The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 17 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 Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 4 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 1.153% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.614% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £22,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-14.11% +6.25%
All Programming Languages
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
153 113 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 44.09% 27.23% 29.34%
Number of salaries quoted 117 96 49
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PowerShell
Scotland

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen PowerShell Jobs Demand Trend

PowerShell
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PowerShell across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen PowerShell Salary Trend

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PowerShell.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
3 2 (50.00%) SCCM
3 2 (50.00%) XenServer
3 2 (50.00%) Veeam
3 2 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (50.00%) Acronis
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) MS Office
3 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (50.00%) VoIP
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PowerShell. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VoIP
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) XenServer
3 1 (25.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam
2 2 (50.00%) Acronis