The first table below looks at the demand for WSH skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WSH 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 Application Development category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Script Host (WSH)
Rank 792 805 826
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +21
Permanent jobs citing WSH 38 58 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.038% 0.051% 0.028%
As % of the Application Development category 0.092% 0.121% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 10 55 18
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £68,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -38.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,250 £40,000 £41,500
10% offered a salary of more than £69,750 £45,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.40%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41189 48023 47407
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.84% 42.28% 40.55%
Number of salaries quoted 36199 42918 42019
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WSH
UK

WSH
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WSH across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England WSH Jobs Demand Trend

WSH
Salary Trend

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

England WSH Salary Trend

WSH
Salary Histogram

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

England WSH Salary Histogram

WSH
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSH within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +32 25 £67,500 +58.82%
East of England -11 6 - -
South West +9 5 £42,500 -19.04%
South East -2 2 - -
WSH
UK

WSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WSH.

1 66 (79.52%) Windows
2 34 (40.96%) Windows 7
3 32 (38.55%) Hyper-V
3 32 (38.55%) Windows XP
4 29 (34.94%) VB
5 27 (32.53%) MS Excel
5 27 (32.53%) MSI
6 26 (31.33%) Microsoft App-V
6 26 (31.33%) Wise Package Studio
6 26 (31.33%) Application Packaging
7 25 (30.12%) Microsoft
8 23 (27.71%) Perl
9 18 (21.69%) Linux
9 18 (21.69%) Computer Science
10 17 (20.48%) Windows Server 2003
11 16 (19.28%) Risk Management
11 16 (19.28%) ASP
11 16 (19.28%) Windows Server 2008
12 15 (18.07%) SQL Server
12 15 (18.07%) E-Commerce
12 15 (18.07%) Service Delivery
13 14 (16.87%) Cisco
13 14 (16.87%) DNS
14 13 (15.66%) Red Hat
14 13 (15.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 12 (14.46%) Active Directory
16 11 (13.25%) Finance
16 11 (13.25%) Degree
16 11 (13.25%) PowerShell
17 10 (12.05%) Load Balancing

WSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 26 (31.33%) Application Packaging
2 16 (19.28%) ASP
3 4 (4.819%) .NET
4 3 (3.614%) Middleware
5 2 (2.410%) Silverlight
6 1 (1.205%) HTML
6 1 (1.205%) Software Packaging
6 1 (1.205%) J2EE
6 1 (1.205%) CSS
6 1 (1.205%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 10 (12.05%) IIS
2 8 (9.639%) SharePoint
3 6 (7.229%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (4.819%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (4.819%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (4.819%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (4.819%) MS Exchange
5 2 (2.410%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 27 (32.53%) MS Excel
2 4 (4.819%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 7 (8.434%) Oracle SCM
2 3 (3.614%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (3.614%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.410%) Oracle ASCP
4 1 (1.205%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.87%) DNS
2 10 (12.05%) Firewall
3 8 (9.639%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (7.229%) VPN
4 6 (7.229%) Network Security
4 6 (7.229%) IPsec
4 6 (7.229%) OSPF
4 6 (7.229%) BGP-4
4 6 (7.229%) SSL
4 6 (7.229%) IPv4
4 6 (7.229%) Internet
4 6 (7.229%) LAN
4 6 (7.229%) WAN
5 5 (6.024%) PSTN
5 5 (6.024%) SDH
5 5 (6.024%) Ethernet
5 5 (6.024%) ATM
5 5 (6.024%) TCP/IP
5 5 (6.024%) 3G
5 5 (6.024%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.07%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.434%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (7.229%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.819%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.819%) PerformancePoint
5 2 (2.410%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.410%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.205%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.205%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (1.205%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.205%) TOAD
6 1 (1.205%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 27 (32.53%) MSI
2 26 (31.33%) Wise Package Studio
3 1 (1.205%) StarTeam
3 1 (1.205%) Oracle APEX
General
1 11 (13.25%) Finance
2 6 (7.229%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.614%) Manufacturing
3 3 (3.614%) Retail
4 2 (2.410%) Law
5 1 (1.205%) Music
Job Titles
1 26 (31.33%) Applications Packager
2 14 (16.87%) Administrator
3 13 (15.66%) Applications Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Analyst
5 8 (9.639%) Consultant
5 8 (9.639%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (7.229%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (7.229%) Test Engineer
6 6 (7.229%) Systems Test Engineer
6 6 (7.229%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (4.819%) Oracle Consultant
7 4 (4.819%) Storage Administrator
7 4 (4.819%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (4.819%) 3rd Line Technical Support
7 4 (4.819%) Supply Chain Consultant
7 4 (4.819%) SharePoint Administrator
7 4 (4.819%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 4 (4.819%) Technical Support Analyst
7 4 (4.819%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (4.819%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Computer Science
2 10 (12.05%) Clustering
3 4 (4.819%) Replication
4 2 (2.410%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.410%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 66 (79.52%) Windows
2 34 (40.96%) Windows 7
3 32 (38.55%) Windows XP
4 18 (21.69%) Linux
5 17 (20.48%) Windows Server 2003
6 16 (19.28%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (15.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (3.614%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.28%) Risk Management
2 15 (18.07%) Service Delivery
2 15 (18.07%) E-Commerce
3 10 (12.05%) Load Balancing
4 6 (7.229%) Release Management
4 6 (7.229%) Supply Chain Management
5 4 (4.819%) Network Load Balancing
5 4 (4.819%) Problem Management
5 4 (4.819%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (4.819%) OO
6 3 (3.614%) ITIL
7 2 (2.410%) UML
7 2 (2.410%) ERP
7 2 (2.410%) Project Management
7 2 (2.410%) Use Case
7 2 (2.410%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (1.205%) Business Analysis
8 1 (1.205%) Unit Testing
8 1 (1.205%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (1.205%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.94%) VB
2 23 (27.71%) Perl
3 11 (13.25%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.05%) VBScript
5 9 (10.84%) SQL
6 6 (7.229%) Python
7 3 (3.614%) Bash shell
8 2 (2.410%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.410%) C#
8 2 (2.410%) Java
9 1 (1.205%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.205%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Degree
2 6 (7.229%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.614%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.410%) MCDBA
4 2 (2.410%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.205%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.205%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.205%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.205%) QA
System Software
1 32 (38.55%) Hyper-V
2 26 (31.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 12 (14.46%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.229%) Xen
4 6 (7.229%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.819%) XenApp
5 4 (4.819%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 4 (4.819%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.819%) Tivoli
1 4 (4.819%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 4 (4.819%) SCCM
2 2 (2.410%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 2 (2.410%) BladeLogic
3 1 (1.205%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.205%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (1.205%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (30.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.87%) Cisco
3 13 (15.66%) Red Hat
4 10 (12.05%) VMware
4 10 (12.05%) Oracle
5 8 (9.639%) EMC
6 5 (6.024%) Nortel
6 5 (6.024%) Huawei
6 5 (6.024%) Juniper
6 5 (6.024%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 5 (6.024%) ZTE
6 5 (6.024%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 5 (6.024%) Siemens
7 4 (4.819%) Isilon
7 4 (4.819%) CommVault
7 4 (4.819%) NetApp
7 4 (4.819%) Citrix
7 4 (4.819%) HP
7 4 (4.819%) IBM
8 3 (3.614%) BMC
Berkshire, Thames Valley
HP, BMC, Nagios). Ideally working experience and knowledge of UNIX, Linux and Windows operating systems and scripting (sh, bash, PowerShell, WSH & VBScript) along with a working experience and...
Salary: £2250 - £3000 per week
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