The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 116 132 125
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -7
Contract jobs citing SSH 3 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.127% 0.095% 0.166%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.997% 0.528% 1.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
Average daily rate £408 - £260
90% offered a daily rate of more than £404 - £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £412 - £265
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £323
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -18.60%
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
301 568 468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 12.75% 18.01% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 226 242
Average daily rate £313 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.34% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £175 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £462 £461 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 35 44
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.86 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.92% -39.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SSH
England

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West 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
Manchester +16 3 £408 -
SSH
England

SSH
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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%) SSL
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000
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