The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSH over the 3 months to 18 June 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.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Shell (SSH)
Rank 519 545 557
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +12
Contract jobs citing SSH 35 44 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.072% 0.076% 0.048%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.502% 0.484% 0.371%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 18
Average daily rate £300 £275 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -25.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £188 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £386 £400 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £270 £244 £265
% change year-on-year
+10.76% -8.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 £49.75 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.67% +5.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £67.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-51.85% +43.61%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6968 9083 8091
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.31% 15.64% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3510 4049 3664
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £208 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 620 810
Average hourly rate £23.75 £25.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

SSH Daily Rate Trend

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SSH within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

SSH Daily Rate Histogram

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SSH Hourly Rate Trend

SSH
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +3 31 £270 -1.81% 22
London +17 11 £325 +2.36% 10
South East +11 11 £190 -30.90% 1
Surrey +14 6 - -
East of England +17 4 £240 - 5
West Yorkshire - 4 £270 - 5
Yorkshire - 4 £270 - 6
Leeds - 4 £270 - 4
City of London +5 3 £325 -1.51% 4
Hampshire -5 3 - - 1
Hertfordshire - 3 £240 - 1
Berkshire +17 2 £190 +130.30%
Reading +4 1 £190 +130.30%
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £240 -
Scotland - 1 £378 -
West Midlands - 1 £225 -
Ealing - - - -
West Wales - - - - 2
Farnborough - - - -
West Lothian - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
North West - - - -
South Wales - - - - 1
South West - - - -
Wales - - - - 3
Hounslow - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
Leatherhead - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Newbury - - - -

SSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 38 (64.41%) Linux
2 26 (44.07%) UNIX
2 26 (44.07%) SSL
3 22 (37.29%) DNS
4 19 (32.20%) Windows
5 18 (30.51%) FTP
6 17 (28.81%) TCP/IP
7 15 (25.42%) HTTP
8 13 (22.03%) Apache
8 13 (22.03%) VPN
8 13 (22.03%) Subversion
9 12 (20.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 12 (20.34%) Cisco
9 12 (20.34%) DHCP
10 11 (18.64%) Oracle
10 11 (18.64%) Internet
10 11 (18.64%) Puppet
11 10 (16.95%) Red Hat
11 10 (16.95%) SQL
11 10 (16.95%) VMware
11 10 (16.95%) Firewall
12 9 (15.25%) PowerShell
12 9 (15.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (15.25%) WAN
13 8 (13.56%) Solaris
13 8 (13.56%) Web Services
13 8 (13.56%) HTTPS
13 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
13 8 (13.56%) Migration
13 8 (13.56%) Bash shell

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 8 (13.56%) Web Services
2 6 (10.17%) JSON
3 5 (8.475%) HTML
3 5 (8.475%) CSS
3 5 (8.475%) Ajax
4 4 (6.780%) XHTML
4 4 (6.780%) XML
4 4 (6.780%) DOM
4 4 (6.780%) jQuery
4 4 (6.780%) DHTML
4 4 (6.780%) CSS3
4 4 (6.780%) Sass
4 4 (6.780%) LESS
5 3 (5.085%) .NET
6 2 (3.390%) SOAP
6 2 (3.390%) REST
7 1 (1.695%) Node.js
7 1 (1.695%) XNA
7 1 (1.695%) Apache Flex
7 1 (1.695%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 13 (22.03%) Apache
2 7 (11.86%) CMS
2 7 (11.86%) Amazon AWS
3 6 (10.17%) Tomcat
4 4 (6.780%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (6.780%) IIS
5 3 (5.085%) Confluence
6 2 (3.390%) Rackspace Cloud
7 1 (1.695%) Route 53
7 1 (1.695%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (1.695%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.695%) MS Exchange
7 1 (1.695%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) MS Office
2 4 (6.780%) MS Excel
2 4 (6.780%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.695%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.695%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.695%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (44.07%) SSL
2 22 (37.29%) DNS
3 18 (30.51%) FTP
4 17 (28.81%) TCP/IP
5 15 (25.42%) HTTP
6 13 (22.03%) VPN
7 12 (20.34%) DHCP
8 11 (18.64%) Internet
9 10 (16.95%) Firewall
10 9 (15.25%) WAN
11 8 (13.56%) HTTPS
12 7 (11.86%) SMTP
13 6 (10.17%) LDAP
14 5 (8.475%) LAN
14 5 (8.475%) SAN
14 5 (8.475%) MPLS
15 3 (5.085%) OSPF
15 3 (5.085%) EIGRP
15 3 (5.085%) Ethernet
15 3 (5.085%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) MySQL
2 3 (5.085%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.695%) Redis
3 1 (1.695%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.695%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.695%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.695%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.695%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.695%) SimpleDB
3 1 (1.695%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) Subversion
2 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.17%) JIRA
4 5 (8.475%) Git (software)
4 5 (8.475%) Maven
4 5 (8.475%) Hudson
5 4 (6.780%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 2 (3.390%) Ant
7 1 (1.695%) Capistrano
7 1 (1.695%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.695%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 4 (6.780%) Telecoms
1 4 (6.780%) Finance
2 2 (3.390%) Games
2 2 (3.390%) Retail
3 1 (1.695%) General Ledger
3 1 (1.695%) Banking
3 1 (1.695%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Developer
2 7 (11.86%) Analyst
2 7 (11.86%) Network Engineer
2 7 (11.86%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (10.17%) Support Analyst
3 6 (10.17%) Applications Support
3 6 (10.17%) Administrator
3 6 (10.17%) Applications Support Analyst
4 5 (8.475%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (8.475%) Front-End Developer
5 4 (6.780%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.085%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.085%) Server Support
6 3 (5.085%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (5.085%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 3 (5.085%) Server Engineer
7 2 (3.390%) Server Support Engineer
7 2 (3.390%) Citrix Engineer
7 2 (3.390%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.390%) Deployment Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.475%) Open Source
2 4 (6.780%) Graphic Design
2 4 (6.780%) EFT
3 3 (5.085%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.085%) N-Tier
3 3 (5.085%) Interactive TV
4 2 (3.390%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.695%) Celerra
5 1 (1.695%) Data Conversion
5 1 (1.695%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.695%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.695%) Statistics
5 1 (1.695%) Firmware
5 1 (1.695%) Handset
5 1 (1.695%) Replication
5 1 (1.695%) CLARiiON
5 1 (1.695%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 38 (64.41%) Linux
2 26 (44.07%) UNIX
3 19 (32.20%) Windows
4 12 (20.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (15.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (13.56%) Solaris
7 6 (10.17%) SUSE
8 5 (8.475%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (3.390%) VMS
9 2 (3.390%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.695%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.695%) Windows 8
10 1 (1.695%) Debian
10 1 (1.695%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.695%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (1.695%) CentOS
10 1 (1.695%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.695%) AIX
10 1 (1.695%) Windows 2000
10 1 (1.695%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (13.56%) Migration
2 5 (8.475%) Scrum
2 5 (8.475%) ITIL
2 5 (8.475%) Configuration Management
3 4 (6.780%) Content Management
3 4 (6.780%) OO
3 4 (6.780%) Web Development
3 4 (6.780%) Unit Testing
3 4 (6.780%) Information Architecture
4 3 (5.085%) Software Deployment
4 3 (5.085%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (5.085%) Release Management
4 3 (5.085%) Fault Management
4 3 (5.085%) TDD
4 3 (5.085%) Pair Programming
4 3 (5.085%) Network Planning
5 2 (3.390%) Automated Testing
5 2 (3.390%) Incident Management
5 2 (3.390%) Project Management
5 2 (3.390%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.95%) SQL
2 9 (15.25%) PowerShell
3 8 (13.56%) Bash shell
4 7 (11.86%) Python
5 6 (10.17%) Ruby
6 5 (8.475%) PHP
6 5 (8.475%) Java
7 4 (6.780%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.780%) Perl
7 4 (6.780%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.085%) C
8 3 (5.085%) C++
9 2 (3.390%) C#
9 2 (3.390%) XAML
9 2 (3.390%) Korn
9 2 (3.390%) Groovy
10 1 (1.695%) ActionScript 3.0
10 1 (1.695%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.695%) C-shell
10 1 (1.695%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (8.475%) CCNP
2 5 (8.475%) Degree
2 5 (8.475%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.390%) JNCIP
3 2 (3.390%) JNCIE
3 2 (3.390%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.390%) BC Cleared
3 2 (3.390%) MCP
3 2 (3.390%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.390%) CCIE
3 2 (3.390%) CISSP
4 1 (1.695%) CCSA
4 1 (1.695%) MCSE
4 1 (1.695%) CCNA
4 1 (1.695%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.780%) WCAG
2 2 (3.390%) QA
2 2 (3.390%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.780%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.780%) Samba
3 3 (5.085%) XenApp
3 3 (5.085%) vSphere
3 3 (5.085%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.390%) NFS
4 2 (3.390%) Sendmail
4 2 (3.390%) Squid
4 2 (3.390%) MetaFrame
4 2 (3.390%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.695%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (1.695%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (1.695%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.695%) XenServer
5 1 (1.695%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.695%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 11 (18.64%) Puppet
2 5 (8.475%) Nagios
3 1 (1.695%) Cisco IPCC
3 1 (1.695%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (1.695%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (1.695%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.695%) PureDisk
3 1 (1.695%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.695%) OpenView
3 1 (1.695%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.695%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (1.695%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Cisco
2 11 (18.64%) Oracle
3 10 (16.95%) Red Hat
3 10 (16.95%) VMware
4 7 (11.86%) Citrix
4 7 (11.86%) HP
5 6 (10.17%) Juniper
6 4 (6.780%) Microsoft
6 4 (6.780%) Akamai
7 3 (5.085%) IBM
7 3 (5.085%) Sun
8 2 (3.390%) NetApp
8 2 (3.390%) Rackspace
9 1 (1.695%) F5
9 1 (1.695%) Twitter
9 1 (1.695%) Brocade
9 1 (1.695%) PlateSpin
9 1 (1.695%) Zend
9 1 (1.695%) Syncsort
9 1 (1.695%) Veeam
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