Squid Job Trends

Squid Cache
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Squid skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 691 668 831
Rank change year-on-year -23 +163 +182
Permanent jobs citing Squid 1 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.001% 0.007% 0.001%
As % of the System Software category 0.023% 0.053% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +1.66%
75th Percentile - - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -3.73%

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 4,443 5,642 11,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.99% 12.94% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,150 3,938 9,745
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £67,875
90th Percentile £88,615 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -5.26%

Squid
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Squid relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Squid job vacancy trend in the UK

Squid
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Squid.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Squid

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 14 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -13 1 £65,000 +8.33% 7
England -35 1 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 -
North of England - 1 £65,000 -

Squid
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic