The first table below looks at the demand for Bourne shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bourne shell 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 Surrey 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
Bourne shell
Rank - - 98
Contract jobs citing Bourne shell 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - - 0.165%
As % of the Programming Languages category - - 0.466%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £200 £338
% change year-on-year
+150.00% -40.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.00
All Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
420 652 644
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 36.30% 39.61% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 345 347
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 50 31
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £22.50 £23.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.60 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Bourne shell
South East

Bourne shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Bourne shell Jobs Demand Trend

Bourne shell
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Bourne shell across the Surrey region.

Surrey Bourne shell Daily Rate Trend

Bourne shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Bourne shell 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 Bourne shell.

1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) AWK
2 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) Korn
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas File System
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) HPUX
2 2 (66.67%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) OLTP
2 2 (66.67%) VLDB
2 2 (66.67%) Sun
2 2 (66.67%) Sun Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) BMC
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) AIX

Bourne shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Bourne shell 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 Bourne shell. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) OLTP
1 2 (66.67%) VLDB
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) HPUX
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) AWK
2 2 (66.67%) Korn
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Sun
1 2 (66.67%) BMC
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat