SSL Contracts in the Midlands

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SSL over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 160 198
Rank change year-on-year +33 +38 -56
Contract jobs citing SSL 7 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.45% 1.72% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £410 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £445 £488
Median % change year-on-year +51.69% -8.72% +21.88%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £503
90th Percentile - - £536
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +16.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.75
Median hourly rate - - £16.50
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £63.23 £46.00
% change year-on-year -27.44% +37.46% -1.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

SSL is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 483 524 594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.73% 15.04% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 349 424
10th Percentile £200 £244 £166
25th Percentile £311 £313 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £516
90th Percentile £688 £700 £616
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 33
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.25 £17.25 £13.54
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +21.05% +14.03%
75th Percentile £23.75 £27.44 £20.51
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.15
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SSL in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +25 7 £675 +51.69% 2
SSL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) CMS
1 3 (42.86%) Drupal
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) FTP
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) IPsec
2 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
2 1 (14.29%) SMTP
2 1 (14.29%) SNMP
2 1 (14.29%) SSH
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Artifactory
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
1 3 (42.86%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Development Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Support Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Epics
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Software Assurance
3 3 (42.86%) Software Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) XAML
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
1 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Xamarin