The first table below looks at the demand for SSH 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 SSH over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Shell (SSH)
Rank 215 219 246
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +27
Contract jobs citing SSH 9 20 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.115% 0.197% 0.067%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.605% 0.933% 0.365%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
Average daily rate £400 £250 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £323
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £67.50 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +43.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £67.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
- +43.61%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1487 2143 1920
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.08% 21.12% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 627 668
Average daily rate £320 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £188 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 187 236
Average hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £13.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SSH
England

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Surrey +14 6 - -
Hampshire - 2 £400 -
Berkshire +4 1 - -
SSH
England

SSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 11 (78.57%) SSL
2 10 (71.43%) FTP
2 10 (71.43%) VPN
3 8 (57.14%) MS Office
4 7 (50.00%) Migration
5 6 (42.86%) Firewall
5 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
5 6 (42.86%) UNIX
6 5 (35.71%) Windows
6 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
6 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (28.57%) Linux
7 4 (28.57%) WAN
7 4 (28.57%) Citrix
7 4 (28.57%) Oracle
7 4 (28.57%) SQL
7 4 (28.57%) EFT
7 4 (28.57%) Internet
8 3 (21.43%) SMTP
8 3 (21.43%) ITIL
8 3 (21.43%) HTTP
8 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
8 3 (21.43%) Fault Management
9 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
9 2 (14.29%) Apache
9 2 (14.29%) SLA
9 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
10 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
10 1 (7.143%) Windows XP
10 1 (7.143%) LAN

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1 (7.143%) .NET
1 1 (7.143%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (7.143%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (57.14%) MS Office
2 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) SSL
2 10 (71.43%) FTP
2 10 (71.43%) VPN
3 6 (42.86%) Firewall
4 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
5 4 (28.57%) WAN
5 4 (28.57%) Internet
6 3 (21.43%) SMTP
6 3 (21.43%) HTTP
7 1 (7.143%) LAN
7 1 (7.143%) SAN
7 1 (7.143%) LDAP
7 1 (7.143%) DHCP
7 1 (7.143%) DNS
7 1 (7.143%) HTTPS
7 1 (7.143%) VLAN
7 1 (7.143%) IPsec
General
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
2 6 (42.86%) Support Analyst
2 6 (42.86%) Applications Support
2 6 (42.86%) Applications Support Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Deployment Project Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) UNIX
2 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 1 (7.143%) Windows XP
4 1 (7.143%) AIX
4 1 (7.143%) Solaris
4 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (7.143%) Windows Vista
4 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Fault Management
3 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.143%) Project Management
3 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
3 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.143%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.143%) Release Management
3 1 (7.143%) Change Management
3 1 (7.143%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (7.143%) C
3 1 (7.143%) C#
3 1 (7.143%) Java
3 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.143%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (7.143%) Degree
1 1 (7.143%) BC Cleared
1 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (7.143%) Squid
1 1 (7.143%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (7.143%) XenApp
1 1 (7.143%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.143%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (7.143%) Nagios
1 1 (7.143%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Citrix
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.143%) Cisco
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) Dell
3 1 (7.143%) Juniper
3 1 (7.143%) PlateSpin
3 1 (7.143%) Veeam
3 1 (7.143%) Riverbed
3 1 (7.143%) VMware