The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Korn skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Korn over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the 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.

Korn shell (ksh)
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank450397410
Rank change year-on-year
Down-53Up+13
Matching contract IT job ads129185126
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.218 %0.301 %0.229 %
As % of the Programming Languages category0.632 %0.807 %0.610 %
Number of daily rates quoted7612154
Average daily rate£475£425£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76 %-5.55 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£315£290£308
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£588£550£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£215£300£288
% change year-on-year
-28.33 %+4.34 %
Number of hourly rates quoted022
Average hourly rate-£47.00£37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+27.02 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£47.00£37.00
% change year-on-year
-+27.02 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
204102292520661
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK34.48 %37.36 %37.52 %
Number of daily rates quoted121261324810820
Average daily rate£375£413£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09 %-2.94 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£260£235
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£558£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted698916770
Average hourly rate£34.00£35.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85 %+16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.50£19.50£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£45.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.00£35.00£30.00
% change year-on-year
-2.85 %+16.66 %

Korn
Demand Trend

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

Korn Demand Trend

Korn
Daily Rate Trend

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

Korn Daily Rate Trend

Korn
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Korn within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Korn Daily Rate Histogram

Korn
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Korn Hourly Rate Trend

Korn
Top 24 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Korn within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-37128£475+9.19 %
LondonDown-686£484+6.37 %
City of LondonUp+1727£500+5.26 %
East of EnglandUp+1426£313+37.36 %
South EastDown-2313--
NorfolkNew entry-10--
NorwichNew entry-10--
East AngliaNew entry-9--
HampshireDown-57--
EssexNew entry-5£350-
BerkshireDown-154--
BasildonNew entry-4£356-
ReadingUp+13--
Canary WharfNew entry-3£500-
CambridgeshireDown-112£256+46.42 %
KentNew entry-2--
WinchesterNew entry-2--
Docklands, LondonUp+251--
PortsmouthUp+101--
North WestDown-121--
CambridgeDown-171£200+14.28 %
LiverpoolNew entry-1--
BasingstokeNew entry-1--
MerseysideNew entry-1--

Korn
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Korn 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 Korn.

1228 (87.02 %)UNIX
2143 (54.58 %)Linux
3130 (49.62 %)Shell Script
4122 (46.56 %)Oracle
5112 (42.75 %)Perl
6105 (40.08 %)SQL
7103 (39.31 %)Solaris
881 (30.92 %)Finance
979 (30.15 %)IBM
1077 (29.39 %)AIX
1175 (28.63 %)Red Hat
1264 (24.43 %)Windows
1360 (22.90 %)Java
1360 (22.90 %)Banking
1457 (21.76 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1457 (21.76 %)Bash shell
1556 (21.37 %)Veritas
1646 (17.56 %)Tivoli
1745 (17.18 %)Sybase
1843 (16.41 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1941 (15.65 %)Middleware
1941 (15.65 %)WebSphere
2040 (15.27 %)ITIL
2139 (14.89 %)SAN
2238 (14.50 %)DB2
2337 (14.12 %)SQL Server
2337 (14.12 %)LDAP
2436 (13.74 %)PL/SQL
2534 (12.98 %)TCP/IP
2534 (12.98 %)Investment Banking

Korn
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Korn 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 Korn. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
141 (15.65 %)Middleware
141 (15.65 %)WebSphere
230 (11.45 %).NET
318 (6.870 %)Web Services
414 (5.344 %)J2EE
414 (5.344 %)XML
511 (4.198 %)HTML
69 (3.435 %)WCF
69 (3.435 %)JMS
78 (3.053 %)JDBC
78 (3.053 %)Spring
87 (2.672 %)ASP
96 (2.290 %)AWT
96 (2.290 %)Swing
96 (2.290 %)CSS
96 (2.290 %)Software Packaging
96 (2.290 %)jQuery
96 (2.290 %)Ajax
105 (1.908 %)FIX Protocol
105 (1.908 %)FpML
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
124 (9.160 %)WebSphere Application Server
220 (7.634 %)IBM HTTP Server
315 (5.725 %)WebLogic
412 (4.580 %)Tomcat
412 (4.580 %)Apache
510 (3.817 %)IIS
69 (3.435 %)iPlanet
77 (2.672 %)Oracle Application Server
86 (2.290 %)Oracle 10gAS
95 (1.908 %)TIBCO EMS
95 (1.908 %)MQSeries
104 (1.527 %)SharePoint
104 (1.527 %)Documentum
104 (1.527 %)SharePoint 2010
113 (1.145 %)Oracle HTTP Server
113 (1.145 %)WebSphere MQ
122 (0.763 %)Oracle Workflow
122 (0.763 %)SAS
122 (0.763 %)TIBCO ActiveMatrix
122 (0.763 %)WebSphere Message Broker
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
113 (4.962 %)MS Excel
28 (3.053 %)MS Office
34 (1.527 %)MS Visio
34 (1.527 %)MS Project
34 (1.527 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (1.908 %)RMDS
24 (1.527 %)Oracle EBS
24 (1.527 %)Summit
24 (1.527 %)BusinessWorks
24 (1.527 %)WebTrends
24 (1.527 %)Sophis RISQUE
33 (1.145 %)assyst
33 (1.145 %)Oracle BRM
33 (1.145 %)Oracle EBS R12
42 (0.763 %)Maximo
51 (0.382 %)Temenos T24
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
139 (14.89 %)SAN
237 (14.12 %)LDAP
334 (12.98 %)TCP/IP
418 (6.870 %)VLAN
515 (5.725 %)HTTP
614 (5.344 %)SSL
79 (3.435 %)SSH
88 (3.053 %)DHCP
97 (2.672 %)NAS
97 (2.672 %)DNS
97 (2.672 %)Internet
106 (2.290 %)Firewall
114 (1.527 %)LAN
114 (1.527 %)WAN
114 (1.527 %)Nokia NetAct
123 (1.145 %)BIG-IP
123 (1.145 %)ATM
132 (0.763 %)FTP
132 (0.763 %)Intrusion Detection
141 (0.382 %)iSCSI
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
138 (14.50 %)DB2
237 (14.12 %)SQL Server
322 (8.397 %)Oracle 11g
420 (7.634 %)SQL Server 2005
517 (6.489 %)Sybase ASE
615 (5.725 %)Oracle 10g
615 (5.725 %)Sybase IQ
714 (5.344 %)RDBMS
813 (4.962 %)MySQL
911 (4.198 %)SQL Server Integration Services
911 (4.198 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
911 (4.198 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
911 (4.198 %)SQL Server 2008
911 (4.198 %)Data Warehouse
109 (3.435 %)SQL Server 2000
117 (2.672 %)Oracle 9i
117 (2.672 %)ETL
125 (1.908 %)Oracle 8/8i
134 (1.527 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
143 (1.145 %)Oracle Reports
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
111 (4.198 %)Ant
28 (3.053 %)JIRA
37 (2.672 %)Subversion
37 (2.672 %)JUnit
37 (2.672 %)Eclipse
46 (2.290 %)Visual Studio
55 (1.908 %)Oracle Forms
63 (1.145 %)ClearCase
63 (1.145 %)ClearQuest
72 (0.763 %)Bugzilla
72 (0.763 %)ERwin
81 (0.382 %)StarTeam
81 (0.382 %)Selenium
81 (0.382 %)TeamCity
81 (0.382 %)Git (software)
81 (0.382 %)Hudson
81 (0.382 %)VSS/SourceSafe
81 (0.382 %)TestDirector
81 (0.382 %)QuickTest Pro
81 (0.382 %)LoadRunner
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
181 (30.92 %)Finance
260 (22.90 %)Banking
334 (12.98 %)Investment Banking
422 (8.397 %)Financial Institution
521 (8.015 %)Back Office
611 (4.198 %)Front Office
78 (3.053 %)Retail
82 (0.763 %)Telecoms
91 (0.382 %)Billing
91 (0.382 %)Private Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
162 (23.66 %)Administrator
261 (23.28 %)DBA
336 (13.74 %)Developer
431 (11.83 %)Systems Administrator
530 (11.45 %)Analyst
622 (8.397 %)AIX Administrator
720 (7.634 %)Oracle DBA
819 (7.252 %)Sybase DBA
819 (7.252 %)Applications Support
916 (6.107 %)DB2 DBA
916 (6.107 %)Support Analyst
1013 (4.962 %)UNIX Administrator
1112 (4.580 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1211 (4.198 %)Software Engineer
1211 (4.198 %)Consultant
139 (3.435 %)Java Developer
148 (3.053 %)C# Developer
148 (3.053 %)WebSphere Administrator
157 (2.672 %)Server Administrator
157 (2.672 %)WebSphere Application Server Administra…
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
132 (12.21 %)Clustering
218 (6.870 %)Replication
316 (6.107 %)Hedge funds
412 (4.580 %)HACMP
511 (4.198 %)Derivative
69 (3.435 %)Client/Server
78 (3.053 %)Management Information System
78 (3.053 %)Credit Risk
86 (2.290 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
86 (2.290 %)Equity Derivative
95 (1.908 %)Open Source
95 (1.908 %)AS400
95 (1.908 %)Fixed Income
104 (1.527 %)LPAR
113 (1.145 %)Mainframe
122 (0.763 %)Grid Computing
122 (0.763 %)Computer Science
122 (0.763 %)PKI
122 (0.763 %)Tandem
131 (0.382 %)EqualLogic
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1228 (87.02 %)UNIX
2143 (54.58 %)Linux
3103 (39.31 %)Solaris
477 (29.39 %)AIX
564 (24.43 %)Windows
657 (21.76 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
729 (11.07 %)HPUX
815 (5.725 %)VMS
97 (2.672 %)Windows Server 2003
106 (2.290 %)OpenVMS
106 (2.290 %)Windows Server 2008
115 (1.908 %)SUSE
123 (1.145 %)Windows XP
132 (0.763 %)NetWare
141 (0.382 %)Windows Vista
141 (0.382 %)Ubuntu
141 (0.382 %)Windows 7
141 (0.382 %)Mac OS X
141 (0.382 %)Fedora
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
140 (15.27 %)ITIL
228 (10.69 %)Migration
320 (7.634 %)Change Management
320 (7.634 %)Root Cause Analysis
419 (7.252 %)Data Modelling
516 (6.107 %)Change Control
614 (5.344 %)OO
711 (4.198 %)E-Commerce
810 (3.817 %)Project Management
810 (3.817 %)PRINCE2
99 (3.435 %)Risk Management
108 (3.053 %)Electronic Trading
108 (3.053 %)Performance Management
108 (3.053 %)Software Testing
117 (2.672 %)Capacity Planning
126 (2.290 %)Business Intelligence
126 (2.290 %)Web Development
135 (1.908 %)Business Analysis
135 (1.908 %)Unit Testing
135 (1.908 %)Problem Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1130 (49.62 %)Shell Script
2112 (42.75 %)Perl
3105 (40.08 %)SQL
460 (22.90 %)Java
557 (21.76 %)Bash shell
636 (13.74 %)PL/SQL
732 (12.21 %)C++
829 (11.07 %)Bourne shell
923 (8.779 %)C#
1022 (8.397 %)C
1022 (8.397 %)Jython
1119 (7.252 %)C-shell
1216 (6.107 %)VBA
1216 (6.107 %)T-SQL
138 (3.053 %)AWK
138 (3.053 %)Python
138 (3.053 %)JavaScript
138 (3.053 %)PHP
147 (2.672 %)VBScript
156 (2.290 %)VB
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
111 (4.198 %)Security Cleared
29 (3.435 %)Degree
29 (3.435 %)ISEB
37 (2.672 %)SC Cleared
44 (1.527 %)Microsoft Certification
52 (0.763 %)Oracle Certification
52 (0.763 %)RHCE
61 (0.382 %)ITIL Certification
61 (0.382 %)OCP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
112 (4.580 %)QA
24 (1.527 %)SLA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
134 (12.98 %)Veritas Cluster Server
218 (6.870 %)Oracle RMAN
312 (4.580 %)VMware Infrastructure
410 (3.817 %)NFS
410 (3.817 %)Veritas File System
59 (3.435 %)Veritas Volume Manager
66 (2.290 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
75 (1.908 %)Active Directory
83 (1.145 %)Oracle RAC
83 (1.145 %)vSphere
92 (0.763 %)Samba
92 (0.763 %)Orbix
92 (0.763 %)PowerHA
101 (0.382 %)Hyper-V
101 (0.382 %)VMware ESXi
101 (0.382 %)VMware ESX
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
146 (17.56 %)Tivoli
243 (16.41 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
330 (11.45 %)Tivoli Monitoring
418 (6.870 %)OpenView
512 (4.580 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
69 (3.435 %)CA Wily
77 (2.672 %)Foglight
86 (2.290 %)Legato
86 (2.290 %)BladeLogic
94 (1.527 %)Control-M
94 (1.527 %)Oracle Identity Management
102 (0.763 %)HP Quality Center
102 (0.763 %)Data Guard
102 (0.763 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
111 (0.382 %)OMEGAMON
111 (0.382 %)Red Hat Satellite
111 (0.382 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
111 (0.382 %)CA SiteMinder
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1122 (46.56 %)Oracle
279 (30.15 %)IBM
375 (28.63 %)Red Hat
456 (21.37 %)Veritas
545 (17.18 %)Sybase
632 (12.21 %)HP
730 (11.45 %)Sun
822 (8.397 %)VMware
822 (8.397 %)Remedy
913 (4.962 %)Microsoft
1011 (4.198 %)JBoss
1011 (4.198 %)NetApp
119 (3.435 %)Sophis
119 (3.435 %)EMC
119 (3.435 %)TIBCO
127 (2.672 %)Lombardi
136 (2.290 %)Citrix
136 (2.290 %)Business Objects
145 (1.908 %)Wall Street Systems
154 (1.527 %)Teradata