Squid Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Squid skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Squid over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category.

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.

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Location
3 months to
21 May 2012		Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank564569529
Rank change year-on-year
Up+5Down-40
Matching contract IT job ads13910
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.022 %0.015 %0.018 %
As % of the System Software category0.288 %0.208 %0.336 %
Number of daily rates quoted834
Average daily rate£295£433£245
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.79 %+76.89 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£260£319£208
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£404£433£272
UK excluding London average daily rate£250£361£245
% change year-on-year
-30.79 %+47.75 %
Number of hourly rates quoted061
Average hourly rate-£33.75£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--3.57 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£33.75£35.00
% change year-on-year
--3.57 %
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategoryAll System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		451143352977
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK7.717 %7.206 %5.394 %
Number of daily rates quoted215119001147
Average daily rate£340£350£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85 %+7.69 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£195£200£175
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£460£475£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£308£275
% change year-on-year
+5.69 %+11.81 %
Number of hourly rates quoted623643530
Average hourly rate£17.50£18.00£18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77 %-4.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.50£35.00£35.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate£16.50£17.50£17.50
% change year-on-year
-5.71 %-

Squid
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Squid within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Squid Demand Trend

Squid
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Squid within the UK.

Squid Daily Rate Trend

Squid
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Squid within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

Squid Daily Rate Histogram

Squid
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Squid within the UK.

Squid Hourly Rate Trend

Squid
Top 5 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+613£295-31.79 %
LondonUp+3711£313-27.74 %
City of LondonNew entry-3£325-
South EastUp+52£250-
HampshireNew entry-2£250-

Squid
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

116 (66.67 %)Apache
215 (62.50 %)Linux
311 (45.83 %)MySQL
410 (41.67 %)VMware
410 (41.67 %)E-Commerce
410 (41.67 %)Cisco
59 (37.50 %)Internet
59 (37.50 %)VMware Infrastructure
68 (33.33 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
68 (33.33 %)PostgreSQL
68 (33.33 %)Firewall
68 (33.33 %)PHP
77 (29.17 %)Perl
77 (29.17 %)UNIX
77 (29.17 %)Windows
77 (29.17 %)Tomcat
77 (29.17 %)DNS
77 (29.17 %)LAMP
77 (29.17 %)Capacity Planning
86 (25.00 %)Open Source
86 (25.00 %)Red Hat
86 (25.00 %)PKI
86 (25.00 %)HTTP
86 (25.00 %)Active Directory
86 (25.00 %)Solaris
86 (25.00 %)SQL
86 (25.00 %).NET
95 (20.83 %)Java
95 (20.83 %)RHCE
95 (20.83 %)DHCP

Squid
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17 (29.17 %)LAMP
26 (25.00 %).NET
33 (12.50 %)HTML
33 (12.50 %)CSS
42 (8.333 %)Ajax
42 (8.333 %)XHTML
42 (8.333 %)Flash
42 (8.333 %)XML
42 (8.333 %)ASP
42 (8.333 %)ASP.NET
51 (4.167 %)J2EE
51 (4.167 %)Web Services
51 (4.167 %)J2ME
51 (4.167 %)Lucene
51 (4.167 %)Ruby on Rails
51 (4.167 %)Xapian
51 (4.167 %)Sphinx
51 (4.167 %)Django
51 (4.167 %)CodeIgniter
51 (4.167 %)CakePHP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
116 (66.67 %)Apache
27 (29.17 %)Tomcat
33 (12.50 %)GlassFish
42 (8.333 %)nginx
42 (8.333 %)Joomla!
42 (8.333 %)CMS
42 (8.333 %)Lotus Domino
51 (4.167 %)MS Exchange
51 (4.167 %)IIS
51 (4.167 %)Exchange Server 2003
51 (4.167 %)Amazon EC2
51 (4.167 %)Amazon S3
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (4.167 %)BASE24
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
19 (37.50 %)Internet
28 (33.33 %)Firewall
37 (29.17 %)DNS
46 (25.00 %)HTTP
55 (20.83 %)DHCP
64 (16.67 %)LAN
64 (16.67 %)SSL
64 (16.67 %)VPN
64 (16.67 %)SAN
73 (12.50 %)TCP/IP
82 (8.333 %)Wireshark
82 (8.333 %)VLAN
82 (8.333 %)Cisco IOS
82 (8.333 %)MPLS
82 (8.333 %)DDNS
82 (8.333 %)DSL
82 (8.333 %)Wireless
82 (8.333 %)IPsec
82 (8.333 %)Intrusion Detection
82 (8.333 %)LDAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
111 (45.83 %)MySQL
28 (33.33 %)PostgreSQL
32 (8.333 %)SQL Server
41 (4.167 %)SQL Server 2005
41 (4.167 %)MongoDB
41 (4.167 %)Mahout
41 (4.167 %)SQL Server 2008
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (8.333 %)Subversion
21 (4.167 %)Mercurial
21 (4.167 %)Git (software)
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (16.67 %)Finance
21 (4.167 %)Banking
21 (4.167 %)Retail
21 (4.167 %)Electronics
21 (4.167 %)Telecoms
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
111 (45.83 %)Systems Administrator
210 (41.67 %)Administrator
33 (12.50 %)Developer
42 (8.333 %)Infrastructure Support Specialist
42 (8.333 %)Web Developer
42 (8.333 %)Consultant
42 (8.333 %)Support Specialist
42 (8.333 %)Systems Engineer
42 (8.333 %)Solaris Administrator
42 (8.333 %)Linux Engineer
42 (8.333 %)Infrastructure Specialist
42 (8.333 %)Solaris Systems Administrator
42 (8.333 %)Security Engineer
42 (8.333 %)Linux Systems Administrator
42 (8.333 %)Linux Administrator
51 (4.167 %)Systems Support Engineer
51 (4.167 %)UNIX Engineer
51 (4.167 %)Senior Systems Administrator
51 (4.167 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
51 (4.167 %)Team Leader
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (25.00 %)Open Source
16 (25.00 %)PKI
23 (12.50 %)iPhone
32 (8.333 %)Online Gambling
32 (8.333 %)iPad
32 (8.333 %)CLARiiON
41 (4.167 %)Clustering
41 (4.167 %)Digital Media
41 (4.167 %)Data Protection Act
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
115 (62.50 %)Linux
28 (33.33 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
37 (29.17 %)UNIX
37 (29.17 %)Windows
46 (25.00 %)Solaris
54 (16.67 %)Windows Server 2003
63 (12.50 %)Ubuntu
63 (12.50 %)CentOS
72 (8.333 %)Android
72 (8.333 %)Debian
81 (4.167 %)FreeBSD
81 (4.167 %)Embedded Linux
81 (4.167 %)Windows Server 2008
81 (4.167 %)OpenSolaris
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
110 (41.67 %)E-Commerce
27 (29.17 %)Capacity Planning
35 (20.83 %)Disaster Recovery
35 (20.83 %)Database Tuning
44 (16.67 %)Resource Management
52 (8.333 %)Performance Management
52 (8.333 %)Technical Architecture
52 (8.333 %)Web Development
52 (8.333 %)Risk Analysis
52 (8.333 %)Fault Management
52 (8.333 %)Network Management
52 (8.333 %)Configuration Management
52 (8.333 %)Business Continuity
52 (8.333 %)Agile Software Development
52 (8.333 %)ITIL
61 (4.167 %)Data Protection
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18 (33.33 %)PHP
27 (29.17 %)Perl
36 (25.00 %)SQL
45 (20.83 %)Java
53 (12.50 %)JavaScript
53 (12.50 %)Python
53 (12.50 %)Bash shell
62 (8.333 %)PHP5
62 (8.333 %)PHP4
62 (8.333 %)Objective-C
62 (8.333 %)LotusScript
71 (4.167 %)C
71 (4.167 %)C#
71 (4.167 %)C++
71 (4.167 %)Ruby
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15 (20.83 %)RHCE
24 (16.67 %)CCNA
24 (16.67 %)Cisco Certification
32 (8.333 %)CCSA
32 (8.333 %)CCSE
32 (8.333 %)MCSE
32 (8.333 %)CCNP
32 (8.333 %)Microsoft Certification
32 (8.333 %)Check Point Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (8.333 %)PCI DSS
21 (4.167 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
19 (37.50 %)VMware Infrastructure
26 (25.00 %)Active Directory
34 (16.67 %)VMware ESXi
34 (16.67 %)Snort
42 (8.333 %)Varnish
42 (8.333 %)VMware ESX
51 (4.167 %)NFS
51 (4.167 %)Samba
51 (4.167 %)OpenSSO
51 (4.167 %)vSphere
51 (4.167 %)Hyper-V
51 (4.167 %)Postfix
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (12.50 %)Puppet
21 (4.167 %)Nagios
21 (4.167 %)ZABBIX
21 (4.167 %)Cacti
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
110 (41.67 %)VMware
110 (41.67 %)Cisco
26 (25.00 %)Red Hat
34 (16.67 %)Sun
34 (16.67 %)Veritas
42 (8.333 %)Akamai
42 (8.333 %)CheckPoint
42 (8.333 %)Websense
42 (8.333 %)Oracle
42 (8.333 %)Lotus
42 (8.333 %)Hitachi
42 (8.333 %)NetApp
42 (8.333 %)Nokia
42 (8.333 %)HP
42 (8.333 %)EMC
51 (4.167 %)Avaya
51 (4.167 %)Juniper
51 (4.167 %)JBoss
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