The first table below looks at the demand for Squid skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Squid 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 System Software category for the Surrey 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
Squid Cache
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Squid 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £250 £361
% change year-on-year
- -30.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £33.75
All System Software
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
131 122 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 11.36% 7.573% 9.363%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 62 69
Average daily rate £309 £350 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.78% +10.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £129 £140 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £505 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 22 17
Average hourly rate £16.00 £15.00 £15.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -2.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.35 £10.71 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £17.60 £34.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Squid
South East

Squid
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Squid Hourly Rate Trend

Squid
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 5 (100.00%) Apache
1 5 (100.00%) SSL
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (100.00%) Nagios
1 5 (100.00%) Puppet
2 4 (80.00%) Hudson
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) sed
2 4 (80.00%) Git (software)
2 4 (80.00%) Postfix
2 4 (80.00%) NAS
2 4 (80.00%) Liferay
2 4 (80.00%) Bash shell
2 4 (80.00%) Memory Management
2 4 (80.00%) tcpdump
2 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Cryptography
2 4 (80.00%) TELNET
2 4 (80.00%) Nmap
2 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (80.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 4 (80.00%) AWK
2 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (80.00%) JBoss

Squid
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 (80.00%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
2 4 (80.00%) Liferay
2 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SSL
2 4 (80.00%) NAS
2 4 (80.00%) tcpdump
2 4 (80.00%) TELNET
2 4 (80.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) SMTP
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) HTTP
2 4 (80.00%) SNMP
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) LDAP
3 1 (20.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Hudson
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Administrator
1 5 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cryptography
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Memory Management
1 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) sed
1 4 (80.00%) Bash shell
1 4 (80.00%) AWK
1 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Perl
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Postfix
1 4 (80.00%) Nmap
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Nagios
1 5 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) JBoss
2 4 (80.00%) EMC
2 4 (80.00%) NetApp
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) SAP