The first table below looks at the demand for SSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 69 69 70
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Contract jobs citing SSL 4 12 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.467% 1.086% 0.874%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.062% 2.597% 4.369%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £390 £83 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+372.72% -75.55%
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
194 462 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.66% 41.81% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 110 68
Average daily rate £275 £280 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £431 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 5
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -11.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SSL
Berkshire

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading SSL Hourly Rate Trend

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 7 (63.64%) WAN
3 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
4 5 (45.45%) VPN
4 5 (45.45%) CheckPoint
5 4 (36.36%) HTTP
5 4 (36.36%) Cisco
5 4 (36.36%) LAN
5 4 (36.36%) SQL
5 4 (36.36%) ITIL
5 4 (36.36%) Windows
5 4 (36.36%) Finance
5 4 (36.36%) Blue Coat
5 4 (36.36%) ProxySG
5 4 (36.36%) Network Security
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (27.27%) VMware
6 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
6 3 (27.27%) UNIX
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle
6 3 (27.27%) FTP
6 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle 10g
6 3 (27.27%) Citrix
6 3 (27.27%) IPsec
7 2 (18.18%) HP
7 2 (18.18%) Juniper
7 2 (18.18%) SAN
7 2 (18.18%) Nokia

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (18.18%) Web Services
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
1 2 (18.18%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Office
2 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 7 (63.64%) WAN
3 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
4 5 (45.45%) VPN
5 4 (36.36%) HTTP
5 4 (36.36%) LAN
5 4 (36.36%) Network Security
6 3 (27.27%) FTP
6 3 (27.27%) IPsec
7 2 (18.18%) SAN
7 2 (18.18%) Internet
7 2 (18.18%) MPLS
7 2 (18.18%) SMTP
7 2 (18.18%) DHCP
7 2 (18.18%) DNS
7 2 (18.18%) SSH
8 1 (9.091%) HSRP
8 1 (9.091%) VPLS
8 1 (9.091%) LLU
8 1 (9.091%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 1 (9.091%) French Language
3 1 (9.091%) German Language
3 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.091%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle DBA
1 3 (27.27%) Administrator
1 3 (27.27%) Network Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) DBA
2 2 (18.18%) Security Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Network Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Help Desk Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (27.27%) UNIX
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (18.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Fault Management
2 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.091%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
3 1 (9.091%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.091%) Network Design
3 1 (9.091%) Data Modelling
3 1 (9.091%) Workflow
3 1 (9.091%) Change Management
3 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.091%) C#
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
1 2 (18.18%) OCP
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (18.18%) CCSA
2 1 (9.091%) MCP
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) ProxySG
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) MOM
1 2 (18.18%) HP SIM
2 1 (9.091%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) CheckPoint
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Blue Coat
3 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) Citrix
4 2 (18.18%) HP
4 2 (18.18%) Juniper
4 2 (18.18%) Nokia
4 2 (18.18%) IBM
4 2 (18.18%) Sourcefire
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 2 (18.18%) F5
5 1 (9.091%) Riverbed
5 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
Reading, Berkshire
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Rate: £390.00 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013