The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 89 89 92
Rank change year-on-year
0 +3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 27 3 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.611% 0.206% 0.150%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.605% 0.458% 0.377%
Number of salaries quoted 27 3 1
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -8.53%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-14.11% +6.25%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
749 655 531
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 44.69% 45.08% 39.92%
Number of salaries quoted 651 610 483
Average salary £37,500 £35,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.63% +18.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,150 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PowerShell
West Midlands

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham PowerShell Salary Trend

PowerShell
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PowerShell across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham PowerShell Salary Histogram

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 22 (62.86%) Windows
1 22 (62.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (37.14%) Citrix
3 13 (37.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (37.14%) XML
3 13 (37.14%) SQL
3 13 (37.14%) Finance
4 12 (34.29%) T-SQL
4 12 (34.29%) .NET
4 12 (34.29%) SQL Server
4 12 (34.29%) ASP
4 12 (34.29%) Internet
4 12 (34.29%) Terminal Server
5 11 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (25.71%) CSS
7 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (22.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (20.00%) VBScript
9 6 (17.14%) HTML
9 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
9 6 (17.14%) ASP.NET
9 6 (17.14%) SharePoint
9 6 (17.14%) MVC
9 6 (17.14%) TDD
9 6 (17.14%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (17.14%) BDD
9 6 (17.14%) AOP

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 Development
1 13 (37.14%) XML
2 12 (34.29%) .NET
2 12 (34.29%) ASP
3 9 (25.71%) CSS
4 6 (17.14%) HTML
4 6 (17.14%) ASP.NET
4 6 (17.14%) WCF
4 6 (17.14%) jQuery
4 6 (17.14%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (8.571%) Application Packaging
5 3 (8.571%) MDX
6 2 (5.714%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.571%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (5.714%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (5.714%) MSMQ
4 1 (2.857%) Windows Azure
4 1 (2.857%) Lync
4 1 (2.857%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.714%) MS Project
3 1 (2.857%) MS Office
3 1 (2.857%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) Internet
2 2 (5.714%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (22.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (17.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.714%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.857%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (2.857%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) MSBuild
2 3 (8.571%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (8.571%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.857%) Subversion
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 3 (8.571%) Advertising
3 2 (5.714%) Law
4 1 (2.857%) Billing
4 1 (2.857%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Server Support
3 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.571%) Consultant
4 3 (8.571%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) ETL Developer
4 3 (8.571%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (8.571%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 2 (5.714%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) SQL DBA
5 2 (5.714%) Administrator
5 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 2 (5.714%) SharePoint Consultant
5 2 (5.714%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (5.714%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.714%) DBA
5 2 (5.714%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.857%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.571%) Computer Science
1 3 (8.571%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (2.857%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.857%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (62.86%) Windows
2 14 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (37.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (14.29%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.857%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (17.14%) MVC
3 6 (17.14%) TDD
3 6 (17.14%) AOP
3 6 (17.14%) BDD
4 5 (14.29%) Scrum
4 5 (14.29%) ETL
5 4 (11.43%) Data Modelling
5 4 (11.43%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (11.43%) Software Architecture
6 3 (8.571%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (8.571%) Migration
7 2 (5.714%) Project Management
7 2 (5.714%) Test Automation
7 2 (5.714%) Parallel Programming
7 2 (5.714%) Information Management
7 2 (5.714%) High Availability
8 1 (2.857%) Software Deployment
8 1 (2.857%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) SQL
2 12 (34.29%) T-SQL
3 7 (20.00%) VBScript
4 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.714%) PowerHouse
6 1 (2.857%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.571%) Degree
3 2 (5.714%) MCDBA
4 1 (2.857%) VTSP
4 1 (2.857%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) QA
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Terminal Server
2 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.857%) UAG
Systems Management
1 2 (5.714%) SCCM
2 1 (2.857%) SCOM
2 1 (2.857%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 22 (62.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (37.14%) Citrix
3 3 (8.571%) Red Gate
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