The first table below looks at the demand for SSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSL over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Rank 45 53 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing SSL 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.415% 0.155% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.636% 1.538% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £318 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.51% -9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.60% +56.25%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
55 65 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 11.41% 10.09% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 41
Average daily rate £350 £150 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+133.33% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £368 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
SSL
West Midlands

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SSL across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Birmingham SSL Jobs Demand Trend

SSL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SSL across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SSL Daily Rate Trend

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SSL across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SSL Hourly Rate Trend

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SSL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SSL.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) Java RMI
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) SMTP
3 1 (33.33%) FTP
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) JMX
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) LDAP
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SSL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
1 1 (33.33%) Java RMI
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) JMX
1 1 (33.33%) JDBC
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Process Server
2 1 (33.33%) ESB
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SMTP
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) SNMP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Consultant
2 2 (66.67%) CRM Consultant
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Jython
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
My client is in urgent need of a Microsoft Exchange Engineer to work on a 2003 to 2010 migration... SMTP, LDAP, SSL, TLS. Other key technologies will include...
Senitor Associates
Rate: £240 - £290 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013