East of England SSL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SSL over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Devon East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Midlands Midlothian Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oxfordshire Preston Reading Romford Scotland Shropshire South East South West Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	133	124
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	18	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	2.387 %	2.677 %
Daily rates quoted	12	1
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£250
Average daily rate	£368	£300
% change on same period last year	+22.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£403	£316
% change on same period last year	+27.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£27.29
Average hourly rate	£31.75	£35.21
% change on same period last year	-9.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.50	£43.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.63	£34.50
% change on same period last year	-28.62 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	754	747
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.994 %	0.792 %
Daily rates quoted	253	203
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£334
Average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	115	124
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.07	£26.92
Average hourly rate	£28.64	£29.15
% change on same period last year	-1.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.20	£31.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
SSL England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SSL across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SSL across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SSL across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SSL across the East of England region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SSL within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	+7	13	£362	-
Norfolk	+5	2	-	-
Essex	-	2	-	-
Suffolk	-	1	£425	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 17 (70.83 %) Firewall 2 16 (66.67 %) Internet 3 15 (62.50 %) IBM 4 13 (54.17 %) VPN 5 12 (50.00 %) Cisco 6 11 (45.83 %) CheckPoint 6 11 (45.83 %) IPsec 6 11 (45.83 %) Nokia 6 11 (45.83 %) NetScreen 6 11 (45.83 %) Blue Coat 6 11 (45.83 %) Cisco PIX 6 11 (45.83 %) Crossbeam 6 11 (45.83 %) Problem Management 7 7 (29.17 %) E-Commerce 8 5 (20.83 %) Penetration Testing

8 5 (20.83 %) Network Security 9 4 (16.67 %) WebSphere 9 4 (16.67 %) PKI 9 4 (16.67 %) ASP 9 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 9 4 (16.67 %) Windows 10 3 (12.50 %) DMZ 10 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 10 3 (12.50 %) IIS 10 3 (12.50 %) HTTP 10 3 (12.50 %) Content Management 10 3 (12.50 %) Retail 11 2 (8.333 %) SAN 11 2 (8.333 %) Insurance 11 2 (8.333 %) Load Balancing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 4 (16.67 %) ASP 1 4 (16.67 %) WebSphere 2 2 (8.333 %) HTML 3 1 (4.167 %) J2EE 3 1 (4.167 %) SOAP 3 1 (4.167 %) XML 3 1 (4.167 %) WSDL 3 1 (4.167 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 3 (12.50 %) IIS 2 2 (8.333 %) IBM HTTP Server 2 2 (8.333 %) WPS 2 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (4.167 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 17 (70.83 %) Firewall 2 16 (66.67 %) Internet 3 13 (54.17 %) VPN 4 11 (45.83 %) NetScreen 4 11 (45.83 %) IPsec 4 11 (45.83 %) Cisco PIX 5 5 (20.83 %) Network Security 6 3 (12.50 %) DMZ 6 3 (12.50 %) HTTP 7 2 (8.333 %) SAN 7 2 (8.333 %) Intranet 8 1 (4.167 %) SNMP 8 1 (4.167 %) Wi-Fi 8 1 (4.167 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Flash	General 1 3 (12.50 %) Retail 2 2 (8.333 %) Insurance 3 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 11 (45.83 %) Analyst 1 11 (45.83 %) Security Analyst 2 9 (37.50 %) Firewall Analyst 3 4 (16.67 %) Project Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) Developer 4 2 (8.333 %) Network Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) Infrastructure Designer 4 2 (8.333 %) Network Security Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) Senior Security Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Senior Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Security Manager 5 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce Manager 5 1 (4.167 %) Technical Manager 5 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce Project Manager 5 1 (4.167 %) Web Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Technical Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (16.67 %) PKI 2 2 (8.333 %) Fat Client 2 2 (8.333 %) Thin Client 3 1 (4.167 %) Cryptography 3 1 (4.167 %) e-Health
Operating Systems 1 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2 2 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (4.167 %) Solaris 3 1 (4.167 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (45.83 %) Problem Management 2 7 (29.17 %) E-Commerce 3 5 (20.83 %) Penetration Testing 4 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (12.50 %) Content Management 5 2 (8.333 %) ITIL 5 2 (8.333 %) Load Balancing 6 1 (4.167 %) Web Development 6 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (4.167 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (4.167 %) UML 6 1 (4.167 %) RUP 6 1 (4.167 %) ERP 6 1 (4.167 %) SOA 6 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Unified Process
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167 %) C 1 1 (4.167 %) C++ 1 1 (4.167 %) DHTML 1 1 (4.167 %) Java 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL 1 1 (4.167 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) CCIE 1 2 (8.333 %) CISSP 1 2 (8.333 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) CNE 2 1 (4.167 %) Novell Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) IBM Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) VMware ESX 1 2 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (4.167 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (8.333 %) Tivoli 2 1 (4.167 %) Netcool 2 1 (4.167 %) Netcool/OMNIbus	Vendors 1 15 (62.50 %) IBM 2 12 (50.00 %) Cisco 3 11 (45.83 %) Nokia 3 11 (45.83 %) CheckPoint 3 11 (45.83 %) Blue Coat 3 11 (45.83 %) Crossbeam 4 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 5 2 (8.333 %) HP 5 2 (8.333 %) VMware 6 1 (4.167 %) Oracle