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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Script Host (WSH)
Rank 212 214 210
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Permanent jobs citing WSH 4 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.076% 0.018% 0.099%
As % of the Application Development category 0.162% 0.039% 0.246%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
Average salary £42,500 £52,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.04% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.40%
All Application Development
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2462 2536 2436
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 46.93% 45.82% 40.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2233 2273 2175
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WSH
England

WSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West WSH Salary Trend

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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Bristol - 4 £42,500 -
WSH
England

WSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) SSL
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) IPv4
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Internet
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) IPsec
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) Clustering
1 6 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 6 (100.00%) Network Security
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 6 (100.00%) OSPF

WSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) SSL
1 6 (100.00%) IPv4
1 6 (100.00%) Internet
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) IPsec
1 6 (100.00%) Network Security
1 6 (100.00%) OSPF
1 6 (100.00%) BGP-4
2 5 (83.33%) NGN
2 5 (83.33%) DSL
2 5 (83.33%) 2G
2 5 (83.33%) 3G
2 5 (83.33%) DWDM
2 5 (83.33%) MPLS
2 5 (83.33%) Ethernet
2 5 (83.33%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 6 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Administrator
1 6 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Systems Test Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) Xen
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) ZTE
2 5 (83.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 5 (83.33%) Huawei
2 5 (83.33%) Juniper
2 5 (83.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 5 (83.33%) Siemens
2 5 (83.33%) Nortel