South West SSH Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Secure Shell (SSH) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SSH over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Secure Shell (SSH)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Devon East Midlands East of England England Exeter Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds Leek London Manchester Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Plymouth Portsmouth Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surrey UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	128	148
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	5	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.776 %	1.252 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£363	-
Average daily rate	£372	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£381	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£330
% change on same period last year	+7.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.83	£32.50
% change on same period last year	+10.25 %
Communications & Networking South West
Matching contract IT job ads	644	799
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.848 %
Daily rates quoted	172	160
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£321
Average daily rate	£346	£337
% change on same period last year	+2.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	96	129
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.70	£24.31
Average hourly rate	£26.14	£26.11
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.57	£27.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
SSH England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SSH
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SSH across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SSH
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SSH across the South West region.

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SSH across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SSH
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SSH within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Devon	-	5	£372	-

SSH England

SSH
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 4 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 1 4 (50.00 %) FTP 1 4 (50.00 %) VPN 1 4 (50.00 %) DNS 1 4 (50.00 %) Cisco 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows 1 4 (50.00 %) CheckPoint 1 4 (50.00 %) ISA Server 1 4 (50.00 %) Firewall 1 4 (50.00 %) Government 1 4 (50.00 %) SecurID 1 4 (50.00 %) VLAN 1 4 (50.00 %) Cisco PIX 2 3 (37.50 %) Web Development 2 3 (37.50 %) Disaster Recovery

2 3 (37.50 %) LAMP 2 3 (37.50 %) Nokia 2 3 (37.50 %) Extranet 2 3 (37.50 %) Linux 3 2 (25.00 %) Perl 3 2 (25.00 %) MySQL 3 2 (25.00 %) CESG 4 1 (12.50 %) C 4 1 (12.50 %) C++ 4 1 (12.50 %) HTTPS 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (12.50 %) Embedded C 4 1 (12.50 %) Embedded C++ 4 1 (12.50 %) HP

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 (37.50 %) LAMP	Communications & Networking 1 4 (50.00 %) FTP 1 4 (50.00 %) VPN 1 4 (50.00 %) DNS 1 4 (50.00 %) Firewall 1 4 (50.00 %) VLAN 1 4 (50.00 %) Cisco PIX 2 3 (37.50 %) Extranet 3 1 (12.50 %) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) MySQL	General 1 4 (50.00 %) Government
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Consultant 1 4 (50.00 %) Security Consultant 2 3 (37.50 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Linux Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Linux Support	Miscellaneous 1 4 (50.00 %) SecurID 2 2 (25.00 %) CESG
Operating Systems 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (37.50 %) Linux 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Disaster Recovery 1 3 (37.50 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) Perl 2 1 (12.50 %) Embedded C 2 1 (12.50 %) Embedded C++ 2 1 (12.50 %) C 2 1 (12.50 %) C++	System Software 1 4 (50.00 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Cisco 1 4 (50.00 %) CheckPoint 2 3 (37.50 %) Nokia 3 1 (12.50 %) HP