The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 21 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 110 121 104
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -17
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 22 12 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.025% 0.527% 0.805%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.767% 1.003% 1.596%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 8
Average salary £60,000 £50,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% +53.84%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
All Programming Languages
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
795 1196 940
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 37.05% 52.57% 50.46%
Number of salaries quoted 704 1077 787
Average salary £42,500 £38,000 £37,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.84% +0.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PowerShell
Berkshire

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading PowerShell Salary Trend

PowerShell
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PowerShell across the Reading region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reading PowerShell Salary Histogram

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 37 (68.52%) Windows
2 30 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 28 (51.85%) Windows Server 2008
4 26 (48.15%) IIS
5 25 (46.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (46.30%) Retail
5 25 (46.30%) VMware
6 23 (42.59%) XML
7 22 (40.74%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (40.74%) Security Cleared
8 20 (37.04%) F5
8 20 (37.04%) Red Hat
8 20 (37.04%) Cisco
8 20 (37.04%) HP
8 20 (37.04%) Perl
8 20 (37.04%) MS Excel
8 20 (37.04%) Telecoms
8 20 (37.04%) Finance
8 20 (37.04%) Change Management
8 20 (37.04%) Fujitsu
9 18 (33.33%) Active Directory
10 17 (31.48%) Juniper
10 17 (31.48%) Nortel
10 17 (31.48%) Project Management
10 17 (31.48%) SAS
10 17 (31.48%) HTML
10 17 (31.48%) Java
10 17 (31.48%) ITIL
10 17 (31.48%) Degree
10 17 (31.48%) Cisco ASA

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 23 (42.59%) XML
2 17 (31.48%) HTML
3 11 (20.37%) .NET
4 9 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.556%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.704%) Web Services
7 1 (1.852%) SAML
7 1 (1.852%) WCF
7 1 (1.852%) LINQ
7 1 (1.852%) OAuth
7 1 (1.852%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 26 (48.15%) IIS
2 17 (31.48%) SAS
3 13 (24.07%) SharePoint
4 11 (20.37%) Apache
5 10 (18.52%) MS Exchange
6 9 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
7 8 (14.81%) Exchange Server 2003
7 8 (14.81%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (1.852%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 20 (37.04%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.852%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 8 (14.81%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 17 (31.48%) Cisco ASA
1 17 (31.48%) Intrusion Detection
1 17 (31.48%) FWSM
2 12 (22.22%) Wireshark
3 11 (20.37%) tcpdump
3 11 (20.37%) snoop
4 6 (11.11%) Firewall
4 6 (11.11%) X.400
4 6 (11.11%) X.500
4 6 (11.11%) SAN
4 6 (11.11%) FTP
5 2 (3.704%) LDAP
6 1 (1.852%) HTTP
6 1 (1.852%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.852%) IPv4
6 1 (1.852%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Visual Studio
2 8 (14.81%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (1.852%) WinRunner
3 1 (1.852%) TestDirector
3 1 (1.852%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.852%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.852%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.852%) MSTest
3 1 (1.852%) MSBuild
General
1 25 (46.30%) Retail
2 20 (37.04%) Telecoms
2 20 (37.04%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (14.81%) Integration Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Architect
2 7 (12.96%) Support Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 6 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (11.11%) Designer
3 6 (11.11%) Virtualisation Architect
3 6 (11.11%) Customer Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.259%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (7.407%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (5.556%) Developer
6 3 (5.556%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.556%) Administrator
6 3 (5.556%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.704%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (3.704%) Lead Network Engineer
7 2 (3.704%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (3.704%) Support Specialist
7 2 (3.704%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Firmware
2 9 (16.67%) Clustering
3 3 (5.556%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.704%) Replication
5 1 (1.852%) PKI
5 1 (1.852%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (68.52%) Windows
2 28 (51.85%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (40.74%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (20.37%) Solaris
4 11 (20.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (14.81%) Windows 2000
5 8 (14.81%) Windows XP
6 3 (5.556%) Linux
7 2 (3.704%) Windows Vista
7 2 (3.704%) UNIX
8 1 (1.852%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.852%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.04%) Change Management
2 17 (31.48%) Project Management
2 17 (31.48%) ITIL
2 17 (31.48%) Web Development
3 11 (20.37%) Problem Management
3 11 (20.37%) Service Delivery
4 9 (16.67%) Migration
5 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (14.81%) Configuration Management
6 6 (11.11%) Network Architecture
7 2 (3.704%) Workflow
7 2 (3.704%) OO
8 1 (1.852%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (1.852%) Identity Management
8 1 (1.852%) Scalability Testing
8 1 (1.852%) Unit Testing
8 1 (1.852%) Test Management
8 1 (1.852%) Test Scripting
8 1 (1.852%) Data Management
8 1 (1.852%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.04%) Perl
2 17 (31.48%) Java
3 9 (16.67%) SQL
4 5 (9.259%) T-SQL
5 4 (7.407%) C#
6 2 (3.704%) C++
6 2 (3.704%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 17 (31.48%) Degree
3 15 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 13 (24.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (22.22%) DV Cleared
6 8 (14.81%) MCSE
7 5 (9.259%) MCSA
7 5 (9.259%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (9.259%) MCITP
8 1 (1.852%) MCP
System Software
1 25 (46.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (11.11%) VMware ESX
3 6 (11.11%) vSphere
3 6 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.852%) Terminal Server
4 1 (1.852%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.852%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.852%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Backup Exec
1 8 (14.81%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 8 (14.81%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (1.852%) MIIS
2 1 (1.852%) SCCM
2 1 (1.852%) SCOM
2 1 (1.852%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 30 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 25 (46.30%) VMware
3 20 (37.04%) F5
3 20 (37.04%) Red Hat
3 20 (37.04%) Cisco
3 20 (37.04%) HP
3 20 (37.04%) Fujitsu
4 17 (31.48%) Juniper
4 17 (31.48%) Nortel
5 14 (25.93%) Sun
6 11 (20.37%) Foundry
6 11 (20.37%) Egenera
7 8 (14.81%) Veritas
7 8 (14.81%) TIBCO
7 8 (14.81%) McAfee
8 6 (11.11%) EMC
8 6 (11.11%) Oracle
9 3 (5.556%) NetApp
10 1 (1.852%) Citrix
Reading, Thames Valley
Technical:The primary development language is C#... Experience designing and coding complex distributed desktop and web (preferably ASP.Net) applications.Good experience with .Net 3.5.C++ competence...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 24 April 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Skills: Current Security Clearance to SC level, proficient with Quality Centre/Test Director, LoadRunner, Winrunner or QTP, Knowledge of Windows server 2003, Lifecycle test management experience. Desirable: Defence /...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: Negotiable on Application
Posted: 20 May 2013