The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Shell Script
Rank 50 56 39
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -17
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 6 9 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.731% 0.828% 2.654%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.620% 4.592% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
Average daily rate £455 - £313
90% offered a daily rate of more than £379 - £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £531 - £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £413 £335
% change year-on-year
-15.15% +23.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-13.24% -2.63%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
229 196 278
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 27.89% 18.03% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 78 106
Average daily rate £325 £320 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £228 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 2
Average hourly rate £12.71 £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.78% +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Shell Script
Scotland

Shell Script
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 14 (87.50%) Oracle
2 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 13 (81.25%) UNIX
3 12 (75.00%) PL/SQL
4 10 (62.50%) Finance
5 9 (56.25%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (56.25%) Windows
6 7 (43.75%) Oracle 8/8i
6 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
6 7 (43.75%) DNS
6 7 (43.75%) Oracle BI EE
7 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
7 6 (37.50%) Degree
8 5 (31.25%) Oracle Application Server
8 5 (31.25%) Banking
8 5 (31.25%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (31.25%) SQLPlus
8 5 (31.25%) LDAP
8 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
8 5 (31.25%) WebLogic
8 5 (31.25%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (31.25%) Data Guard
9 4 (25.00%) Linux
9 4 (25.00%) XML
9 4 (25.00%) Oracle Discoverer
9 4 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
9 4 (25.00%) Project Management
9 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (25.00%) XML
2 3 (18.75%) JDBC
2 3 (18.75%) Web Services
3 1 (6.250%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Application Server
1 5 (31.25%) WebLogic
2 3 (18.75%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) LDAP
3 2 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (6.250%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle 8/8i
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle BI EE
2 5 (31.25%) SQLPlus
2 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle Discoverer
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects XI
5 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (6.250%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (18.75%) DBA
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Business Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) E-Business Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) UNIX
2 9 (56.25%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (12.50%) Windows 2000
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (25.00%) Project Management
1 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (18.75%) ETL
2 3 (18.75%) Capacity Management
3 2 (12.50%) Investment Management
3 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (6.250%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 12 (75.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) VBScript
3 2 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (6.250%) Java
4 1 (6.250%) VB
4 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle RMAN
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (18.75%) SRDF
3 2 (12.50%) DFS Replication
3 2 (12.50%) Terminal Services
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Data Guard
2 2 (12.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (12.50%) WMI
3 1 (6.250%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
2 3 (18.75%) Informatica
3 2 (12.50%) HP
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) VMware