Squid Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Squid skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Squid over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 470 621
Rank change year-on-year +126 +151 -146
Contract jobs citing Squid 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.008% 0.004%
As % of the System Software category 0.14% 0.062% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £440
25th Percentile £563 £588 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +16.82% +64.62%
75th Percentile £588 £663 £574
90th Percentile - - £575
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £570
% change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% +75.38%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Squid is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,449 3,210 5,510
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.48% 12.41% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 2,298 4,076
10th Percentile £263 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £633 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 101 104
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.25 £47.50 £17.69
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £52.81
90th Percentile £84.42 £78.00 £65.86
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.35 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.83% +166.75% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Squid as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Squid trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Squid.

Squid daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto