The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SSH over the 3 months to 21 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Shell (SSH)
Rank 666 705 727
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +22
Permanent jobs citing SSH 181 151 135
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.178% 0.133% 0.117%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.910% 0.754% 0.736%
Number of salaries quoted 131 121 119
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £31,000 £22,200
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £38,750
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -3.22%
All Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19888 20038 18337
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 19.57% 17.61% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 16200 16866 15319
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £64,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SSH
UK

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England SSH Salary Trend

SSH
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SSH across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England SSH Salary Histogram

SSH
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSH within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +6 69 £42,500 -5.55%
South East +30 56 £35,000 -20.00%
East of England +26 26 £37,000 +8.82%
Yorkshire +1 14 £24,000 -31.42%
North West -14 6 £40,000 -5.88%
West Midlands -23 5 £50,000 +33.33%
South West +1 3 £30,000 -20.00%
East Midlands - 2 £35,502 -
SSH
UK

SSH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 296 (73.09%) Linux
2 210 (51.85%) DNS
3 197 (48.64%) UNIX
4 178 (43.95%) TCP/IP
5 156 (38.52%) Apache
6 143 (35.31%) Red Hat
7 132 (32.59%) Perl
8 125 (30.86%) HTTP
9 123 (30.37%) FTP
10 122 (30.12%) Windows
11 120 (29.63%) MySQL
12 108 (26.67%) Solaris
13 102 (25.19%) Oracle
14 101 (24.94%) Java
15 94 (23.21%) SAN
16 93 (22.96%) Internet
17 90 (22.22%) SQL
17 90 (22.22%) Cisco
18 89 (21.98%) VMware
19 86 (21.23%) Bash shell
20 84 (20.74%) Sun
20 84 (20.74%) Firewall
21 82 (20.25%) SMTP
21 82 (20.25%) ITIL
22 81 (20.00%) SSL
23 80 (19.75%) VPN
24 74 (18.27%) XML
25 72 (17.78%) Finance
26 71 (17.53%) Shell Script
26 71 (17.53%) Python

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 74 (18.27%) XML
2 64 (15.80%) SOAP
3 63 (15.56%) HTML
4 51 (12.59%) CSS
5 40 (9.877%) .NET
6 35 (8.642%) jQuery
7 34 (8.395%) LAMP
7 34 (8.395%) Web Services
8 33 (8.148%) REST
9 31 (7.654%) WebSphere
10 22 (5.432%) Middleware
10 22 (5.432%) J2EE
11 20 (4.938%) ASP.NET
11 20 (4.938%) XHTML
12 19 (4.691%) WCF
13 17 (4.198%) HTML5
14 12 (2.963%) JSON
15 10 (2.469%) WSDL
16 9 (2.222%) CSS3
17 7 (1.728%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 156 (38.52%) Apache
2 64 (15.80%) Tomcat
3 47 (11.60%) IIS
4 31 (7.654%) MS Exchange
5 28 (6.914%) Amazon AWS
6 23 (5.679%) Rackspace Cloud
7 20 (4.938%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (3.951%) nginx
8 16 (3.951%) WordPress
9 14 (3.457%) Magento
9 14 (3.457%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 12 (2.963%) Exchange Server 2010
11 11 (2.716%) SharePoint Server
12 10 (2.469%) WebLogic
13 9 (2.222%) CMS
13 9 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (1.975%) Joomla!
15 7 (1.728%) SharePoint
15 7 (1.728%) Drupal
16 6 (1.481%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (4.691%) MS Excel
2 6 (1.481%) Google Apps
2 6 (1.481%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.494%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.494%) InDesign
3 2 (0.494%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (0.494%) MS Office
3 2 (0.494%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 6 (1.481%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 210 (51.85%) DNS
2 178 (43.95%) TCP/IP
3 125 (30.86%) HTTP
4 123 (30.37%) FTP
5 94 (23.21%) SAN
6 93 (22.96%) Internet
7 84 (20.74%) Firewall
8 82 (20.25%) SMTP
9 81 (20.00%) SSL
10 80 (19.75%) VPN
11 68 (16.79%) LDAP
12 48 (11.85%) NAS
13 40 (9.877%) DHCP
14 36 (8.889%) Cisco ASA
15 35 (8.642%) VLAN
16 24 (5.926%) Wireless
17 23 (5.679%) Network Security
18 22 (5.432%) TELNET
18 22 (5.432%) POP3
19 21 (5.185%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (29.63%) MySQL
2 33 (8.148%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.185%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.469%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (1.975%) Informix
6 7 (1.728%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (1.235%) TOAD
8 4 (0.988%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.988%) Voldemort
8 4 (0.988%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (0.741%) DB2
10 2 (0.494%) SQLite
10 2 (0.494%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.247%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.247%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.247%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.247%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.247%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (14.07%) Subversion
2 33 (8.148%) Git (software)
3 14 (3.457%) Team Foundation Server
3 14 (3.457%) JIRA
4 10 (2.469%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.481%) Maven
5 6 (1.481%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.481%) Ant
6 5 (1.235%) ProC
7 4 (0.988%) Hudson
7 4 (0.988%) ClearQuest
8 3 (0.741%) Selenium
9 2 (0.494%) Balsamiq Mockups
9 2 (0.494%) GCC
9 2 (0.494%) GDB
9 2 (0.494%) Gradle
9 2 (0.494%) NUnit
9 2 (0.494%) JUnit
9 2 (0.494%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.494%) IntelliJ
General
1 72 (17.78%) Finance
2 17 (4.198%) Retail
3 12 (2.963%) Telecoms
4 10 (2.469%) Banking
4 10 (2.469%) Games
5 6 (1.481%) Marketing
5 6 (1.481%) Billing
6 5 (1.235%) Advertising
7 3 (0.741%) Electronics
7 3 (0.741%) French Language
7 3 (0.741%) German Language
7 3 (0.741%) Italian Language
7 3 (0.741%) Spanish Language
8 2 (0.494%) Military
8 2 (0.494%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.247%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.247%) Legal
9 1 (0.247%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.247%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (23.46%) Administrator
2 83 (20.49%) Systems Administrator
3 68 (16.79%) Linux Administrator
4 57 (14.07%) Developer
5 53 (13.09%) UNIX Engineer
6 47 (11.60%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 44 (10.86%) Senior UNIX Engineer
8 43 (10.62%) Linux Engineer
9 25 (6.173%) Support Engineer
9 25 (6.173%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 23 (5.679%) Analyst
11 21 (5.185%) Team Leader
12 20 (4.938%) .NET Developer
12 20 (4.938%) Systems Engineer
13 18 (4.444%) ASP.NET Developer
13 18 (4.444%) Web Developer
13 18 (4.444%) Support Analyst
14 16 (3.951%) Senior Systems Administrator
15 14 (3.457%) C# .NET Developer
15 14 (3.457%) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.395%) Enterprise Storage
2 33 (8.148%) PKI
2 33 (8.148%) Cloud Computing
3 21 (5.185%) Replication
3 21 (5.185%) Clustering
4 14 (3.457%) Open Source
4 14 (3.457%) Cryptography
5 12 (2.963%) Video on Demand
5 12 (2.963%) New Media
5 12 (2.963%) Computer Science
6 11 (2.716%) SWIFT
6 11 (2.716%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.975%) Mathematics
7 8 (1.975%) Wiki
7 8 (1.975%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.481%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.481%) Blackberry
9 5 (1.235%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.235%) Digital Media
10 4 (0.988%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 296 (73.09%) Linux
2 197 (48.64%) UNIX
3 122 (30.12%) Windows
4 108 (26.67%) Solaris
5 71 (17.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 58 (14.32%) CentOS
7 40 (9.877%) Windows Server 2008
8 39 (9.630%) Debian
9 37 (9.136%) Windows Server 2003
10 36 (8.889%) SUSE
11 33 (8.148%) Ubuntu
12 24 (5.926%) AIX
13 20 (4.938%) Windows 7
14 11 (2.716%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (1.481%) Windows XP
16 4 (0.988%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.988%) Scientific Linux
16 4 (0.988%) Windows 2000 Server
17 3 (0.741%) zOS
17 3 (0.741%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (20.25%) ITIL
2 57 (14.07%) Load Balancing
3 43 (10.62%) OO
4 42 (10.37%) Service Management
5 32 (7.901%) Time Management
6 29 (7.160%) Workflow
7 26 (6.420%) Disaster Recovery
8 24 (5.926%) E-Commerce
9 20 (4.938%) Information Security
10 17 (4.198%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (3.704%) MVC
11 15 (3.704%) Scrum
11 15 (3.704%) Problem Management
12 14 (3.457%) Configuration Management
13 13 (3.210%) Service Delivery
14 12 (2.963%) Web Application Development
14 12 (2.963%) High Availability
14 12 (2.963%) Web Development
14 12 (2.963%) Incident Management
14 12 (2.963%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 132 (32.59%) Perl
2 101 (24.94%) Java
3 90 (22.22%) SQL
4 86 (21.23%) Bash shell
5 71 (17.53%) Shell Script
5 71 (17.53%) Python
5 71 (17.53%) PHP
6 54 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 39 (9.630%) C++
8 20 (4.938%) C#
9 19 (4.691%) C-shell
10 17 (4.198%) Korn
11 15 (3.704%) C
11 15 (3.704%) Ruby
11 15 (3.704%) Bourne shell
12 13 (3.210%) PHP5
13 6 (1.481%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.235%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.988%) PHP4
16 3 (0.741%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 59 (14.57%) Degree
2 25 (6.173%) RHCE
3 17 (4.198%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (3.951%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.457%) MCSE
6 13 (3.210%) CCNA
7 11 (2.716%) MCP
8 8 (1.975%) CISSP
9 5 (1.235%) CCNP
9 5 (1.235%) RHCT
9 5 (1.235%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.235%) Security Cleared
10 4 (0.988%) LPIC
10 4 (0.988%) RHCA
11 3 (0.741%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.494%) MCITP
13 1 (0.247%) MBA
13 1 (0.247%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.247%) CCA
13 1 (0.247%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.901%) SLA
2 4 (0.988%) QA
3 3 (0.741%) COBIT
3 3 (0.741%) COSO
3 3 (0.741%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.494%) WAI
4 2 (0.494%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (15.56%) NFS
2 57 (14.07%) Sendmail
3 56 (13.83%) Active Directory
4 53 (13.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 47 (11.60%) Samba
6 40 (9.877%) vSphere
7 32 (7.901%) Postfix
8 23 (5.679%) Xen
9 21 (5.185%) Hyper-V
9 21 (5.185%) VMware ESX
10 14 (3.457%) Squid
11 13 (3.210%) qmail
12 6 (1.481%) XenServer
12 6 (1.481%) SpamAssassin
12 6 (1.481%) FreeRADIUS
12 6 (1.481%) Varnish
12 6 (1.481%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (1.481%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (1.235%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.988%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 40 (9.877%) Nagios
2 30 (7.407%) Puppet
3 17 (4.198%) Cacti
4 16 (3.951%) Tivoli
5 13 (3.210%) Red Hat Satellite
6 8 (1.975%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 6 (1.481%) SolarWinds Orion
7 6 (1.481%) WSUS
7 6 (1.481%) OpenView
7 6 (1.481%) BMC PATROL
8 5 (1.235%) Control-M
8 5 (1.235%) NetBackup
9 4 (0.988%) YUM
9 4 (0.988%) Splunk
9 4 (0.988%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.988%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.988%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (0.741%) Cobbler
10 3 (0.741%) Plesk
11 2 (0.494%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 143 (35.31%) Red Hat
2 102 (25.19%) Oracle
3 90 (22.22%) Cisco
4 89 (21.98%) VMware
5 84 (20.74%) Sun
6 62 (15.31%) HP
7 56 (13.83%) Microsoft
8 40 (9.877%) JBoss
9 35 (8.642%) NetApp
10 31 (7.654%) EMC
11 28 (6.914%) Rackspace
12 21 (5.185%) Juniper
13 19 (4.691%) StorageTek
14 14 (3.457%) Isilon
14 14 (3.457%) Dell
15 12 (2.963%) Akamai
15 12 (2.963%) Citrix
16 11 (2.716%) Google
17 9 (2.222%) ProCurve
18 7 (1.728%) Brocade
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