The first table below looks at the demand for SSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 44 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -
Contract jobs citing SSL 28 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.699% 0.449% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.82% 3.306% -
Number of daily rates quoted 28 3 0
Average daily rate £260 £150 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+73.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.96% -5.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +56.25%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
177 121 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.38% 13.60% 9.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 57 20
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £350 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.75 £13.75 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+152.72% -30.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SSL
West Yorkshire

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds SSL Hourly Rate Trend

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 28 (90.32%) Linux
2 26 (83.87%) DNS
3 25 (80.65%) DHCP
4 24 (77.42%) TCP/IP
4 24 (77.42%) Bash shell
5 23 (74.19%) Amazon AWS
5 23 (74.19%) Python
5 23 (74.19%) Web Services
5 23 (74.19%) Load Balancing
6 21 (67.74%) Client/Server
7 20 (64.52%) C++
7 20 (64.52%) Ruby
8 19 (61.29%) PHP
8 19 (61.29%) Puppet
9 18 (58.06%) Test Automation
10 17 (54.84%) nginx
10 17 (54.84%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (54.84%) Amazon S3
10 17 (54.84%) Kanban
10 17 (54.84%) MongoDB
10 17 (54.84%) Node.js
10 17 (54.84%) Redis
10 17 (54.84%) Route 53
10 17 (54.84%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (54.84%) Java
10 17 (54.84%) MySQL
10 17 (54.84%) Oracle
10 17 (54.84%) Apache
10 17 (54.84%) Configuration Management
10 17 (54.84%) Telecoms

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 23 (74.19%) Web Services
2 17 (54.84%) Node.js
3 2 (6.452%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.226%) LAMP
4 1 (3.226%) ASP
4 1 (3.226%) Middleware
4 1 (3.226%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 23 (74.19%) Amazon AWS
2 17 (54.84%) nginx
2 17 (54.84%) Amazon EC2
2 17 (54.84%) Amazon S3
2 17 (54.84%) Route 53
2 17 (54.84%) Apache
3 2 (6.452%) GlassFish
3 2 (6.452%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (3.226%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (3.226%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.226%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (83.87%) DNS
2 25 (80.65%) DHCP
3 24 (77.42%) TCP/IP
4 13 (41.94%) Internet
5 11 (35.48%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (9.677%) SSH
6 3 (9.677%) VPN
7 1 (3.226%) IPsec
7 1 (3.226%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (54.84%) MongoDB
1 17 (54.84%) Redis
1 17 (54.84%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (54.84%) MySQL
2 3 (9.677%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.226%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.226%) SimpleDB
3 1 (3.226%) Couchbase
General
1 17 (54.84%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.226%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Administrator
2 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
3 2 (6.452%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (6.452%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (3.226%) Developer
4 1 (3.226%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Support Technician
4 1 (3.226%) Tester
4 1 (3.226%) Systems Developer
4 1 (3.226%) Web Administrator
4 1 (3.226%) Server Administrator
4 1 (3.226%) Graduate
4 1 (3.226%) Test Leader
4 1 (3.226%) Performance Test Leader
4 1 (3.226%) Middleware Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 21 (67.74%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.226%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.226%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.226%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.226%) iPhone
2 1 (3.226%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 28 (90.32%) Linux
2 2 (6.452%) Solaris
3 1 (3.226%) Windows
3 1 (3.226%) Mac OS X
3 1 (3.226%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.226%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.226%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) Load Balancing
2 18 (58.06%) Test Automation
3 17 (54.84%) Kanban
3 17 (54.84%) Configuration Management
4 16 (51.61%) Incident Management
4 16 (51.61%) Capacity Management
5 11 (35.48%) Security Testing
6 7 (22.58%) Performance Testing
7 3 (9.677%) TDD
8 2 (6.452%) Performance Management
9 1 (3.226%) Load Testing
9 1 (3.226%) Problem Management
9 1 (3.226%) Network Design
9 1 (3.226%) Service Management
9 1 (3.226%) Service Delivery
9 1 (3.226%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (3.226%) ITSM
9 1 (3.226%) ITIL
9 1 (3.226%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 24 (77.42%) Bash shell
2 23 (74.19%) Python
3 20 (64.52%) C++
3 20 (64.52%) Ruby
4 19 (61.29%) PHP
5 17 (54.84%) Java
6 16 (51.61%) Perl
7 1 (3.226%) VBScript
7 1 (3.226%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.226%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.226%) Degree
1 1 (3.226%) MCSE
1 1 (3.226%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (3.226%) Xen
1 1 (3.226%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (61.29%) Puppet
2 1 (3.226%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (54.84%) Oracle
2 10 (32.26%) Percona
3 2 (6.452%) F5
3 2 (6.452%) Sun
4 1 (3.226%) Wyse
4 1 (3.226%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.226%) VMware
4 1 (3.226%) Citrix
4 1 (3.226%) Apple
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