The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SSH 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 Communications & Networking category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Shell (SSH)
Rank 113 98 90
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -8
Permanent jobs citing SSH 5 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.294% 0.135% 0.074%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.577% 0.685% 0.408%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
Average salary £50,000 £31,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+61.29% -31.11%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
317 292 245
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 18.65% 19.70% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 255 255 222
Average salary £41,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £59,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SSH
West Midlands

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham SSH Jobs Demand Trend

SSH
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SSH across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SSH Salary Trend

SSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SSH.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
2 5 (83.33%) AIX
2 5 (83.33%) Solaris
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Perl
2 5 (83.33%) Control-M
2 5 (83.33%) SSL
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) SUSE
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) Middleware
4 1 (16.67%) SQLPlus
4 1 (16.67%) ColdFusion
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (16.67%) Korn
4 1 (16.67%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) VB
4 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
4 1 (16.67%) IIS
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) JBoss
4 1 (16.67%) Lotus Domino
4 1 (16.67%) Apache
4 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
4 1 (16.67%) FTP

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SSH. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) ColdFusion
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) Lotus Domino
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) FTP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQLPlus
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Support Specialist
1 4 (66.67%) Applications Support
1 4 (66.67%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware Analyst
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
2 5 (83.33%) AIX
2 5 (83.33%) Solaris
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) Korn
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) VB
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss