Squid Contract Job Trends in South London

Squid Cache
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Squid skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Squid 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 5.86% - -
As % of the System Software category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £542 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
London median daily rate £519 - £581

All System Software Skills
South London

Squid falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 78 31 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 35.14% 13.30% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 21 47
10th Percentile £322 £181 £185
25th Percentile £460 £200 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £619
90th Percentile £589 £565 £668
London median daily rate £537 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -2.32% +9.89% -12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £26.99
25th Percentile - - £40.82
Median hourly rate £67.70 £34.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +99.12% -22.45% -17.24%
75th Percentile - - £49.13
90th Percentile - - £61.19
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £32.00
% change year-on-year +5.67% -25.63% -5.88%

Squid
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Squid relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Squid job vacancy trend in South London

Squid
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Squid.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Squid

Squid
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Squid within the South London region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon - 13 £519 - 2
Squid
London

Squid
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (100.00%) Confluence
2 12 (92.31%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 12 (92.31%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (92.31%) Amazon S3
2 12 (92.31%) Route 53
3 8 (61.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (61.54%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (61.54%) Amazon ELB
3 8 (61.54%) AWS KMS
3 8 (61.54%) Azure
3 8 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (30.77%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) DNS
1 12 (92.31%) Firewall
2 8 (61.54%) FTP
2 8 (61.54%) HTTP
2 8 (61.54%) IMAP
2 8 (61.54%) OpenLDAP
2 8 (61.54%) SMTP
2 8 (61.54%) SSH
3 4 (30.77%) OpenVPN
3 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 4 (30.77%) VPN
4 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) JIRA
2 8 (61.54%) Git
2 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 8 (61.54%) Vagrant
3 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
3 4 (30.77%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) JUnit
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Presentation Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Public Sector
3 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) LDAP
2 5 (38.46%) OpenID
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Ubuntu
2 8 (61.54%) VMS
2 8 (61.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Change Management
3 8 (61.54%) Cloud Security
3 8 (61.54%) Configuration Management
3 8 (61.54%) Patch Management
3 8 (61.54%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (61.54%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 1 (7.69%) API Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.69%) OWASP
6 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
6 1 (7.69%) SIEM
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) Groovy
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) AWS Certification
2 8 (61.54%) Azure Certification
2 8 (61.54%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
2 8 (61.54%) DFS Replication
2 8 (61.54%) Dovecot
2 8 (61.54%) Postfix
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Grafana
1 13 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 13 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (61.54%) Nessus
2 8 (61.54%) Proxmox
3 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (30.77%) Consul
4 4 (30.77%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Jaspersoft
1 8 (61.54%) ServiceNow
2 4 (30.77%) Atlassian
2 4 (30.77%) Dynatrace
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat