The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 20 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 Middlesex 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Shell Script
Rank 27 27 36
Rank change year-on-year
0 +9
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 1 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.495% 1.266% 0.872%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.174% 7.018% 3.297%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £425 £336
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +26.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-13.24% -2.63%
All Programming Languages
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
46 57 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 22.77% 18.04% 26.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 42
Average daily rate £316 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.64% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 7
Average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +34.48%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) SCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) SCSA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat