The first table below looks at the demand for Squid skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Squid 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 System Software category for the South East 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
Squid Cache
Rank 219 243 250
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +7
Contract jobs citing Squid 1 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.013% 0.020% 0.029%
As % of the System Software category 0.100% 0.238% 0.326%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £250 £361
% change year-on-year
- -30.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £33.75
All System Software
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1001 839 919
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 12.64% 8.259% 8.955%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 336 342
Average daily rate £340 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £200 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 146 140
Average hourly rate £18.50 £16.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.12% -10.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Squid
England

Squid
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Squid across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

South East Squid Jobs Demand Trend

Squid
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Squid across the South East region.

South East Squid Daily Rate Trend

Squid
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Squid Hourly Rate Trend

Squid
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Squid within the South East 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
Kent - 1 - -
Squid
England

Squid
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Squid 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 Squid.

1 8 (88.89%) Linux
1 8 (88.89%) Apache
2 7 (77.78%) VMware
3 6 (66.67%) HTTP
3 6 (66.67%) SSL
3 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
4 5 (55.56%) SAN
4 5 (55.56%) SMTP
4 5 (55.56%) DNS
4 5 (55.56%) Tomcat
4 5 (55.56%) Java
4 5 (55.56%) SQL
4 5 (55.56%) MySQL
4 5 (55.56%) Nagios
4 5 (55.56%) Load Balancing
4 5 (55.56%) iSCSI
4 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (55.56%) Puppet
5 4 (44.44%) Memory Management
5 4 (44.44%) tcpdump
5 4 (44.44%) Bash shell
5 4 (44.44%) Hudson
5 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
5 4 (44.44%) sed
5 4 (44.44%) Cryptography
5 4 (44.44%) Liferay
5 4 (44.44%) Git (software)
5 4 (44.44%) Postfix
5 4 (44.44%) NAS
5 4 (44.44%) Nmap

Squid
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Squid 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 Squid. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (44.44%) JDBC
2 1 (11.11%) Memcached
2 1 (11.11%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 8 (88.89%) Apache
2 5 (55.56%) Tomcat
3 4 (44.44%) Liferay
4 1 (11.11%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) HTTP
1 6 (66.67%) SSL
2 5 (55.56%) SAN
2 5 (55.56%) SMTP
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) iSCSI
3 4 (44.44%) tcpdump
3 4 (44.44%) NAS
3 4 (44.44%) LDAP
3 4 (44.44%) SNMP
3 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
3 4 (44.44%) DHCP
3 4 (44.44%) TELNET
4 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 2 (22.22%) VLAN
5 1 (11.11%) IPsec
5 1 (11.11%) SSH
5 1 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) VRRP
5 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) MySQL
2 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Hudson
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
1 4 (44.44%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Administrator
2 5 (55.56%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) UNIX Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior UNIX Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cryptography
1 4 (44.44%) Clustering
2 2 (22.22%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) UNIX
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Debian
3 1 (11.11%) OpenBSD
3 1 (11.11%) Fedora
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Load Balancing
2 4 (44.44%) Memory Management
2 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Bash shell
2 4 (44.44%) sed
2 4 (44.44%) AWK
2 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 4 (44.44%) Perl
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) Postfix
2 4 (44.44%) Nmap
2 4 (44.44%) NFS
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) SpamAssassin
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Nagios
1 5 (55.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 4 (44.44%) Oracle
3 4 (44.44%) SAP
3 4 (44.44%) JBoss
3 4 (44.44%) EMC
3 4 (44.44%) NetApp
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) HP