The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSH over the 3 months to 22 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 Communications & Networking category for the West Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Shell (SSH)
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SSH 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.314% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.717% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £270 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £323
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.59 £67.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-56.16% +43.61%
All Communications & Networking
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
233 198 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 18.30% 12.24% 8.213%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 100 34
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £188 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £420 £496
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 23 18
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £23.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -35.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £11.53
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £33.75 £31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
SSH
Yorkshire

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire SSH Daily Rate Trend

SSH
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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Leeds - 4 £270 -
SSH
Yorkshire

SSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Internet
2 3 (75.00%) SSL
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) FTP
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) Firmware
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) MCSE
4 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (25.00%) POSIX

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 1 (25.00%) POSIX
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Route 53
2 1 (25.00%) nginx
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Internet
2 3 (75.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) FTP
4 1 (25.00%) SMTP
4 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) SimpleDB
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Debian
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) XenServer
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) PureDisk
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Brocade
1 1 (25.00%) Syncsort