The first table below looks at the demand for SSL 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 SSL over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Rank 73 89 99
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +10
Contract jobs citing SSL 7 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.609% 0.559% 0.053%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.627% 3.383% 0.328%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 1
Average daily rate £300 £158 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+90.47% -40.56%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £318 £338
% change year-on-year
-5.51% -5.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +56.25%
All Communications & Networking
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
193 266 305
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 16.78% 16.52% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 116 149
Average daily rate £330 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -14.28%
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 22 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 £15.75 £15.10 £13.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.95 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
SSL
South East

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey SSL Hourly Rate Trend

SSL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 May 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.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Staines - 6 - -
Guildford - 1 £300 -
SSL
South East

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) Oracle
2 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Apache
2 8 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (50.00%) Puppet
3 7 (43.75%) SSH
3 7 (43.75%) Tomcat
3 7 (43.75%) FTP
3 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
3 7 (43.75%) JBoss
3 7 (43.75%) Java
4 6 (37.50%) MS Office
4 6 (37.50%) Firewall
4 6 (37.50%) Migration
4 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
5 5 (31.25%) Nagios
5 5 (31.25%) Squid
5 5 (31.25%) Windows
5 5 (31.25%) VPN
5 5 (31.25%) DNS
6 4 (25.00%) SMTP
6 4 (25.00%) DHCP
6 4 (25.00%) EMC
6 4 (25.00%) HTTP
6 4 (25.00%) NFS
6 4 (25.00%) SNMP
6 4 (25.00%) LDAP
6 4 (25.00%) SAP
6 4 (25.00%) JDBC

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 (25.00%) JDBC
2 1 (6.250%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.250%) Ajax
2 1 (6.250%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) Apache
2 7 (43.75%) Tomcat
3 4 (25.00%) Liferay
4 1 (6.250%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) MS Office
2 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) SSH
1 7 (43.75%) FTP
1 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
2 6 (37.50%) Firewall
3 5 (31.25%) VPN
3 5 (31.25%) DNS
4 4 (25.00%) SMTP
4 4 (25.00%) DHCP
4 4 (25.00%) HTTP
4 4 (25.00%) SNMP
4 4 (25.00%) LDAP
4 4 (25.00%) TELNET
4 4 (25.00%) SAN
4 4 (25.00%) tcpdump
4 4 (25.00%) iSCSI
4 4 (25.00%) NAS
5 1 (6.250%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Hudson
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (25.00%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Administrator
1 8 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (37.50%) Applications Support Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Support Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Applications Support
2 6 (37.50%) Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (31.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (6.250%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Developer
4 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) EFT
1 4 (25.00%) Clustering
1 4 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (6.250%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) UNIX
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (25.00%) Memory Management
2 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.250%) OOP
3 1 (6.250%) OO
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (25.00%) Perl
4 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (25.00%) AWK
4 4 (25.00%) Bash shell
4 4 (25.00%) sed
5 1 (6.250%) C#
5 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Squid
2 4 (25.00%) NFS
2 4 (25.00%) Nmap
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (25.00%) Postfix
3 1 (6.250%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Puppet
2 5 (31.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle
1 8 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (43.75%) JBoss
3 4 (25.00%) EMC
3 4 (25.00%) SAP
3 4 (25.00%) NetApp
3 4 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (6.250%) Nortel
4 1 (6.250%) Juniper
4 1 (6.250%) Cisco
4 1 (6.250%) Microsoft