The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 21 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 North West 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Shell Script
Rank 77 63 81
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +18
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 42 76 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.779% 2.410% 1.628%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.440% 7.143% 5.562%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 34 31
Average daily rate £321 £343 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.49% +14.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £475 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £411 £333
% change year-on-year
-14.89% +23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-13.24% -2.63%
All Programming Languages
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
772 1064 881
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 32.70% 33.73% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 592 488
Average daily rate £315 £318 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.78% +4.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 53 46
Average hourly rate £33.00 £21.86 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.96% -20.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.63 £15.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Manchester +3 20 £321 +14.46%
Cheshire -17 15 £300 -20.00%
Merseyside +2 2 £475 -
Lancashire +11 1 - -
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 52 (69.33%) UNIX
2 35 (46.67%) SQL
3 34 (45.33%) Oracle
4 31 (41.33%) AIX
5 29 (38.67%) Linux
6 27 (36.00%) Windows
7 18 (24.00%) Middleware
7 18 (24.00%) Oracle 11g
8 16 (21.33%) Change Management
8 16 (21.33%) XML
8 16 (21.33%) Java
9 14 (18.67%) Oracle 10g
9 14 (18.67%) Service Delivery
9 14 (18.67%) Oracle RAC
10 13 (17.33%) Data Guard
11 12 (16.00%) Tivoli
11 12 (16.00%) Finance
11 12 (16.00%) IBM
11 12 (16.00%) PL/SQL
11 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
12 11 (14.67%) Configuration Management
13 10 (13.33%) PowerExchange
13 10 (13.33%) WebSphere MQ
13 10 (13.33%) Perl
13 10 (13.33%) Informatica
13 10 (13.33%) Problem Management
13 10 (13.33%) Banking
14 9 (12.00%) LDAP
14 9 (12.00%) Solaris
14 9 (12.00%) Migration

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 18 (24.00%) Middleware
2 16 (21.33%) XML
3 8 (10.67%) Web Services
4 6 (8.000%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
4 6 (8.000%) SPNEGO
4 6 (8.000%) XSLT
4 6 (8.000%) J2EE
5 5 (6.667%) XSD
6 4 (5.333%) jQuery
6 4 (5.333%) Spring MVC
6 4 (5.333%) Spring
6 4 (5.333%) Hibernate
7 3 (4.000%) OLE
7 3 (4.000%) Esper
7 3 (4.000%) WebSphere
7 3 (4.000%) Drools
8 2 (2.667%) SOAP
8 2 (2.667%) JMS
9 1 (1.333%) .NET
9 1 (1.333%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (13.33%) PowerExchange
1 10 (13.33%) WebSphere MQ
2 6 (8.000%) ESB
3 5 (6.667%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (6.667%) Oracle Spatial
3 5 (6.667%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 3 (4.000%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 8 (10.67%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.333%) SAP R/3
2 3 (4.000%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (4.000%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) LDAP
2 6 (8.000%) Network Security
2 6 (8.000%) X.509
2 6 (8.000%) SMS
2 6 (8.000%) Kerberos
3 5 (6.667%) SSL
3 5 (6.667%) SAN
4 3 (4.000%) DNS
4 3 (4.000%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.333%) HTTP
5 1 (1.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.00%) Oracle 11g
2 14 (18.67%) Oracle 10g
3 8 (10.67%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.333%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.000%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.000%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (4.000%) SAP BI
5 3 (4.000%) SAP BW
6 2 (2.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.667%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.667%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.333%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (4.000%) Gradle
2 2 (2.667%) PVCS
2 2 (2.667%) Ant
2 2 (2.667%) JUnit
2 2 (2.667%) TestDirector
3 1 (1.333%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.333%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.333%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.333%) Xcode
3 1 (1.333%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 12 (16.00%) Finance
2 10 (13.33%) Banking
3 6 (8.000%) Retail
4 2 (2.667%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (17.33%) Developer
2 12 (16.00%) DBA
2 12 (16.00%) Oracle DBA
3 11 (14.67%) Administrator
4 9 (12.00%) Consultant
5 5 (6.667%) Analyst
5 5 (6.667%) Java Developer
5 5 (6.667%) AIX Administrator
5 5 (6.667%) Informatica Specialist
6 4 (5.333%) Exchange Specialist
6 4 (5.333%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.333%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (4.000%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.000%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.000%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.000%) Storage Systems Administrator
7 3 (4.000%) AIX Engineer
7 3 (4.000%) Technical Administrator
7 3 (4.000%) TIBCO Support
7 3 (4.000%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Clustering
2 4 (5.333%) LPAR
2 4 (5.333%) HACMP
3 3 (4.000%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.000%) Equities
3 3 (4.000%) DLPAR
3 3 (4.000%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.333%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.333%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.333%) SaaS
4 1 (1.333%) Cryptography
4 1 (1.333%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 52 (69.33%) UNIX
2 31 (41.33%) AIX
3 29 (38.67%) Linux
4 27 (36.00%) Windows
5 9 (12.00%) Solaris
6 7 (9.333%) HPUX
6 7 (9.333%) Tru64
7 5 (6.667%) zOS
7 5 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.333%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.333%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.333%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (1.333%) Android
8 1 (1.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.33%) Change Management
2 14 (18.67%) Service Delivery
3 11 (14.67%) Configuration Management
4 10 (13.33%) Problem Management
5 9 (12.00%) Migration
6 8 (10.67%) SOA
7 7 (9.333%) Change Data Capture
8 6 (8.000%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (8.000%) Identity Management
9 5 (6.667%) ITIL
9 5 (6.667%) Service Management
9 5 (6.667%) Workflow
9 5 (6.667%) MVC
9 5 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (5.333%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (4.000%) ETL
11 3 (4.000%) EAI
11 3 (4.000%) Pair Programming
12 2 (2.667%) Web Development
12 2 (2.667%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.67%) SQL
2 16 (21.33%) Java
3 12 (16.00%) PL/SQL
4 10 (13.33%) Perl
5 4 (5.333%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.000%) C
7 2 (2.667%) Korn
7 2 (2.667%) Bourne shell
7 2 (2.667%) Bash shell
7 2 (2.667%) C#
7 2 (2.667%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.333%) Python
8 1 (1.333%) PHP
8 1 (1.333%) VB
8 1 (1.333%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.333%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.000%) Degree
4 2 (2.667%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.333%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.333%) QA
System Software
1 14 (18.67%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (6.667%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 4 (5.333%) PowerHA
3 4 (5.333%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (4.000%) VMware ESX
4 3 (4.000%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.333%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (17.33%) Data Guard
2 12 (16.00%) Tivoli
3 6 (8.000%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (4.000%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (1.333%) Unicenter
5 1 (1.333%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 34 (45.33%) Oracle
2 12 (16.00%) IBM
3 10 (13.33%) Informatica
4 7 (9.333%) SAP
4 7 (9.333%) VMware
5 5 (6.667%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.333%) JBoss
7 3 (4.000%) HP
7 3 (4.000%) NetApp
7 3 (4.000%) TIBCO
8 2 (2.667%) Brocade
8 2 (2.667%) Hitachi
9 1 (1.333%) CA
9 1 (1.333%) SunGard
9 1 (1.333%) AppSense
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