The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf 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 44 43 55
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +12
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 7 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.813% 1.852% 1.165%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.242% 3.933% 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
Average daily rate £650 £500 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £410 £335
% change year-on-year
-14.32% +22.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-13.24% -2.63%
All Programming Languages
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
165 178 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 42.75% 47.09% 46.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 126 190
Average daily rate £600 £538 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% -2.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Shell Script
London

Shell Script
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 8 (57.14%) Perl
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) Oracle
3 7 (50.00%) Sybase
3 7 (50.00%) UNIX
3 7 (50.00%) Linux
3 7 (50.00%) Front Office
4 4 (28.57%) SAN
4 4 (28.57%) Veritas
4 4 (28.57%) Grid Computing
4 4 (28.57%) Java
4 4 (28.57%) Solaris
4 4 (28.57%) JMS
4 4 (28.57%) NFS
4 4 (28.57%) Sun
4 4 (28.57%) XML
4 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (28.57%) TDD
4 4 (28.57%) Spring
4 4 (28.57%) Maven
4 4 (28.57%) DataSynapse
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) Oracle Coherence
4 4 (28.57%) C-shell
4 4 (28.57%) Bash shell
4 4 (28.57%) Hudson
4 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
5 3 (21.43%) Automated Testing

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 4 (28.57%) JMS
1 4 (28.57%) XML
1 4 (28.57%) Spring
2 3 (21.43%) Middleware
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 2 (14.29%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Global One
2 2 (14.29%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) UniData
2 1 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Maven
1 4 (28.57%) Hudson
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Front Office
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Applications Support
4 2 (14.29%) UNIX Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) UNIX
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Solaris
3 2 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.143%) CentOS
4 1 (7.143%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (28.57%) TDD
1 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
1 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (21.43%) Automated Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Benchmarking
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) RDF
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 1 (7.143%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Perl
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) C-shell
2 4 (28.57%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) NFS
2 1 (7.143%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.143%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle
2 7 (50.00%) Sybase
3 4 (28.57%) Veritas
3 4 (28.57%) Sun
3 4 (28.57%) DataSynapse
4 2 (14.29%) Reuters
4 2 (14.29%) Bloomberg
4 2 (14.29%) Caplin
4 2 (14.29%) Kalahari
5 1 (7.143%) Red Hat