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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 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.

LinkShell Script
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank136144143
Rank change year-on-year
Up+8Down-1
Matching contract IT job ads600402887
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.250 %1.016 %1.079 %
As % of the Programming Languages category3.240 %3.269 %3.098 %
Daily rates quoted324139304
Average daily rate£425£400£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.250 %-5.880 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£294£275£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£338£325£373
% change year-on-year
+3.840 %-12.75 %
Hourly rates quoted121425
Average hourly rate£34.50£42.50£37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.82 %+13.33 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£32.55£33.25£23.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.00£49.25£48.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.00£42.50£36.25
% change year-on-year
-20.00 %+17.24 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
185161229928630
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK38.57 %31.08 %34.84 %
Daily rates quoted914642449241
Average daily rate£414£363£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.06 %-9.370 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£230£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted9009412051
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--11.76 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£15.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.50£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-14.28 %

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.

Shell Script
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Shell Script within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Shell Script Demand Trend

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend

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

Shell Script Daily Rate Trend

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Shell Script within the UK over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

Shell Script Daily Rate Histogram

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. 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
EnglandUp+10560£450+12.50 %
LondonUp+44414£475+11.76 %
City of LondonUp+19167£500+11.11 %
South EastDown-2863£365+9.77 %
ScotlandUp+1832£325+18.18 %
East of EnglandUp+330£375-8.53 %
North WestDown-425£313-10.07 %
Docklands, LondonUp+423£425-5.55 %
GlasgowUp+620£318+16.51 %
HampshireDown-420£380-1.93 %
BerkshireDown-219£350+5.26 %
EssexUp+518£375-16.66 %
YorkshireUp+913£338+0.74 %
BuckinghamshireUp+212£320-
South WestDown-711£363+13.99 %
CheshireNew entry-9£285-
ReadingUp+78£375+10.29 %
HertfordshireUp+17£425+54.54 %
West YorkshireDown-17£350-
ManchesterDown-307£313-26.47 %
ColchesterNew entry-7£388-
Milton KeynesUp+46£320-
EdinburghDown-106£275-26.66 %
SurreyDown-196£336-10.40 %
KnutsfordNew entry-6£300-
LeedsUp+105£350-
South YorkshireUp+85£254-24.25 %
Canary WharfDown-345£500-13.04 %
MerseysideNew entry-5£320-
LiverpoolNew entry-5£320-

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1820 (76.00 %)UNIX
2484 (44.86 %)Oracle
3470 (43.56 %)SQL
4389 (36.05 %)Linux
5385 (35.68 %)Banking
6384 (35.59 %)Java
7322 (29.84 %)Perl
8279 (25.86 %)Investment Banking
9265 (24.56 %)Finance
10263 (24.37 %)Sybase
11262 (24.28 %)Solaris
12190 (17.61 %)PL/SQL
13180 (16.68 %)C++
14168 (15.57 %)Windows
15133 (12.33 %)Red Hat Linux
16130 (12.05 %)J2EE
17128 (11.86 %)XML
17128 (11.86 %)Red Hat
18112 (10.38 %)Front Office
19109 (10.10 %)Oracle 10g
20107 (9.917 %)Derivative
21106 (9.824 %)OO
22100 (9.268 %)C#
2398 (9.082 %)C
2488 (8.156 %)SQL Server
2585 (7.878 %)AIX
2679 (7.322 %)IBM
2778 (7.229 %)Spring
2876 (7.044 %)Subversion
2876 (7.044 %)Bash shell

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1130 (12.05 %)J2EE
2128 (11.86 %)XML
378 (7.229 %)Spring
463 (5.839 %).NET
560 (5.561 %)WebSphere
560 (5.561 %)JMS
659 (5.468 %)Hibernate
742 (3.892 %)Middleware
840 (3.707 %)STL
939 (3.614 %)JSP
1037 (3.429 %)Swing
1136 (3.336 %)Web Services
1136 (3.336 %)JDBC
1232 (2.966 %)HTML
1331 (2.873 %)Struts
1425 (2.317 %)XSLT
1522 (2.039 %)SOAP
1621 (1.946 %)WinForms
1621 (1.946 %)ASP.NET
1720 (1.854 %)J2SE
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
176 (7.044 %)Apache
267 (6.209 %)Tomcat
341 (3.800 %)WebLogic
424 (2.224 %)MQSeries
520 (1.854 %)WebSphere Message Broker
618 (1.668 %)WebSphere MQ
717 (1.576 %)Oracle Workflow
815 (1.390 %)WebSphere Application Server
815 (1.390 %)Oracle Application Server
914 (1.297 %)Documentum
1013 (1.205 %)IIS
1111 (1.019 %)Oracle Service Bus
129 (0.834 %)OpenROAD
129 (0.834 %)Oracle 10gAS
137 (0.649 %)Rendezvous
137 (0.649 %)IBM HTTP Server
137 (0.649 %)ESB
146 (0.556 %)SAS
155 (0.463 %)ColdFusion
155 (0.463 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
114 (1.297 %)MS Excel
211 (1.019 %)MS Office
34 (0.371 %)MS Project
43 (0.278 %)MS PowerPoint
52 (0.185 %)MS Visio
61 (0.093 %)DOC1
61 (0.093 %)CA Clarity
61 (0.093 %)PrintSoft PReS
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
120 (1.854 %)RMDS
219 (1.761 %)Summit
313 (1.205 %)Oracle 11i
313 (1.205 %)Oracle Applications
412 (1.112 %)Oracle EBS R12
412 (1.112 %)Global One
511 (1.019 %)Oracle iProcurement
68 (0.741 %)Oracle EBS
68 (0.741 %)Singl.eView
75 (0.463 %)Cerner Millennium
84 (0.371 %)Minerva
84 (0.371 %)Siebel Analytics
84 (0.371 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
93 (0.278 %)Endur
93 (0.278 %)GL Clearvision
102 (0.185 %)assyst
102 (0.185 %)Kondor+
102 (0.185 %)Oracle General Ledger
102 (0.185 %)WebTrends
102 (0.185 %)BusinessWorks
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
164 (5.931 %)SAN
242 (3.892 %)DNS
334 (3.151 %)TCP/IP
429 (2.688 %)Firewall
525 (2.317 %)LDAP
624 (2.224 %)HTTP
624 (2.224 %)Internet
718 (1.668 %)SSL
815 (1.390 %)LAN
914 (1.297 %)SMTP
1011 (1.019 %)WAN
1110 (0.927 %)VPN
128 (0.741 %)SSH
136 (0.556 %)SIGTRAN
136 (0.556 %)3G
136 (0.556 %)DHCP
145 (0.463 %)GSM
145 (0.463 %)INAP
145 (0.463 %)Cisco PIX
154 (0.371 %)BIG-IP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1109 (10.10 %)Oracle 10g
288 (8.156 %)SQL Server
373 (6.766 %)Oracle 9i
461 (5.653 %)RDBMS
551 (4.727 %)Datawarehouse
642 (3.892 %)ETL
739 (3.614 %)MySQL
739 (3.614 %)Oracle 11g
838 (3.522 %)Sybase ASE
935 (3.244 %)SQL Server 2005
1034 (3.151 %)Oracle Reports
1131 (2.873 %)Oracle 8/8i
1223 (2.132 %)Sybase IQ
1223 (2.132 %)BusinessObjects
1320 (1.854 %)SQLPlus
1416 (1.483 %)PowerCenter
1514 (1.297 %)SQL Server 2000
1613 (1.205 %)TOAD
1711 (1.019 %)DB2
1711 (1.019 %)Ingres
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
176 (7.044 %)Subversion
261 (5.653 %)JUnit
359 (5.468 %)Ant
433 (3.058 %)Maven
526 (2.410 %)Eclipse
625 (2.317 %)Oracle Forms
625 (2.317 %)ClearCase
625 (2.317 %)TeamCity
712 (1.112 %)ClearQuest
712 (1.112 %)QuickTest Pro
810 (0.927 %)WinRunner
99 (0.834 %)LoadRunner
108 (0.741 %)EasyMock
116 (0.556 %)Selenium
116 (0.556 %)FitNesse
125 (0.463 %)TestDirector
125 (0.463 %)jMock
125 (0.463 %)CruiseControl
134 (0.371 %)ProC
143 (0.278 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1385 (35.68 %)Banking
2279 (25.86 %)Investment Banking
3265 (24.56 %)Finance
4112 (10.38 %)Front Office
549 (4.541 %)Back Office
635 (3.244 %)Telecoms
728 (2.595 %)Government
824 (2.224 %)Financial Institution
919 (1.761 %)Games
1015 (1.390 %)Education
1113 (1.205 %)General Ledger
1211 (1.019 %)Law
1211 (1.019 %)Retail
139 (0.834 %)Corporate Banking
148 (0.741 %)Health
157 (0.649 %)Billing
165 (0.463 %)Auditing
165 (0.463 %)Online Games
174 (0.371 %)Home Office
183 (0.278 %)Manufacturing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1467 (43.28 %)Developer
2148 (13.72 %)Java Developer
3141 (13.07 %)Administrator
4125 (11.58 %)Analyst
5109 (10.10 %)DBA
687 (8.063 %)Systems Administrator
771 (6.580 %)Oracle Developer
869 (6.395 %)Oracle DBA
967 (6.209 %)C++ Developer
1059 (5.468 %)Senior Developer
1149 (4.541 %)Support Analyst
1243 (3.985 %)Linux Administrator
1243 (3.985 %)Consultant
1342 (3.892 %)UNIX Administrator
1435 (3.244 %)Linux Systems Administrator
1532 (2.966 %)C# Developer
1630 (2.780 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1728 (2.595 %)SQL Developer
1827 (2.502 %)Sybase Developer
1827 (2.502 %)Applications Support
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1107 (9.917 %)Derivative
264 (5.931 %)Equities
357 (5.283 %)Clustering
456 (5.190 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
547 (4.356 %)Replication
645 (4.171 %)Fixed Income
736 (3.336 %)Market Risk
828 (2.595 %)Open Source
925 (2.317 %)Equity Derivative
1024 (2.224 %)Credit Risk
1123 (2.132 %)Client/Server
1222 (2.039 %)HACMP
1312 (1.112 %)Credit Derivative
1411 (1.019 %)Mainframe
1411 (1.019 %)Mathematics
1510 (0.927 %)Data Integration
1510 (0.927 %)Grid Computing
168 (0.741 %)Interest Rate Derivative
168 (0.741 %)Multithreading
177 (0.649 %)Computer Science
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1820 (76.00 %)UNIX
2389 (36.05 %)Linux
3262 (24.28 %)Solaris
4168 (15.57 %)Windows
5133 (12.33 %)Red Hat Linux
685 (7.878 %)AIX
751 (4.727 %)HPUX
837 (3.429 %)Windows Server 2003
932 (2.966 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1026 (2.410 %)SUSE
1121 (1.946 %)Windows XP
1213 (1.205 %)Windows Server 2008
138 (0.741 %)NetWare
147 (0.649 %)Tru64
156 (0.556 %)CentOS
165 (0.463 %)Windows NT
165 (0.463 %)Windows 2000
165 (0.463 %)Debian
174 (0.371 %)Ubuntu
174 (0.371 %)VMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1106 (9.824 %)OO
262 (5.746 %)Migration
346 (4.263 %)ITIL
436 (3.336 %)Data Modelling
533 (3.058 %)Workflow
632 (2.966 %)Configuration Management
729 (2.688 %)Risk Management
828 (2.595 %)Asset Management
925 (2.317 %)Agile Software Development
925 (2.317 %)Continuous Integration
1024 (2.224 %)Business Analysis
1123 (2.132 %)OOD
1123 (2.132 %)SOA
1222 (2.039 %)Scrum
1222 (2.039 %)Project Management
1321 (1.946 %)E-Commerce
1420 (1.854 %)Disaster Recovery
1420 (1.854 %)Performance Management
1518 (1.668 %)TDD
1617 (1.576 %)User Acceptance Testing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1470 (43.56 %)SQL
2384 (35.59 %)Java
3322 (29.84 %)Perl
4190 (17.61 %)PL/SQL
5180 (16.68 %)C++
6100 (9.268 %)C#
798 (9.082 %)C
876 (7.044 %)Bash shell
968 (6.302 %)Korn
1049 (4.541 %)JavaScript
1049 (4.541 %)VBA
1143 (3.985 %)PHP
1236 (3.336 %)Python
1331 (2.873 %)VB
1420 (1.854 %)VBScript
1518 (1.668 %)T-SQL
1518 (1.668 %)C-shell
1611 (1.019 %)Jython
179 (0.834 %)Tcl
179 (0.834 %)Bourne shell
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
161 (5.653 %)Security Cleared
232 (2.966 %)SC Cleared
324 (2.224 %)Degree
419 (1.761 %)OCP
419 (1.761 %)Oracle Certification
515 (1.390 %)DV Cleared
69 (0.834 %)ISEB
77 (0.649 %)ITIL Certification
86 (0.556 %)RHCE
86 (0.556 %)Sun Certification
95 (0.463 %)BC Cleared
95 (0.463 %)RHCT
104 (0.371 %)Microsoft Certification
113 (0.278 %)CISSP
122 (0.185 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
122 (0.185 %)MCITP
122 (0.185 %)CTC Cleared
122 (0.185 %)CISA
122 (0.185 %)CISM
122 (0.185 %)MCP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
144 (4.078 %)QA
213 (1.205 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
39 (0.834 %)SLA
43 (0.278 %)COBIT
43 (0.278 %)ISO27001
51 (0.093 %)ISO17799
51 (0.093 %)PCI DSS
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
157 (5.283 %)Oracle RAC
242 (3.892 %)Oracle RMAN
333 (3.058 %)NFS
430 (2.780 %)Veritas Cluster Server
528 (2.595 %)VMware Infrastructure
625 (2.317 %)Veritas Volume Manager
714 (1.297 %)Active Directory
813 (1.205 %)VMware ESX
94 (0.371 %)Sendmail
103 (0.278 %)Samba
112 (0.185 %)SRDF
112 (0.185 %)Hyper-V
112 (0.185 %)OpenLDAP
112 (0.185 %)qmail
112 (0.185 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
121 (0.093 %)Postfix
121 (0.093 %)Hadoop
121 (0.093 %)Xen
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
154 (5.005 %)Data Guard
247 (4.356 %)AutoSys
336 (3.336 %)Tivoli
427 (2.502 %)BMC PATROL
515 (1.390 %)NetBackup
613 (1.205 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
613 (1.205 %)Nagios
79 (0.834 %)OpenView
88 (0.741 %)Cacti
88 (0.741 %)Tivoli Monitoring
97 (0.649 %)Oracle Statspack
106 (0.556 %)CONTROL-M
115 (0.463 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
115 (0.463 %)BMC Performance Manager
124 (0.371 %)HP NNM
124 (0.371 %)OVOU
124 (0.371 %)OVPI
124 (0.371 %)OVPM
124 (0.371 %)SCOM
124 (0.371 %)MSI
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1484 (44.86 %)Oracle
2263 (24.37 %)Sybase
3128 (11.86 %)Red Hat
479 (7.322 %)IBM
566 (6.117 %)HP
664 (5.931 %)Sun
757 (5.283 %)Veritas
841 (3.800 %)JBoss
939 (3.614 %)VMware
1035 (3.244 %)Informatica
1035 (3.244 %)EMC
1127 (2.502 %)BMC
1127 (2.502 %)Reuters
1226 (2.410 %)Hitachi
1325 (2.317 %)Cisco
1424 (2.224 %)Murex
1424 (2.224 %)TIBCO
1523 (2.132 %)Business Objects
1619 (1.761 %)Microsoft
1718 (1.668 %)Bloomberg