The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 17 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 East Midlands 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Shell Script
Rank 78 83 61
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -22
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 6 3 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.476% 0.220% 1.023%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.531% 0.752% 3.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
Average daily rate £350 £350 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -26.31%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £450 £338
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +33.33%
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
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
392 399 436
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 31.09% 29.23% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 204 150
Average daily rate £313 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £413 £416
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 50
Average hourly rate £20.50 £17.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.14% -46.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £8.50 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £39.90 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Northamptonshire +15 1 £135 -
Leicestershire -6 1 £425 +21.42%
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 6 (60.00%) UNIX
2 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Retail
3 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) AIX
3 4 (40.00%) Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (30.00%) Retek
4 3 (30.00%) ProC
5 2 (20.00%) Primavera
5 2 (20.00%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (20.00%) Papyrus
5 2 (20.00%) Ruby
5 2 (20.00%) Marketing
5 2 (20.00%) Web Development
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
5 2 (20.00%) MS Office
5 2 (20.00%) Struts
5 2 (20.00%) C++

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 2 (20.00%) Struts
2 1 (10.00%) JSF
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (20.00%) Papyrus
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (30.00%) ProC
General
1 4 (40.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Server Support
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) UNIX
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) AIX
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) OO
1 2 (20.00%) Web Development
1 2 (20.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (10.00%) SOA
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Ruby
3 2 (20.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) RHCE
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Retek
3 2 (20.00%) Primavera
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) BMC