The first table below looks at the demand for SSL 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 SSL over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SSL 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.235% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.667% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £650 - -
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
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
60 88 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 14.08% 15.44% 15.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 44 48
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £123 £196 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 10
Average hourly rate £15.25 £15.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.61% -18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.30 £9.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.65 £23.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SSL
UK

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 24 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
South Wales - 1 £650 -
SSL
UK

SSL
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DataPower
2 2 (66.67%) Korn
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Ant
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSD
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) ClearCase
2 2 (66.67%) WSDL
2 2 (66.67%) HTTPS
2 2 (66.67%) ClearQuest
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) XSD
1 2 (66.67%) XSLT
1 2 (66.67%) WSDL
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Ant
1 2 (66.67%) ClearCase
1 2 (66.67%) ClearQuest
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) DataPower
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Korn
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper