The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 23 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 110 107 115
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 12 7 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.692% 0.405% 0.054%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.026% 0.716% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 1
Average salary £42,500 £43,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.85% +9.37%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
All Programming Languages
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1170 977 1134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 67.47% 56.47% 60.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1050 905 948
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £26,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PowerShell
South West

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol PowerShell Salary Trend

PowerShell
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PowerShell across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Bristol PowerShell Salary Histogram

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 17 (68.00%) SQL Server
2 16 (64.00%) C#
2 16 (64.00%) Windows
3 15 (60.00%) .NET
4 13 (52.00%) SQL
5 10 (40.00%) SharePoint
5 10 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 9 (36.00%) Automated Testing
6 9 (36.00%) VBScript
6 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
7 8 (32.00%) Manual Testing
8 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (28.00%) Firewall
8 7 (28.00%) VMware
8 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
8 7 (28.00%) IIS
8 7 (28.00%) DNS
9 6 (24.00%) SSL
9 6 (24.00%) Cisco
9 6 (24.00%) VPN
9 6 (24.00%) WSH
9 6 (24.00%) LAN
9 6 (24.00%) WAN
9 6 (24.00%) Windows XP
9 6 (24.00%) Python
9 6 (24.00%) CSS
9 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (24.00%) Perl
9 6 (24.00%) HTML

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 15 (60.00%) .NET
2 6 (24.00%) WSH
2 6 (24.00%) CSS
2 6 (24.00%) HTML
2 6 (24.00%) jQuery
3 5 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 10 (40.00%) SharePoint
1 10 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (28.00%) IIS
3 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (4.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (4.000%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Office
1 2 (8.000%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Google Analytics
1 1 (4.000%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) Firewall
1 7 (28.00%) DNS
2 6 (24.00%) SSL
2 6 (24.00%) VPN
2 6 (24.00%) LAN
2 6 (24.00%) WAN
2 6 (24.00%) IPv4
2 6 (24.00%) Internet
2 6 (24.00%) OSPF
2 6 (24.00%) BGP-4
2 6 (24.00%) IPsec
2 6 (24.00%) Network Security
3 5 (20.00%) NGN
3 5 (20.00%) 2G
3 5 (20.00%) Ethernet
3 5 (20.00%) 3G
3 5 (20.00%) DWDM
3 5 (20.00%) MPLS
3 5 (20.00%) DSL
3 5 (20.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (68.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) NUnit
2 2 (8.000%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.000%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.000%) Legal
3 1 (4.000%) Marketing
3 1 (4.000%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Software Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (24.00%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Administrator
3 6 (24.00%) Systems Test Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Tester
4 4 (16.00%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Integration Tester
5 2 (8.000%) Software Tester
5 2 (8.000%) Systems Tester
6 1 (4.000%) Junior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Solutions Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Junior Test Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Junior
6 1 (4.000%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Clustering
2 5 (20.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (8.000%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (24.00%) Windows XP
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (24.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Automated Testing
2 8 (32.00%) Manual Testing
3 6 (24.00%) Change Management
3 6 (24.00%) Load Balancing
3 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (20.00%) Analytics
4 5 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (12.00%) Scrum
5 3 (12.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Agile Testing
5 3 (12.00%) OO
6 2 (8.000%) Information Architecture
6 2 (8.000%) Knowledge Management
7 1 (4.000%) MVC
7 1 (4.000%) TDD
7 1 (4.000%) Document Management
7 1 (4.000%) System Testing
7 1 (4.000%) Marketing Analytics
7 1 (4.000%) Practice Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) C#
2 13 (52.00%) SQL
3 9 (36.00%) VBScript
4 6 (24.00%) Python
4 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) Perl
5 3 (12.00%) Java
5 3 (12.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.000%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (24.00%) Xen
2 6 (24.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) VMware
3 6 (24.00%) Cisco
4 5 (20.00%) ZTE
4 5 (20.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 5 (20.00%) Huawei
4 5 (20.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 5 (20.00%) Siemens
4 5 (20.00%) Juniper
4 5 (20.00%) Nortel
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle
6 1 (4.000%) Google
6 1 (4.000%) Facebook
6 1 (4.000%) Twitter
6 1 (4.000%) Interwoven