The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 377 392 420
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +28
Contract jobs citing SSH 8 14 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.037% 0.052% 0.054%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.280% 0.382% 0.501%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 12
Average daily rate £375 £285 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.57% -18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £227 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £408 £471
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £380
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -30.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £29.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.59 £67.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-56.16% +43.61%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2861 3664 3392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.25% 13.68% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1759 2236 1957
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £237
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 135 145 211
Average hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.44% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SSH
England

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London +11 3 £325 -18.75%
SSH
England

SSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) UNIX
3 9 (50.00%) DNS
3 9 (50.00%) Puppet
4 8 (44.44%) Apache
4 8 (44.44%) Subversion
5 7 (38.89%) Tomcat
5 7 (38.89%) MySQL
5 7 (38.89%) Solaris
5 7 (38.89%) Red Hat
5 7 (38.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
6 6 (33.33%) Open Source
6 6 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
6 6 (33.33%) SUSE
7 5 (27.78%) VMware
7 5 (27.78%) JIRA
7 5 (27.78%) SSL
7 5 (27.78%) Hudson
7 5 (27.78%) Bash shell
7 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (27.78%) Git (software)
8 4 (22.22%) Akamai
8 4 (22.22%) SMTP
8 4 (22.22%) HTTP
8 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
8 4 (22.22%) HTML
8 4 (22.22%) Java
8 4 (22.22%) Perl
8 4 (22.22%) Python

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 4 (22.22%) HTML
2 3 (16.67%) JSON
2 3 (16.67%) Web Services
3 2 (11.11%) XML
3 2 (11.11%) J2EE
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) SOAP
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Ajax
4 1 (5.556%) WebSphere
4 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.556%) DHTML
4 1 (5.556%) CSS3
4 1 (5.556%) Sass
4 1 (5.556%) LESS
4 1 (5.556%) .NET
4 1 (5.556%) XNA
4 1 (5.556%) Apache Flex
4 1 (5.556%) jQuery
4 1 (5.556%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) Apache
2 7 (38.89%) Tomcat
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Confluence
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (11.11%) Rackspace Cloud
6 1 (5.556%) IIS
6 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
6 1 (5.556%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (5.556%) CMS
6 1 (5.556%) Alfresco
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
1 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) SSL
3 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) SMTP
3 4 (22.22%) HTTP
4 3 (16.67%) HTTPS
4 3 (16.67%) Internet
5 2 (11.11%) Firewall
6 1 (5.556%) IMAP
6 1 (5.556%) Wireshark
6 1 (5.556%) NAS
6 1 (5.556%) TELNET
6 1 (5.556%) SAN
6 1 (5.556%) VPN
6 1 (5.556%) SNMP
6 1 (5.556%) DHCP
6 1 (5.556%) FTP
6 1 (5.556%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) MySQL
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) MS Access
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Subversion
2 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 5 (27.78%) Hudson
3 5 (27.78%) JIRA
3 5 (27.78%) Git (software)
4 4 (22.22%) Maven
5 2 (11.11%) Ant
6 1 (5.556%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (5.556%) WinDbg
6 1 (5.556%) Capistrano
6 1 (5.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
1 1 (5.556%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Administrator
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Linux Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.556%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (16.67%) N-Tier
3 2 (11.11%) Interactive TV
3 2 (11.11%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.556%) SWIFT
4 1 (5.556%) Digital Media
4 1 (5.556%) Statistics
4 1 (5.556%) Graphic Design
4 1 (5.556%) Celerra
4 1 (5.556%) Replication
4 1 (5.556%) CLARiiON
4 1 (5.556%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) UNIX
3 7 (38.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (38.89%) Solaris
4 6 (33.33%) SUSE
5 4 (22.22%) Windows
6 1 (5.556%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Scrum
2 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 3 (16.67%) OO
2 3 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 2 (11.11%) Build Automation
3 2 (11.11%) Pair Programming
3 2 (11.11%) Automated Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Release Management
3 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.556%) Kanban
4 1 (5.556%) Information Architecture
4 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.556%) Requirements Management
4 1 (5.556%) Web Development
4 1 (5.556%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.556%) Content Management
4 1 (5.556%) ITIL
4 1 (5.556%) CRM
4 1 (5.556%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Bash shell
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) Perl
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Ruby
4 2 (11.11%) Groovy
4 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.11%) PHP
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.556%) XAML
5 1 (5.556%) AWK
5 1 (5.556%) ActionScript 3.0
5 1 (5.556%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (5.556%) VBScript
5 1 (5.556%) ActionScript
5 1 (5.556%) sed
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.556%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) Sendmail
3 2 (11.11%) NFS
3 2 (11.11%) Samba
4 1 (5.556%) Squid
4 1 (5.556%) qmail
4 1 (5.556%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (5.556%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Puppet
2 4 (22.22%) Nagios
3 1 (5.556%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (5.556%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (5.556%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Red Hat
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) Akamai
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco
4 3 (16.67%) Sun
5 2 (11.11%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) Rackspace
6 1 (5.556%) Twitter
6 1 (5.556%) EMC
6 1 (5.556%) Plumtree
6 1 (5.556%) BMC
6 1 (5.556%) NetApp
6 1 (5.556%) StorageTek
6 1 (5.556%) Veritas
6 1 (5.556%) Lotus
6 1 (5.556%) IBM
6 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.556%) Adobe
6 1 (5.556%) Zend
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