The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PowerShell 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 Programming Languages category for the Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 46 37 -
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 5 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.479% 0.641% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.439% 0.926% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
All Programming Languages
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
205 108 177
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 60.65% 69.23% 70.24%
Number of salaries quoted 119 98 170
Average salary £35,000 £31,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.90% -4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £46,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PowerShell
Cheshire

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester PowerShell Salary Trend

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 5 (83.33%) VBScript
1 5 (83.33%) IBM
1 5 (83.33%) HP
1 5 (83.33%) EMC
2 4 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) HTTP
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (33.33%) Network Management
4 2 (33.33%) NAS
4 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (16.67%) InfoPath
5 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (16.67%) Taxonomies
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
5 1 (16.67%) Kofax
5 1 (16.67%) Debian
5 1 (16.67%) AIX
5 1 (16.67%) Solaris
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) SharePoint

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
1 4 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Financial Institution
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Administrator
3 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (33.33%) Server Administrator
4 2 (33.33%) Senior Windows Administrator
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (16.67%) Developer
5 1 (16.67%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (16.67%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Debian
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) VBScript
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) IBM
1 5 (83.33%) HP
1 5 (83.33%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) Kofax
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat