The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSH 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 Communications & Networking category for the City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Shell (SSH)
Rank 198 209 239
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +30
Contract jobs citing SSH 3 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.048% 0.051% 0.071%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.357% 0.395% 0.709%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
Average daily rate £325 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £145 £340 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £420 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £380
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -30.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.59 £67.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-56.16% +43.61%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
841 1013 987
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.36% 13.02% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 689 644
Average daily rate £393 £413 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.84% +6.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 42 69
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +6.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.30 £17.75 £13.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SSH
London

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SSH across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London SSH Jobs Demand Trend

SSH
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SSH across the City of London region.

City of London SSH Daily Rate Trend

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SSH across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London SSH Daily Rate Histogram

SSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing SSH 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 SSH.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) UNIX
3 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Puppet
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 2 (40.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) Apache
5 1 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (20.00%) POP3
5 1 (20.00%) SMTP
5 1 (20.00%) DHCP
5 1 (20.00%) FTP
5 1 (20.00%) NFS
5 1 (20.00%) SNMP
5 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (20.00%) PHP
5 1 (20.00%) MySQL
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (20.00%) ITIL
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) Solaris
5 1 (20.00%) OO
5 1 (20.00%) EMC

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing SSH 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 SSH. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) IMAP
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) POP3
2 1 (20.00%) SMTP
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) FTP
2 1 (20.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Interactive TV
1 1 (20.00%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) UNIX
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) OO
1 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (20.00%) Scrum
1 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) XAML
3 1 (20.00%) AWK
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (20.00%) sed
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) qmail
2 1 (20.00%) Sendmail
2 1 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
2 1 (20.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Veritas
3 1 (20.00%) Sun
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
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