Cheshire Shell Script Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Shell Script skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Bournemouth Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	49
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	48	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	15.79 %	4.598 %
Daily rates quoted	12	3
Average minimum daily rate	£419	£290
Average daily rate	£449	£310
% change on same period last year	+44.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£478	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£365
% change on same period last year	-0.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.43	£30.77
% change on same period last year	+34.62 %
Programming Languages Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	304	261
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.405 %	0.264 %
Daily rates quoted	91	53
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£337
Average daily rate	£354	£348
% change on same period last year	+1.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.88	£28.38
Average hourly rate	£32.39	£30.36
% change on same period last year	+6.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.90	£32.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
Shell Script North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Shell Script across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Shell Script across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Knutsford	-	22	£457	-
Chester	-	1	-	-
Crewe	-5	1	-	-
Macclesfield	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 88 (88.89 %) UNIX 2 86 (86.87 %) AIX 3 75 (75.76 %) Middleware 4 69 (69.70 %) Tivoli 5 62 (62.63 %) Mainframe 6 61 (61.62 %) Windows 7 60 (60.61 %) Solaris 7 60 (60.61 %) OMEGAMON 8 58 (58.59 %) HPUX 9 57 (57.58 %) Tandem 10 54 (54.55 %) WebSphere 11 47 (47.47 %) Change Management 12 46 (46.46 %) WebSphere MQ 13 39 (39.39 %) WebSphere Application Server 14 35 (35.35 %) SSL

15 29 (29.29 %) WBIMB 16 24 (24.24 %) Finance 17 23 (23.23 %) Cisco 18 21 (21.21 %) Gentran 19 13 (13.13 %) Firewall 19 13 (13.13 %) HTTP 20 10 (10.10 %) IBM 20 10 (10.10 %) HP 21 9 (9.091 %) Load Balancing 22 8 (8.081 %) Banking 22 8 (8.081 %) MQSeries 23 7 (7.071 %) Perl 24 6 (6.061 %) LDAP 24 6 (6.061 %) Sun 25 4 (4.040 %) Linux

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 75 (75.76 %) Middleware 2 54 (54.55 %) WebSphere 3 29 (29.29 %) WBIMB 4 1 (1.010 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 46 (46.46 %) WebSphere MQ 2 39 (39.39 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 21 (21.21 %) Gentran 4 8 (8.081 %) MQSeries 5 3 (3.030 %) Oracle Application Server 5 3 (3.030 %) Oracle 10gAS 6 1 (1.010 %) WebSphere Message Broker 6 1 (1.010 %) Apache 6 1 (1.010 %) Tomcat 6 1 (1.010 %) MQSI
Communications & Networking 1 35 (35.35 %) SSL 2 13 (13.13 %) Firewall 2 13 (13.13 %) HTTP 3 6 (6.061 %) LDAP 4 1 (1.010 %) SMS 4 1 (1.010 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.010 %) SNA 4 1 (1.010 %) SAN 4 1 (1.010 %) TACACS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.030 %) DB2 1 3 (3.030 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 24 (24.24 %) Finance 2 8 (8.081 %) Banking 3 3 (3.030 %) Retail 3 3 (3.030 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (2.020 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (1.010 %) Pensions 5 1 (1.010 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.010 %) Government	Job Titles 1 28 (28.28 %) Infrastructure Specialist 2 23 (23.23 %) Consultant 3 17 (17.17 %) WebSphere Specialist 4 10 (10.10 %) WebSphere Consultant 5 6 (6.061 %) Administrator 6 3 (3.030 %) Infrastructure Consultant 6 3 (3.030 %) Infrastructure Manager 7 2 (2.020 %) Tivoli Consultant 7 2 (2.020 %) WebSphere Administrator 7 2 (2.020 %) Technical Specialist 7 2 (2.020 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 2 (2.020 %) Architect 7 2 (2.020 %) AIX Administrator 8 1 (1.010 %) WebSphere Application Server Administra… 8 1 (1.010 %) Developer 8 1 (1.010 %) Analyst 8 1 (1.010 %) Systems Administrator 8 1 (1.010 %) Infrastructure Analyst 8 1 (1.010 %) Java Developer 8 1 (1.010 %) UNIX Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 62 (62.63 %) Mainframe 2 57 (57.58 %) Tandem 3 1 (1.010 %) HACMP 3 1 (1.010 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 88 (88.89 %) UNIX 2 86 (86.87 %) AIX 3 61 (61.62 %) Windows 4 60 (60.61 %) Solaris 5 58 (58.59 %) HPUX 6 4 (4.040 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 47 (47.47 %) Change Management 2 9 (9.091 %) Load Balancing 3 3 (3.030 %) Knowledge Management 4 1 (1.010 %) Time Management 4 1 (1.010 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 7 (7.071 %) Perl 2 1 (1.010 %) C 2 1 (1.010 %) Java
Systems Management 1 69 (69.70 %) Tivoli 2 60 (60.61 %) OMEGAMON 3 3 (3.030 %) Tivoli Identity Manager 4 2 (2.020 %) Tivoli Monitoring 5 1 (1.010 %) NNM 5 1 (1.010 %) OpenView 5 1 (1.010 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 23 (23.23 %) Cisco 2 10 (10.10 %) IBM 2 10 (10.10 %) HP 3 6 (6.061 %) Sun 4 3 (3.030 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.010 %) Compuware