SSL Contracts in the North West

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 135 162
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 -22
Contract jobs citing SSL 5 23 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.72% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.36% 5.46% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 3
10th Percentile - £263 -
25th Percentile - £281 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £325 £324
Median % change year-on-year - +0.31% -35.20%
75th Percentile - £381 £365
90th Percentile - £486 £390
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +16.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £63.23 £51.75
% change year-on-year -27.44% +22.18% +11.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 369 421 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.29% 13.19% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 298 353
10th Percentile £199 £288 £183
25th Percentile £320 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £586
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 13
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £18.48 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +68.92% -65.09%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £83.76 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +112.54% -21.29% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Lancashire - 3 - - 1
Manchester +17 2 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JDBC
1 3 (60.00%) JPA
1 3 (60.00%) JWT
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) WebSockets
2 2 (40.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Dependency Injection
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (60.00%) Kanban
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
1 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Service Catalogue
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Sage