The first table below looks at the demand for SSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSL over the 3 months to 17 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 Preston 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Rank 11 23 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing SSL 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 4.082% 2.841% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% 27.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £465 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.07% -6.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +56.25%
All Communications & Networking
Preston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
4 18 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 8.163% 10.23% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 3
Average daily rate £175 £375 £90
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-53.33% +316.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SSL
Lancashire

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston SSL Hourly Rate Trend

SSL
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows NT
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) NAS

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows NT
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Content Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) VMware