Squid Cache
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Squid skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Squid over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 731 803 1011
Rank change year-on-year +72 +208 +121
Permanent jobs citing Squid 3 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.001% 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.045% 0.009% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £48,500
25th Percentile - £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - - £72,789
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +41.18%

All System Software Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,631 11,042 17,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.06% 14.34% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,971 9,071 11,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.67% -9.09% -1.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -

Squid
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Squid as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Squid in the UK

Squid
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Squid.

Salary trend for Squid in the UK

Squid
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Squid within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home - 3 £60,000 - 2
UK excluding London +74 1 £60,000 -14.29% 2
England +67 1 £60,000 -14.29% 3
South East - 1 £60,000 - 1

Squid
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Hardware Maintenance
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Veeam
1 3 (100.00%) VMware