263%) PaaS
2 1 (2.632%) Replication
2 1 (2.632%) Clustering
2 1 (2.632%) Statistics
2 1 (2.632%) CMDB
2 1 (2.632%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 35 (92.11%) Windows
2 19 (50.00%) Linux
2 19 (50.00%) UNIX
3 12 (31.58%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (31.58%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (26.32%) Windows XP
4 10 (26.32%) Windows 7
5 8 (21.05%) Solaris
5 8 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (21.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (7.895%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Load Balancing
1 11 (28.95%) ITIL
2 7 (18.42%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (18.42%) OO
2 7 (18.42%) Configuration Management
3 6 (15.79%) Scrum
4 3 (7.895%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (7.895%) SOA
5 2 (5.263%) Data Modelling
5 2 (5.263%) Performance Testing
5 2 (5.263%) Service Management
5 2 (5.263%) Change Management
5 2 (5.263%) Workflow
5 2 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (5.263%) Performance Improvement
5 2 (5.263%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) PowerShell
2 13 (34.21%) VBScript
3 12 (31.58%) VB
4 10 (26.32%) Java
4 10 (26.32%) Python
4 10 (26.32%) Bash shell
5 9 (23.68%) SQL
6 4 (10.53%) Shell Script
7 3 (7.895%) T-SQL
7 3 (7.895%) Perl
7 3 (7.895%) C++
8 2 (5.263%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.263%) XQuery
8 2 (5.263%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 1 (2.632%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.632%) MCDBA
3 1 (2.632%) MCT
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Hyper-V
2 12 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (23.68%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.263%) vCloud
5 2 (5.263%) vSphere
5 2 (5.263%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.632%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Nagios
2 9 (23.68%) BladeLogic
3 7 (18.42%) Puppet
3 7 (18.42%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 3 (7.895%) Splunk
4 3 (7.895%) Tivoli
4 3 (7.895%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) HP
1 15 (39.47%) BMC
2 12 (31.58%) VMware
3 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
4 6 (15.79%) NetIQ
4 6 (15.79%) Atlassian
5 5 (13.16%) Cisco
6 3 (7.895%) Tableau
6 3 (7.895%) Altiris
6 3 (7.895%) Oracle
7 2 (5.263%) Hyperion
7 2 (5.263%) IBM
7 2 (5.263%) Infoblox
7 2 (5.263%) BT
8 1 (2.632%) Citrix
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