The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 57 65 59
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -6
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 6 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.942% 0.512% 0.571%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.273% 1.193% 1.623%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Average daily rate £325 £400 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +30.08%
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £410 £335
% change year-on-year
-14.32% +22.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-13.24% -2.63%
All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
264 419 308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 41.44% 42.89% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 168 111
Average daily rate £375 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 39 53
Average hourly rate £20.00 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £26.00 £30.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.80 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Shell Script
East of England

Shell Script
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Shell Script Daily Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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
Bishop's Stortford - 1 £325 -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 - -
Shell Script
East of England

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 5 (55.56%) SQL
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) XML
2 4 (44.44%) UNIX
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Perl
3 3 (33.33%) Apache
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (22.22%) Retail
4 2 (22.22%) Subversion
4 2 (22.22%) Spring
4 2 (22.22%) JasperReports
4 2 (22.22%) Opsware
4 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
4 2 (22.22%) J2SE
4 2 (22.22%) Eclipse
4 2 (22.22%) UML
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) CCNA
4 2 (22.22%) HP
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Solaris

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (44.44%) XML
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 2 (22.22%) J2SE
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) JSP
2 2 (22.22%) Struts
3 1 (11.11%) Memcached
3 1 (11.11%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) JasperReports
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Subversion
1 2 (22.22%) Eclipse
1 2 (22.22%) Ant
General
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Release Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst Developer
2 2 (22.22%) UNIX Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Java Analyst Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Java Analyst Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) UNIX
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (22.22%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (22.22%) UML
2 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
2 2 (22.22%) Web Development
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
3 1 (11.11%) User Stories
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) Perl
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
5 1 (11.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCNA
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Postfix
1 1 (11.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (11.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Nagios
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
1 2 (22.22%) Opsware
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Actuate
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat