London Shell Script Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Shell Script 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 Shell Script over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basildon Bath Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hinckley Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	106	77
Rank change on same period last year	-29
Matching contract IT job ads	515	985
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.696 %	0.971 %
As % of the category below	4.239 %	4.965 %
Daily rates quoted	242	375
Average minimum daily rate	£437	£436
Average daily rate	£460	£464
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£483	£492
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£372
% change on same period last year	-8.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.25	£56.39
Average hourly rate	£29.06	£56.56
% change on same period last year	-48.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.88	£56.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.82	£33.20
% change on same period last year	+22.97 %
Programming Languages London
Matching contract IT job ads	12149	19840
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	16.42 %	19.56 %
Daily rates quoted	5646	7859
Average minimum daily rate	£401	£441
Average daily rate	£431	£472
% change on same period last year	-8.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£461	£503
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	420	697
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.68	£31.18
Average hourly rate	£31.95	£33.32
% change on same period last year	-4.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.22	£35.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.30	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+1.13 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Shell Script across the London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Shell Script across the London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 Shell Script within the London region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
City of London	-32	152	£482	+6.11 %
Docklands, London	-1	34	£417	-14.03 %
Canary Wharf	+18	30	£478	+1.98 %
Luton	+20	3	-	-
Bexleyheath	-	1	£275	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 962 (82.43 %) UNIX 2 497 (42.59 %) SQL 3 486 (41.65 %) Perl 4 443 (37.96 %) Oracle 5 394 (33.76 %) Banking 6 346 (29.65 %) Java 7 338 (28.96 %) Linux 8 323 (27.68 %) Sybase 9 312 (26.74 %) Finance 10 278 (23.82 %) Investment Banking 10 278 (23.82 %) Solaris 11 261 (22.37 %) Windows 12 157 (13.45 %) XML 13 153 (13.11 %) SQL Server 14 150 (12.85 %) Oracle 10g

15 141 (12.08 %) Front Office 16 121 (10.37 %) C++ 17 120 (10.28 %) OO 18 119 (10.20 %) TCP/IP 19 105 (8.997 %) PL/SQL 19 105 (8.997 %) SAN 20 100 (8.569 %) Red Hat 21 98 (8.398 %) Red Hat Linux 22 89 (7.626 %) VERITAS 23 80 (6.855 %) Equities 24 79 (6.769 %) LAN 25 78 (6.684 %) VB 26 77 (6.598 %) WAN 27 76 (6.512 %) Apache 28 75 (6.427 %) Ant

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 1 157 (13.45 %) XML 2 62 (5.313 %) HTML 2 62 (5.313 %) .NET 3 59 (5.056 %) J2EE 4 45 (3.856 %) JMS 4 45 (3.856 %) Middleware 5 43 (3.685 %) WebSphere 6 41 (3.513 %) WebServices 7 29 (2.485 %) JSP 8 26 (2.228 %) AJAX 9 22 (1.885 %) Struts 10 21 (1.799 %) ASP.NET 11 19 (1.628 %) JDBC 11 19 (1.628 %) CORBA 12 18 (1.542 %) CSS 13 16 (1.371 %) Servlets 13 16 (1.371 %) ODBC 13 16 (1.371 %) XML Schema 13 16 (1.371 %) J2SE 14 15 (1.285 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 76 (6.512 %) Apache 2 47 (4.027 %) WebLogic 3 45 (3.856 %) Tomcat 4 42 (3.599 %) MQSeries 5 23 (1.971 %) MS Exchange 6 21 (1.799 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 18 (1.542 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 18 (1.542 %) IIS 7 18 (1.542 %) JBoss 8 15 (1.285 %) SAS 9 12 (1.028 %) Rendezvous 10 11 (0.943 %) WebSphere MQ 11 9 (0.771 %) TIBCO EMS 12 8 (0.686 %) WebLogic Portal 13 7 (0.600 %) CMS 14 5 (0.428 %) ATG Dynamo 14 5 (0.428 %) ESB 15 3 (0.257 %) Office Communications Server 15 3 (0.257 %) iPlanet 15 3 (0.257 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 28 (2.399 %) MS Office 2 24 (2.057 %) MS Excel 3 3 (0.257 %) MS Project 4 2 (0.171 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 64 (5.484 %) Global One 2 24 (2.057 %) RMDS 3 12 (1.028 %) FRONT ARENA 4 10 (0.857 %) Oracle Applications 5 8 (0.686 %) Temenos Globus 6 6 (0.514 %) Oracle 11i 7 5 (0.428 %) Oracle EBS 8 4 (0.343 %) Murex MxG2000 9 3 (0.257 %) Summit 9 3 (0.257 %) SunGard GMI 10 2 (0.171 %) BusinessWorks 10 2 (0.171 %) Oracle Financials 10 2 (0.171 %) Kondor+ 10 2 (0.171 %) AWD 11 1 (0.086 %) Oracle CRM 11 1 (0.086 %) Oracle HRMS 11 1 (0.086 %) Singl.eView 11 1 (0.086 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 11 1 (0.086 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 11 1 (0.086 %) Siebel Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 119 (10.20 %) TCP/IP 2 105 (8.997 %) SAN 3 79 (6.769 %) LAN 4 77 (6.598 %) WAN 5 57 (4.884 %) DNS 6 37 (3.171 %) LDAP 7 27 (2.314 %) Internet 8 25 (2.142 %) DHCP 9 16 (1.371 %) FTP 9 16 (1.371 %) SNMP 10 15 (1.285 %) Firewall 11 13 (1.114 %) SSH 12 11 (0.943 %) HTTP 13 9 (0.771 %) Kerberos 14 8 (0.686 %) SSL 15 7 (0.600 %) Intranet 16 6 (0.514 %) DMZ 17 5 (0.428 %) BGP 17 5 (0.428 %) Network Security 18 4 (0.343 %) OSPF	Database & Business Intelligence 1 153 (13.11 %) SQL Server 2 150 (12.85 %) Oracle 10g 3 63 (5.398 %) Oracle 9i 4 56 (4.799 %) MySQL 5 51 (4.370 %) RDBMS 6 36 (3.085 %) Datawarehouse 7 35 (2.999 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 33 (2.828 %) SQL Server 2000 9 27 (2.314 %) SQL Server 2005 10 26 (2.228 %) Oracle Reports 11 23 (1.971 %) ETL 12 17 (1.457 %) Sybase ASE 13 14 (1.200 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 14 (1.200 %) Reference Data 14 13 (1.114 %) BusinessObjects 15 11 (0.943 %) DB2 16 9 (0.771 %) PowerCenter 17 8 (0.686 %) KDB 18 7 (0.600 %) Oracle OWB 18 7 (0.600 %) DB2 UDB
Development Applications 1 75 (6.427 %) Ant 2 46 (3.942 %) Subversion 3 38 (3.256 %) ClearCase 4 28 (2.399 %) CruiseControl 5 20 (1.714 %) JIRA 6 19 (1.628 %) ClearQuest 7 14 (1.200 %) JUnit 8 10 (0.857 %) Oracle Forms 8 10 (0.857 %) PowerBuilder 9 9 (0.771 %) Selenium 10 8 (0.686 %) TestDirector 11 7 (0.600 %) LoadRunner 11 7 (0.600 %) WinRunner 12 6 (0.514 %) QuickTest Pro 12 6 (0.514 %) Firebug 13 5 (0.428 %) Flash 14 3 (0.257 %) PVCS 14 3 (0.257 %) Eclipse 14 3 (0.257 %) ERwin 15 2 (0.171 %) Visual Studio	General 1 394 (33.76 %) Banking 2 312 (26.74 %) Finance 3 278 (23.82 %) Investment Banking 4 141 (12.08 %) Front Office 5 41 (3.513 %) Back Office 6 15 (1.285 %) Telecoms 7 12 (1.028 %) Education 8 11 (0.943 %) Auditing 9 10 (0.857 %) Financial Institution 10 8 (0.686 %) Corporate Banking 11 7 (0.600 %) Billing 11 7 (0.600 %) Government 12 5 (0.428 %) Health 12 5 (0.428 %) Insurance 13 4 (0.343 %) Retail 14 2 (0.171 %) Private Banking 14 2 (0.171 %) Criminal Justice 15 1 (0.086 %) Police 15 1 (0.086 %) Games 15 1 (0.086 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 409 (35.05 %) Developer 2 243 (20.82 %) Analyst 3 161 (13.80 %) Administrator 4 125 (10.71 %) Support Analyst 5 117 (10.03 %) DBA 6 92 (7.883 %) Systems Administrator 7 83 (7.112 %) Oracle DBA 8 75 (6.427 %) Analyst Developer 9 74 (6.341 %) Java Developer 10 56 (4.799 %) UNIX Administrator 11 48 (4.113 %) Applications Support 12 47 (4.027 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 13 46 (3.942 %) Oracle Developer 14 36 (3.085 %) Calypso Developer 15 33 (2.828 %) Tester 16 29 (2.485 %) Consultant 17 26 (2.228 %) Web Developer 17 26 (2.228 %) Fidessa Developer 18 25 (2.142 %) Senior Developer 19 24 (2.057 %) Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 80 (6.855 %) Equities 2 60 (5.141 %) Fixed Income 3 54 (4.627 %) Clustering 4 42 (3.599 %) Derivative 5 37 (3.171 %) Replication 6 26 (2.228 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 21 (1.799 %) Equity Derivative 8 18 (1.542 %) Multithreading 9 15 (1.285 %) HACMP 10 13 (1.114 %) Credit Risk 11 11 (0.943 %) Market Risk 12 9 (0.771 %) Statistics 12 9 (0.771 %) Mainframe 13 8 (0.686 %) Web 2.0 13 8 (0.686 %) VWAP 14 7 (0.600 %) Client/Server 14 7 (0.600 %) Tandem 15 6 (0.514 %) Computer Science 15 6 (0.514 %) Data Integration 16 5 (0.428 %) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems 1 962 (82.43 %) UNIX 2 338 (28.96 %) Linux 3 278 (23.82 %) Solaris 4 261 (22.37 %) Windows 5 98 (8.398 %) Red Hat Linux 6 70 (5.998 %) AIX 7 57 (4.884 %) Windows Server 2003 8 51 (4.370 %) HPUX 9 35 (2.999 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 25 (2.142 %) Windows XP 11 16 (1.371 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 12 15 (1.285 %) CentOS 12 15 (1.285 %) Windows 2000 13 13 (1.114 %) Windows NT 14 12 (1.028 %) SUSE 15 9 (0.771 %) Fedora 16 3 (0.257 %) VMS 16 3 (0.257 %) OpenVMS 17 2 (0.171 %) FreeBSD 17 2 (0.171 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 120 (10.28 %) OO 2 61 (5.227 %) Migration 3 56 (4.799 %) Configuration Management 4 42 (3.599 %) ITIL 5 40 (3.428 %) Release Management 6 38 (3.256 %) Electronic Trading 7 36 (3.085 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 31 (2.656 %) Data Modelling 8 31 (2.656 %) Project Management 8 31 (2.656 %) Disaster Recovery 9 30 (2.571 %) OOD 10 28 (2.399 %) Agile Software Development 11 26 (2.228 %) Performance Management 12 25 (2.142 %) Performance Testing 12 25 (2.142 %) Security Management 13 23 (1.971 %) UML 13 23 (1.971 %) Asset Management 14 21 (1.799 %) Web Development 14 21 (1.799 %) Data Migration 15 20 (1.714 %) Investment Management
Programming Languages 1 497 (42.59 %) SQL 2 486 (41.65 %) Perl 3 346 (29.65 %) Java 4 121 (10.37 %) C++ 5 105 (8.997 %) PL/SQL 6 78 (6.684 %) VB 7 74 (6.341 %) C# 8 55 (4.713 %) Python 9 46 (3.942 %) Transact-SQL 10 44 (3.770 %) Korn 11 36 (3.085 %) JavaScript 12 33 (2.828 %) C 13 26 (2.228 %) Tcl 14 24 (2.057 %) PHP 15 18 (1.542 %) VBA 15 18 (1.542 %) Ruby 16 14 (1.200 %) VB.NET 17 13 (1.114 %) XQuery 18 12 (1.028 %) AWK 18 12 (1.028 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 56 (4.799 %) Degree 2 30 (2.571 %) RHCE 3 28 (2.399 %) Microsoft Certification 3 28 (2.399 %) MCSE 4 15 (1.285 %) ISEB 5 11 (0.943 %) CCNA 5 11 (0.943 %) Cisco Certification 6 9 (0.771 %) Oracle Certification 7 5 (0.428 %) ISTQB 8 3 (0.257 %) Sun Certification 8 3 (0.257 %) SCSA 8 3 (0.257 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 3 (0.257 %) MCP 8 3 (0.257 %) CCNP 9 2 (0.171 %) CCDA 9 2 (0.171 %) CISSP 10 1 (0.086 %) MCSA 10 1 (0.086 %) MCTS 10 1 (0.086 %) MCITP 10 1 (0.086 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 26 (2.228 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 18 (1.542 %) SLA 3 10 (0.857 %) QA 4 3 (0.257 %) MiFID	System Software 1 55 (4.713 %) Active Directory 2 52 (4.456 %) Oracle RMAN 3 37 (3.171 %) NFS 4 34 (2.913 %) Oracle RAC 5 32 (2.742 %) VMware ESX 6 27 (2.314 %) NetBackup 7 10 (0.857 %) MetaFrame 7 10 (0.857 %) Samba 8 9 (0.771 %) VMware Infrastructure 9 4 (0.343 %) ClearTrust 9 4 (0.343 %) Orbix 10 2 (0.171 %) Xen 11 1 (0.086 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 11 1 (0.086 %) AquaLogic 11 1 (0.086 %) VMware Server 11 1 (0.086 %) Terminal Services 11 1 (0.086 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 11 1 (0.086 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 40 (3.428 %) AutoSys 2 38 (3.256 %) CONTROL-M 3 35 (2.999 %) Tivoli 4 26 (2.228 %) OpenView 5 25 (2.142 %) HP Data Protector 6 18 (1.542 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 12 (1.028 %) Tivoli Monitoring 8 9 (0.771 %) Oracle Statspack 9 8 (0.686 %) BMC PATROL 10 7 (0.600 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 7 (0.600 %) OMEGAMON 11 6 (0.514 %) Legato 12 4 (0.343 %) EMC NetWorker 13 2 (0.171 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 13 2 (0.171 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 13 2 (0.171 %) TIBCO Hawk 13 2 (0.171 %) WSUS 13 2 (0.171 %) Nagios 14 1 (0.086 %) CA SiteMinder 14 1 (0.086 %) Foglight	Vendors 1 443 (37.96 %) Oracle 2 323 (27.68 %) Sybase 3 100 (8.569 %) Red Hat 4 89 (7.626 %) VERITAS 5 73 (6.255 %) TIBCO 6 61 (5.227 %) Calypso 7 59 (5.056 %) HP 8 58 (4.970 %) Sun 8 58 (4.970 %) Reuters 9 57 (4.884 %) Fidessa 10 48 (4.113 %) EMC 11 47 (4.027 %) Bloomberg 12 45 (3.856 %) VMware 13 39 (3.342 %) IBM 14 35 (2.999 %) Cisco 15 33 (2.828 %) Microsoft 16 29 (2.485 %) Citrix 17 24 (2.057 %) Informatica 18 21 (1.799 %) BEA 19 17 (1.457 %) Murex