The first table below looks at the demand for HTTPS skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTPS 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 London 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
HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
Rank 331 380 405
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +25
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 56 38 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.255% 0.139% 0.091%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.951% 1.016% 0.840%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 10
Average daily rate £475 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £327 £325 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.47
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2871 3739 3333
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.05% 13.68% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1749 2268 1921
Average daily rate £400 £399 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.25% +1.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 153 215
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.48 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
HTTPS
England

HTTPS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London HTTPS Jobs Demand Trend

HTTPS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTTPS across the London region.

London HTTPS Daily Rate Trend

HTTPS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTTPS across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London HTTPS Daily Rate Histogram

HTTPS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London HTTPS Hourly Rate Trend

HTTPS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTTPS within the London 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
City of London +13 7 £525 +23.52%
Hounslow - 3 £330 -
Uxbridge - 1 - -
HTTPS
England

HTTPS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing HTTPS 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 HTTPS.

1 107 (91.45%) HTTP
2 71 (60.68%) Twitter
3 41 (35.04%) Finance
4 30 (25.64%) Linux
5 21 (17.95%) SQL
6 20 (17.09%) Investment Management
7 17 (14.53%) SOAP
7 17 (14.53%) TCP/IP
8 14 (11.97%) Open Source
9 13 (11.11%) SMTP
9 13 (11.11%) Java
10 12 (10.26%) Oracle
10 12 (10.26%) XML
10 12 (10.26%) Test Scripting
11 11 (9.402%) Fund Management
11 11 (9.402%) Web Services
11 11 (9.402%) Front Office
11 11 (9.402%) Asset Management
12 10 (8.547%) UNIX
12 10 (8.547%) Windows
12 10 (8.547%) COM
12 10 (8.547%) Python
12 10 (8.547%) Microsoft
13 9 (7.692%) FTP
13 9 (7.692%) Internet
13 9 (7.692%) Risk Management
14 8 (6.838%) Banking
14 8 (6.838%) Degree
14 8 (6.838%) Middleware
14 8 (6.838%) SSL

HTTPS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing HTTPS 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 HTTPS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (14.53%) SOAP
2 12 (10.26%) XML
3 11 (9.402%) Web Services
4 10 (8.547%) COM
5 8 (6.838%) Middleware
6 7 (5.983%) WebSphere
7 6 (5.128%) Ajax
7 6 (5.128%) .NET
8 5 (4.274%) soapUI
8 5 (4.274%) CSS
9 4 (3.419%) HTML
9 4 (3.419%) REST
10 3 (2.564%) HTML5
10 3 (2.564%) Servlets
10 3 (2.564%) Spring
11 2 (1.709%) UDDI
11 2 (1.709%) ASP
11 2 (1.709%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.709%) Apache Flex
11 2 (1.709%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 7 (5.983%) Tomcat
2 6 (5.128%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (4.274%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.419%) Apache
4 4 (3.419%) SAS
4 4 (3.419%) IIS
4 4 (3.419%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 3 (2.564%) Jetty
5 3 (2.564%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (2.564%) ESB
6 2 (1.709%) Lync
7 1 (0.855%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.855%) Force.com
7 1 (0.855%) Windows Azure
7 1 (0.855%) Liferay
7 1 (0.855%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.855%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.855%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.855%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.855%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (3.419%) MS Project
2 3 (2.564%) MS Office
2 3 (2.564%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.855%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.274%) LatentZero
2 3 (2.564%) Capstone
2 3 (2.564%) Tesseract
2 3 (2.564%) Minerva
2 3 (2.564%) Sentinel
3 2 (1.709%) LongView
4 1 (0.855%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 107 (91.45%) HTTP
2 17 (14.53%) TCP/IP
3 13 (11.11%) SMTP
4 9 (7.692%) FTP
4 9 (7.692%) Internet
5 8 (6.838%) SSL
6 4 (3.419%) DNS
6 4 (3.419%) X.509
7 3 (2.564%) IMAP
7 3 (2.564%) 4G
7 3 (2.564%) 3G
7 3 (2.564%) NNTP
7 3 (2.564%) SAN
7 3 (2.564%) VoIP
7 3 (2.564%) POP3
7 3 (2.564%) SSH
8 2 (1.709%) DHCP
8 2 (1.709%) SNMP
8 2 (1.709%) Network Security
9 1 (0.855%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.128%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.419%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.419%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (3.419%) MySQL
2 4 (3.419%) MS Access
3 3 (2.564%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.709%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (1.709%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.855%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.855%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.855%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (0.855%) Redis
5 1 (0.855%) DB2
5 1 (0.855%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.855%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (0.855%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.855%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.855%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 8 (6.838%) Hudson
2 6 (5.128%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (4.274%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.274%) JMeter
4 4 (3.419%) Subversion
4 4 (3.419%) OpenSTA
5 3 (2.564%) Git (software)
5 3 (2.564%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.855%) GitHub
6 1 (0.855%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.855%) JIRA
General
1 41 (35.04%) Finance
2 11 (9.402%) Front Office
3 8 (6.838%) Banking
4 7 (5.983%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.274%) Retail
6 3 (2.564%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.709%) Back Office
8 1 (0.855%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.855%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.855%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (29.91%) Analyst
2 25 (21.37%) Developer
3 18 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 12 (10.26%) Consultant
5 11 (9.402%) Tester
6 9 (7.692%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.983%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.983%) Senior Tester
8 5 (4.274%) Support Analyst
9 4 (3.419%) Programmer
9 4 (3.419%) Applications Support
9 4 (3.419%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.419%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.419%) IT Strategy Consultant
9 4 (3.419%) Test Manager
9 4 (3.419%) Test Analyst
9 4 (3.419%) IT Consultant
9 4 (3.419%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.419%) Strategy Consultant
10 3 (2.564%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) Open Source
2 7 (5.983%) Fixed Income
3 6 (5.128%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.274%) Derivative
4 5 (4.274%) Equities
5 4 (3.419%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.419%) PKI
5 4 (3.419%) DataPower
6 3 (2.564%) Psychology
6 3 (2.564%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.564%) Social Media
6 3 (2.564%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.709%) Cryptography
7 2 (1.709%) STB
7 2 (1.709%) Streaming Media
7 2 (1.709%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.709%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.855%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.855%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.855%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.64%) Linux
2 10 (8.547%) UNIX
2 10 (8.547%) Windows
3 7 (5.983%) AIX
4 5 (4.274%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (4.274%) SUSE
5 4 (3.419%) Solaris
5 4 (3.419%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.564%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.564%) Windows XP
6 3 (2.564%) Windows Vista
7 2 (1.709%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.855%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.09%) Investment Management
2 12 (10.26%) Test Scripting
3 11 (9.402%) Fund Management
3 11 (9.402%) Asset Management
4 9 (7.692%) Risk Management
5 7 (5.983%) Project Management
5 7 (5.983%) Business Analysis
5 7 (5.983%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (5.983%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (5.128%) Performance Testing
6 6 (5.128%) Stress Testing
6 6 (5.128%) Data Protection
7 5 (4.274%) Security Testing
7 5 (4.274%) Data Analysis
7 5 (4.274%) Information Security
8 4 (3.419%) Workflow
8 4 (3.419%) Change Management
8 4 (3.419%) Scrum
8 4 (3.419%) CRM
8 4 (3.419%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.95%) SQL
2 13 (11.11%) Java
3 10 (8.547%) Python
4 7 (5.983%) C#
5 6 (5.128%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.128%) VBA
6 4 (3.419%) ActionScript
6 4 (3.419%) C
6 4 (3.419%) Bash shell
6 4 (3.419%) ActionScript 2.0
7 3 (2.564%) C++
8 2 (1.709%) Perl
8 2 (1.709%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.709%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.855%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.855%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.855%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.855%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.838%) Degree
2 5 (4.274%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.274%) ISEB
3 4 (3.419%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.564%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.564%) MCSE
5 1 (0.855%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.855%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 1 (0.855%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (0.855%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.855%) CCEA
5 1 (0.855%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.419%) SLA
1 4 (3.419%) QA
2 1 (0.855%) HL7
2 1 (0.855%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.855%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 6 (5.128%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.419%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.564%) VMware ESX
4 2 (1.709%) ProxySG
4 2 (1.709%) vSphere
5 1 (0.855%) XenApp
5 1 (0.855%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 3 (2.564%) Puppet
2 2 (1.709%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (0.855%) Control-M
3 1 (0.855%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 71 (60.68%) Twitter
2 12 (10.26%) Oracle
3 10 (8.547%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.838%) HP
5 6 (5.128%) VMware
5 6 (5.128%) Charles River
6 5 (4.274%) thinkFolio
7 3 (2.564%) Akamai
7 3 (2.564%) Facebook
7 3 (2.564%) StatPro
7 3 (2.564%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.709%) InterSystems
8 2 (1.709%) Teradata
8 2 (1.709%) Blue Coat
8 2 (1.709%) Brocade
8 2 (1.709%) Juniper
8 2 (1.709%) Fidessa
8 2 (1.709%) Salesforce.com
8 2 (1.709%) Cisco
8 2 (1.709%) Murex
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