The first table below looks at the demand for Shell Script skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Shell Script over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Shell Script
Rank 73 58 79
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +21
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 60 83 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 2.849% 3.674% 1.880%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.663% 6.940% 3.735%
Number of salaries quoted 38 70 21
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +11.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,450 £11,600
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £40,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +0.62%
All Programming Languages
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
783 1196 937
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 37.18% 52.94% 50.32%
Number of salaries quoted 694 1082 785
Average salary £42,500 £38,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.38% -1.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Shell Script
Berkshire

Shell Script
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Shell Script Jobs Demand Trend

Shell Script
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Shell Script across the Reading region.

Reading Shell Script Salary Trend

Shell Script
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Shell Script across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading Shell Script Salary Histogram

Shell Script
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Shell Script.

1 108 (93.10%) UNIX
2 62 (53.45%) Oracle
2 62 (53.45%) Linux
3 55 (47.41%) Solaris
3 55 (47.41%) AIX
4 51 (43.97%) DB2
5 38 (32.76%) SAN
6 34 (29.31%) Java
7 32 (27.59%) HPUX
7 32 (27.59%) EMC
7 32 (27.59%) Red Hat
8 31 (26.72%) C
8 31 (26.72%) SUSE
8 31 (26.72%) Clustering
8 31 (26.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 30 (25.86%) Veritas
10 29 (25.00%) Hitachi
10 29 (25.00%) Sun
11 27 (23.28%) Replication
11 27 (23.28%) SQL
11 27 (23.28%) Sybase
11 27 (23.28%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (23.28%) IBM
11 27 (23.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 24 (20.69%) French Language
12 24 (20.69%) German Language
12 24 (20.69%) Perl
13 22 (18.97%) Finance
14 21 (18.10%) HP
15 20 (17.24%) ClearQuest

Shell Script
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Shell Script. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (17.24%) HTML
2 12 (10.34%) CGI
2 12 (10.34%) WebSphere
3 10 (8.621%) JDBC
4 8 (6.897%) Hibernate
4 8 (6.897%) JSON
4 8 (6.897%) Velocity
5 5 (4.310%) Flash
6 4 (3.448%) SOAP
6 4 (3.448%) Web Services
7 3 (2.586%) XML
7 3 (2.586%) HTML5
7 3 (2.586%) Memcached
7 3 (2.586%) Node.js
8 2 (1.724%) Apache Axis
8 2 (1.724%) Taglibs
8 2 (1.724%) RESTful
8 2 (1.724%) XSLT
8 2 (1.724%) DHTML
8 2 (1.724%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 12 (10.34%) WebSphere MQ
2 10 (8.621%) PowerExchange
2 10 (8.621%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.897%) Jetty
4 5 (4.310%) Apache
5 2 (1.724%) CMS
5 2 (1.724%) Magento
6 1 (0.862%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (6.897%) MS Office
2 2 (1.724%) Fireworks
2 2 (1.724%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.862%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 38 (32.76%) SAN
2 8 (6.897%) LDAP
3 5 (4.310%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.448%) Internet
5 3 (2.586%) Firewall
5 3 (2.586%) DNS
5 3 (2.586%) HTTP
5 3 (2.586%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.724%) NAS
6 2 (1.724%) LAN
6 2 (1.724%) WAN
7 1 (0.862%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (43.97%) DB2
2 27 (23.28%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.621%) Oracle 8/8i
3 10 (8.621%) Star Schema
4 7 (6.034%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (5.172%) TOAD
6 3 (2.586%) MySQL
6 3 (2.586%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.586%) Redis
7 2 (1.724%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (1.724%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.724%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 20 (17.24%) ClearCase
1 20 (17.24%) ClearQuest
2 18 (15.52%) Ant
3 10 (8.621%) JUnit
4 8 (6.897%) Maven
4 8 (6.897%) Jenkins
5 7 (6.034%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (5.172%) PVCS
7 2 (1.724%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.724%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.724%) Log4j
General
1 24 (20.69%) French Language
1 24 (20.69%) German Language
2 22 (18.97%) Finance
3 5 (4.310%) Italian Language
3 5 (4.310%) Spanish Language
4 4 (3.448%) Banking
5 3 (2.586%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.724%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.862%) Games
Job Titles
1 30 (25.86%) Developer
2 19 (16.38%) Technical Support
3 18 (15.52%) Support Engineer
3 18 (15.52%) UNIX Engineer
3 18 (15.52%) UNIX Support
4 14 (12.07%) Technical Support Engineer
4 14 (12.07%) Technical Engineer
5 12 (10.34%) Analyst
5 12 (10.34%) Software Manager
5 12 (10.34%) Informatica Developer
5 12 (10.34%) UNIX Support Engineer
6 11 (9.483%) Administrator
7 10 (8.621%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.759%) Support Analyst
8 9 (7.759%) Configuration Manager
8 9 (7.759%) Team Leader
8 9 (7.759%) Software Configuration Manager
9 8 (6.897%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (6.897%) Java Developer
9 8 (6.897%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.72%) Clustering
2 27 (23.28%) Replication
3 12 (10.34%) DataPower
4 10 (8.621%) Open Source
5 6 (5.172%) Computer Science
6 5 (4.310%) SaaS
7 4 (3.448%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.448%) Mathematics
8 3 (2.586%) HACMP
8 3 (2.586%) Device Driver
8 3 (2.586%) CLARiiON
8 3 (2.586%) LPAR
8 3 (2.586%) DLPAR
9 2 (1.724%) Flash Lite
9 2 (1.724%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.724%) STB
9 2 (1.724%) Statistics
10 1 (0.862%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 108 (93.10%) UNIX
2 62 (53.45%) Linux
3 55 (47.41%) AIX
3 55 (47.41%) Solaris
4 32 (27.59%) HPUX
5 31 (26.72%) SUSE
5 31 (26.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (11.21%) Windows
7 2 (1.724%) Windows 2000
7 2 (1.724%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.24%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (11.21%) Data Modelling
3 12 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (10.34%) ITIL
4 10 (8.621%) ETL
4 10 (8.621%) Regression Testing
5 9 (7.759%) Performance Management
5 9 (7.759%) Data Protection
6 8 (6.897%) OWASP
6 8 (6.897%) Performance Testing
6 8 (6.897%) Integration Testing
6 8 (6.897%) Multithreading
7 7 (6.034%) Service Delivery
7 7 (6.034%) Configuration Management
8 6 (5.172%) BPEL
8 6 (5.172%) Software Engineering
9 4 (3.448%) UML
9 4 (3.448%) Unit Testing
9 4 (3.448%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (2.586%) Cyber Security
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.31%) Java
2 31 (26.72%) C
3 27 (23.28%) SQL
4 24 (20.69%) Perl
5 20 (17.24%) PL/SQL
6 12 (10.34%) Python
6 12 (10.34%) C++
7 8 (6.897%) PHP
7 8 (6.897%) Bash shell
8 6 (5.172%) Ruby
8 6 (5.172%) Scala
9 2 (1.724%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.724%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.862%) ActionScript 3.0
10 1 (0.862%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Degree
2 6 (5.172%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.448%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.586%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.862%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.586%) QA
2 2 (1.724%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (23.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 9 (7.759%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (2.586%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.586%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.724%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.862%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.862%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (10.34%) HP Quality Center
2 9 (7.759%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 8 (6.897%) Ganglia
3 8 (6.897%) Zenoss
4 7 (6.034%) Puppet
5 5 (4.310%) Nagios
6 4 (3.448%) Tivoli
6 4 (3.448%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (2.586%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.724%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 62 (53.45%) Oracle
2 32 (27.59%) EMC
2 32 (27.59%) Red Hat
3 30 (25.86%) Veritas
4 29 (25.00%) Hitachi
4 29 (25.00%) Sun
5 27 (23.28%) Sybase
5 27 (23.28%) IBM
6 21 (18.10%) HP
7 13 (11.21%) Informatica
7 13 (11.21%) Ab Initio
8 8 (6.897%) Remedy
8 8 (6.897%) Niku
9 6 (5.172%) Manugistics
10 5 (4.310%) Cisco
11 4 (3.448%) VMware
12 3 (2.586%) Brocade
12 3 (2.586%) Symantec
12 3 (2.586%) NetApp
12 3 (2.586%) JBoss
Reading, Berkshire
Strong knowledge of at least 1 programming language: Python, Java, C++, Perl or Shell scripting. Great Linux/UNIX systems knowledge... Keywords/SEO: Senior DevOps Engineer, Systems Engineer, Internet...
Deanslist Limited
Salary: From £60,000 to £70,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
In addition to this you will also need to have knowledge of shell scripting and knowledge of at least one of (PHP, C++, Scala, Java, Ruby, or Python).
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40,000 - 60,000 depending on skills
Posted: 13 May 2013