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This section looks at the demand for Korn shell (ksh) skills within the London 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkKorn shell (ksh)
Location
3 months to
20 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank298264
Rank change on same period last yearDown-34
Matching contract IT job ads107239
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.141 %0.238 %
As % of the category below0.863 %1.233 %
Daily rates quoted5790
Average minimum daily rate£407£396
Average daily rate£423£421
% change on same period last year+0.50 %
Average maximum daily rate£440£447
UK excluding London average daily rate£406£341
% change on same period last year+19.15 %
Hourly rates quoted021
Average minimum hourly rate-£55.33
Average hourly rate-£56.02
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate-£56.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate£45.20£39.77
% change on same period last year+13.65 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
London
Matching contract IT job ads1239419380
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled16.36 %19.30 %
Daily rates quoted57147671
Average minimum daily rate£402£439
Average daily rate£432£471
% change on same period last year-8.09 %
Average maximum daily rate£463£502
UK excluding London average daily rate£331£335
% change on same period last year-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted422692
Average minimum hourly rate£29.35£32.50
Average hourly rate£31.42£34.70
% change on same period last year-9.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate£33.49£36.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.47£33.03
% change on same period last year+1.31 %
Korn EnglandKorn
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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

London Korn Demand Trend

Korn
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Korn Daily Rate Trend

Korn
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Korn across the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

London Korn Daily Rate Histogram

Korn
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Korn Hourly Rate Trend

Korn
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Korn within the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 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.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonDown-3328£518+12.20 %
Canary WharfUp+169£443-1.58 %
Docklands, LondonUp+235£431+5.61 %
WembleyNew entry-1--
HayesNew entry-1£315-
LutonNew entry-1--
Korn EnglandKorn
England

Korn
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1198 (83.90 %)UNIX
2147 (62.29 %)Perl
394 (39.83 %)Finance
489 (37.71 %)SQL
582 (34.75 %)Banking
667 (28.39 %)Linux
766 (27.97 %)Solaris
766 (27.97 %)Sybase
858 (24.58 %)Investment Banking
957 (24.15 %)Oracle
1052 (22.03 %)Java
1145 (19.07 %)Murex
1243 (18.22 %)AutoSys
1340 (16.95 %)Shell Script
1438 (16.10 %)VERITAS
1536 (15.25 %)SQL Server
1633 (13.98 %)Sun
1729 (12.29 %)J2EE
1828 (11.86 %)HP
1927 (11.44 %)Tivoli
1927 (11.44 %)Front Office
2026 (11.02 %)Derivative
2026 (11.02 %)TCP/IP
2026 (11.02 %)C
2026 (11.02 %)AIX
2124 (10.17 %)HPUX
2124 (10.17 %)IBM
2124 (10.17 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2223 (9.746 %)Windows
2223 (9.746 %)C++

Korn
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
129 (12.29 %)J2EE
217 (7.203 %)XML
316 (6.780 %)JSP
49 (3.814 %)XSD
58 (3.390 %)HTML
67 (2.966 %)Servlets
67 (2.966 %)CGI
76 (2.542 %)Middleware
76 (2.542 %).NET
76 (2.542 %)XSLT
76 (2.542 %)Swing
76 (2.542 %)WebSphere
85 (2.119 %)JSTL
85 (2.119 %)Taglibs
85 (2.119 %)EJB
85 (2.119 %)JDBC
85 (2.119 %)Struts
85 (2.119 %)Spring
94 (1.695 %)Hibernate
102 (0.847 %)ASP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
121 (8.898 %)Apache
216 (6.780 %)WebLogic
216 (6.780 %)Tomcat
314 (5.932 %)JBoss
411 (4.661 %)IIS
55 (2.119 %)ATG Dynamo
64 (1.695 %)MQSeries
73 (1.271 %)MQSI
82 (0.847 %)ColdFusion
91 (0.424 %)WebSphere Message Broker
91 (0.424 %)Oracle 10gAS
91 (0.424 %)MS Exchange
91 (0.424 %)WebSphere MQ
91 (0.424 %)Oracle Application Server
London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
14 (1.695 %)MS Excel
22 (0.847 %)MS Project
22 (0.847 %)MS Office
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
19 (3.814 %)WebTrends
21 (0.424 %)FRONT ARENA
21 (0.424 %)Summit
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
126 (11.02 %)TCP/IP
220 (8.475 %)SNA
38 (3.390 %)SAN
45 (2.119 %)DNS
53 (1.271 %)LDAP
53 (1.271 %)Firewall
62 (0.847 %)SSH
62 (0.847 %)SSL
71 (0.424 %)DHCP
71 (0.424 %)Internet
71 (0.424 %)VLAN
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
136 (15.25 %)SQL Server
221 (8.898 %)Oracle 10g
311 (4.661 %)SQL Server 2005
49 (3.814 %)MySQL
49 (3.814 %)RDBMS
49 (3.814 %)SQL Server 2000
56 (2.542 %)Oracle 9i
65 (2.119 %)MS Access
73 (1.271 %)Sybase ASE
82 (0.847 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
82 (0.847 %)Crystal Reports
82 (0.847 %)Oracle 8/8i
82 (0.847 %)Oracle Reports
91 (0.424 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
91 (0.424 %)Datawarehouse
91 (0.424 %)DB2
91 (0.424 %)Oracle Discoverer
91 (0.424 %)PowerCenter
91 (0.424 %)SQL Server Integration Services
91 (0.424 %)Data Mart
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
113 (5.508 %)ClearCase
29 (3.814 %)ClearQuest
37 (2.966 %)Ant
43 (1.271 %)JIRA
43 (1.271 %)JUnit
43 (1.271 %)Subversion
52 (0.847 %)ProC
52 (0.847 %)PowerBuilder
52 (0.847 %)Oracle Forms
London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
194 (39.83 %)Finance
282 (34.75 %)Banking
358 (24.58 %)Investment Banking
427 (11.44 %)Front Office
512 (5.085 %)Back Office
512 (5.085 %)Financial Institution
67 (2.966 %)Auditing
72 (0.847 %)Insurance
81 (0.424 %)Local Government
81 (0.424 %)General Ledger
81 (0.424 %)Construction
81 (0.424 %)Government
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
162 (26.27 %)Developer
249 (20.76 %)Analyst
333 (13.98 %)Administrator
425 (10.59 %)Sybase Developer
523 (9.746 %)Murex Analyst
622 (9.322 %)Support Analyst
721 (8.898 %)UNIX Engineer
820 (8.475 %)DBA
919 (8.051 %)Senior UNIX Engineer
1017 (7.203 %)UNIX Administrator
1017 (7.203 %)Oracle DBA
1115 (6.356 %)Systems Administrator
1214 (5.932 %)Murex Support
1312 (5.085 %)Java Developer
1312 (5.085 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1410 (4.237 %)Murex Support Analyst
159 (3.814 %)Web Administrator
159 (3.814 %)Server Administrator
168 (3.390 %)Applications Support
177 (2.966 %)Systems Engineer
London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
126 (11.02 %)Derivative
224 (10.17 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
321 (8.898 %)HACMP
419 (8.051 %)Interest Rate Derivative
513 (5.508 %)Equities
611 (4.661 %)Fixed Income
79 (3.814 %)Blog
79 (3.814 %)STB
84 (1.695 %)Clustering
93 (1.271 %)Replication
102 (0.847 %)Equity Derivative
102 (0.847 %)Firmware
102 (0.847 %)Client/Server
102 (0.847 %)Computer Science
102 (0.847 %)German Language
102 (0.847 %)Russian Language
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1198 (83.90 %)UNIX
267 (28.39 %)Linux
366 (27.97 %)Solaris
426 (11.02 %)AIX
524 (10.17 %)HPUX
623 (9.746 %)Windows
78 (3.390 %)Red Hat Linux
85 (2.119 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
92 (0.847 %)Windows XP
101 (0.424 %)Windows Server 2003
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
111 (4.661 %)Migration
28 (3.390 %)Configuration Management
36 (2.542 %)OO
45 (2.119 %)Test Scripting
45 (2.119 %)Data Modelling
45 (2.119 %)UML
45 (2.119 %)Business Analysis
45 (2.119 %)Unified Process
54 (1.695 %)Change Management
54 (1.695 %)Asset Management
54 (1.695 %)ITIL
54 (1.695 %)Investment Management
54 (1.695 %)Release Management
54 (1.695 %)Technical Architecture
63 (1.271 %)Project Management
63 (1.271 %)Content Management
63 (1.271 %)Workflow
72 (0.847 %)Information Security
72 (0.847 %)Business Continuity
72 (0.847 %)Risk Management
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1147 (62.29 %)Perl
289 (37.71 %)SQL
352 (22.03 %)Java
440 (16.95 %)Shell Script
526 (11.02 %)C
623 (9.746 %)C++
717 (7.203 %)PL/SQL
816 (6.780 %)Python
910 (4.237 %)PHP
910 (4.237 %)AWK
109 (3.814 %)Transact-SQL
109 (3.814 %)VBA
117 (2.966 %)C#
125 (2.119 %)VB.NET
134 (1.695 %)Tcl
134 (1.695 %)VB
142 (0.847 %)COBOL
151 (0.424 %)JavaScript
London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
119 (8.051 %)IBM Certification
26 (2.542 %)Degree
35 (2.119 %)RHCE
41 (0.424 %)Sun Certification
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.424 %)SLA
11 (0.424 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
120 (8.475 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
214 (5.932 %)NetBackup
313 (5.508 %)Oracle RMAN
49 (3.814 %)Squid
57 (2.966 %)NFS
64 (1.695 %)Oracle RAC
71 (0.424 %)Terminal Services
71 (0.424 %)VMware ESX
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
143 (18.22 %)AutoSys
227 (11.44 %)Tivoli
321 (8.898 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
48 (3.390 %)Oracle Statspack
53 (1.271 %)Tivoli Monitoring
53 (1.271 %)Foglight
62 (0.847 %)CONTROL-M
62 (0.847 %)Legato
62 (0.847 %)EMC NetWorker
71 (0.424 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
71 (0.424 %)BMC PATROL
London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
166 (27.97 %)Sybase
257 (24.15 %)Oracle
345 (19.07 %)Murex
438 (16.10 %)VERITAS
533 (13.98 %)Sun
628 (11.86 %)HP
724 (10.17 %)IBM
88 (3.390 %)Red Hat
97 (2.966 %)Microsoft
106 (2.542 %)BEA
115 (2.119 %)ATG
115 (2.119 %)Perforce
123 (1.271 %)VMware
123 (1.271 %)Mediasurface
132 (0.847 %)Informatica
132 (0.847 %)EMC
132 (0.847 %)Juniper
132 (0.847 %)Cisco
141 (0.424 %)BMC
141 (0.424 %)SeeBeyond