The first 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 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.

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 520 572 575
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +3
Contract jobs citing Squid 9 12 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.021% 0.015%
As % of the System Software category 0.207% 0.261% 0.204%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 3
Average daily rate £325 £295 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.16% -31.79%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £250 £361
% change year-on-year
- -30.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £33.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £33.75
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4352 4594 4408
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.381% 7.877% 7.221%
Number of daily rates quoted 2092 2210 1930
Average daily rate £350 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 589 627 658
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.01 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%

Squid
Jobs Demand Trend

This 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 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 within the UK.

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 within the UK.

Squid Hourly Rate Trend

Squid
Top 7 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 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
England +43 9 £325 +10.16%
London +36 8 £325 +4.00%
City of London +16 4 £325 -
South East +14 1 - -
Kent - 1 - -
Maidstone - 1 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -

Squid
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 25 (80.65%) Apache
2 21 (67.74%) MySQL
3 17 (54.84%) Linux
4 15 (48.39%) Java
5 14 (45.16%) Red Hat
6 12 (38.71%) VMware
6 12 (38.71%) Puppet
7 11 (35.48%) Tomcat
8 10 (32.26%) Perl
8 10 (32.26%) Nagios
8 10 (32.26%) HTTP
8 10 (32.26%) DNS
8 10 (32.26%) Bash shell
9 9 (29.03%) RESTful
9 9 (29.03%) Spring MVC
9 9 (29.03%) iSCSI
9 9 (29.03%) TDD
9 9 (29.03%) Spring
9 9 (29.03%) MVC
9 9 (29.03%) NFS
9 9 (29.03%) XQuery
9 9 (29.03%) SAN
9 9 (29.03%) SQL
9 9 (29.03%) J2EE
9 9 (29.03%) JSP
9 9 (29.03%) Struts
9 9 (29.03%) Web Services
9 9 (29.03%) XSLT
9 9 (29.03%) CSS
9 9 (29.03%) JMS

Squid
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 9 (29.03%) RESTful
1 9 (29.03%) Spring MVC
1 9 (29.03%) Spring
1 9 (29.03%) J2EE
1 9 (29.03%) JSP
1 9 (29.03%) Struts
1 9 (29.03%) Web Services
1 9 (29.03%) XSLT
1 9 (29.03%) CSS
1 9 (29.03%) JMS
2 7 (22.58%) jQuery
2 7 (22.58%) JSTL
2 7 (22.58%) HTML
3 5 (16.13%) JDBC
4 2 (6.452%) LAMP
5 1 (3.226%) Memcached
5 1 (3.226%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 25 (80.65%) Apache
2 11 (35.48%) Tomcat
3 8 (25.81%) Liferay
4 2 (6.452%) Drupal
5 1 (3.226%) nginx
5 1 (3.226%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.452%) PeopleSoft Financials
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) HTTP
1 10 (32.26%) DNS
2 9 (29.03%) iSCSI
2 9 (29.03%) SAN
2 9 (29.03%) SMTP
3 8 (25.81%) DHCP
3 8 (25.81%) LDAP
3 8 (25.81%) SNMP
3 8 (25.81%) SSL
3 8 (25.81%) NAS
4 5 (16.13%) TELNET
4 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
4 5 (16.13%) tcpdump
5 2 (6.452%) Firewall
5 2 (6.452%) SSH
5 2 (6.452%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (6.452%) VLAN
6 1 (3.226%) IPsec
6 1 (3.226%) VPN
6 1 (3.226%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (67.74%) MySQL
2 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (22.58%) MarkLogic
3 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git (software)
1 8 (25.81%) Hudson
1 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (19.35%) Publishing
2 5 (16.13%) Banking
3 2 (6.452%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Administrator
2 10 (32.26%) Linux Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Java Developer
4 7 (22.58%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (19.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (12.90%) Deployment Specialist
6 4 (12.90%) Security Specialist
7 3 (9.677%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (6.452%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (6.452%) Consultant
8 2 (6.452%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 1 (3.226%) Windows Systems Engineer
9 1 (3.226%) Network Administrator
9 1 (3.226%) Senior Linux Administrator
9 1 (3.226%) Senior Linux Consultant
9 1 (3.226%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
9 1 (3.226%) UNIX Consultant
9 1 (3.226%) Senior UNIX Consultant
9 1 (3.226%) Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Semantic Web
2 5 (16.13%) Clustering
2 5 (16.13%) Cryptography
2 5 (16.13%) Open Source
3 2 (6.452%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (54.84%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
3 4 (12.90%) UNIX
4 2 (6.452%) Solaris
4 2 (6.452%) Ubuntu
4 2 (6.452%) CentOS
5 1 (3.226%) SUSE
5 1 (3.226%) Debian
5 1 (3.226%) OpenBSD
5 1 (3.226%) Fedora
5 1 (3.226%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) TDD
1 9 (29.03%) MVC
2 8 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (19.35%) Load Balancing
4 5 (16.13%) Memory Management
5 1 (3.226%) E-Commerce
5 1 (3.226%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Java
2 10 (32.26%) Perl
2 10 (32.26%) Bash shell
3 9 (29.03%) XQuery
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
4 8 (25.81%) Shell Script
5 5 (16.13%) AWK
5 5 (16.13%) PHP
5 5 (16.13%) sed
6 2 (6.452%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) CIPD
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.226%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.226%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) NFS
2 8 (25.81%) Postfix
3 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (16.13%) Nmap
5 4 (12.90%) Forefront TMG
6 2 (6.452%) Varnish
6 2 (6.452%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (3.226%) VirtualBox
7 1 (3.226%) SpamAssassin
7 1 (3.226%) VMware Server
7 1 (3.226%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Puppet
2 10 (32.26%) Nagios
3 2 (6.452%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Red Hat
2 12 (38.71%) VMware
3 8 (25.81%) SAP
3 8 (25.81%) Oracle
3 8 (25.81%) NetApp
3 8 (25.81%) EMC
4 5 (16.13%) JBoss
5 4 (12.90%) M86 Security
5 4 (12.90%) Websense
5 4 (12.90%) Finjan
5 4 (12.90%) Blue Coat
6 2 (6.452%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.452%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (3.226%) HP
7 1 (3.226%) Dell
7 1 (3.226%) Cisco