The first table below looks at the demand for HTTPS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTPS over the 3 months to 24 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 Surrey 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.087% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.529% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.00
All Communications & Networking
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
189 263 301
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 16.39% 16.33% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 114 148
Average daily rate £331 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.51% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 20
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +129.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.10 £13.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.95 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
HTTPS
South East

HTTPS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey HTTPS Daily Rate Trend

HTTPS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 3 (100.00%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) WCF
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) soapUI
3 1 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (33.33%) Twitter
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) WinForms
3 1 (33.33%) VB6
3 1 (33.33%) Document Management
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) COM
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VB
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft

HTTPS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) XSLT
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) WCF
1 2 (66.67%) soapUI
2 1 (33.33%) WinForms
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Support Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Specialist
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Document Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) VB6
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Twitter
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft