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The table below looks at the demand for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SSL over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSecure Socket Layer (SSL)
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank162153
Rank change on same period last yearDown-9
Matching contract IT job ads1633
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.025 %0.035 %
As % of the category below2.465 %4.790 %
Daily rates quoted71
Average minimum daily rate£404£300
Average daily rate£419£325
% change on same period last year+28.79 %
Average maximum daily rate£433£350
UK excluding London average daily rate£364£376
% change on same period last year-3.02 %
Hourly rates quoted10
Average minimum hourly rate£30.00-
Average hourly rate£32.50-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£35.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.54£42.72
% change on same period last year-33.18 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads649689
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.022 %0.738 %
Daily rates quoted321272
Average minimum daily rate£367£394
Average daily rate£384£406
% change on same period last year-5.44 %
Average maximum daily rate£401£419
UK excluding London average daily rate£347£332
% change on same period last year+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted5565
Average minimum hourly rate£23.66£21.76
Average hourly rate£25.50£23.30
% change on same period last year+9.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.35£24.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.93£29.11
% change on same period last year-4.05 %
SSL LondonSSL
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SSL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

SSL
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The 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 November 2008.

City of London SSL Daily Rate Histogram

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 November 2008, 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.

131 (81.58 %)Firewall
222 (57.89 %)VPN
321 (55.26 %)Cisco
420 (52.63 %)Nokia
420 (52.63 %)CheckPoint
518 (47.37 %)Finance
613 (34.21 %)BGP
613 (34.21 %)Cisco Certification
613 (34.21 %)Juniper
613 (34.21 %)Cisco PIX
712 (31.58 %)FTP
811 (28.95 %)HTTP
811 (28.95 %)CCNP
811 (28.95 %)Banking
99 (23.68 %)Windows
99 (23.68 %)Cisco ASA
108 (21.05 %)HTTPS
108 (21.05 %)Network Design
108 (21.05 %)NetScreen
108 (21.05 %)OSPF
117 (18.42 %)WAN
117 (18.42 %)SMTP
117 (18.42 %)CiscoWorks
117 (18.42 %)LAN
126 (15.79 %)Active Directory
126 (15.79 %)DNS
126 (15.79 %)CCIE
135 (13.16 %)Investment Banking
135 (13.16 %)DHCP
135 (13.16 %)CCNA

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
14 (10.53 %)SOAP
22 (5.263 %)WebSphere
31 (2.632 %)Adobe Flex
31 (2.632 %)MIDP
31 (2.632 %)BREW
31 (2.632 %).NET
31 (2.632 %)J2EE
31 (2.632 %)CSS
31 (2.632 %)Struts
31 (2.632 %)XML
31 (2.632 %)J2ME
31 (2.632 %)CGI
31 (2.632 %)MAPI
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
13 (7.895 %)MS Exchange
22 (5.263 %)WebSphere Application Server
22 (5.263 %)IIS
31 (2.632 %)Exchange Server 2007
31 (2.632 %)Office Communications Server
31 (2.632 %)WMQI
31 (2.632 %)Exchange Server 2003
31 (2.632 %)MQSI
31 (2.632 %)Apache
31 (2.632 %)Tomcat
31 (2.632 %)MQSeries
31 (2.632 %)WebSphere MQ
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (2.632 %)MS PowerPoint
11 (2.632 %)MS Excel
11 (2.632 %)MS Visio
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
131 (81.58 %)Firewall
222 (57.89 %)VPN
313 (34.21 %)BGP
313 (34.21 %)Cisco PIX
412 (31.58 %)FTP
511 (28.95 %)HTTP
69 (23.68 %)Cisco ASA
78 (21.05 %)HTTPS
78 (21.05 %)NetScreen
78 (21.05 %)OSPF
87 (18.42 %)WAN
87 (18.42 %)SMTP
87 (18.42 %)LAN
96 (15.79 %)DNS
105 (13.16 %)DHCP
114 (10.53 %)VoIP
123 (7.895 %)DMZ
123 (7.895 %)TCP/IP
132 (5.263 %)Intranet
132 (5.263 %)Internet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (5.263 %)SQL Server
21 (2.632 %)SQLPlus
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
13 (7.895 %)TestDirector
13 (7.895 %)LoadRunner
22 (5.263 %)MSI
31 (2.632 %)Ant
31 (2.632 %)Eclipse
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
118 (47.37 %)Finance
211 (28.95 %)Banking
35 (13.16 %)Investment Banking
41 (2.632 %)Government
41 (2.632 %)Back Office
41 (2.632 %)Retail
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
110 (26.32 %)Cisco Engineer
28 (21.05 %)Network Specialist
28 (21.05 %)Firewall Engineer
28 (21.05 %)Analyst
36 (15.79 %)Network Engineer
45 (13.16 %)Firewall Specialist
45 (13.16 %)Communications Engineer
54 (10.53 %)Cisco Network Engineer
63 (7.895 %)Support Analyst
72 (5.263 %)Network Support
72 (5.263 %)Security Analyst
72 (5.263 %)Technical Analyst
72 (5.263 %)Cisco Specialist
72 (5.263 %)Technical Test Analyst
72 (5.263 %)Network Support Analyst
72 (5.263 %)Test Analyst
72 (5.263 %)Consultant
72 (5.263 %)Network Analyst
72 (5.263 %)Developer
81 (2.632 %)Tester
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
14 (10.53 %)Fixed Income
14 (10.53 %)Derivative
23 (7.895 %)PKI
32 (5.263 %)Blackberry
32 (5.263 %)Russian Language
41 (2.632 %)RIA
41 (2.632 %)HACMP
41 (2.632 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
19 (23.68 %)Windows
23 (7.895 %)UNIX
23 (7.895 %)Windows XP
23 (7.895 %)Linux
23 (7.895 %)Windows Server 2003
32 (5.263 %)Windows 2000
32 (5.263 %)Solaris
41 (2.632 %)Windows Server 2008
41 (2.632 %)Windows Mobile
41 (2.632 %)OS/390
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
18 (21.05 %)Network Design
23 (7.895 %)ITIL
23 (7.895 %)B2B
32 (5.263 %)Penetration Testing
32 (5.263 %)Validation
32 (5.263 %)Incident Management
32 (5.263 %)Stress Testing
41 (2.632 %)Security Testing
41 (2.632 %)Security Cleared
41 (2.632 %)Load Balancing
41 (2.632 %)Project Management
41 (2.632 %)Web Design
41 (2.632 %)Disaster Recovery
41 (2.632 %)OO
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
14 (10.53 %)Java
22 (5.263 %)SQL
22 (5.263 %)Shell Script
31 (2.632 %)Perl
31 (2.632 %)C#
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
113 (34.21 %)Cisco Certification
211 (28.95 %)CCNP
36 (15.79 %)CCIE
45 (13.16 %)CCNA
52 (5.263 %)JNCIA
52 (5.263 %)JNCIP
61 (2.632 %)Degree
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
16 (15.79 %)Active Directory
22 (5.263 %)VMware ESX
22 (5.263 %)VMware Server
22 (5.263 %)VMware Infrastructure
31 (2.632 %)Samba
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
17 (18.42 %)CiscoWorks
24 (10.53 %)NNM
32 (5.263 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
41 (2.632 %)MAILsweeper
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
121 (55.26 %)Cisco
220 (52.63 %)Nokia
220 (52.63 %)CheckPoint
313 (34.21 %)Juniper
44 (10.53 %)HP
44 (10.53 %)Sophos
52 (5.263 %)Microsoft
52 (5.263 %)Avaya
52 (5.263 %)Intel
52 (5.263 %)VMware
52 (5.263 %)Mitel
52 (5.263 %)BT
52 (5.263 %)Blue Coat
52 (5.263 %)Reuters
61 (2.632 %)Bloomberg
61 (2.632 %)Oracle
61 (2.632 %)Symbian
61 (2.632 %)Citrix
61 (2.632 %)Peregrine
61 (2.632 %)Sun