The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Shell (SSH)
Rank 300 307 317
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +10
Permanent jobs citing SSH 13 26 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.111% 0.196% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.611% 1.195% 0.541%
Number of salaries quoted 4 24 7
Average salary £62,500 £46,250 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.13% -19.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,250 £45,000 £24,200
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £70,000 £113,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
% change year-on-year
-3.44% -
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2128 2176 1847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 18.13% 16.40% 12.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1894 1957 1688
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90% offered a salary of more than £32,521 £33,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SSH
London

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London SSH Salary Trend

SSH
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SSH across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London SSH Salary Histogram

SSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 21 (63.64%) Linux
2 17 (51.52%) HTTP
2 17 (51.52%) SAN
2 17 (51.52%) Bash shell
3 16 (48.48%) UNIX
4 14 (42.42%) Solaris
4 14 (42.42%) Perl
4 14 (42.42%) TCP/IP
4 14 (42.42%) Internet
5 13 (39.39%) DNS
5 13 (39.39%) Sun
5 13 (39.39%) Python
5 13 (39.39%) Java
5 13 (39.39%) SQL
5 13 (39.39%) Oracle
5 13 (39.39%) XML
6 12 (36.36%) ITIL
6 12 (36.36%) Finance
6 12 (36.36%) NAS
6 12 (36.36%) Degree
6 12 (36.36%) Load Balancing
7 11 (33.33%) LDAP
8 10 (30.30%) HTML
8 10 (30.30%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (30.30%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (27.27%) Akamai
9 9 (27.27%) REST
9 9 (27.27%) New Media
9 9 (27.27%) Video on Demand
9 9 (27.27%) WebSphere

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 13 (39.39%) XML
2 10 (30.30%) HTML
3 9 (27.27%) REST
3 9 (27.27%) WebSphere
3 9 (27.27%) SOAP
4 6 (18.18%) Web Services
5 5 (15.15%) CSS
6 4 (12.12%) WCF
6 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (12.12%) HTML5
6 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
6 4 (12.12%) .NET
7 2 (6.061%) YAML
7 2 (6.061%) JSON
7 2 (6.061%) Regular Expression
7 2 (6.061%) JMX
8 1 (3.030%) Ajax
8 1 (3.030%) Flash
8 1 (3.030%) J2EE
8 1 (3.030%) FFmpeg
Application Platforms
1 9 (27.27%) Tomcat
2 5 (15.15%) Apache
3 3 (9.091%) MS Exchange
3 3 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (6.061%) OpenStack
4 2 (6.061%) CloudStack
4 2 (6.061%) CMS
5 1 (3.030%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (51.52%) HTTP
1 17 (51.52%) SAN
2 14 (42.42%) TCP/IP
2 14 (42.42%) Internet
3 13 (39.39%) DNS
4 12 (36.36%) NAS
5 11 (33.33%) LDAP
6 8 (24.24%) SSL
7 7 (21.21%) VLAN
8 5 (15.15%) Wireless
8 5 (15.15%) VPN
8 5 (15.15%) Network Security
9 4 (12.12%) iSCSI
9 4 (12.12%) DHCP
9 4 (12.12%) Intranet
10 3 (9.091%) Firewall
10 3 (9.091%) VRRP
10 3 (9.091%) FTP
10 3 (9.091%) WAN
10 3 (9.091%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.21%) MySQL
2 7 (21.21%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Subversion
2 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
3 3 (9.091%) Maven
3 3 (9.091%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.061%) Git (software)
5 1 (3.030%) JIRA
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (9.091%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Senior UNIX Engineer
1 9 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
1 9 (27.27%) UNIX Engineer
1 9 (27.27%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Administrator
3 6 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (15.15%) Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 4 (12.12%) .NET Developer
5 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (9.091%) UNIX Administrator
6 3 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.061%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 2 (6.061%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (6.061%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (6.061%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (6.061%) Storage Administrator
8 1 (3.030%) Architect
8 1 (3.030%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Cloud Computing
1 10 (30.30%) Enterprise Storage
2 9 (27.27%) New Media
2 9 (27.27%) Video on Demand
3 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 4 (12.12%) Mathematics
5 3 (9.091%) CLARiiON
6 2 (6.061%) Mobile App
6 2 (6.061%) Digital Media
6 2 (6.061%) SWIFT
6 2 (6.061%) Client/Server
6 2 (6.061%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.030%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (3.030%) Equities
7 1 (3.030%) Fixed Income
7 1 (3.030%) Clustering
7 1 (3.030%) Derivative
7 1 (3.030%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (63.64%) Linux
2 16 (48.48%) UNIX
3 14 (42.42%) Solaris
4 7 (21.21%) Windows
5 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (6.061%) CentOS
7 2 (6.061%) Debian
8 1 (3.030%) SUSE
8 1 (3.030%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) ITIL
1 12 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 9 (27.27%) Workflow
2 9 (27.27%) Service Management
3 7 (21.21%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (18.18%) OO
5 5 (15.15%) TDD
6 4 (12.12%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (12.12%) UML
6 4 (12.12%) OOD
6 4 (12.12%) MVC
7 3 (9.091%) Configuration Management
8 2 (6.061%) Mobile Application Development
8 2 (6.061%) Release Management
8 2 (6.061%) Problem Management
8 2 (6.061%) Investment Management
8 2 (6.061%) Network Management
8 2 (6.061%) High Availability
8 2 (6.061%) Asset Management
8 2 (6.061%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) Bash shell
2 14 (42.42%) Perl
3 13 (39.39%) Python
3 13 (39.39%) Java
3 13 (39.39%) SQL
4 8 (24.24%) Shell Script
5 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
6 4 (12.12%) PHP
6 4 (12.12%) C#
6 4 (12.12%) T-SQL
7 2 (6.061%) sed
7 2 (6.061%) Korn
7 2 (6.061%) AWK
7 2 (6.061%) Ruby
8 1 (3.030%) ActionScript
8 1 (3.030%) C++
8 1 (3.030%) C
8 1 (3.030%) ActionScript 3.0
8 1 (3.030%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) RHCE
3 3 (9.091%) RHCT
4 1 (3.030%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.030%) CCNA
4 1 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.030%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) NFS
2 5 (15.15%) Samba
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.12%) vSphere
3 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
4 3 (9.091%) Squid
5 2 (6.061%) Xen
6 1 (3.030%) XenApp
6 1 (3.030%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Nagios
2 4 (12.12%) Tivoli
3 2 (6.061%) Puppet
3 2 (6.061%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (6.061%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Sun
1 13 (39.39%) Oracle
2 9 (27.27%) Akamai
2 9 (27.27%) JBoss
3 6 (18.18%) Cisco
3 6 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 5 (15.15%) VMware
5 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.12%) EMC
6 3 (9.091%) HP
7 2 (6.061%) Brocade
7 2 (6.061%) NetApp
8 1 (3.030%) Citrix
8 1 (3.030%) Adobe
City of London
The successful Systems Administrator (UNIX, Linux, TCP/IP) will work to support the UNIX, Storage and VMware infrastructure. This is an exciting opportunity for a Systems Administrator (UNIX,...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
The successful Systems Administrator (UNIX, Linux, TCP/IP) will work to support the UNIX, Storage and VMware infrastructure. This is an exciting opportunity for a Systems Administrator (UNIX,...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
There is some windows involvement, however this role is mainly focussed on Linux. Experience with ongoing administration of Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake) and open-source (Apache etc.)...
Intergence Systems Ltd
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum including on-call and callout.
Posted: 9 May 2013