The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 95 89 112
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +23
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 19 43 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.888% 1.455% 0.567%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.137% 3.443% 1.499%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 6
Average daily rate £325 £288 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.04% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £195 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £410 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £410 £335
% change year-on-year
-14.32% +22.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 £45.00 £35.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.77% +27.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.21 £35.75 £29.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.90 £55.30 £40.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-13.24% -2.63%
All Programming Languages
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
889 1249 1001
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 41.56% 42.27% 37.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 607 426
Average daily rate £315 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 105 124
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.22 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.47% +3.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £26.28 £20.43
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £50.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Shell Script across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England Shell Script Hourly Rate Histogram

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 of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cambridgeshire +12 6 £350 +111.16%
Hertfordshire +8 6 £325 -18.75%
Essex -3 4 £425 +19.29%
Bedfordshire - 2 £213 -
Norfolk -10 1 - -
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 34 (80.95%) UNIX
2 16 (38.10%) Windows
2 16 (38.10%) Linux
2 16 (38.10%) Perl
3 14 (33.33%) Java
4 11 (26.19%) Python
5 10 (23.81%) Oracle
5 10 (23.81%) Apache
6 9 (21.43%) Tomcat
6 9 (21.43%) SQL
6 9 (21.43%) C#
6 9 (21.43%) DHCP
6 9 (21.43%) TCP/IP
6 9 (21.43%) DNS
7 7 (16.67%) JBoss
7 7 (16.67%) IIS
7 7 (16.67%) VMware
7 7 (16.67%) BIG-IP
7 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (14.29%) WebSphere
8 6 (14.29%) Solaris
8 6 (14.29%) SNMP
9 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
9 5 (11.90%) PL/SQL
9 5 (11.90%) Configuration Management
9 5 (11.90%) Internet
9 5 (11.90%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (11.90%) Cryptography
9 5 (11.90%) VLAN

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 6 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 4 (9.524%) Middleware
2 4 (9.524%) XML
3 3 (7.143%) .NET
3 3 (7.143%) Web Services
3 3 (7.143%) Java EE
4 2 (4.762%) Spring
4 2 (4.762%) CSS
4 2 (4.762%) JSP
4 2 (4.762%) Struts
4 2 (4.762%) HTML
4 2 (4.762%) J2SE
5 1 (2.381%) POSIX
5 1 (2.381%) J2EE
5 1 (2.381%) Memcached
5 1 (2.381%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 10 (23.81%) Apache
2 9 (21.43%) Tomcat
3 7 (16.67%) IIS
4 4 (9.524%) Oracle Application Server
4 4 (9.524%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (7.143%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (7.143%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (2.381%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.381%) MS Exchange
6 1 (2.381%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (2.381%) Lync
6 1 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (2.381%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.381%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.381%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.381%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) DHCP
1 9 (21.43%) TCP/IP
1 9 (21.43%) DNS
2 7 (16.67%) BIG-IP
3 6 (14.29%) SNMP
4 5 (11.90%) Internet
4 5 (11.90%) VLAN
5 4 (9.524%) NAS
5 4 (9.524%) SAN
6 1 (2.381%) LDAP
6 1 (2.381%) HTTP
6 1 (2.381%) Intranet
6 1 (2.381%) Firewall
6 1 (2.381%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.381%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.381%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.524%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (9.524%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.143%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (7.143%) Oracle Discoverer
2 3 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (7.143%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (4.762%) JasperReports
3 2 (4.762%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.381%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.381%) MySQL
4 1 (2.381%) DataStage
4 1 (2.381%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (9.524%) Subversion
1 4 (9.524%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (7.143%) Eclipse
3 2 (4.762%) Ant
4 1 (2.381%) ProC
4 1 (2.381%) NUnit
4 1 (2.381%) Build Forge
4 1 (2.381%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.381%) Rational Application Developer
4 1 (2.381%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (4.762%) Banking
1 2 (4.762%) Retail
1 2 (4.762%) Finance
2 1 (2.381%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Administrator
2 11 (26.19%) Systems Administrator
3 10 (23.81%) Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Analyst
5 5 (11.90%) Test Engineer
6 4 (9.524%) Consultant
7 3 (7.143%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.143%) Test Analyst
7 3 (7.143%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (7.143%) Analyst Developer
7 3 (7.143%) UNIX Administrator
7 3 (7.143%) Informatica Developer
8 2 (4.762%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 2 (4.762%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (4.762%) Integration Consultant
8 2 (4.762%) Software Integration Engineer
8 2 (4.762%) Implementation Manager
8 2 (4.762%) Software Test Engineer
8 2 (4.762%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.762%) Test Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Cryptography
2 2 (4.762%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.381%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.381%) Clustering
3 1 (2.381%) Data Integration
3 1 (2.381%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.381%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (80.95%) UNIX
2 16 (38.10%) Windows
2 16 (38.10%) Linux
3 6 (14.29%) Solaris
4 4 (9.524%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.762%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.381%) VMS
6 1 (2.381%) AIX
6 1 (2.381%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (11.90%) Configuration Management
2 5 (11.90%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (9.524%) Embedded Software Development
3 4 (9.524%) Validation
4 3 (7.143%) ITIL
4 3 (7.143%) System Testing
5 2 (4.762%) Web Development
5 2 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (4.762%) Multithreading
5 2 (4.762%) Migration
5 2 (4.762%) UML
5 2 (4.762%) ETL
6 1 (2.381%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.381%) Project Management
6 1 (2.381%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (2.381%) IC Design
6 1 (2.381%) Network Architecture
6 1 (2.381%) Master Data Management
6 1 (2.381%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) Perl
2 14 (33.33%) Java
3 11 (26.19%) Python
4 9 (21.43%) SQL
4 9 (21.43%) C#
5 5 (11.90%) PL/SQL
6 3 (7.143%) Bash shell
7 2 (4.762%) Korn
7 2 (4.762%) C++
7 2 (4.762%) C
7 2 (4.762%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.762%) PHP
8 1 (2.381%) Delphi
8 1 (2.381%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.762%) Security Cleared
1 2 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (4.762%) CCNA
2 1 (2.381%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.381%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
1 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.381%) NFS
2 1 (2.381%) Terminal Services
2 1 (2.381%) Samba
2 1 (2.381%) VMware ESX
2 1 (2.381%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (2.381%) Postfix
2 1 (2.381%) XenApp
2 1 (2.381%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (2.381%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (9.524%) Puppet
1 4 (9.524%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.381%) AppManager
2 1 (2.381%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (2.381%) Nagios
2 1 (2.381%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Oracle
2 7 (16.67%) JBoss
2 7 (16.67%) VMware
3 4 (9.524%) NetApp
4 3 (7.143%) Cisco
4 3 (7.143%) Business Objects
4 3 (7.143%) Informatica
4 3 (7.143%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.143%) Akamai
5 2 (4.762%) Opsware
5 2 (4.762%) HP
6 1 (2.381%) Citrix
6 1 (2.381%) Actuate
6 1 (2.381%) CommVault
6 1 (2.381%) Hyperion
6 1 (2.381%) IBM
6 1 (2.381%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.381%) Sun
6 1 (2.381%) Veritas
6 1 (2.381%) CheckPoint