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The table below looks at the demand for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) skills within the England 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSecure Socket Layer (SSL)
Location
3 months to
15 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank370372
Rank change on same period last yearUp+2
Matching contract IT job ads182288
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.259 %0.298 %
As % of the category below2.059 %2.337 %
Daily rates quoted6786
Average minimum daily rate£343£369
Average daily rate£361£382
% change on same period last year-5.34 %
Average maximum daily rate£380£395
UK excluding London average daily rate£349£347
% change on same period last year+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted1521
Average minimum hourly rate£31.93£34.77
Average hourly rate£33.89£39.37
% change on same period last year-13.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate£35.86£43.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.52£41.67
% change on same period last year-19.54 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
England
Matching contract IT job ads884012325
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled12.60 %12.75 %
Daily rates quoted24913251
Average minimum daily rate£345£344
Average daily rate£365£361
% change on same period last year+0.93 %
Average maximum daily rate£384£378
UK excluding London average daily rate£355£336
% change on same period last year+5.75 %
Hourly rates quoted11981751
Average minimum hourly rate£25.16£26.63
Average hourly rate£26.90£28.70
% change on same period last year-6.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate£28.65£30.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.34£28.77
% change on same period last year-4.98 %
SSL UKSSL
UK

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 England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

England 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 England region.

England SSL Hourly Rate Trend

SSL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SSL across the England region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

England SSL Hourly Rate Histogram

SSL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the England region over the 3 months to 15 October 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.

LocationRank 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
LondonUp+2383£368-15.86 %
South EastUp+3029£344-7.38 %
West MidlandsUp+616£367-21.62 %
North EastUp+411£245-17.99 %
South WestUp+3211£332-
YorkshireUp+2010£350-22.65 %
East of EnglandUp+168£415+80.43 %
North WestNo change06£300-
East MidlandsDown-44£130-44.08 %
MidlandsUp+142--
SSL UKSSL
UK

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1173 (45.05 %)Firewall
2149 (38.80 %)VPN
3139 (36.20 %)Cisco
4131 (34.11 %)Windows
592 (23.96 %)CheckPoint
689 (23.18 %)UNIX
689 (23.18 %)Finance
773 (19.01 %)TCP/IP
863 (16.41 %)HTTP
959 (15.36 %)Shell Script
959 (15.36 %)Middleware
1057 (14.84 %)WebSphere MQ
1057 (14.84 %)Internet
1057 (14.84 %)LAN
1156 (14.58 %)Solaris
1156 (14.58 %)IIS
1255 (14.32 %)Tivoli
1255 (14.32 %)Juniper
1354 (14.06 %)SQL
1453 (13.80 %)Cisco Certification
1552 (13.54 %)AIX
1651 (13.28 %)Microsoft
1750 (13.02 %)SQL Server
1849 (12.76 %)Nokia
1849 (12.76 %)WebSphere
1948 (12.50 %)Cisco PIX
1948 (12.50 %).NET
2047 (12.24 %)FTP
2047 (12.24 %)Load Balancing
2146 (11.98 %)WAN

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
159 (15.36 %)Middleware
249 (12.76 %)WebSphere
348 (12.50 %).NET
444 (11.46 %)WBIMB
531 (8.073 %)SOAP
531 (8.073 %)WebServices
628 (7.292 %)ASP.NET
628 (7.292 %)HTML
628 (7.292 %)CSS
726 (6.771 %)XML
816 (4.167 %)ASP.NET 2.0
915 (3.906 %)MAPI
1012 (3.125 %)COM+
1012 (3.125 %)J2EE
1111 (2.865 %)ASP
1210 (2.604 %)ADO.NET
139 (2.344 %).NET Framework
148 (2.083 %)CGI
156 (1.563 %)XHTML
156 (1.563 %)Windows SharePoint Services
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
157 (14.84 %)WebSphere MQ
256 (14.58 %)IIS
329 (7.552 %)Apache
427 (7.031 %)WebSphere Application Server
427 (7.031 %)MS Exchange
520 (5.208 %)Exchange Server 2003
616 (4.167 %)SharePoint
714 (3.646 %)SharePoint Server 2007
714 (3.646 %)Gentran
812 (3.125 %)Exchange Server 2007
911 (2.865 %)Tomcat
1010 (2.604 %)MQSeries
116 (1.563 %)Exchange Server 2000
125 (1.302 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
125 (1.302 %)IBM HTTP Server
125 (1.302 %)Documentum
134 (1.042 %)SAS
134 (1.042 %)iPlanet
134 (1.042 %)WPS
143 (0.781 %)Rendezvous
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
121 (5.469 %)MS Excel
210 (2.604 %)MS Office
32 (0.521 %)Doxygen
41 (0.260 %)MS PowerPoint
41 (0.260 %)Photoshop
41 (0.260 %)MS Visio
41 (0.260 %)Fireworks
41 (0.260 %)Paint Shop Pro
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (0.521 %)Summit
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1173 (45.05 %)Firewall
2149 (38.80 %)VPN
373 (19.01 %)TCP/IP
463 (16.41 %)HTTP
557 (14.84 %)LAN
557 (14.84 %)Internet
648 (12.50 %)Cisco PIX
747 (12.24 %)FTP
846 (11.98 %)WAN
945 (11.72 %)BGP
1044 (11.46 %)DNS
1137 (9.635 %)OSPF
1236 (9.375 %)SMTP
1333 (8.594 %)NetScreen
1432 (8.333 %)HTTPS
1531 (8.073 %)MPLS
1629 (7.552 %)IPsec
1724 (6.250 %)Wireless
1724 (6.250 %)DHCP
1823 (5.990 %)SSH
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
150 (13.02 %)SQL Server
231 (8.073 %)SQL Server 2005
312 (3.125 %)MySQL
411 (2.865 %)SQL Server 2000
54 (1.042 %)RDBMS
63 (0.781 %)DTS
72 (0.521 %)Oracle 8/8i
72 (0.521 %)DB2
72 (0.521 %)GIS
81 (0.260 %)SQLPlus
81 (0.260 %)SQL Server Integration Services
81 (0.260 %)Oracle Reports
81 (0.260 %)Oracle Discoverer
81 (0.260 %)DataStage
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
110 (2.604 %)LoadRunner
27 (1.823 %)NUnit
27 (1.823 %)Subversion
27 (1.823 %)Visual Studio
27 (1.823 %)Flash
36 (1.563 %)TestDirector
44 (1.042 %)FrontPage
44 (1.042 %)Eclipse
44 (1.042 %)Dreamweaver
53 (0.781 %)Ant
53 (0.781 %)MSI
62 (0.521 %)Selenium
62 (0.521 %)Oracle Forms
71 (0.260 %)VSS/SourceSafe
71 (0.260 %)JBuilder
71 (0.260 %)Rational Rose
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
189 (23.18 %)Finance
228 (7.292 %)Banking
315 (3.906 %)Government
315 (3.906 %)Financial Institution
410 (2.604 %)Investment Banking
59 (2.344 %)Insurance
65 (1.302 %)Retail
65 (1.302 %)Health
74 (1.042 %)Telecoms
82 (0.521 %)Pharmaceutical
82 (0.521 %)Construction
82 (0.521 %)Local Government
82 (0.521 %)Retail Banking
91 (0.260 %)Corporate Banking
91 (0.260 %)Marketing
91 (0.260 %)Legal
91 (0.260 %)Front Office
91 (0.260 %)Back Office
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
151 (13.28 %)Analyst
246 (11.98 %)Developer
345 (11.72 %)Consultant
437 (9.635 %)Network Engineer
524 (6.250 %)Security Engineer
621 (5.469 %)Architect
719 (4.948 %)Administrator
817 (4.427 %)Network Support
916 (4.167 %)Cisco Engineer
1015 (3.906 %)Infrastructure Specialist
1114 (3.646 %)Network Architect
1114 (3.646 %)Support Engineer
1213 (3.385 %)Security Analyst
1312 (3.125 %).NET Developer
1312 (3.125 %)Network Analyst
1312 (3.125 %)Network Specialist
1312 (3.125 %)WebSphere Specialist
1411 (2.865 %)WebSphere Consultant
1411 (2.865 %)Network Consultant
1510 (2.604 %)Web Developer
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
143 (11.20 %)Mainframe
239 (10.16 %)Tandem
324 (6.250 %)PKI
417 (4.427 %)Blackberry
57 (1.823 %)PDA
57 (1.823 %)Clustering
57 (1.823 %)RIA
65 (1.302 %)Derivative
65 (1.302 %)W3C
65 (1.302 %)Firmware
65 (1.302 %)Fixed Income
74 (1.042 %)Cryptography
74 (1.042 %)NHS
74 (1.042 %)Computer Science
74 (1.042 %)Multithreading
83 (0.781 %)Client/Server
92 (0.521 %)Replication
92 (0.521 %)Russian Language
101 (0.260 %)Fat Client
101 (0.260 %)CESG
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1131 (34.11 %)Windows
289 (23.18 %)UNIX
356 (14.58 %)Solaris
452 (13.54 %)AIX
543 (11.20 %)Windows Server 2003
641 (10.68 %)HPUX
738 (9.896 %)Linux
820 (5.208 %)Windows 2000
916 (4.167 %)Windows XP
1014 (3.646 %)Windows Server 2008
1014 (3.646 %)Windows 2000 Server
1111 (2.865 %)Windows NT
129 (2.344 %)Red Hat Linux
135 (1.302 %)Windows Mobile
142 (0.521 %)MVS
142 (0.521 %)NetWare
151 (0.260 %)OS/390
151 (0.260 %)Debian
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
147 (12.24 %)Load Balancing
237 (9.635 %)Change Management
335 (9.115 %)ITIL
433 (8.594 %)Network Design
522 (5.729 %)E-Commerce
619 (4.948 %)OO
718 (4.688 %)PRINCE2
814 (3.646 %)UML
814 (3.646 %)Disaster Recovery
912 (3.125 %)Migration
1011 (2.865 %)Penetration Testing
1110 (2.604 %)Content Management
1110 (2.604 %)Security Cleared
128 (2.083 %)Problem Management
128 (2.083 %)Incident Management
128 (2.083 %)Project Management
128 (2.083 %)OOD
137 (1.823 %)B2B
137 (1.823 %)SC Cleared
146 (1.563 %)Unit Testing
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
159 (15.36 %)Shell Script
254 (14.06 %)SQL
329 (7.552 %)C#
428 (7.292 %)Java
525 (6.510 %)JavaScript
623 (5.990 %)Perl
714 (3.646 %)VBScript
811 (2.865 %)PHP
910 (2.604 %)DHTML
107 (1.823 %)C
107 (1.823 %)Python
116 (1.563 %)VB.NET
125 (1.302 %)Transact-SQL
134 (1.042 %)Korn
143 (0.781 %)PHP5
143 (0.781 %)VB
143 (0.781 %)Jython
152 (0.521 %)C++
161 (0.260 %)PL/SQL
161 (0.260 %)Ruby
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
153 (13.80 %)Cisco Certification
235 (9.115 %)CCNP
318 (4.688 %)CCIE
417 (4.427 %)CCDP
516 (4.167 %)CCDA
613 (3.385 %)Microsoft Certification
710 (2.604 %)CCNA
710 (2.604 %)MCSE
88 (2.083 %)CCSP
88 (2.083 %)Degree
96 (1.563 %)MCP
105 (1.302 %)MCTS
113 (0.781 %)ISEB
113 (0.781 %)PRINCE2 Certification
113 (0.781 %)CCSA
113 (0.781 %)CCSE
122 (0.521 %)JNCIA
122 (0.521 %)MCAD
122 (0.521 %)CISSP
131 (0.260 %)MCSA
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (1.302 %)ISO27001
15 (1.302 %)ISO17799
22 (0.521 %)BS7799
22 (0.521 %)PCI DSS
31 (0.260 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
31 (0.260 %)WCAG
31 (0.260 %)WAI
31 (0.260 %)CESG Infosec
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
136 (9.375 %)Active Directory
210 (2.604 %)VMware Infrastructure
39 (2.344 %)VMware ESX
46 (1.563 %)Samba
54 (1.042 %)ISA Server
63 (0.781 %)NFS
63 (0.781 %)Terminal Services
63 (0.781 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
63 (0.781 %)VMware Server
72 (0.521 %)Novell eDirectory
72 (0.521 %)Citrix Presentation Server
81 (0.260 %)Snort
81 (0.260 %)Squid
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
155 (14.32 %)Tivoli
240 (10.42 %)OMEGAMON
312 (3.125 %)CiscoWorks
410 (2.604 %)OpenView
57 (1.823 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
66 (1.563 %)NNM
75 (1.302 %)CA SiteMinder
75 (1.302 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
84 (1.042 %)OpenView Configuration Management
84 (1.042 %)WSUS
84 (1.042 %)MAILsweeper
84 (1.042 %)ServiceCenter
93 (0.781 %)Norton AntiVirus
101 (0.260 %)MIIS
101 (0.260 %)BMC PATROL
101 (0.260 %)Nessus
101 (0.260 %)MOM
101 (0.260 %)Netcool
101 (0.260 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
101 (0.260 %)Tivoli NetView
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1139 (36.20 %)Cisco
292 (23.96 %)CheckPoint
355 (14.32 %)Juniper
451 (13.28 %)Microsoft
549 (12.76 %)Nokia
629 (7.552 %)IBM
726 (6.771 %)HP
822 (5.729 %)Oracle
918 (4.688 %)Blue Coat
1017 (4.427 %)Nortel
1115 (3.906 %)VMware
1210 (2.604 %)Citrix
139 (2.344 %)Red Hat
147 (1.823 %)Sophos
147 (1.823 %)Crossbeam
155 (1.302 %)Peregrine
155 (1.302 %)Sun
164 (1.042 %)Avaya
164 (1.042 %)Sybase
164 (1.042 %)FaceTime