The first table below looks at the demand for C-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 C-shell 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.

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
C shell (csh)
Rank 537 546 536
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -10
Contract jobs citing C-shell 3 35 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.060% 0.073%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.017% 0.173% 0.195%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 32 31
Average daily rate £525 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.52% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £225 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £598 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate - £208 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £47.00
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17606 20181 22529
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.29% 34.52% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10838 11956 13041
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 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £570 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 717 922
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 £16.62 £17.20 £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%

C-shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

C-shell Jobs Demand Trend

C-shell
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C-shell within the UK.

C-shell Daily Rate Trend

C-shell
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C-shell Hourly Rate Trend

C-shell
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C-shell within the UK 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
England +13 3 £525 +10.52%
City of London +8 3 £525 +16.66%
London -10 3 £525 +3.44%

C-shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing C-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 C-shell.

1 13 (86.67%) Perl
2 11 (73.33%) Oracle
3 10 (66.67%) UNIX
4 9 (60.00%) Solaris
4 9 (60.00%) Linux
4 9 (60.00%) Bash shell
5 8 (53.33%) Sybase
5 8 (53.33%) NFS
5 8 (53.33%) SAN
5 8 (53.33%) Veritas
5 8 (53.33%) Shell Script
5 8 (53.33%) Finance
6 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
6 6 (40.00%) Sun
7 4 (26.67%) Java
7 4 (26.67%) Apache
7 4 (26.67%) Subversion
7 4 (26.67%) Spring
7 4 (26.67%) Korn
8 3 (20.00%) WebSphere
8 3 (20.00%) Groovy
8 3 (20.00%) Banking
8 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
8 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
8 3 (20.00%) JBoss
8 3 (20.00%) XML
8 3 (20.00%) XSLT
8 3 (20.00%) ITIL
8 3 (20.00%) CSS
8 3 (20.00%) JavaScript

C-shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing C-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 C-shell. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (26.67%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (20.00%) XML
2 3 (20.00%) XSLT
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) LAMP
3 2 (13.33%) JSP
4 1 (6.667%) Spring MVC
4 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.667%) Java EE
4 1 (6.667%) JMS
4 1 (6.667%) Servlets
4 1 (6.667%) Web Services
4 1 (6.667%) .NET
4 1 (6.667%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Apache
2 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.667%) Documentum
3 1 (6.667%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
3 1 (6.667%) IIS
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (6.667%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (6.667%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) SMTP
2 2 (13.33%) HTTP
3 1 (6.667%) SSH
3 1 (6.667%) DNS
3 1 (6.667%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (13.33%) MarkLogic
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (6.667%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
2 2 (13.33%) Ant
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
2 2 (13.33%) NUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
3 1 (6.667%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.667%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) UNIX Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.667%) WebSphere Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Middleware Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.667%) GUI Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Clustering
2 2 (13.33%) Video on Demand
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Media
2 2 (13.33%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) UNIX
2 9 (60.00%) Solaris
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) SUSE
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.667%) Windows
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) Six Sigma
2 2 (13.33%) Lean Six Sigma
2 2 (13.33%) MVC
2 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (13.33%) TDD
2 2 (13.33%) Web Development
3 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.667%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (6.667%) Release Management
3 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Test Scripting
3 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.667%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (6.667%) ITIL V2
3 1 (6.667%) Change Control
3 1 (6.667%) Quality Management
3 1 (6.667%) Change Management
3 1 (6.667%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Perl
2 9 (60.00%) Bash shell
3 8 (53.33%) Shell Script
4 4 (26.67%) Java
4 4 (26.67%) Korn
5 3 (20.00%) Groovy
5 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (20.00%) C#
6 2 (13.33%) SQL
6 2 (13.33%) Python
6 2 (13.33%) Ruby
7 1 (6.667%) Jython
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) NFS
2 2 (13.33%) Samba
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Puppet
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Spacewalk
1 2 (13.33%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Oracle
2 8 (53.33%) Sybase
2 8 (53.33%) Veritas
3 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (40.00%) Sun
4 3 (20.00%) JBoss
5 2 (13.33%) HP
6 1 (6.667%) Business Objects
6 1 (6.667%) IBM
6 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.667%) Remedy
6 1 (6.667%) VMware
City of London
The successful candidate's main skills will be: * Knowledge of both Java and C# and very strong in one of them* Strong front end web development in HTML,...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013