Squid Contracts in England

Squid Cache
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Squid skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Squid over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 652 777
Rank change year-on-year +118 +125 -148
Contract jobs citing Squid 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.005% 0.004% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.050% 0.031% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile £563 £588 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% +75.38%
75th Percentile £588 £663 £670
90th Percentile - - £688
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £570
% change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% +75.38%

All System Software Skills
England

Squid is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,036 6,552 9,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.88% 13.05% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,800 4,752 7,186
10th Percentile £190 £203 £196
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 238 277
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.73 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £75.30 £75.15 £55.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -

Squid
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Squid as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Squid in England

Squid
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Squid in England.

Daily rate trend for Squid in England

Squid
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Squid in England.

Hourly rate trend for Squid in England

Squid
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Squid within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +107 2 £575 -8.00%
Squid
UK

Squid
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto