The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSH 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 Communications & Networking category for the England 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
Secure Shell (SSH)
Rank 486 501 522
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +21
Contract jobs citing SSH 26 56 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.061% 0.105% 0.060%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.420% 0.666% 0.456%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 22
Average daily rate £350 £269 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.23% -23.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £193 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £418 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £323
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £29.59 £32.00 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.53% -31.91%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.59 £67.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-56.16% +43.61%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6195 8413 7242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.64% 15.72% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3101 3939 3363
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 514 566 726
Average hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SSH
UK

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England SSH Daily Rate Histogram

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SSH across the England region.

England SSH Hourly Rate Trend

SSH
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the England 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
South East +10 9 £400 +68.42%
London +9 8 £375 +15.38%
Yorkshire - 4 £270 -
North West +16 3 £408 -
East of England +9 2 £240 -32.63%
SSH
UK

SSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 27 (61.36%) Linux
2 22 (50.00%) SSL
3 18 (40.91%) UNIX
4 16 (36.36%) DNS
5 14 (31.82%) FTP
5 14 (31.82%) Apache
6 13 (29.55%) TCP/IP
7 11 (25.00%) VPN
7 11 (25.00%) HTTP
7 11 (25.00%) Windows
7 11 (25.00%) Red Hat
7 11 (25.00%) Puppet
8 10 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (22.73%) Internet
8 10 (22.73%) Oracle
9 9 (20.45%) MS Office
9 9 (20.45%) Firewall
10 8 (18.18%) Migration
10 8 (18.18%) Solaris
10 8 (18.18%) MySQL
10 8 (18.18%) SQL
10 8 (18.18%) SMTP
10 8 (18.18%) Subversion
11 7 (15.91%) VMware
11 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (15.91%) Bash shell
11 7 (15.91%) Amazon AWS
11 7 (15.91%) Tomcat
11 7 (15.91%) Python
11 7 (15.91%) Cisco

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 5 (11.36%) Web Services
1 5 (11.36%) XML
2 4 (9.091%) HTML
3 3 (6.818%) JSON
3 3 (6.818%) .NET
4 2 (4.545%) CSS
4 2 (4.545%) SOAP
4 2 (4.545%) J2EE
4 2 (4.545%) REST
4 2 (4.545%) Ajax
5 1 (2.273%) Sass
5 1 (2.273%) LESS
5 1 (2.273%) Apache Flex
5 1 (2.273%) XNA
5 1 (2.273%) WebSphere
5 1 (2.273%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.273%) CSS3
5 1 (2.273%) Node.js
5 1 (2.273%) jQuery
5 1 (2.273%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 14 (31.82%) Apache
2 7 (15.91%) Amazon AWS
2 7 (15.91%) Tomcat
3 4 (9.091%) CMS
3 4 (9.091%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.818%) Confluence
4 3 (6.818%) IIS
5 2 (4.545%) Rackspace Cloud
6 1 (2.273%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.273%) nginx
6 1 (2.273%) Route 53
6 1 (2.273%) Alfresco
6 1 (2.273%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.273%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 9 (20.45%) MS Office
2 3 (6.818%) MS Excel
3 2 (4.545%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.273%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 22 (50.00%) SSL
2 16 (36.36%) DNS
3 14 (31.82%) FTP
4 13 (29.55%) TCP/IP
5 11 (25.00%) VPN
5 11 (25.00%) HTTP
6 10 (22.73%) Internet
7 9 (20.45%) Firewall
8 8 (18.18%) SMTP
9 6 (13.64%) DHCP
10 4 (9.091%) WAN
10 4 (9.091%) HTTPS
10 4 (9.091%) LDAP
11 2 (4.545%) SAN
12 1 (2.273%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (2.273%) BIG-IP
12 1 (2.273%) IMAP
12 1 (2.273%) Wireshark
12 1 (2.273%) VLAN
12 1 (2.273%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) MySQL
2 3 (6.818%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.273%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.273%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.273%) SimpleDB
3 1 (2.273%) Redis
3 1 (2.273%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.273%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.273%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.273%) MS Access
3 1 (2.273%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.273%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Subversion
2 7 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.36%) JIRA
3 5 (11.36%) Git (software)
3 5 (11.36%) Hudson
4 4 (9.091%) Maven
5 2 (4.545%) Ant
6 1 (2.273%) WinDbg
6 1 (2.273%) Capistrano
6 1 (2.273%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.273%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 4 (9.091%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.545%) Finance
3 1 (2.273%) Banking
3 1 (2.273%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Administrator
1 7 (15.91%) Systems Engineer
1 7 (15.91%) Applications Support
1 7 (15.91%) Analyst
2 6 (13.64%) Support Analyst
2 6 (13.64%) Applications Support Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Developer
4 4 (9.091%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (6.818%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.818%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.818%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.818%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.545%) Consultant
6 2 (4.545%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.545%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (4.545%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (4.545%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 1 (2.273%) Senior Linux Consultant
7 1 (2.273%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Open Source
2 4 (9.091%) EFT
3 3 (6.818%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.818%) N-Tier
4 2 (4.545%) Interactive TV
5 1 (2.273%) Replication
5 1 (2.273%) CLARiiON
5 1 (2.273%) Clustering
5 1 (2.273%) Statistics
5 1 (2.273%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.273%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.273%) SWIFT
5 1 (2.273%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.273%) Celerra
5 1 (2.273%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 27 (61.36%) Linux
2 18 (40.91%) UNIX
3 11 (25.00%) Windows
4 10 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (18.18%) Solaris
6 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (13.64%) SUSE
8 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (2.273%) Windows 8
9 1 (2.273%) Debian
9 1 (2.273%) Windows Vista
9 1 (2.273%) CentOS
9 1 (2.273%) Windows XP
9 1 (2.273%) AIX
9 1 (2.273%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.18%) Migration
2 6 (13.64%) ITIL
3 4 (9.091%) Configuration Management
3 4 (9.091%) Scrum
4 3 (6.818%) Software Deployment
4 3 (6.818%) TDD
4 3 (6.818%) Release Management
4 3 (6.818%) Fault Management
4 3 (6.818%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (6.818%) OO
5 2 (4.545%) Load Balancing
5 2 (4.545%) Kanban
5 2 (4.545%) Incident Management
5 2 (4.545%) Network Planning
5 2 (4.545%) Problem Management
5 2 (4.545%) Pair Programming
5 2 (4.545%) Automated Testing
5 2 (4.545%) Build Automation
6 1 (2.273%) Content Management
6 1 (2.273%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) SQL
2 7 (15.91%) Bash shell
2 7 (15.91%) Python
3 6 (13.64%) PHP
3 6 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.64%) Ruby
4 5 (11.36%) Java
5 4 (9.091%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.091%) Perl
6 3 (6.818%) C++
7 2 (4.545%) C
7 2 (4.545%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.545%) Groovy
7 2 (4.545%) Korn
8 1 (2.273%) sed
8 1 (2.273%) AWK
8 1 (2.273%) ActionScript 3.0
8 1 (2.273%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (2.273%) C-shell
8 1 (2.273%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (6.818%) Degree
2 2 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.545%) CCNP
2 2 (4.545%) MCP
2 2 (4.545%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.273%) BC Cleared
3 1 (2.273%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.273%) MCSE
3 1 (2.273%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.545%) SLA
1 2 (4.545%) QA
2 1 (2.273%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.091%) Samba
3 3 (6.818%) Sendmail
4 2 (4.545%) NFS
4 2 (4.545%) vSphere
4 2 (4.545%) Squid
5 1 (2.273%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (2.273%) XenApp
5 1 (2.273%) XenServer
5 1 (2.273%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (2.273%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.273%) qmail
5 1 (2.273%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.273%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) Puppet
2 5 (11.36%) Nagios
3 1 (2.273%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (2.273%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (2.273%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.273%) PureDisk
3 1 (2.273%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.273%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 10 (22.73%) Oracle
3 7 (15.91%) VMware
3 7 (15.91%) Cisco
4 5 (11.36%) Citrix
5 4 (9.091%) IBM
5 4 (9.091%) Akamai
6 3 (6.818%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.818%) Sun
6 3 (6.818%) HP
7 2 (4.545%) Juniper
7 2 (4.545%) Rackspace
8 1 (2.273%) Zend
8 1 (2.273%) PlateSpin
8 1 (2.273%) Brocade
8 1 (2.273%) Veeam
8 1 (2.273%) Riverbed
8 1 (2.273%) Twitter
8 1 (2.273%) F5
8 1 (2.273%) Syncsort
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