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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 55 52 43
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -9
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 11 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 2.799% 1.117% 0.353%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.231% 1.702% 0.621%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 1
Average salary £27,000 £31,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.60% -10.71%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
All Programming Languages
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
260 235 161
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 66.16% 65.64% 56.89%
Number of salaries quoted 235 221 139
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% +8.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PowerShell
Leicestershire

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester PowerShell Salary Trend

PowerShell
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 8 (61.54%) Citrix
1 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
2 5 (38.46%) LANDesk
2 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) VBScript
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 5 (38.46%) IIS
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Windows XP
2 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 4 (30.77%) MCP
3 4 (30.77%) HP
3 4 (30.77%) Dell
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (30.77%) SCOM
3 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.692%) Wireless
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 5 (38.46%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.692%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
1 8 (61.54%) Support Analyst
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Administrator
3 4 (30.77%) Server Administrator
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
1 5 (38.46%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
1 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) MCP
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Citrix
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) LANDesk
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) HP
3 4 (30.77%) Dell
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco
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