The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 70 81 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing SSH 3 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.328% 0.231% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.857% 1.304% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £408 - -
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
105 230 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.49% 17.68% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 86 34
Average daily rate £299 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.41% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £131 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £443 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £32.50 £17.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SSH
North West

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester SSH Daily Rate Trend

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester SSH Hourly Rate Trend

SSH
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (75.00%) SSL
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) CMS
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) MCP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Finance

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (75.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
1 3 (75.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) HP