East of England Korn Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Korn shell (ksh) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Korn over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Korn shell (ksh)
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North West Norwich Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South West Southampton Surrey Telford UK Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands Winchester	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	120	156
Rank change on same period last year	+36
Matching contract IT job ads	10	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.932 %	0.221 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£300
Average daily rate	£350	£319
% change on same period last year	+9.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£363
% change on same period last year	-4.19 %
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	£42.72	£35.86
% change on same period last year	+19.15 %
Programming Languages East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1073	1809
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.529 %	1.871 %
Daily rates quoted	327	405
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£317
Average daily rate	£325	£333
% change on same period last year	-2.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	124	336
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.40	£31.54
Average hourly rate	£35.01	£33.23
% change on same period last year	+5.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.63	£34.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.07	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
Korn England

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.

Korn
Demand Trend

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

Korn
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Korn across the East of England region.

Korn
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Korn across the East of England region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

Korn
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Korn across the East of England region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Korn within the East of England region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Norfolk	-3	8	-	-
Hertfordshire	+21	2	£350	-

Korn England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Korn 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 Korn.

1 15 (93.75 %) UNIX 2 13 (81.25 %) Shell Script 3 12 (75.00 %) Tivoli 3 12 (75.00 %) IBM 3 12 (75.00 %) AIX 4 10 (62.50 %) Perl 5 8 (50.00 %) Oracle 6 6 (37.50 %) Change Management 6 6 (37.50 %) NetBackup 6 6 (37.50 %) WebSphere 6 6 (37.50 %) Oracle RAC 6 6 (37.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 6 (37.50 %) VERITAS 6 6 (37.50 %) Tivoli Monitoring 6 6 (37.50 %) LDAP

7 5 (31.25 %) Finance 8 3 (18.75 %) Insurance 9 2 (12.50 %) Blackberry 9 2 (12.50 %) RTSP 9 2 (12.50 %) Degree 9 2 (12.50 %) SOA 9 2 (12.50 %) SMTP 9 2 (12.50 %) FTP 9 2 (12.50 %) HTTP 9 2 (12.50 %) DNS 9 2 (12.50 %) MySQL 9 2 (12.50 %) SQL 9 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 10 1 (6.250 %) Linux 10 1 (6.250 %) VC++

Korn
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Korn 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 Korn. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (37.50 %) WebSphere 2 1 (6.250 %) WAP	Application Platforms 1 6 (37.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (6.250 %) Tuxedo
Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 6 (37.50 %) LDAP 2 2 (12.50 %) SMTP 2 2 (12.50 %) FTP 2 2 (12.50 %) HTTP 2 2 (12.50 %) DNS 2 2 (12.50 %) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (12.50 %) MySQL 2 1 (6.250 %) Ingres	General 1 5 (31.25 %) Finance 2 3 (18.75 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 8 (50.00 %) Administrator 2 5 (31.25 %) AIX Administrator 3 4 (25.00 %) UNIX Administrator 4 3 (18.75 %) Systems Administrator 5 2 (12.50 %) Senior UNIX Administrator 5 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere Specialist 5 2 (12.50 %) Developer 5 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 6 1 (6.250 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 1 (6.250 %) Enterprise Consultant 6 1 (6.250 %) Senior Systems Administrator 6 1 (6.250 %) UNIX Consultant 6 1 (6.250 %) Senior UNIX Systems Administrator 6 1 (6.250 %) C Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) Data Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Blackberry 2 1 (6.250 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 15 (93.75 %) UNIX 2 12 (75.00 %) AIX 3 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 4 1 (6.250 %) Linux 4 1 (6.250 %) HPUX 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (37.50 %) Change Management 2 2 (12.50 %) SOA 3 1 (6.250 %) BC Cleared 3 1 (6.250 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 13 (81.25 %) Shell Script 2 10 (62.50 %) Perl 3 2 (12.50 %) SQL 4 1 (6.250 %) VB 4 1 (6.250 %) VC++ 4 1 (6.250 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (6.250 %) C 4 1 (6.250 %) C++	Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) Degree
System Software 1 6 (37.50 %) NetBackup 1 6 (37.50 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 12 (75.00 %) Tivoli 2 6 (37.50 %) Tivoli Monitoring 3 1 (6.250 %) AppManager
Vendors 1 12 (75.00 %) IBM 2 8 (50.00 %) Oracle 3 6 (37.50 %) VERITAS 4 1 (6.250 %) BEA