The first table below looks at the demand for S/MIME skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited S/MIME 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.

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 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
Rank 536 - 585
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing S/MIME 5 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% - 0.002%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.074% - 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £475 - £313
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £313
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6757 9155 8028
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.58% 15.68% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3308 4150 3638
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 612 810
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%

S/MIME
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing S/MIME within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

S/MIME Jobs Demand Trend

S/MIME
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing S/MIME within the UK.

S/MIME Daily Rate Trend

S/MIME
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing S/MIME within the UK.

S/MIME Hourly Rate Trend

S/MIME
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing S/MIME within the UK 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
London - 5 £475 -
England - 5 £475 -
City of London - 1 £475 -

S/MIME
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing S/MIME 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 S/MIME.

1 5 (71.43%) SharePoint
1 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) Blackberry
1 5 (71.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
1 5 (71.43%) Websense
1 5 (71.43%) Symantec
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
1 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2003
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
1 5 (71.43%) SCOM
1 5 (71.43%) SharePoint 2010
1 5 (71.43%) UAG
1 5 (71.43%) Lync
1 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2010
1 5 (71.43%) High Availability
1 5 (71.43%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (71.43%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) McAfee
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) MIMEsweeper
2 2 (28.57%) Juniper

S/MIME
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing S/MIME 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 S/MIME. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) SharePoint
1 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
1 5 (71.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2003
1 5 (71.43%) SharePoint 2010
1 5 (71.43%) Lync
1 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) SMTP
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Active Directory Specialist
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 4 (57.14%) Messaging Specialist
3 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Security Specialist
3 2 (28.57%) Design Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
1 5 (71.43%) High Availability
1 5 (71.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) UAG
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
1 5 (71.43%) SCOM
1 5 (71.43%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (28.57%) MIMEsweeper
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) Websense
1 5 (71.43%) Symantec
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) McAfee
2 2 (28.57%) Juniper
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) M86 Security