Surrey SSL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SSL over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Birmingham Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Kent Knutsford Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Newcastle North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Scotland South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	104
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	6	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	2.459 %	2.208 %
Daily rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum daily rate	-	£393
Average daily rate	-	£393
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£372
% change on same period last year	-4.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.54	£43.84
% change on same period last year	-34.89 %
Communications & Networking Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	244	453
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.387 %	0.482 %
Daily rates quoted	49	109
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£316
Average daily rate	£345	£327
% change on same period last year	+5.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	93
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.35	£23.26
Average hourly rate	£21.92	£24.57
% change on same period last year	-10.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.49	£25.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.77	£28.62
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
SSL South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SSL across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SSL across the Surrey region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SSL across the Surrey region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 5 (45.45 %) IPsec 2 5 (45.45 %) Windows 2 5 (45.45 %) VPN 3 4 (36.36 %) Nokia 3 4 (36.36 %) CheckPoint 3 4 (36.36 %) Internet 3 4 (36.36 %) .NET 3 4 (36.36 %) SQL Server 3 4 (36.36 %) SharePoint 3 4 (36.36 %) LAN 3 4 (36.36 %) Network Security 4 3 (27.27 %) Wireless 4 3 (27.27 %) Intrusion Detection 4 3 (27.27 %) WLAN

4 3 (27.27 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (27.27 %) SOAP 4 3 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (27.27 %) NetScreen 4 3 (27.27 %) Firmware 4 3 (27.27 %) Juniper 4 3 (27.27 %) Cisco 4 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 4 3 (27.27 %) Nortel 4 3 (27.27 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (18.18 %) HTTP 5 2 (18.18 %) Linux 5 2 (18.18 %) DNS 5 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (36.36 %) .NET 2 3 (27.27 %) ASP.NET 2 3 (27.27 %) SOAP 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 2 (18.18 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 1 (9.091 %) WebServices 4 1 (9.091 %) XML 4 1 (9.091 %) COM+ 4 1 (9.091 %) DCOM 4 1 (9.091 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (36.36 %) SharePoint 2 2 (18.18 %) IIS 2 2 (18.18 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (9.091 %) Apache 3 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (72.73 %) Firewall 2 5 (45.45 %) VPN 2 5 (45.45 %) IPsec 3 4 (36.36 %) Network Security 3 4 (36.36 %) LAN 3 4 (36.36 %) Internet 4 3 (27.27 %) Wireless 4 3 (27.27 %) NetScreen 4 3 (27.27 %) WLAN 4 3 (27.27 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (27.27 %) Intrusion Detection 5 2 (18.18 %) HTTP 5 2 (18.18 %) DNS 5 2 (18.18 %) DMZ 5 2 (18.18 %) Extranet 6 1 (9.091 %) BGP 6 1 (9.091 %) ICMP 6 1 (9.091 %) HTTPS 6 1 (9.091 %) SMTP 6 1 (9.091 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (36.36 %) SQL Server 2 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (9.091 %) MySQL 3 1 (9.091 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Dreamweaver 1 1 (9.091 %) Subversion
General 1 1 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (9.091 %) Government	Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Analyst 2 2 (18.18 %) Developer 2 2 (18.18 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Network Security Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Administrator 2 2 (18.18 %) Security Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) SharePoint Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Security Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Security Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) PHP Programmer 3 1 (9.091 %) Web Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Security Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Server Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (27.27 %) Firmware 2 1 (9.091 %) Cryptography 2 1 (9.091 %) SecurID 2 1 (9.091 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 5 (45.45 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (18.18 %) Linux 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows NT 4 1 (9.091 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) Change Management 1 2 (18.18 %) Incident Management 1 2 (18.18 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (9.091 %) Problem Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Computer Security 2 1 (9.091 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (9.091 %) Migration 2 1 (9.091 %) Information Security 2 1 (9.091 %) Computer Forensics 2 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 2 1 (9.091 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) C# 1 1 (9.091 %) Java 1 1 (9.091 %) JavaScript 1 1 (9.091 %) PHP 1 1 (9.091 %) VBScript 1 1 (9.091 %) VB 1 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) MCP 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) MCSE	System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Snort
Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (9.091 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Nokia 1 4 (36.36 %) CheckPoint 2 3 (27.27 %) Juniper 2 3 (27.27 %) Cisco 2 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 3 (27.27 %) Nortel 3 2 (18.18 %) Compaq 4 1 (9.091 %) Avaya 4 1 (9.091 %) HP 4 1 (9.091 %) BMC 4 1 (9.091 %) Crossbeam