The first table below looks at the demand for SSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 - - 31
Contract jobs citing SSL 0 0 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - - 4.153%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 9
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.96% -5.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £13.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +56.25%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
38 27 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 12.62% 10.11% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 65
Average daily rate £240 £308 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.95% +2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
Average hourly rate £16.00 £67.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-76.29% +68.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SSL
South East

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent SSL Daily Rate Trend

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent SSL Hourly Rate Trend

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) OpenBSD
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Fedora
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) nginx

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (100.00%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior UNIX Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) OpenBSD
1 1 (100.00%) Fedora
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware