The first table below looks at the demand for SSL 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 SSL 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
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Rank 179 182 225
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +43
Contract jobs citing SSL 24 35 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.373% 0.445% 0.114%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.861% 3.441% 1.129%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 7
Average daily rate £325 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.57% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £182 £343 £242
10% offered a daily rate of more than £417 £550 £590
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.96% -5.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +56.25%
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%
SSL
London

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London SSL Daily Rate Trend

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London SSL Daily Rate Histogram

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London SSL Hourly Rate Trend

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 32 (53.33%) Windows
2 27 (45.00%) TCP/IP
3 26 (43.33%) Microsoft
4 25 (41.67%) SMTP
5 23 (38.33%) MS Exchange
6 22 (36.67%) Firewall
6 22 (36.67%) Exchange Server 2010
7 21 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 21 (35.00%) LDAP
8 20 (33.33%) Active Directory
8 20 (33.33%) Migration
9 19 (31.67%) Blackberry
10 18 (30.00%) POP3
10 18 (30.00%) Banking
10 18 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2003
11 17 (28.33%) VPN
11 17 (28.33%) Lotus Notes
11 17 (28.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 17 (28.33%) Lotus
12 16 (26.67%) PowerShell
13 15 (25.00%) Cisco
14 14 (23.33%) Lotus Domino
14 14 (23.33%) Symantec
15 13 (21.67%) Juniper
15 13 (21.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
16 12 (20.00%) Linux
16 12 (20.00%) HTTP
17 11 (18.33%) Project Management
18 10 (16.67%) F5
18 10 (16.67%) Office Communications Server

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 6 (10.00%) XML
2 4 (6.667%) HTML
2 4 (6.667%) ASP
3 3 (5.000%) Ajax
3 3 (5.000%) WebSphere
3 3 (5.000%) Middleware
3 3 (5.000%) SOAP
3 3 (5.000%) Web Services
3 3 (5.000%) XSL
4 2 (3.333%) JMS
4 2 (3.333%) OLE
4 2 (3.333%) Spring
4 2 (3.333%) LAMP
5 1 (1.667%) REST
5 1 (1.667%) RESTful
5 1 (1.667%) JAX-WS
5 1 (1.667%) Spring MVC
5 1 (1.667%) XML Messaging
5 1 (1.667%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.667%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 23 (38.33%) MS Exchange
2 22 (36.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 18 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 17 (28.33%) Lotus Notes
4 17 (28.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 14 (23.33%) Lotus Domino
6 10 (16.67%) Office Communications Server
7 7 (11.67%) Apache
8 4 (6.667%) Lync
9 3 (5.000%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (5.000%) IIS
9 3 (5.000%) Tomcat
10 1 (1.667%) Confluence
10 1 (1.667%) Jetty
10 1 (1.667%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (1.667%) WebSphere MQ
10 1 (1.667%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (15.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (11.67%) MS Office
3 2 (3.333%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.667%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (45.00%) TCP/IP
2 25 (41.67%) SMTP
3 22 (36.67%) Firewall
4 21 (35.00%) LDAP
5 18 (30.00%) POP3
6 17 (28.33%) VPN
7 12 (20.00%) HTTP
8 9 (15.00%) DNS
9 8 (13.33%) WAN
9 8 (13.33%) IPsec
10 7 (11.67%) SAN
10 7 (11.67%) LAN
11 6 (10.00%) Internet
11 6 (10.00%) Network Security
12 5 (8.333%) VoIP
12 5 (8.333%) DHCP
13 4 (6.667%) FTP
13 4 (6.667%) NAS
14 3 (5.000%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (5.000%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.667%) MySQL
2 2 (3.333%) Big Data
3 1 (1.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.333%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.667%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.667%) JIRA
2 1 (1.667%) JUnit
General
1 18 (30.00%) Banking
2 7 (11.67%) Finance
2 7 (11.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.333%) Financial Institution
3 2 (3.333%) Legal
3 2 (3.333%) Publishing
4 1 (1.667%) German Language
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Analyst
1 10 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Consultant
3 6 (10.00%) Administrator
3 6 (10.00%) Exchange Engineer
4 5 (8.333%) Messaging Engineer
4 5 (8.333%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (6.667%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (6.667%) Test Analyst
5 4 (6.667%) Exchange Consultant
5 4 (6.667%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (6.667%) Messaging Consultant
6 3 (5.000%) IT Administrator
6 3 (5.000%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 3 (5.000%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.000%) Developer
6 3 (5.000%) Support Consultant
6 3 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (5.000%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.333%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.67%) Blackberry
2 4 (6.667%) PKI
3 3 (5.000%) Replication
4 2 (3.333%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.667%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.667%) Open Source
5 1 (1.667%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 32 (53.33%) Windows
2 21 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (20.00%) Linux
4 6 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (8.333%) UNIX
6 3 (5.000%) CentOS
6 3 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.000%) Gentoo
7 2 (3.333%) AIX
7 2 (3.333%) Solaris
7 2 (3.333%) Windows Mobile
7 2 (3.333%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.667%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.667%) Windows 8
8 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.667%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.667%) Android
8 1 (1.667%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.667%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) Migration
2 11 (18.33%) Project Management
3 7 (11.67%) ITIL
4 5 (8.333%) Business Continuity
5 3 (5.000%) Network Management
5 3 (5.000%) E-Discovery
5 3 (5.000%) Functional Testing
5 3 (5.000%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (5.000%) Digital Forensics
5 3 (5.000%) Test Scripting
5 3 (5.000%) Incident Management
5 3 (5.000%) Computer Forensics
5 3 (5.000%) Data Analysis
6 2 (3.333%) Change Management
6 2 (3.333%) Load Balancing
6 2 (3.333%) Multithreading
6 2 (3.333%) Analytics
7 1 (1.667%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.667%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (1.667%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.00%) C
3 5 (8.333%) Java
4 4 (6.667%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.667%) Perl
4 4 (6.667%) PHP
5 3 (5.000%) Python
6 1 (1.667%) Bash shell
6 1 (1.667%) XPath
6 1 (1.667%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.667%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.667%) SQL
6 1 (1.667%) VBScript
6 1 (1.667%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (11.67%) CISSP
3 6 (10.00%) CCNA
3 6 (10.00%) MCITP
4 5 (8.333%) CCNP
5 4 (6.667%) CCSA
6 3 (5.000%) Degree
6 3 (5.000%) ISEB
6 3 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.000%) MCSE
7 2 (3.333%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) ISO 9001
2 5 (8.333%) SLA
3 1 (1.667%) QA
System Software
1 20 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.00%) ProxySG
4 4 (6.667%) NFS
5 3 (5.000%) Forefront TMG
5 3 (5.000%) UAG
5 3 (5.000%) ISA Server
6 1 (1.667%) Squid
6 1 (1.667%) ClearTrust
6 1 (1.667%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 9 (15.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 7 (11.67%) SCOM
3 7 (11.67%) MAILsweeper
3 7 (11.67%) Tivoli
4 2 (3.333%) Nagios
4 2 (3.333%) Puppet
5 1 (1.667%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 26 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (28.33%) Lotus
3 15 (25.00%) Cisco
4 14 (23.33%) Symantec
5 13 (21.67%) Juniper
6 10 (16.67%) F5
6 10 (16.67%) VMware
7 8 (13.33%) CheckPoint
8 7 (11.67%) Blue Coat
8 7 (11.67%) McAfee
9 5 (8.333%) Sourcefire
10 4 (6.667%) Citrix
11 3 (5.000%) HP
11 3 (5.000%) Dell
11 3 (5.000%) Red Hat
11 3 (5.000%) Oracle
12 2 (3.333%) IBM
12 2 (3.333%) Avaya
12 2 (3.333%) Speakerbus
12 2 (3.333%) Finjan
City, London
The successful candidate will have the following skill set: Qualified to CCNA level. ITIL qualified to Foundation Level... Experience of change management process. Working knowledge of MS Office,...
Experis IT
Rate: £260 - £288 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The successful candidate will have the following skill set: Qualified to CCNA level. ITIL qualified to Foundation Level... Experience of change management process. Working knowledge of MS Office,...
Experis IT
Rate: £260 - £288 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
SMTP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, TLS, and knowledge of basic network troubleshooting. Outlook Client Support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Lotus Domino Server, Lotus Notes Client E-Mail Migration and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Technical environment MsExchange 2003 - 2010, Symantec Enterprise Vault BlackBerry Enterprise Server Active Directory Skilled in TCPIP and common networking protocols i.e. SMTP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, TLS, and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013