North West Shell Script Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Shell Script skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bournemouth Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Ilford Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Prescot Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	113
Rank change on same period last year	+72
Matching contract IT job ads	147	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.194 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	9.953 %	1.778 %
Daily rates quoted	43	6
Average minimum daily rate	£429	£354
Average daily rate	£450	£369
% change on same period last year	+21.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£471	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£359
% change on same period last year	+4.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.45	£31.02
% change on same period last year	+33.63 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1477	1125
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.948 %	1.193 %
Daily rates quoted	290	165
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£300
Average daily rate	£360	£317
% change on same period last year	+13.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	145	125
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.08	£25.39
Average hourly rate	£29.45	£28.66
% change on same period last year	+2.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.82	£31.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
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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 North West 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 North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 North West region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Shell Script within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Cheshire	+35	84	£455	+13.84 %
Manchester	+22	52	£453	+20.80 %
Merseyside	-13	1	£375	+4.16 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 148 (82.68 %) Unix 2 144 (80.45 %) AIX 3 119 (66.48 %) Middleware 4 118 (65.92 %) Tivoli 5 112 (62.57 %) Solaris 6 110 (61.45 %) Mainframe 7 107 (59.78 %) Windows 8 104 (58.10 %) OMEGAMON 9 103 (57.54 %) HPUX 10 101 (56.42 %) Tandem 11 82 (45.81 %) Change Management 12 75 (41.90 %) WebSphere 13 57 (31.84 %) WebSphere MQ 14 49 (27.37 %) WebSphere Application Server 15 47 (26.26 %) Finance

16 44 (24.58 %) SSL 17 38 (21.23 %) WBIMB 18 33 (18.44 %) Gentran 18 33 (18.44 %) Cisco 19 18 (10.06 %) Perl 20 17 (9.497 %) Oracle 21 15 (8.380 %) Banking 22 13 (7.263 %) Firewall 22 13 (7.263 %) HTTP 23 12 (6.704 %) IBM 24 11 (6.145 %) HP 25 10 (5.587 %) SAN 25 10 (5.587 %) Linux 25 10 (5.587 %) SQL 26 9 (5.028 %) MQSeries

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 119 (66.48 %) Middleware 2 75 (41.90 %) WebSphere 3 38 (21.23 %) WBIMB 4 2 (1.117 %) J2EE 5 1 (0.559 %) JSP 5 1 (0.559 %) Servlets 5 1 (0.559 %) SOAP 5 1 (0.559 %) XML 5 1 (0.559 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 57 (31.84 %) WebSphere MQ 2 49 (27.37 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 33 (18.44 %) Gentran 4 9 (5.028 %) MQSeries 5 4 (2.235 %) Oracle Application Server 6 3 (1.676 %) Oracle 10gAS 6 3 (1.676 %) Apache 7 1 (0.559 %) Tomcat 7 1 (0.559 %) MQSI 7 1 (0.559 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 1 (0.559 %) MS Excel 1 1 (0.559 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 44 (24.58 %) SSL 2 13 (7.263 %) HTTP 2 13 (7.263 %) Firewall 3 10 (5.587 %) SAN 4 9 (5.028 %) LDAP 5 4 (2.235 %) TCP/IP 6 3 (1.676 %) SNA 7 2 (1.117 %) Kerberos 7 2 (1.117 %) SSH 8 1 (0.559 %) SMS 8 1 (0.559 %) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (5.028 %) Oracle 10g 2 4 (2.235 %) DB2 2 4 (2.235 %) ETL 3 3 (1.676 %) Datawarehouse 3 3 (1.676 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (1.117 %) Crystal Reports 4 2 (1.117 %) Oracle Reports 4 2 (1.117 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (1.117 %) MySQL 5 1 (0.559 %) GIS 5 1 (0.559 %) PostgreSQL 5 1 (0.559 %) DB2 UDB	Development Applications 1 1 (0.559 %) ProC
General 1 47 (26.26 %) Finance 2 15 (8.380 %) Banking 3 4 (2.235 %) Retail 4 3 (1.676 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (1.117 %) Billing 5 2 (1.117 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (0.559 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.559 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.559 %) Government 6 1 (0.559 %) Health	Job Titles 1 37 (20.67 %) Consultant 2 34 (18.99 %) Infrastructure Specialist 3 31 (17.32 %) WebSphere Specialist 4 14 (7.821 %) Administrator 5 11 (6.145 %) WebSphere Consultant 6 10 (5.587 %) Developer 7 8 (4.469 %) Technical Specialist 7 8 (4.469 %) UNIX Specialist 8 6 (3.352 %) Systems Administrator 8 6 (3.352 %) UNIX Technical Specialist 9 4 (2.235 %) Solaris Administrator 9 4 (2.235 %) DBA 9 4 (2.235 %) Oracle DBA 10 3 (1.676 %) Analyst 10 3 (1.676 %) Infrastructure Consultant 10 3 (1.676 %) Infrastructure Manager 10 3 (1.676 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 10 3 (1.676 %) Java Developer 10 3 (1.676 %) WebSphere Administrator 11 2 (1.117 %) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 110 (61.45 %) Mainframe 2 101 (56.42 %) Tandem 3 7 (3.911 %) HACMP 4 2 (1.117 %) Management Information System 4 2 (1.117 %) Spanish Language 5 1 (0.559 %) Web 2.0 5 1 (0.559 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.559 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 148 (82.68 %) Unix 2 144 (80.45 %) AIX 3 112 (62.57 %) Solaris 4 107 (59.78 %) Windows 5 103 (57.54 %) HPUX 6 10 (5.587 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 82 (45.81 %) Change Management 2 9 (5.028 %) Load Balancing 3 7 (3.911 %) Migration 4 3 (1.676 %) Systems Analysis 4 3 (1.676 %) Knowledge Management 5 2 (1.117 %) OO 5 2 (1.117 %) CRM 5 2 (1.117 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (1.117 %) Data Migration 6 1 (0.559 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (0.559 %) Time Management 6 1 (0.559 %) Release Management 6 1 (0.559 %) Workflow 6 1 (0.559 %) Document Management 6 1 (0.559 %) Software Engineering	Programming Languages 1 18 (10.06 %) Perl 2 10 (5.587 %) SQL 3 4 (2.235 %) PL/SQL 3 4 (2.235 %) Korn 3 4 (2.235 %) Java 3 4 (2.235 %) C 4 2 (1.117 %) PHP 4 2 (1.117 %) Ruby 5 1 (0.559 %) VBScript 5 1 (0.559 %) JavaScript 5 1 (0.559 %) C++ 5 1 (0.559 %) COBOL 5 1 (0.559 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 1 (0.559 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (0.559 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 118 (65.92 %) Tivoli 2 104 (58.10 %) OMEGAMON 3 4 (2.235 %) Tivoli Monitoring 3 4 (2.235 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 3 (1.676 %) Tivoli Identity Manager 5 1 (0.559 %) OpenView 5 1 (0.559 %) CiscoWorks 5 1 (0.559 %) NNM	Vendors 1 33 (18.44 %) Cisco 2 17 (9.497 %) Oracle 3 12 (6.704 %) IBM 4 11 (6.145 %) HP 5 6 (3.352 %) Sun 6 3 (1.676 %) Business Objects 7 2 (1.117 %) Ab Initio 7 2 (1.117 %) Teradata 8 1 (0.559 %) VMware 8 1 (0.559 %) Compuware 8 1 (0.559 %) Progress 8 1 (0.559 %) Microsoft 8 1 (0.559 %) Informatica 8 1 (0.559 %) Mapinfo 8 1 (0.559 %) Autodesk 8 1 (0.559 %) ESRI