Squid Cache
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Squid skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Squid over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 735 1066 1091
Rank change year-on-year +331 +25 -339
Permanent jobs citing Squid 6 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.008% 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.067% 0.053% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 3
10th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,313 £55,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,438 £74,737 £56,875
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,316 £58,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,515 -
% change year-on-year +2.17% - -

All System Software Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,918 18,819 22,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 15.18% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,089 12,537 15,927
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.89% +5.26% +5.56%

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 6 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 4 December 2023. 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
England +330 6 £71,250 +18.75% 1
London +269 5 £72,500 +31.82% 1
Work from Home +246 1 £70,000 +2.17%
UK excluding London +237 1 £70,000 +2.17%
West Midlands +131 1 £70,000 +16.67%
Midlands +121 1 £70,000 +16.67%

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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Security Architect
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM Architect
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Support
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Integration Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Red Team
2 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) Event Correlation
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Perl
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 3 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Huawei