The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shell Script 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 for the West Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Shell Script
Rank 77 82 85
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +3
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 19 27 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.130% 1.202% 0.484%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.661% 3.567% 1.468%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 4
Average daily rate £353 £375 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.00% -5.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £337
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £416 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £411 £333
% change year-on-year
-14.89% +23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £35.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.96% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-13.24% -2.63%
All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
519 757 613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 30.87% 33.69% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 385 317
Average daily rate £325 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 31 28
Average hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.28% +47.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.10 £12.50 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.50 £30.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Shell Script across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

West Midlands Shell Script Jobs Demand Trend

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Shell Script across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Shell Script Daily Rate Trend

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Shell Script across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Midlands Shell Script Daily Rate Histogram

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Shell Script across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Shell Script Hourly Rate Trend

Shell Script
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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +5 9 £400 -5.88%
Shropshire +2 4 £325 -13.33%
Worcestershire - 2 £348 -
Coventry - 1 £325 -
Herefordshire - 1 £359 -
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

1 48 (96.00%) UNIX
2 38 (76.00%) Oracle
3 20 (40.00%) SQL
4 19 (38.00%) AIX
5 17 (34.00%) Finance
6 14 (28.00%) Solaris
6 14 (28.00%) RDBMS
7 13 (26.00%) J2EE
8 11 (22.00%) PL/SQL
9 10 (20.00%) Linux
10 9 (18.00%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (18.00%) C
10 9 (18.00%) SAN
10 9 (18.00%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (16.00%) Oracle 11g
11 8 (16.00%) Waterfall
11 8 (16.00%) C++
12 7 (14.00%) HPUX
12 7 (14.00%) Windows
12 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (14.00%) BPEL
12 7 (14.00%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (14.00%) Oracle EBS
12 7 (14.00%) Workflow
12 7 (14.00%) Oracle BPEL
12 7 (14.00%) Oracle BI EE
13 6 (12.00%) ProC
13 6 (12.00%) Sun
13 6 (12.00%) HP
13 6 (12.00%) Java

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

Application Development
1 13 (26.00%) J2EE
2 5 (10.00%) CGI
3 1 (2.000%) Web Services
3 1 (2.000%) XML
3 1 (2.000%) Middleware
3 1 (2.000%) LAMP
3 1 (2.000%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.000%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.000%) Java EE
3 1 (2.000%) Oracle Streams
Application Platforms
1 7 (14.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 7 (14.00%) Oracle BPEL
2 4 (8.000%) Apache
2 4 (8.000%) Tomcat
2 4 (8.000%) MS Exchange
3 3 (6.000%) Exchange Server 5.5
3 3 (6.000%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2000
4 2 (4.000%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.000%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.000%) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (6.000%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (2.000%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) SAN
2 3 (6.000%) X.500
3 2 (4.000%) Firewall
3 2 (4.000%) HTTP
3 2 (4.000%) WAN
4 1 (2.000%) VoIP
4 1 (2.000%) DHCP
4 1 (2.000%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.000%) FTP
4 1 (2.000%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.000%) VPN
4 1 (2.000%) IPv4
4 1 (2.000%) IPsec
4 1 (2.000%) NetScreen
4 1 (2.000%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) RDBMS
2 8 (16.00%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (14.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (6.000%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.000%) Oracle OWB
6 1 (2.000%) MySQL
6 1 (2.000%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (12.00%) ProC
3 3 (6.000%) COOL:Gen
4 1 (2.000%) ClearCase
General
1 17 (34.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.000%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.000%) Investment Banking
3 3 (6.000%) Banking
3 3 (6.000%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (4.000%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) DBA
2 9 (18.00%) Oracle DBA
3 7 (14.00%) Administrator
4 6 (12.00%) C Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) UNIX Developer
6 4 (8.000%) Tester
6 4 (8.000%) Systems Tester
6 4 (8.000%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 4 (8.000%) UNIX Administrator
7 3 (6.000%) SQL Developer
7 3 (6.000%) QA Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) Development Team Leader
7 3 (6.000%) Team Leader
7 3 (6.000%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) Consultant
8 2 (4.000%) Lead Analyst Programmer
8 2 (4.000%) Lead Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.000%) Symmetrix DMX
2 2 (4.000%) HP Superdome
2 2 (4.000%) Replication
3 1 (2.000%) HACMP
3 1 (2.000%) IVR
3 1 (2.000%) Clustering
3 1 (2.000%) Handset
3 1 (2.000%) LPAR
3 1 (2.000%) DLPAR
3 1 (2.000%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 48 (96.00%) UNIX
2 19 (38.00%) AIX
3 14 (28.00%) Solaris
4 10 (20.00%) Linux
5 7 (14.00%) HPUX
5 7 (14.00%) Windows
6 3 (6.000%) SUSE
7 2 (4.000%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (2.000%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.00%) Waterfall
2 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (14.00%) BPEL
2 7 (14.00%) Workflow
3 5 (10.00%) System Testing
4 4 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (8.000%) Integration Testing
4 4 (8.000%) Software Testing
4 4 (8.000%) OO
4 4 (8.000%) RUP
5 3 (6.000%) ITIL
5 3 (6.000%) RDF
5 3 (6.000%) Fund Management
5 3 (6.000%) Wealth Management
5 3 (6.000%) Business Transformation
5 3 (6.000%) ITIL V3
6 2 (4.000%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (4.000%) Configuration Management
6 2 (4.000%) Project Management
6 2 (4.000%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.00%) SQL
2 11 (22.00%) PL/SQL
3 9 (18.00%) C
4 8 (16.00%) C++
5 6 (12.00%) Java
6 5 (10.00%) Perl
7 3 (6.000%) T-SQL
7 3 (6.000%) Korn
8 1 (2.000%) PHP
8 1 (2.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.000%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.000%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.000%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.000%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 4 (8.000%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (6.000%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (6.000%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (6.000%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (4.000%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.000%) Samba
4 1 (2.000%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.000%) XenServer
4 1 (2.000%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (8.000%) Data Guard
2 2 (4.000%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (4.000%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.000%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.000%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 1 (2.000%) Tivoli Remote Control
3 1 (2.000%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (2.000%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (2.000%) WSUS
3 1 (2.000%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (2.000%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 38 (76.00%) Oracle
2 6 (12.00%) Sun
2 6 (12.00%) HP
3 5 (10.00%) VMware
3 5 (10.00%) Pega
4 3 (6.000%) JBoss
4 3 (6.000%) Sybase
4 3 (6.000%) EMC
4 3 (6.000%) Northgate
4 3 (6.000%) Veritas
5 2 (4.000%) BEA
6 1 (2.000%) Business Objects
6 1 (2.000%) Progress
6 1 (2.000%) Cisco
6 1 (2.000%) IBM
6 1 (2.000%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.000%) webMethods
6 1 (2.000%) Juniper
6 1 (2.000%) BMC
6 1 (2.000%) Citrix
Birmingham, West Midlands
Must have skillsVisual Basic 6 Visual Basic .NET (ideally Visual Studio 2008 or above) Ideally have (but not absolutely essential) Oracle PL/SQL (10g or higher) ViewStar (OpenText...
Capita Resourcing
Rate: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013