The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cryptography in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cryptography over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the South East 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cryptography (Cryptology)
Rank 217 234 237
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +3
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 3 13 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.037% 0.130% 0.085%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.179% 0.652% 0.461%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
Average daily rate £425 £465 £309
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.60% +50.48%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £488
% change year-on-year
+0.06% -18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £56.50 £43.25
% change year-on-year
-20.35% +30.63%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1672 1993 1951
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.88% 19.94% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 808 819
Average daily rate £375 £345 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% +1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 173 186
Average hourly rate £21.50 £31.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.64% +16.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Cryptography
England

Cryptography
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cryptography across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

South East Cryptography Jobs Demand Trend

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Cryptography Daily Rate Trend

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Cryptography Hourly Rate Trend

Cryptography
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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on Same Period
Last Year
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Cryptography
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Cryptography
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Cryptography 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 Cryptography.

1 15 (78.95%) Firewall
2 12 (63.16%) VMware
2 12 (63.16%) Oracle
2 12 (63.16%) SC Cleared
2 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 12 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (57.89%) NAS
3 11 (57.89%) Citrix
3 11 (57.89%) SAN
4 9 (47.37%) Linux
5 8 (42.11%) Windows
5 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
5 8 (42.11%) SMTP
5 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
6 7 (36.84%) CCSP
6 7 (36.84%) SQL
6 7 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (36.84%) HP
6 7 (36.84%) Clustering
6 7 (36.84%) iSCSI
6 7 (36.84%) DV Cleared
7 6 (31.58%) OpenView
7 6 (31.58%) StorageTek
7 6 (31.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 6 (31.58%) Sun
8 5 (26.32%) UNIX
8 5 (26.32%) PKI
8 5 (26.32%) Information Assurance
8 5 (26.32%) CESG
8 5 (26.32%) Penetration Testing

Cryptography
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Cryptography 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 Cryptography. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (21.05%) JDBC
2 3 (15.79%) JMS
2 3 (15.79%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Liferay
1 4 (21.05%) Apache
1 4 (21.05%) Tomcat
1 4 (21.05%) MS Exchange
2 3 (15.79%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) Firewall
2 11 (57.89%) NAS
2 11 (57.89%) SAN
3 8 (42.11%) SMTP
4 7 (36.84%) iSCSI
5 4 (21.05%) tcpdump
5 4 (21.05%) LDAP
5 4 (21.05%) DHCP
5 4 (21.05%) HTTP
5 4 (21.05%) SNMP
5 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
5 4 (21.05%) DNS
5 4 (21.05%) SSL
5 4 (21.05%) Internet
5 4 (21.05%) TELNET
6 2 (10.53%) LAN
6 2 (10.53%) WAN
6 2 (10.53%) ICMP
7 1 (5.263%) Network Security
7 1 (5.263%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) MySQL
2 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git (software)
1 4 (21.05%) Hudson
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Architect
2 7 (36.84%) Technical Architect
3 6 (31.58%) Security Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Network Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Clustering
2 5 (26.32%) PKI
2 5 (26.32%) CESG
3 4 (21.05%) Client/Server
4 2 (10.53%) Fat Client
4 2 (10.53%) Thin Client
5 1 (5.263%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Windows
3 5 (26.32%) UNIX
4 3 (15.79%) Windows NT
4 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.263%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Information Assurance
1 5 (26.32%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (21.05%) Load Balancing
2 4 (21.05%) Memory Management
2 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
3 3 (15.79%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (5.263%) Information Security
4 1 (5.263%) Network Design
4 1 (5.263%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Bash shell
2 4 (21.05%) sed
2 4 (21.05%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) Perl
2 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
2 4 (21.05%) AWK
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) SC Cleared
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) CCSP
2 7 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (36.84%) DV Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) MCTS
3 4 (21.05%) CCNA
3 4 (21.05%) CISSP
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (15.79%) ISEB
4 3 (15.79%) MCP
4 3 (15.79%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.263%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (21.05%) Squid
2 4 (21.05%) Nmap
2 4 (21.05%) Postfix
2 4 (21.05%) NFS
3 3 (15.79%) XenApp
3 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) OpenView
1 6 (31.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (21.05%) Puppet
2 4 (21.05%) Nagios
3 1 (5.263%) SCCM
3 1 (5.263%) SCOM
3 1 (5.263%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) VMware
1 12 (63.16%) Oracle
2 11 (57.89%) Citrix
3 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
4 7 (36.84%) HP
5 6 (31.58%) StorageTek
5 6 (31.58%) Sun
6 4 (21.05%) JBoss
6 4 (21.05%) SAP
6 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
6 4 (21.05%) EMC
6 4 (21.05%) NetApp
7 1 (5.263%) CheckPoint
7 1 (5.263%) Juniper
7 1 (5.263%) Cisco
7 1 (5.263%) ProCurve
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