The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shell Script 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 Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Shell Script
Rank 92 114 82
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -32
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 28 21 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.169% 0.668% 1.579%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.905% 2.975% 5.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 9
Average daily rate £316 £375 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.66% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £325 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £352 £520 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £410 £335
% change year-on-year
-14.32% +22.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-13.24% -2.63%
All Programming Languages
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
717 706 931
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 29.94% 22.45% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 341 378
Average daily rate £375 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £434
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 12 90
Average hourly rate £34.00 £36.25 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.20% -14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.65 £18.50 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Shell Script across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Berkshire Shell Script Jobs Demand Trend

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Shell Script across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Shell Script Daily Rate Trend

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Shell Script across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Shell Script Daily Rate Histogram

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Shell Script across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the Berkshire 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +17 14 £323 -12.24%
Bracknell - 2 - -
Maidenhead -6 1 - -
Slough -9 1 - -
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Shell Script 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Shell Script.

1 28 (58.33%) Linux
2 27 (56.25%) UNIX
3 25 (52.08%) SQL
4 22 (45.83%) Oracle
5 16 (33.33%) Perl
6 11 (22.92%) C
6 11 (22.92%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (20.83%) Telecoms
8 9 (18.75%) Java
9 8 (16.67%) Python
9 8 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
9 8 (16.67%) Greenplum
10 7 (14.58%) ProC
10 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (14.58%) Finance
10 7 (14.58%) Solaris
10 7 (14.58%) XML
11 6 (12.50%) ITIL
11 6 (12.50%) PL/SQL
11 6 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 6 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (10.42%) SOAP
12 5 (10.42%) HPUX
12 5 (10.42%) HP
12 5 (10.42%) IBM
12 5 (10.42%) SUSE
13 4 (8.333%) Project Management
13 4 (8.333%) Oracle Applications
13 4 (8.333%) DNS

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Shell Script also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Shell Script. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (14.58%) XML
2 5 (10.42%) SOAP
3 4 (8.333%) Flash
3 4 (8.333%) Web Services
3 4 (8.333%) Spring
3 4 (8.333%) WebSphere
4 3 (6.250%) soapUI
4 3 (6.250%) REST
4 3 (6.250%) JSP
4 3 (6.250%) J2EE
4 3 (6.250%) Hibernate
5 2 (4.167%) WAP
5 2 (4.167%) Struts
6 1 (2.083%) Spring MVC
6 1 (2.083%) Java SE
6 1 (2.083%) Drools
6 1 (2.083%) jQuery
6 1 (2.083%) HTML5
6 1 (2.083%) CSS3
6 1 (2.083%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.167%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.083%) ESB
2 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (2.083%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.083%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (2.083%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.083%) MS Project
1 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.083%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 4 (8.333%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (4.167%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.333%) DNS
2 3 (6.250%) SAN
3 2 (4.167%) HTTP
4 1 (2.083%) VLAN
4 1 (2.083%) LTE
4 1 (2.083%) SNMP
4 1 (2.083%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.083%) DHCP
4 1 (2.083%) Broadband
4 1 (2.083%) LAN
4 1 (2.083%) WAN
4 1 (2.083%) 2G
4 1 (2.083%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.083%) 3G
4 1 (2.083%) DSL
4 1 (2.083%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (6.250%) BusinessObjects XI
4 3 (6.250%) DbVisualizer
4 3 (6.250%) MySQL
5 1 (2.083%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.083%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) ProC
2 6 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (4.167%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (4.167%) Subversion
4 1 (2.083%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.083%) JProfiler
4 1 (2.083%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.083%) Gradle
4 1 (2.083%) Ant
4 1 (2.083%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.083%) ClearCase
4 1 (2.083%) LoadRunner
General
1 10 (20.83%) Telecoms
2 7 (14.58%) Finance
3 2 (4.167%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) Developer
2 8 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (10.42%) Oracle Developer
3 5 (10.42%) DBA
4 4 (8.333%) Applications Support
4 4 (8.333%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (8.333%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (6.250%) Storage Specialist
5 3 (6.250%) Administrator
5 3 (6.250%) Perl Developer
5 3 (6.250%) Software Developer
5 3 (6.250%) Test Analyst
5 3 (6.250%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.167%) Consultant
6 2 (4.167%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.167%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (4.167%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (4.167%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (4.167%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.250%) Handset
1 3 (6.250%) IBM Mainframe
1 3 (6.250%) CLARiiON
1 3 (6.250%) Symmetrix
1 3 (6.250%) EMC Centera
1 3 (6.250%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.167%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.167%) STB
3 1 (2.083%) Wiki
3 1 (2.083%) Flash Lite
3 1 (2.083%) Statistics
3 1 (2.083%) DataPower
3 1 (2.083%) Open Source
3 1 (2.083%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.083%) Clustering
3 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (58.33%) Linux
2 27 (56.25%) UNIX
3 7 (14.58%) Solaris
4 5 (10.42%) HPUX
4 5 (10.42%) SUSE
5 4 (8.333%) Windows
6 2 (4.167%) VMS
7 1 (2.083%) CentOS
7 1 (2.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.083%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (12.50%) ITIL
3 4 (8.333%) Project Management
4 3 (6.250%) Software Testing
4 3 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (6.250%) Test Scripting
4 3 (6.250%) Business Continuity
5 2 (4.167%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (4.167%) Information Security
5 2 (4.167%) Service Delivery
5 2 (4.167%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (4.167%) Data Modelling
5 2 (4.167%) Analytics
5 2 (4.167%) System Testing
5 2 (4.167%) Unit Testing
5 2 (4.167%) Web Testing
5 2 (4.167%) Test Management
5 2 (4.167%) Use Case
5 2 (4.167%) Fault Management
5 2 (4.167%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (52.08%) SQL
2 16 (33.33%) Perl
3 11 (22.92%) C
4 9 (18.75%) Java
5 8 (16.67%) Python
6 6 (12.50%) PL/SQL
7 4 (8.333%) Bash shell
8 3 (6.250%) Groovy
9 2 (4.167%) C++
9 2 (4.167%) PHP
10 1 (2.083%) Korn
10 1 (2.083%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.083%) ActionScript 3.0
10 1 (2.083%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.083%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3 (6.250%) ISTQB
1 3 (6.250%) ISEB
2 2 (4.167%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.083%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (6.250%) SRDF
3 1 (2.083%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.083%) vSphere
3 1 (2.083%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.250%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (6.250%) Tivoli
1 3 (6.250%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (2.083%) Netcool/Webtop
2 1 (2.083%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.083%) Netcool
2 1 (2.083%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 22 (45.83%) Oracle
2 8 (16.67%) Greenplum
3 5 (10.42%) HP
3 5 (10.42%) IBM
4 3 (6.250%) Business Objects
4 3 (6.250%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.250%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.250%) EMC
4 3 (6.250%) Ab Initio
4 3 (6.250%) Cisco
5 2 (4.167%) VMware
5 2 (4.167%) Sun
5 2 (4.167%) Redknee
6 1 (2.083%) VocaLink
6 1 (2.083%) JBoss
6 1 (2.083%) Siebel
6 1 (2.083%) Informatica
6 1 (2.083%) Adobe
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