The first table below looks at the demand for SSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSL over the 3 months to 22 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 Hampshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Rank 76 81 99
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +18
Contract jobs citing SSL 23 17 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.480% 1.056% 0.272%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.372% 5.519% 1.873%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 5
Average daily rate £350 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £240 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £429 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £318 £331
% change year-on-year
-5.51% -4.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +56.25%
All Communications & Networking
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
312 308 267
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 20.08% 19.13% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 126 81
Average daily rate £339 £360 £311
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.90% +15.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 55 74
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £20.60 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
SSL
South East

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire SSL Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Andover - 5 £463 -
Winchester -1 3 £330 -12.00%
Basingstoke -15 2 £375 -
Southampton -7 1 - -
Eastleigh - 1 - -
Gosport - 1 £350 -
Portsmouth - 1 - -
SSL
South East

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 13 (52.00%) Oracle
1 13 (52.00%) Linux
1 13 (52.00%) IPsec
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (48.00%) UNIX
2 12 (48.00%) Java
2 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (44.00%) LAN
3 11 (44.00%) WAN
4 10 (40.00%) SAML
4 10 (40.00%) Perl
4 10 (40.00%) PHP
4 10 (40.00%) PRINCE2
4 10 (40.00%) Apache
4 10 (40.00%) Tomcat
4 10 (40.00%) LDAP
4 10 (40.00%) GlassFish
4 10 (40.00%) VMware
5 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
5 9 (36.00%) Juniper
5 9 (36.00%) SAN
5 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
6 8 (32.00%) Cisco
6 8 (32.00%) Identity Management
6 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (32.00%) Open Source
7 7 (28.00%) Firewall
7 7 (28.00%) MS Excel
7 7 (28.00%) Windows
8 6 (24.00%) JBoss

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 10 (40.00%) SAML
2 5 (20.00%) HTML
2 5 (20.00%) .NET
3 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (12.00%) JSP
5 2 (8.000%) COM
5 2 (8.000%) ASP
6 1 (4.000%) JMS
6 1 (4.000%) SOAP
6 1 (4.000%) JDBC
6 1 (4.000%) jQuery
6 1 (4.000%) SAP PI
6 1 (4.000%) Ajax
6 1 (4.000%) SAP ALE
6 1 (4.000%) BAPI
Application Platforms
1 10 (40.00%) Apache
1 10 (40.00%) Tomcat
1 10 (40.00%) GlassFish
2 3 (12.00%) IIS
3 1 (4.000%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.000%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) IPsec
2 11 (44.00%) LAN
2 11 (44.00%) WAN
3 10 (40.00%) LDAP
4 9 (36.00%) SAN
5 7 (28.00%) Firewall
6 6 (24.00%) VPN
7 4 (16.00%) Network Security
7 4 (16.00%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
8 3 (12.00%) HTTPS
8 3 (12.00%) OSPF
8 3 (12.00%) BGP
8 3 (12.00%) Wireshark
9 2 (8.000%) VLAN
9 2 (8.000%) IPv4
9 2 (8.000%) IPv6
9 2 (8.000%) SNMP
9 2 (8.000%) Ethernet
9 2 (8.000%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 5 (20.00%) Architect
1 5 (20.00%) Developer
1 5 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Technical Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Network Security Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Network Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.000%) Web Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Network Consultant
4 2 (8.000%) ASP Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Firewall Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) Linux Specialist
5 1 (4.000%) SAP PI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Open Source
2 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 12 (48.00%) UNIX
3 7 (28.00%) Windows
4 4 (16.00%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (12.00%) Windows XP
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (12.00%) Windows 2000
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (4.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 8 (32.00%) Identity Management
3 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (16.00%) Information Security
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL
3 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (12.00%) Network Management
4 3 (12.00%) Validation
5 2 (8.000%) Migration
5 2 (8.000%) Security Testing
6 1 (4.000%) PRINCE
6 1 (4.000%) ERP
6 1 (4.000%) OOP
6 1 (4.000%) OO
6 1 (4.000%) System Testing
6 1 (4.000%) Software Testing
6 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (4.000%) Network Design
6 1 (4.000%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) Perl
2 10 (40.00%) PHP
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.00%) C
5 2 (8.000%) C#
6 1 (4.000%) SAPscript
6 1 (4.000%) SQL
6 1 (4.000%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.000%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.000%) CCIE
3 1 (4.000%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.000%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.000%) BC Cleared
3 1 (4.000%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.00%) Shibboleth
4 3 (12.00%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (8.000%) SCOM
3 1 (4.000%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (4.000%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Oracle
2 10 (40.00%) VMware
3 9 (36.00%) Juniper
3 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (32.00%) Cisco
5 6 (24.00%) JBoss
5 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (16.00%) CheckPoint
7 3 (12.00%) HP
8 1 (4.000%) Nokia
8 1 (4.000%) SAP
8 1 (4.000%) ArcSight