The first table below looks at the demand for HTTPS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTPS over the 3 months to 21 May 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 City of London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
Rank 196 214 229
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +15
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 7 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.109% 0.038% 0.072%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.834% 0.295% 0.719%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
Average daily rate £525 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.52% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £367 £367 £319
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.47
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
839 1017 974
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.06% 12.94% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 692 637
Average daily rate £388 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.06% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £270 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 39 71
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £17.55 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
HTTPS
London

HTTPS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London HTTPS Jobs Demand Trend

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTTPS across the City of London region.

City of London HTTPS Daily Rate Trend

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTTPS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London HTTPS Daily Rate Histogram

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTTPS across the City of London region.

City of London HTTPS Hourly Rate Trend

HTTPS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing HTTPS 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 HTTPS.

1 13 (92.86%) HTTP
2 7 (50.00%) Linux
3 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 6 (42.86%) Internet
4 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
4 5 (35.71%) SMTP
4 5 (35.71%) SOAP
5 4 (28.57%) FTP
6 3 (21.43%) Windows XP
6 3 (21.43%) SLA
6 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (21.43%) Java
6 3 (21.43%) IIS
6 3 (21.43%) MCSE
6 3 (21.43%) XML
6 3 (21.43%) UNIX
6 3 (21.43%) Windows
6 3 (21.43%) NNTP
6 3 (21.43%) Change Management
6 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
6 3 (21.43%) Windows Vista
6 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
6 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
6 3 (21.43%) Open Source
6 3 (21.43%) Twitter
7 2 (14.29%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (14.29%) Hudson

HTTPS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing HTTPS 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 HTTPS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (35.71%) SOAP
2 3 (21.43%) XML
3 2 (14.29%) soapUI
3 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 2 (14.29%) Ajax
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
4 1 (7.143%) CSS
4 1 (7.143%) Servlets
4 1 (7.143%) Spring
4 1 (7.143%) REST
4 1 (7.143%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) IIS
2 2 (14.29%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 2 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.143%) Jetty
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) LongView
1 1 (7.143%) LatentZero
1 1 (7.143%) Capstone
1 1 (7.143%) Tesseract
1 1 (7.143%) Minerva
1 1 (7.143%) Sentinel
1 1 (7.143%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) HTTP
2 6 (42.86%) Internet
3 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
3 5 (35.71%) SMTP
4 4 (28.57%) FTP
5 3 (21.43%) NNTP
6 2 (14.29%) X.509
7 1 (7.143%) VoIP
7 1 (7.143%) POP3
7 1 (7.143%) DNS
7 1 (7.143%) SSL
7 1 (7.143%) SAN
7 1 (7.143%) 3G
7 1 (7.143%) Firewall
7 1 (7.143%) IMAP
7 1 (7.143%) 4G
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (14.29%) Hudson
1 2 (14.29%) JMeter
1 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.143%) OpenSTA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (7.143%) Banking
2 1 (7.143%) Front Office
2 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Support Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Security Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Trainer
4 1 (7.143%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.143%) Performance Tester
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Trainer
4 1 (7.143%) Implementation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (21.43%) Open Source
2 2 (14.29%) DataPower
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.143%) Streaming Media
3 1 (7.143%) Psychology
3 1 (7.143%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows XP
2 3 (21.43%) UNIX
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Vista
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
3 2 (14.29%) AIX
4 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Change Management
1 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
2 2 (14.29%) Investment Management
2 2 (14.29%) Fund Management
2 2 (14.29%) Stress Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Security Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
2 2 (14.29%) Information Security
2 2 (14.29%) B2B
3 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.143%) Data Management
3 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
3 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Data Management
3 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
3 1 (7.143%) Multithreading
3 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Data Architecture
3 1 (7.143%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (14.29%) ActionScript
4 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.143%) Python
4 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (21.43%) MCSE
2 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Twitter
2 1 (7.143%) Cisco
2 1 (7.143%) Juniper
2 1 (7.143%) Veritas
2 1 (7.143%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) Reuters
2 1 (7.143%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.143%) Charles River
2 1 (7.143%) Blue Coat
2 1 (7.143%) thinkFolio
2 1 (7.143%) Cadis
2 1 (7.143%) Facebook