The first table below looks at the demand for Bourne shell skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bourne shell over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bourne shell
Rank 518 578 537
Rank change year-on-year
+60 -41
Contract jobs citing Bourne shell 11 6 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.024% 0.010% 0.077%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.064% 0.030% 0.205%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 19
Average daily rate £494 £213 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+132.35% -52.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £446 £193 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £533 £359 £504
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £200 £338
% change year-on-year
+150.00% -40.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.00
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17282 20138 22889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.25% 34.53% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10652 11878 13292
Average daily rate £385 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 718 916
Average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £17.50 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%

Bourne shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Bourne shell Daily Rate Trend

Bourne shell
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Bourne shell within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bourne shell Daily Rate Histogram

Bourne shell
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Bourne shell within the UK.

Bourne shell Hourly Rate Trend

Bourne shell
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bourne shell within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +46 6 £475 +123.52%
London +39 5 £463 +17.08%
Scotland - 5 £513 -
City of London +17 3 £463 -
Erskine - 3 £525 -
Renfrewshire - 3 £525 -
Glasgow - 2 £425 -

Bourne shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 17 (80.95%) Korn
2 13 (61.90%) Perl
3 11 (52.38%) UNIX
3 11 (52.38%) Linux
3 11 (52.38%) Shell Script
4 9 (42.86%) Solaris
4 9 (42.86%) Windows
4 9 (42.86%) C
4 9 (42.86%) Java
5 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 6 (28.57%) Release Management
6 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
6 6 (28.57%) VBScript
6 6 (28.57%) Oracle
6 6 (28.57%) SAP
6 6 (28.57%) ERP
6 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (23.81%) SAP BW
7 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
7 5 (23.81%) Telecoms
7 5 (23.81%) Windows XP
7 5 (23.81%) SQL
7 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (23.81%) Security Architecture
7 5 (23.81%) Lumension
7 5 (23.81%) Bash shell
8 4 (19.05%) SaaS
8 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
8 4 (19.05%) Replication

Bourne shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

Application Development
1 3 (14.29%) SAP Basis
2 2 (9.524%) OLE
3 1 (4.762%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.762%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) NetWeaver
1 3 (14.29%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Summit
2 1 (4.762%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) SAN
2 1 (4.762%) NetScreen
2 1 (4.762%) Internet
2 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.762%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SAP BW
2 4 (19.05%) MySQL
2 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.524%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (9.524%) OLTP
3 2 (9.524%) SAP BI
3 2 (9.524%) VLDB
4 1 (4.762%) DataStage
4 1 (4.762%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (4.762%) OLAP
4 1 (4.762%) Essbase
General
1 5 (23.81%) Telecoms
2 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (9.524%) Front Office
4 2 (9.524%) Back Office
5 1 (4.762%) Law
5 1 (4.762%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.762%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) DBA
2 3 (14.29%) Administrator
2 3 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) MySQL DBA
3 2 (9.524%) UNIX Administrator
3 2 (9.524%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 2 (9.524%) Technical Leader
3 2 (9.524%) Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.762%) SAP Architect
4 1 (4.762%) MySQL Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) SAP BW Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Hyperion Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Solaris Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) SaaS
1 4 (19.05%) Replication
1 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 3 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 2 (9.524%) SWIFT
3 2 (9.524%) Clustering
3 2 (9.524%) Mathematics
3 2 (9.524%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.762%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) UNIX
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Solaris
2 9 (42.86%) Windows
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (23.81%) Windows XP
4 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (9.524%) AIX
5 2 (9.524%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Release Management
1 6 (28.57%) ERP
2 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (23.81%) Security Architecture
3 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 2 (9.524%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (9.524%) Demand Management
5 2 (9.524%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (9.524%) Logistics
5 2 (9.524%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (9.524%) Service Management
5 2 (9.524%) Benchmarking
6 1 (4.762%) Configuration Management
6 1 (4.762%) ETL
6 1 (4.762%) OO
6 1 (4.762%) ITIL
6 1 (4.762%) Information Security
6 1 (4.762%) Data Management
6 1 (4.762%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Korn
2 13 (61.90%) Perl
3 11 (52.38%) Shell Script
4 9 (42.86%) C
4 9 (42.86%) Java
5 6 (28.57%) VBScript
6 5 (23.81%) SQL
6 5 (23.81%) Bash shell
7 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
7 4 (19.05%) PHP
7 4 (19.05%) Python
8 3 (14.29%) ABAP
9 2 (9.524%) AWK
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.524%) Degree
3 2 (9.524%) Sun Certification
4 1 (4.762%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.524%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (9.524%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) NetBackup
1 2 (9.524%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (4.762%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (4.762%) HP UCMDB
2 1 (4.762%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle
1 6 (28.57%) SAP
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Lumension
3 3 (14.29%) IXOS
4 2 (9.524%) McAfee
4 2 (9.524%) Veritas
4 2 (9.524%) Sun
4 2 (9.524%) BMC
5 1 (4.762%) Hyperion
5 1 (4.762%) HP
5 1 (4.762%) Cisco
5 1 (4.762%) IBM
5 1 (4.762%) Brio
5 1 (4.762%) Alias
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Posted: 20 May 2013