The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Birmingham 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Shell Script
Rank 42 47 42
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 5 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.037% 1.087% 0.581%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.676% 2.941% 1.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
Average daily rate £400 £388 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -13.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £341
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £33.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.12% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-14.40% +15.38%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
136 238 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 28.22% 36.96% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 132 93
Average daily rate £350 £300 £289
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £31.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% -7.46%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Shell Script
West Midlands

Shell Script
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Shell Script Daily Rate Trend

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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 14 (93.33%) UNIX
2 12 (80.00%) Finance
3 10 (66.67%) Oracle
4 9 (60.00%) J2EE
4 9 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (53.33%) C
5 8 (53.33%) AIX
6 7 (46.67%) C++
6 7 (46.67%) SQL
7 5 (33.33%) ProC
7 5 (33.33%) System Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Solaris
7 5 (33.33%) CGI
7 5 (33.33%) RDBMS
7 5 (33.33%) QA
8 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Integration Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
9 2 (13.33%) VMware
9 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (13.33%) Linux
9 2 (13.33%) SAN
9 2 (13.33%) Windows
9 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 1 (6.667%) WSUS
10 1 (6.667%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (6.667%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
10 1 (6.667%) Perl
10 1 (6.667%) Apache

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 9 (60.00%) J2EE
2 5 (33.33%) CGI
3 1 (6.667%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Apache
1 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
1 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
2 1 (6.667%) Ethernet
2 1 (6.667%) FTP
2 1 (6.667%) HTTP
2 1 (6.667%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.667%) VPN
2 1 (6.667%) NetScreen
2 1 (6.667%) Firewall
2 1 (6.667%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (33.33%) ProC
General
1 12 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) C Developer
2 5 (33.33%) UNIX Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Tester
3 4 (26.67%) Systems Tester
4 3 (20.00%) QA Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Storage Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Exchange Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) AIX Administrator
5 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Support Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (6.667%) HACMP
1 1 (6.667%) LPAR
1 1 (6.667%) DLPAR
1 1 (6.667%) Clustering
1 1 (6.667%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) UNIX
2 8 (53.33%) AIX
3 5 (33.33%) Solaris
4 2 (13.33%) Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) System Testing
2 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Integration Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.667%) OO
4 1 (6.667%) Waterfall
4 1 (6.667%) Data Management
4 1 (6.667%) Business Continuity
4 1 (6.667%) Validation
4 1 (6.667%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C
2 7 (46.67%) C++
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 1 (6.667%) Perl
3 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) XenServer
2 1 (6.667%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) WSUS
1 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
1 1 (6.667%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco
3 1 (6.667%) IBM
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) Citrix
3 1 (6.667%) Juniper
3 1 (6.667%) Pega
3 1 (6.667%) ION Trading