SSL Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SSL skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSL over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Rank 345 286 427
Rank change year-on-year
-59 +141
Contract jobs citing SSL 203 348 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.430% 0.595% 0.258%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.956% 3.795% 1.997%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 145 85
Average daily rate £325 £388 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.12% +10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £184 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.96% -5.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
Average hourly rate £35.00 £31.25 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% +56.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.47 £21.50 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.80 £44.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +56.25%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6868 9171 7760
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.55% 15.69% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3354 4160 3539
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
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 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 614 779
Average hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

SSL Daily Rate Trend

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SSL within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

SSL Daily Rate Histogram

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SSL Hourly Rate Trend

SSL
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SSL within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

SSL Hourly Rate Histogram

SSL
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England -40 191 £325 -15.85%
London -52 89 £413 -8.33%
South East +16 40 £363 +45.00%
Yorkshire +32 34 £261 +74.16%
West Yorkshire +28 29 £260 +73.33%
Leeds +18 28 £260 +73.33%
City of London +3 24 £325 -31.57%
Hampshire -3 23 £350 -17.64%
North West -36 13 £408 +27.94%
Scotland -9 10 £325 -7.14%
Berkshire +2 9 £375 +125.56%
Surrey +15 7 £300 +90.47%
East Midlands +6 7 £394 +121.83%
South West +22 6 £350 -17.64%
Cheshire -3 6 £425 +33.43%
Staines - 6 - -
Manchester -15 5 £403 +34.16%
Glasgow -19 5 £325 -7.14%
Andover - 5 £463 -
Nottingham - 5 £394 -
Nottinghamshire - 5 £394 -
Tyne and Wear +12 4 £260 +12.31%
Newcastle upon Tyne +11 4 £260 +12.31%
North East +9 4 £260 +12.31%
Reading 0 4 £390 +372.72%
Edinburgh - 4 £450 -
Winchester -1 3 £330 -
Exeter - 3 £350 -
Devon - 3 £350 -
Preston +12 2 - -

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 148 (37.09%) Linux
2 135 (33.83%) Firewall
3 126 (31.58%) Java
4 115 (28.82%) Windows
5 107 (26.82%) TCP/IP
6 104 (26.07%) DNS
7 103 (25.81%) Oracle
8 102 (25.56%) UNIX
9 92 (23.06%) HTTP
10 91 (22.81%) Apache
11 90 (22.56%) VPN
12 78 (19.55%) Active Directory
13 76 (19.05%) Microsoft
14 73 (18.30%) Cisco
15 70 (17.54%) Web Services
15 70 (17.54%) Perl
16 67 (16.79%) VMware
17 65 (16.29%) XML
18 61 (15.29%) SQL
18 61 (15.29%) Windows Server 2008
19 60 (15.04%) Load Balancing
20 59 (14.79%) DHCP
21 58 (14.54%) SAN
22 57 (14.29%) LDAP
23 56 (14.04%) HTML
23 56 (14.04%) MySQL
24 54 (13.53%) Tomcat
24 54 (13.53%) Migration
25 52 (13.03%) Finance
25 52 (13.03%) ITIL

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 70 (17.54%) Web Services
2 65 (16.29%) XML
3 56 (14.04%) HTML
4 51 (12.78%) WebSphere
5 48 (12.03%) SOAP
5 48 (12.03%) Middleware
6 41 (10.28%) .NET
7 24 (6.015%) REST
8 23 (5.764%) XSD
9 21 (5.263%) Ajax
10 20 (5.013%) ASP
11 19 (4.762%) CSS
12 18 (4.511%) EDI
13 17 (4.261%) Node.js
13 17 (4.261%) XSL
14 16 (4.010%) SAML
14 16 (4.010%) Java EE
15 15 (3.759%) J2EE
16 14 (3.509%) DHTML
17 13 (3.258%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 91 (22.81%) Apache
2 54 (13.53%) Tomcat
3 44 (11.03%) Amazon AWS
4 43 (10.78%) MS Exchange
5 41 (10.28%) IIS
6 35 (8.772%) Exchange Server 2010
7 29 (7.268%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (6.516%) Exchange Server 2003
9 24 (6.015%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 23 (5.764%) WebSphere MQ
11 22 (5.514%) WebSphere Application Server
12 18 (4.511%) Lotus Notes
12 18 (4.511%) nginx
13 17 (4.261%) Route 53
13 17 (4.261%) Amazon S3
13 17 (4.261%) WebLogic
14 15 (3.759%) Lotus Domino
15 12 (3.008%) GlassFish
15 12 (3.008%) Office Communications Server
16 10 (2.506%) Lync
Applications
1 28 (7.018%) MS Excel
2 25 (6.266%) MS Office
3 5 (1.253%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.253%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.501%) MS Project
5 1 (0.251%) Office 365
5 1 (0.251%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (3.258%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.003%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.501%) WebTrends
3 2 (0.501%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.501%) Maximo
4 1 (0.251%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.251%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 135 (33.83%) Firewall
2 107 (26.82%) TCP/IP
3 104 (26.07%) DNS
4 92 (23.06%) HTTP
5 90 (22.56%) VPN
6 59 (14.79%) DHCP
7 58 (14.54%) SAN
8 57 (14.29%) LDAP
9 52 (13.03%) WAN
10 51 (12.78%) Internet
11 49 (12.28%) IPsec
12 47 (11.78%) LAN
13 45 (11.28%) SMTP
14 42 (10.53%) Network Security
15 29 (7.268%) NAS
16 25 (6.266%) SSH
17 23 (5.764%) Cisco ASA
18 22 (5.514%) FTP
19 19 (4.762%) POP3
19 19 (4.762%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (14.04%) MySQL
2 43 (10.78%) SQL Server
3 32 (8.020%) MongoDB
3 32 (8.020%) Redis
4 26 (6.516%) Oracle 8/8i
5 18 (4.511%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.261%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (3.759%) CouchDB
8 13 (3.258%) RDBMS
9 12 (3.008%) DB2
10 11 (2.757%) SQL Server 2008
11 9 (2.256%) SQL Server 2005
12 6 (1.504%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (1.253%) SQL Server 2000
14 3 (0.752%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.752%) Big Data
14 3 (0.752%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.752%) Oracle 11g
14 3 (0.752%) Informix
14 3 (0.752%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 27 (6.767%) Git (software)
1 27 (6.767%) Hudson
2 22 (5.514%) Jenkins
2 22 (5.514%) Maven
3 18 (4.511%) JIRA
4 14 (3.509%) Selenium
5 9 (2.256%) Visual Studio
6 7 (1.754%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.504%) CruiseControl
7 6 (1.504%) Subversion
8 5 (1.253%) Dreamweaver
9 4 (1.003%) Rational Rose
9 4 (1.003%) ClearCase
10 3 (0.752%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.752%) Ant
11 2 (0.501%) ClearQuest
11 2 (0.501%) WebLogic Workshop
11 2 (0.501%) MSI
11 2 (0.501%) Redmine
12 1 (0.251%) WinDbg
General
1 52 (13.03%) Finance
2 39 (9.774%) Banking
3 34 (8.521%) Telecoms
4 11 (2.757%) Retail
5 10 (2.506%) Investment Banking
6 6 (1.504%) Local Government
6 6 (1.504%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.003%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (1.003%) Legal
8 3 (0.752%) Billing
9 2 (0.501%) Publishing
9 2 (0.501%) Games
9 2 (0.501%) German Language
10 1 (0.251%) French Language
10 1 (0.251%) Back Office
10 1 (0.251%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.251%) Law
10 1 (0.251%) Marketing
10 1 (0.251%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (13.78%) Developer
2 51 (12.78%) Administrator
3 46 (11.53%) Analyst
3 46 (11.53%) Consultant
4 30 (7.519%) Network Engineer
5 25 (6.266%) Linux Administrator
6 19 (4.762%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (4.010%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 15 (3.759%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 13 (3.258%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (3.258%) Senior Developer
9 13 (3.258%) Technical Leader
10 12 (3.008%) Security Analyst
11 11 (2.757%) Operations Engineer
11 11 (2.757%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (2.506%) Architect
12 10 (2.506%) Network Consultant
12 10 (2.506%) Support Analyst
13 9 (2.256%) Identity Management Specialist
13 9 (2.256%) webMethods Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.767%) Client/Server
1 27 (6.767%) DataPower
2 25 (6.266%) Open Source
3 24 (6.015%) Blackberry
4 21 (5.263%) Clustering
5 18 (4.511%) Computer Science
6 12 (3.008%) Taxonomies
6 12 (3.008%) Ontologies
7 10 (2.506%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.005%) Cryptography
9 7 (1.754%) PKI
9 7 (1.754%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.504%) Thin Client
10 6 (1.504%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.504%) Mobile Payment
10 6 (1.504%) Fat Client
10 6 (1.504%) EqualLogic
11 5 (1.253%) SaaS
12 4 (1.003%) EFT
12 4 (1.003%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 148 (37.09%) Linux
2 115 (28.82%) Windows
3 102 (25.56%) UNIX
4 61 (15.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 30 (7.519%) Windows Server 2003
6 28 (7.018%) AIX
7 26 (6.516%) Solaris
8 20 (5.013%) Windows 7
9 17 (4.261%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (3.008%) zOS
11 8 (2.005%) Windows XP
12 6 (1.504%) CentOS
12 6 (1.504%) Android
13 5 (1.253%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (1.253%) Apple iOS
14 4 (1.003%) SUSE
15 3 (0.752%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.752%) Gentoo
15 3 (0.752%) Windows 2000
16 2 (0.501%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (15.04%) Load Balancing
2 54 (13.53%) Migration
3 52 (13.03%) ITIL
4 29 (7.268%) Configuration Management
5 24 (6.015%) Project Management
5 24 (6.015%) Incident Management
6 23 (5.764%) SOA
7 22 (5.514%) Penetration Testing
8 20 (5.013%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (5.013%) Security Testing
8 20 (5.013%) Unit Testing
8 20 (5.013%) Test Automation
9 19 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (4.762%) Problem Management
10 18 (4.511%) B2B
10 18 (4.511%) PRINCE2
10 18 (4.511%) Identity Management
11 17 (4.261%) Capacity Management
11 17 (4.261%) Kanban
12 15 (3.759%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 126 (31.58%) Java
2 70 (17.54%) Perl
3 61 (15.29%) SQL
4 51 (12.78%) JavaScript
5 49 (12.28%) PHP
6 38 (9.524%) Bash shell
7 32 (8.020%) Python
8 28 (7.018%) PowerShell
9 20 (5.013%) C++
9 20 (5.013%) Ruby
10 18 (4.511%) VBScript
11 16 (4.010%) Shell Script
11 16 (4.010%) C
11 16 (4.010%) PL/SQL
12 14 (3.509%) C#
13 13 (3.258%) VB
14 11 (2.757%) XPath
15 8 (2.005%) AWK
16 7 (1.754%) sed
16 7 (1.754%) JCL
Qualifications
1 38 (9.524%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (7.769%) Degree
3 29 (7.268%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.015%) CCNA
5 22 (5.514%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.762%) CCNP
7 17 (4.261%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (3.258%) MCSE
9 11 (2.757%) CISSP
10 8 (2.005%) MCITP
11 7 (1.754%) CCSA
11 7 (1.754%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (1.504%) RHCE
13 4 (1.003%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.003%) ISEB
14 3 (0.752%) SCSA
14 3 (0.752%) CCIE
14 3 (0.752%) CCSP
15 2 (0.501%) OCP
15 2 (0.501%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.256%) ISO 9001
1 9 (2.256%) SLA
2 4 (1.003%) QA
3 2 (0.501%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.501%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (19.55%) Active Directory
2 50 (12.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.511%) ProxySG
4 15 (3.759%) Samba
5 12 (3.008%) XenApp
6 11 (2.757%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 10 (2.506%) Nmap
7 10 (2.506%) VMware ESX
8 9 (2.256%) Postfix
8 9 (2.256%) NFS
9 8 (2.005%) Squid
10 7 (1.754%) XenDesktop
11 6 (1.504%) Hyper-V
11 6 (1.504%) XenServer
12 5 (1.253%) UAG
12 5 (1.253%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.253%) ISA Server
13 4 (1.003%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 4 (1.003%) Shibboleth
14 3 (0.752%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 44 (11.03%) Puppet
2 22 (5.514%) Nagios
3 21 (5.263%) Tivoli
4 14 (3.509%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 13 (3.258%) SCOM
6 12 (3.008%) OpenView
7 11 (2.757%) ZABBIX
8 10 (2.506%) Norton AntiVirus
8 10 (2.506%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 9 (2.256%) BladeLogic
10 8 (2.005%) MAILsweeper
11 6 (1.504%) CA SiteMinder
11 6 (1.504%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (1.003%) CiscoWorks
12 4 (1.003%) MOM
12 4 (1.003%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.003%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.752%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.752%) Cisco IPCC
14 2 (0.501%) Netcool
Vendors
1 103 (25.81%) Oracle
2 76 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 73 (18.30%) Cisco
4 67 (16.79%) VMware
5 50 (12.53%) Juniper
6 47 (11.78%) IBM
7 41 (10.28%) CheckPoint
8 39 (9.774%) Red Hat
9 38 (9.524%) JBoss
10 31 (7.769%) F5
11 30 (7.519%) HP
12 27 (6.767%) Citrix
13 20 (5.013%) Blue Coat
14 19 (4.762%) Lotus
15 18 (4.511%) CA
15 18 (4.511%) Symantec
15 18 (4.511%) webMethods
16 14 (3.509%) Rackspace
17 13 (3.258%) Sourcefire
17 13 (3.258%) Dell
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