The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 22 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 Midlands 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Shell Script
Rank - - 35
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands - - 0.880%
As % of the Programming Languages category - - 3.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £411 £333
% change year-on-year
-13.98% +23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year
-13.24% -5.73%
All Programming Languages
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
43 85 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 25.15% 31.14% 23.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 21
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £238 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £400 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 20
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.73% +55.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
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 Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) BPEL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (33.33%) Pega
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle BPEL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle BPEL
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle DBA
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) BPEL
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Pega