The first table below looks at the demand for HTTPS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTTPS 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 for the Wales 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure (HTTPS)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing HTTPS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.47
All Communications & Networking
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
59 92 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 13.92% 16.46% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 46 48
Average daily rate £275 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £123 £199 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £450 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
Average hourly rate £15.25 £15.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.61% +24.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.65 £23.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
HTTPS
UK

HTTPS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales HTTPS Jobs Demand Trend

HTTPS
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSD
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) DataPower
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ

HTTPS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSD
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 2 (100.00%) ClearQuest
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared