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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.

LinkShell Script
Location
3 months to
5 Sep 2008
Same period last year
Rank10677
Rank change on same period last yearDown-29
Matching contract IT job ads515985
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.696 %0.971 %
As % of the category below4.239 %4.965 %
Daily rates quoted242375
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 quoted418
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 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
London
Matching contract IT job ads1214919840
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled16.42 %19.56 %
Daily rates quoted56467859
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 quoted420697
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 %
Shell Script EnglandShell Script
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.

Shell Script
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.

London Shell Script Demand Trend

Shell Script
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.

London Shell Script Daily Rate Trend

Shell Script
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.

London Shell Script Daily Rate Histogram

Shell Script
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.

London Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
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.

London 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 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.

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-32152£482+6.11 %
Docklands, LondonDown-134£417-14.03 %
Canary WharfUp+1830£478+1.98 %
LutonUp+203--
BexleyheathNew entry-1£275-
Shell Script EnglandShell Script
England

Shell Script
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.

1962 (82.43 %)UNIX
2497 (42.59 %)SQL
3486 (41.65 %)Perl
4443 (37.96 %)Oracle
5394 (33.76 %)Banking
6346 (29.65 %)Java
7338 (28.96 %)Linux
8323 (27.68 %)Sybase
9312 (26.74 %)Finance
10278 (23.82 %)Investment Banking
10278 (23.82 %)Solaris
11261 (22.37 %)Windows
12157 (13.45 %)XML
13153 (13.11 %)SQL Server
14150 (12.85 %)Oracle 10g
15141 (12.08 %)Front Office
16121 (10.37 %)C++
17120 (10.28 %)OO
18119 (10.20 %)TCP/IP
19105 (8.997 %)PL/SQL
19105 (8.997 %)SAN
20100 (8.569 %)Red Hat
2198 (8.398 %)Red Hat Linux
2289 (7.626 %)VERITAS
2380 (6.855 %)Equities
2479 (6.769 %)LAN
2578 (6.684 %)VB
2677 (6.598 %)WAN
2776 (6.512 %)Apache
2875 (6.427 %)Ant

Shell Script
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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1157 (13.45 %)XML
262 (5.313 %)HTML
262 (5.313 %).NET
359 (5.056 %)J2EE
445 (3.856 %)JMS
445 (3.856 %)Middleware
543 (3.685 %)WebSphere
641 (3.513 %)WebServices
729 (2.485 %)JSP
826 (2.228 %)AJAX
922 (1.885 %)Struts
1021 (1.799 %)ASP.NET
1119 (1.628 %)JDBC
1119 (1.628 %)CORBA
1218 (1.542 %)CSS
1316 (1.371 %)Servlets
1316 (1.371 %)ODBC
1316 (1.371 %)XML Schema
1316 (1.371 %)J2SE
1415 (1.285 %)XHTML
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
176 (6.512 %)Apache
247 (4.027 %)WebLogic
345 (3.856 %)Tomcat
442 (3.599 %)MQSeries
523 (1.971 %)MS Exchange
621 (1.799 %)Exchange Server 2003
718 (1.542 %)WebSphere Application Server
718 (1.542 %)IIS
718 (1.542 %)JBoss
815 (1.285 %)SAS
912 (1.028 %)Rendezvous
1011 (0.943 %)WebSphere MQ
119 (0.771 %)TIBCO EMS
128 (0.686 %)WebLogic Portal
137 (0.600 %)CMS
145 (0.428 %)ATG Dynamo
145 (0.428 %)ESB
153 (0.257 %)Office Communications Server
153 (0.257 %)iPlanet
153 (0.257 %)Oracle Application Server
London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
128 (2.399 %)MS Office
224 (2.057 %)MS Excel
33 (0.257 %)MS Project
42 (0.171 %)MS PowerPoint
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
164 (5.484 %)Global One
224 (2.057 %)RMDS
312 (1.028 %)FRONT ARENA
410 (0.857 %)Oracle Applications
58 (0.686 %)Temenos Globus
66 (0.514 %)Oracle 11i
75 (0.428 %)Oracle EBS
84 (0.343 %)Murex MxG2000
93 (0.257 %)Summit
93 (0.257 %)SunGard GMI
102 (0.171 %)BusinessWorks
102 (0.171 %)Oracle Financials
102 (0.171 %)Kondor+
102 (0.171 %)AWD
111 (0.086 %)Oracle CRM
111 (0.086 %)Oracle HRMS
111 (0.086 %)Singl.eView
111 (0.086 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
111 (0.086 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
111 (0.086 %)Siebel Analytics
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1119 (10.20 %)TCP/IP
2105 (8.997 %)SAN
379 (6.769 %)LAN
477 (6.598 %)WAN
557 (4.884 %)DNS
637 (3.171 %)LDAP
727 (2.314 %)Internet
825 (2.142 %)DHCP
916 (1.371 %)FTP
916 (1.371 %)SNMP
1015 (1.285 %)Firewall
1113 (1.114 %)SSH
1211 (0.943 %)HTTP
139 (0.771 %)Kerberos
148 (0.686 %)SSL
157 (0.600 %)Intranet
166 (0.514 %)DMZ
175 (0.428 %)BGP
175 (0.428 %)Network Security
184 (0.343 %)OSPF
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1153 (13.11 %)SQL Server
2150 (12.85 %)Oracle 10g
363 (5.398 %)Oracle 9i
456 (4.799 %)MySQL
551 (4.370 %)RDBMS
636 (3.085 %)Datawarehouse
735 (2.999 %)Oracle 8/8i
833 (2.828 %)SQL Server 2000
927 (2.314 %)SQL Server 2005
1026 (2.228 %)Oracle Reports
1123 (1.971 %)ETL
1217 (1.457 %)Sybase ASE
1314 (1.200 %)Oracle Discoverer
1314 (1.200 %)Reference Data
1413 (1.114 %)BusinessObjects
1511 (0.943 %)DB2
169 (0.771 %)PowerCenter
178 (0.686 %)KDB
187 (0.600 %)Oracle OWB
187 (0.600 %)DB2 UDB
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
175 (6.427 %)Ant
246 (3.942 %)Subversion
338 (3.256 %)ClearCase
428 (2.399 %)CruiseControl
520 (1.714 %)JIRA
619 (1.628 %)ClearQuest
714 (1.200 %)JUnit
810 (0.857 %)Oracle Forms
810 (0.857 %)PowerBuilder
99 (0.771 %)Selenium
108 (0.686 %)TestDirector
117 (0.600 %)LoadRunner
117 (0.600 %)WinRunner
126 (0.514 %)QuickTest Pro
126 (0.514 %)Firebug
135 (0.428 %)Flash
143 (0.257 %)PVCS
143 (0.257 %)Eclipse
143 (0.257 %)ERwin
152 (0.171 %)Visual Studio
London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1394 (33.76 %)Banking
2312 (26.74 %)Finance
3278 (23.82 %)Investment Banking
4141 (12.08 %)Front Office
541 (3.513 %)Back Office
615 (1.285 %)Telecoms
712 (1.028 %)Education
811 (0.943 %)Auditing
910 (0.857 %)Financial Institution
108 (0.686 %)Corporate Banking
117 (0.600 %)Billing
117 (0.600 %)Government
125 (0.428 %)Health
125 (0.428 %)Insurance
134 (0.343 %)Retail
142 (0.171 %)Private Banking
142 (0.171 %)Criminal Justice
151 (0.086 %)Police
151 (0.086 %)Games
151 (0.086 %)Legal
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1409 (35.05 %)Developer
2243 (20.82 %)Analyst
3161 (13.80 %)Administrator
4125 (10.71 %)Support Analyst
5117 (10.03 %)DBA
692 (7.883 %)Systems Administrator
783 (7.112 %)Oracle DBA
875 (6.427 %)Analyst Developer
974 (6.341 %)Java Developer
1056 (4.799 %)UNIX Administrator
1148 (4.113 %)Applications Support
1247 (4.027 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1346 (3.942 %)Oracle Developer
1436 (3.085 %)Calypso Developer
1533 (2.828 %)Tester
1629 (2.485 %)Consultant
1726 (2.228 %)Web Developer
1726 (2.228 %)Fidessa Developer
1825 (2.142 %)Senior Developer
1924 (2.057 %)Test Analyst
London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
180 (6.855 %)Equities
260 (5.141 %)Fixed Income
354 (4.627 %)Clustering
442 (3.599 %)Derivative
537 (3.171 %)Replication
626 (2.228 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
721 (1.799 %)Equity Derivative
818 (1.542 %)Multithreading
915 (1.285 %)HACMP
1013 (1.114 %)Credit Risk
1111 (0.943 %)Market Risk
129 (0.771 %)Statistics
129 (0.771 %)Mainframe
138 (0.686 %)Web 2.0
138 (0.686 %)VWAP
147 (0.600 %)Client/Server
147 (0.600 %)Tandem
156 (0.514 %)Computer Science
156 (0.514 %)Data Integration
165 (0.428 %)Credit Derivative
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1962 (82.43 %)UNIX
2338 (28.96 %)Linux
3278 (23.82 %)Solaris
4261 (22.37 %)Windows
598 (8.398 %)Red Hat Linux
670 (5.998 %)AIX
757 (4.884 %)Windows Server 2003
851 (4.370 %)HPUX
935 (2.999 %)Windows 2000 Server
1025 (2.142 %)Windows XP
1116 (1.371 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1215 (1.285 %)CentOS
1215 (1.285 %)Windows 2000
1313 (1.114 %)Windows NT
1412 (1.028 %)SUSE
159 (0.771 %)Fedora
163 (0.257 %)VMS
163 (0.257 %)OpenVMS
172 (0.171 %)FreeBSD
172 (0.171 %)Windows Vista
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1120 (10.28 %)OO
261 (5.227 %)Migration
356 (4.799 %)Configuration Management
442 (3.599 %)ITIL
540 (3.428 %)Release Management
638 (3.256 %)Electronic Trading
736 (3.085 %)User Acceptance Testing
831 (2.656 %)Data Modelling
831 (2.656 %)Project Management
831 (2.656 %)Disaster Recovery
930 (2.571 %)OOD
1028 (2.399 %)Agile Software Development
1126 (2.228 %)Performance Management
1225 (2.142 %)Performance Testing
1225 (2.142 %)Security Management
1323 (1.971 %)UML
1323 (1.971 %)Asset Management
1421 (1.799 %)Web Development
1421 (1.799 %)Data Migration
1520 (1.714 %)Investment Management
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1497 (42.59 %)SQL
2486 (41.65 %)Perl
3346 (29.65 %)Java
4121 (10.37 %)C++
5105 (8.997 %)PL/SQL
678 (6.684 %)VB
774 (6.341 %)C#
855 (4.713 %)Python
946 (3.942 %)Transact-SQL
1044 (3.770 %)Korn
1136 (3.085 %)JavaScript
1233 (2.828 %)C
1326 (2.228 %)Tcl
1424 (2.057 %)PHP
1518 (1.542 %)VBA
1518 (1.542 %)Ruby
1614 (1.200 %)VB.NET
1713 (1.114 %)XQuery
1812 (1.028 %)AWK
1812 (1.028 %)VBScript
London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
156 (4.799 %)Degree
230 (2.571 %)RHCE
328 (2.399 %)Microsoft Certification
328 (2.399 %)MCSE
415 (1.285 %)ISEB
511 (0.943 %)CCNA
511 (0.943 %)Cisco Certification
69 (0.771 %)Oracle Certification
75 (0.428 %)ISTQB
83 (0.257 %)Sun Certification
83 (0.257 %)SCSA
83 (0.257 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
83 (0.257 %)MCP
83 (0.257 %)CCNP
92 (0.171 %)CCDA
92 (0.171 %)CISSP
101 (0.086 %)MCSA
101 (0.086 %)MCTS
101 (0.086 %)MCITP
101 (0.086 %)ITIL Certification
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
126 (2.228 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
218 (1.542 %)SLA
310 (0.857 %)QA
43 (0.257 %)MiFID
London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
155 (4.713 %)Active Directory
252 (4.456 %)Oracle RMAN
337 (3.171 %)NFS
434 (2.913 %)Oracle RAC
532 (2.742 %)VMware ESX
627 (2.314 %)NetBackup
710 (0.857 %)MetaFrame
710 (0.857 %)Samba
89 (0.771 %)VMware Infrastructure
94 (0.343 %)ClearTrust
94 (0.343 %)Orbix
102 (0.171 %)Xen
111 (0.086 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
111 (0.086 %)AquaLogic
111 (0.086 %)VMware Server
111 (0.086 %)Terminal Services
111 (0.086 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
111 (0.086 %)ISA Server
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
140 (3.428 %)AutoSys
238 (3.256 %)CONTROL-M
335 (2.999 %)Tivoli
426 (2.228 %)OpenView
525 (2.142 %)HP Data Protector
618 (1.542 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
712 (1.028 %)Tivoli Monitoring
89 (0.771 %)Oracle Statspack
98 (0.686 %)BMC PATROL
107 (0.600 %)Norton AntiVirus
107 (0.600 %)OMEGAMON
116 (0.514 %)Legato
124 (0.343 %)EMC NetWorker
132 (0.171 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
132 (0.171 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
132 (0.171 %)TIBCO Hawk
132 (0.171 %)WSUS
132 (0.171 %)Nagios
141 (0.086 %)CA SiteMinder
141 (0.086 %)Foglight
London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1443 (37.96 %)Oracle
2323 (27.68 %)Sybase
3100 (8.569 %)Red Hat
489 (7.626 %)VERITAS
573 (6.255 %)TIBCO
661 (5.227 %)Calypso
759 (5.056 %)HP
858 (4.970 %)Sun
858 (4.970 %)Reuters
957 (4.884 %)Fidessa
1048 (4.113 %)EMC
1147 (4.027 %)Bloomberg
1245 (3.856 %)VMware
1339 (3.342 %)IBM
1435 (2.999 %)Cisco
1533 (2.828 %)Microsoft
1629 (2.485 %)Citrix
1724 (2.057 %)Informatica
1821 (1.799 %)BEA
1917 (1.457 %)Murex