The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 19 June 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 London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Shell Script
Rank 137 127 129
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +2
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 341 408 483
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.495% 1.535% 1.535%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.524% 3.983% 3.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 231 318
Average daily rate £450 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £288 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £341
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-14.40% +15.38%
All Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
9677 10244 13467
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 42.44% 38.53% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6907 6983 9169
Average daily rate £440 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.57% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £280 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 151 146
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.75 £20.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.84 £50.00 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London 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 London region.

London Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Shell Script across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -11 87 £450 - 42
Canary Wharf 0 4 £550 +10.00%
Surbiton - 2 - -
Uxbridge - 1 £375 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
New Malden - - - -
Brentford - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Ealing - - - -
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

1 381 (66.73%) UNIX
2 322 (56.39%) Linux
3 236 (41.33%) Oracle
4 212 (37.13%) SQL
5 201 (35.20%) Perl
6 196 (34.33%) Finance
7 181 (31.70%) Java
8 129 (22.59%) Solaris
9 126 (22.07%) Banking
10 120 (21.02%) SAN
11 108 (18.91%) Red Hat
12 99 (17.34%) Python
13 89 (15.59%) Windows
14 85 (14.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 82 (14.36%) Bash shell
16 81 (14.19%) XML
17 77 (13.49%) C++
18 75 (13.13%) PL/SQL
18 75 (13.13%) Sybase
19 71 (12.43%) ITIL
20 70 (12.26%) Investment Banking
21 69 (12.08%) VMware
21 69 (12.08%) EMC
22 64 (11.21%) Apache
23 63 (11.03%) Tomcat
24 62 (10.86%) AIX
25 59 (10.33%) Oracle 11g
26 58 (10.16%) Veritas
26 58 (10.16%) SUSE
27 54 (9.457%) SQL Server

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 81 (14.19%) XML
2 45 (7.881%) Web Services
3 36 (6.305%) HTML
4 29 (5.079%) XSLT
5 27 (4.729%) Middleware
5 27 (4.729%) CSS
6 23 (4.028%) Spring
7 21 (3.678%) WebSphere
8 19 (3.327%) JSP
8 19 (3.327%) jQuery
9 17 (2.977%) SOAP
9 17 (2.977%) STL
10 16 (2.802%) Hibernate
11 14 (2.452%) FIX Protocol
12 13 (2.277%) HTML5
13 12 (2.102%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (1.751%) JSON
14 10 (1.751%) XHTML
15 9 (1.576%) Servlets
15 9 (1.576%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 64 (11.21%) Apache
2 63 (11.03%) Tomcat
3 39 (6.830%) WebLogic
4 23 (4.028%) SharePoint
5 20 (3.503%) Oracle Workflow
6 16 (2.802%) Oracle Application Server
7 12 (2.102%) SAS
8 11 (1.926%) MS Exchange
8 11 (1.926%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (1.926%) Exchange Server 2010
8 11 (1.926%) Lync
9 9 (1.576%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 9 (1.576%) Confluence
9 9 (1.576%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.576%) Amazon AWS
9 9 (1.576%) Exchange Server 2007
10 8 (1.401%) WebLogic Portal
11 7 (1.226%) IIS
12 6 (1.051%) CMS
13 5 (0.876%) Liferay
Applications
1 11 (1.926%) MS Excel
1 11 (1.926%) Mingle
2 4 (0.701%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.525%) MS Office
4 2 (0.350%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 23 (4.028%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (2.102%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (1.226%) Kondor+
4 6 (1.051%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.701%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.701%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (0.701%) RMDS
6 3 (0.525%) Global One
6 3 (0.525%) ION MarketView
7 2 (0.350%) Oracle iProcurement
7 2 (0.350%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.350%) HFM
8 1 (0.175%) Khalix
8 1 (0.175%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.175%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.175%) LongView
8 1 (0.175%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 120 (21.02%) SAN
2 50 (8.757%) TCP/IP
3 48 (8.406%) DNS
4 43 (7.531%) NAS
5 29 (5.079%) HTTP
5 29 (5.079%) LDAP
6 25 (4.378%) Firewall
7 18 (3.152%) DHCP
8 17 (2.977%) Network Security
9 12 (2.102%) Gigabit Ethernet
10 10 (1.751%) Fibre Channel
11 9 (1.576%) Ethernet
12 8 (1.401%) SNMP
13 7 (1.226%) SMTP
14 6 (1.051%) SSL
14 6 (1.051%) Internet
15 5 (0.876%) iSCSI
16 4 (0.701%) FWSM
16 4 (0.701%) BIG-IP
17 3 (0.525%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.33%) Oracle 11g
2 54 (9.457%) SQL Server
3 52 (9.107%) Oracle 10g
4 50 (8.757%) MySQL
5 38 (6.655%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (5.604%) RDBMS
7 23 (4.028%) Oracle Reports
8 21 (3.678%) Oracle Exadata
9 19 (3.327%) Oracle 8/8i
10 15 (2.627%) Oracle 9i
11 13 (2.277%) SQL Server 2008
12 12 (2.102%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
13 11 (1.926%) Sybase ASE
14 10 (1.751%) BusinessObjects XI
14 10 (1.751%) OLAP
15 9 (1.576%) Oracle OWB
16 7 (1.226%) SQLPlus
16 7 (1.226%) Crystal Reports
16 7 (1.226%) DB2
16 7 (1.226%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (7.005%) Subversion
2 34 (5.954%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.079%) Hudson
4 28 (4.904%) Maven
5 26 (4.553%) JIRA
6 24 (4.203%) JUnit
7 19 (3.327%) Ant
7 19 (3.327%) Git (software)
8 12 (2.102%) dbdeploy
9 11 (1.926%) GDB
10 10 (1.751%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (1.576%) PowerBuilder
12 8 (1.401%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.226%) CruiseControl
13 7 (1.226%) VSS/SourceSafe
13 7 (1.226%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.226%) Redmine
13 7 (1.226%) Mercurial
13 7 (1.226%) Selenium
13 7 (1.226%) FogBugz
General
1 196 (34.33%) Finance
2 126 (22.07%) Banking
3 70 (12.26%) Investment Banking
4 30 (5.254%) Front Office
5 9 (1.576%) Retail
5 9 (1.576%) Back Office
5 9 (1.576%) Telecoms
6 7 (1.226%) Publishing
7 6 (1.051%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.701%) Advertising
9 3 (0.525%) German Language
9 3 (0.525%) Marketing
10 2 (0.350%) Law
10 2 (0.350%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.350%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.175%) Games
11 1 (0.175%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 157 (27.50%) Developer
2 77 (13.49%) Administrator
3 62 (10.86%) Systems Administrator
4 60 (10.51%) DBA
5 52 (9.107%) Analyst
6 44 (7.706%) Oracle DBA
7 40 (7.005%) Java Developer
8 37 (6.480%) UNIX Administrator
9 34 (5.954%) UNIX Systems Administrator
10 31 (5.429%) Linux Engineer
11 26 (4.553%) C++ Developer
12 25 (4.378%) Oracle Developer
13 24 (4.203%) Consultant
13 24 (4.203%) UNIX Engineer
14 23 (4.028%) Tester
15 22 (3.853%) Senior Developer
16 19 (3.327%) Support Analyst
17 18 (3.152%) UNIX Developer
18 17 (2.977%) Perl Developer
18 17 (2.977%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.005%) Equities
2 36 (6.305%) Clustering
3 33 (5.779%) Derivative
4 28 (4.904%) Symmetrix DMX
5 24 (4.203%) Open Source
6 21 (3.678%) Wiki
7 19 (3.327%) Computer Science
8 18 (3.152%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 18 (3.152%) Fixed Income
9 12 (2.102%) Blackberry
10 10 (1.751%) Grid Computing
11 9 (1.576%) Equity Derivative
11 9 (1.576%) Replication
11 9 (1.576%) Visualisation
12 8 (1.401%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.401%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.401%) CLARiiON
13 7 (1.226%) STB
13 7 (1.226%) Oracle Exalogic
13 7 (1.226%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 381 (66.73%) UNIX
2 322 (56.39%) Linux
3 129 (22.59%) Solaris
4 89 (15.59%) Windows
5 85 (14.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 62 (10.86%) AIX
7 58 (10.16%) SUSE
8 15 (2.627%) HPUX
9 14 (2.452%) Windows Server 2008
10 12 (2.102%) CentOS
10 12 (2.102%) Windows XP
10 12 (2.102%) Debian
11 11 (1.926%) Windows Server 2003
11 11 (1.926%) Windows 7
12 9 (1.576%) VMS
13 4 (0.701%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.525%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.175%) Slackware
15 1 (0.175%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.175%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (12.43%) ITIL
2 53 (9.282%) OO
3 43 (7.531%) Migration
4 42 (7.356%) Business Intelligence
5 39 (6.830%) Disaster Recovery
6 38 (6.655%) Agile Software Development
7 37 (6.480%) Change Management
8 35 (6.130%) ETL
9 27 (4.729%) TDD
9 27 (4.729%) Workflow
9 27 (4.729%) RDF
10 25 (4.378%) Problem Management
10 25 (4.378%) Data Modelling
11 24 (4.203%) Scrum
11 24 (4.203%) Capacity Planning
12 22 (3.853%) E-Commerce
13 19 (3.327%) User Acceptance Testing
13 19 (3.327%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (3.152%) Multithreading
14 18 (3.152%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 212 (37.13%) SQL
2 201 (35.20%) Perl
3 181 (31.70%) Java
4 99 (17.34%) Python
5 82 (14.36%) Bash shell
6 77 (13.49%) C++
7 75 (13.13%) PL/SQL
8 52 (9.107%) Korn
9 51 (8.932%) JavaScript
10 36 (6.305%) PHP
11 34 (5.954%) C
12 29 (5.079%) PowerShell
13 28 (4.904%) Ruby
14 27 (4.729%) C#
15 16 (2.802%) VBScript
16 11 (1.926%) VBA
17 10 (1.751%) PHP5
18 7 (1.226%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.701%) C-shell
19 4 (0.701%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 39 (6.830%) Degree
2 17 (2.977%) Security Cleared
3 11 (1.926%) RHCE
4 10 (1.751%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.701%) MCSE
5 4 (0.701%) ISEB
5 4 (0.701%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.525%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.525%) PMP
6 3 (0.525%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.525%) MCSA
6 3 (0.525%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.350%) HP ASE
7 2 (0.350%) CCNA
7 2 (0.350%) Sun Certification
7 2 (0.350%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.350%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.175%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.175%) MCITP
8 1 (0.175%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.079%) QA
2 25 (4.378%) SLA
3 1 (0.175%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (8.406%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 48 (8.406%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 46 (8.056%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (6.830%) Oracle RAC
4 29 (5.079%) NFS
5 19 (3.327%) Oracle RMAN
6 18 (3.152%) Active Directory
7 14 (2.452%) vSphere
7 14 (2.452%) VMware ESX
8 13 (2.277%) Samba
9 12 (2.102%) SRDF
10 6 (1.051%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.876%) vCloud
12 4 (0.701%) Postfix
12 4 (0.701%) Veritas File System
12 4 (0.701%) UAG
12 4 (0.701%) Squid
13 3 (0.525%) Nmap
14 2 (0.350%) Tivoli Directory Server
14 2 (0.350%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 39 (6.830%) Puppet
2 28 (4.904%) Nagios
3 19 (3.327%) BladeLogic
3 19 (3.327%) Data Guard
4 13 (2.277%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 13 (2.277%) Cobbler
5 11 (1.926%) Netcool
6 10 (1.751%) EMC NetWorker
6 10 (1.751%) SCOM
6 10 (1.751%) MOM
7 9 (1.576%) Zenoss
8 7 (1.226%) Tivoli
8 7 (1.226%) MIMEsweeper
8 7 (1.226%) Control-M
9 6 (1.051%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 6 (1.051%) HP Quality Center
9 6 (1.051%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.876%) BMC PATROL
11 4 (0.701%) Splunk
12 3 (0.525%) YUM
Vendors
1 236 (41.33%) Oracle
2 108 (18.91%) Red Hat
3 75 (13.13%) Sybase
4 69 (12.08%) VMware
4 69 (12.08%) EMC
5 58 (10.16%) Veritas
6 42 (7.356%) Sun
7 37 (6.480%) HP
8 30 (5.254%) Microsoft
9 18 (3.152%) Business Objects
9 18 (3.152%) Cisco
9 18 (3.152%) IBM
9 18 (3.152%) Informatica
10 16 (2.802%) NetApp
11 13 (2.277%) Symantec
11 13 (2.277%) BMC
12 12 (2.102%) Zend
12 12 (2.102%) Perforce
13 9 (1.576%) Salesforce.com
13 9 (1.576%) Remedy
London
You must have prior experience within the financial sector and have the ability to build and implement technical solutions to tight deadlines, where failure essentially means reputational damage...
Rate: £425 - £465 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
City of London
Unix Programmer / Linux Programmer / DeveloperArgyll Scott are urgently recruiting for a strong programmer with in-depth knowledge in Unix/Linux systems and tools, Who can lead and participate...
Argyll Scott International
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
They are looking for a Support Analyst to be involved in production support of all Unix/Linux servers, implementation of planned activity and implementation of new servers... Key...
Real Staffing
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
City of London
The successful Senior Java Developer will have the following: Java Serverside (preferably Java5 and Java6) Strong Linux, Bash shell scripting in particular. Sound knowledge of SQL Server... Significant...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
City, London
Application Support, Production Support, SQL, Oracle, Shell Scripting, Perl, Incident management, Problem management, Unix, Middle Office, Back office... Strong technical skills around SQL, Oracle and scripting skills in...
Aston Carter
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
CDI Anders Elite Ltd
Posted: 18 June 2013
Central London / West End
MPC
Rate: Up to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
JM
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Cititec
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: £325 - £375 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
West London
Stafford-Sharp Associates
Rate: From £250 to £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
ComputAppoint
Rate: £400 - £430 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Forman Computer Staff
Rate: From £500 to £600 per day long-term contract
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per annum + Neg
Posted: 12 June 2013
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