The first table below looks at the demand for SSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSL over the 3 months to 17 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 West Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Rank 62 90 -
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -
Contract jobs citing SSL 29 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.285% 0.247% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.55% 2.062% -
Number of daily rates quoted 28 3 0
Average daily rate £260 £150 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+73.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.07% -6.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +56.25%
All Communications & Networking
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
231 194 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 18.20% 11.99% 7.939%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 98 33
Average daily rate £275 £275 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £202 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £420 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 23 18
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.50 £23.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.79% -37.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £11.53
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £33.50 £31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SSL
Yorkshire

SSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire SSL Daily Rate Trend

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SSL across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Leeds +16 28 £260 +73.33%
Bradford +2 1 - -
SSL
Yorkshire

SSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 30 (81.08%) Linux
2 26 (70.27%) DNS
3 25 (67.57%) DHCP
3 25 (67.57%) TCP/IP
3 25 (67.57%) Web Services
4 24 (64.86%) Bash shell
5 23 (62.16%) Amazon AWS
5 23 (62.16%) Load Balancing
5 23 (62.16%) Python
6 21 (56.76%) Client/Server
7 20 (54.05%) C++
7 20 (54.05%) Ruby
7 20 (54.05%) Test Automation
8 19 (51.35%) Puppet
8 19 (51.35%) Java
8 19 (51.35%) PHP
9 17 (45.95%) MySQL
9 17 (45.95%) Oracle
9 17 (45.95%) Configuration Management
9 17 (45.95%) Telecoms
9 17 (45.95%) MongoDB
9 17 (45.95%) Node.js
9 17 (45.95%) Redis
9 17 (45.95%) Route 53
9 17 (45.95%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (45.95%) nginx
9 17 (45.95%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (45.95%) Amazon S3
9 17 (45.95%) Kanban
9 17 (45.95%) Apache

SSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 25 (67.57%) Web Services
2 17 (45.95%) Node.js
3 3 (8.108%) Middleware
4 2 (5.405%) XML
4 2 (5.405%) WebSphere
5 1 (2.703%) ASP
5 1 (2.703%) POSIX
5 1 (2.703%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 23 (62.16%) Amazon AWS
2 17 (45.95%) Route 53
2 17 (45.95%) nginx
2 17 (45.95%) Amazon EC2
2 17 (45.95%) Amazon S3
2 17 (45.95%) Apache
3 2 (5.405%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (5.405%) GlassFish
4 1 (2.703%) IIS
4 1 (2.703%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.703%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (5.405%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (70.27%) DNS
2 25 (67.57%) DHCP
2 25 (67.57%) TCP/IP
3 13 (35.14%) Internet
4 11 (29.73%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (10.81%) VPN
6 3 (8.108%) Firewall
6 3 (8.108%) SSH
7 1 (2.703%) Broadband
7 1 (2.703%) Wireless
7 1 (2.703%) IPsec
7 1 (2.703%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (45.95%) MySQL
1 17 (45.95%) MongoDB
1 17 (45.95%) Redis
1 17 (45.95%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.108%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.703%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.703%) SimpleDB
3 1 (2.703%) Couchbase
General
1 17 (45.95%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.703%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) Administrator
3 3 (8.108%) Tester
4 2 (5.405%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (5.405%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Test Leader
5 1 (2.703%) Performance Test Leader
5 1 (2.703%) Graduate
5 1 (2.703%) Wintel Analyst
5 1 (2.703%) Middleware Administrator
5 1 (2.703%) Performance Tester
5 1 (2.703%) Software Tester
5 1 (2.703%) Systems Developer
5 1 (2.703%) Web Administrator
5 1 (2.703%) Server Administrator
5 1 (2.703%) Developer
5 1 (2.703%) Analyst
5 1 (2.703%) Network Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Customer Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (56.76%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.405%) Firmware
2 2 (5.405%) DataPower
3 1 (2.703%) iPad
3 1 (2.703%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.703%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.703%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.703%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.703%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 30 (81.08%) Linux
2 3 (8.108%) Windows
3 2 (5.405%) Solaris
3 2 (5.405%) UNIX
4 1 (2.703%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.703%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.703%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.703%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) Load Balancing
2 20 (54.05%) Test Automation
3 17 (45.95%) Kanban
3 17 (45.95%) Configuration Management
4 16 (43.24%) Incident Management
4 16 (43.24%) Capacity Management
5 11 (29.73%) Security Testing
6 8 (21.62%) Performance Testing
7 3 (8.108%) TDD
8 2 (5.405%) Service Management
8 2 (5.405%) Problem Management
8 2 (5.405%) Performance Management
9 1 (2.703%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (2.703%) Load Testing
9 1 (2.703%) Network Load Balancing
9 1 (2.703%) Service Delivery
9 1 (2.703%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (2.703%) ITSM
9 1 (2.703%) Network Design
9 1 (2.703%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Bash shell
2 23 (62.16%) Python
3 20 (54.05%) Ruby
3 20 (54.05%) C++
4 19 (51.35%) Java
4 19 (51.35%) PHP
5 16 (43.24%) Perl
6 2 (5.405%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.703%) BeanShell
7 1 (2.703%) VBScript
7 1 (2.703%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.703%) MCSE
1 1 (2.703%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.703%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (5.405%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.703%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.703%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (51.35%) Puppet
2 1 (2.703%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Oracle
2 10 (27.03%) Percona
3 2 (5.405%) VMware
3 2 (5.405%) F5
3 2 (5.405%) IBM
3 2 (5.405%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.405%) Sun
4 1 (2.703%) Citrix
4 1 (2.703%) Juniper
4 1 (2.703%) Apple
4 1 (2.703%) Wyse
4 1 (2.703%) Adobe
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