SSL Contracts in Scotland

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 154 151
Rank change year-on-year +39 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing SSL 16 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.72% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.45% 2.84% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile £492 £475 £401
25th Percentile £544 £503 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £546 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% +9.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £780 £550 £528
90th Percentile - - £544
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.54
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £63.23 £51.02
% change year-on-year -27.44% +23.93% -3.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 248 352 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.24% 12.33% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 223 194
10th Percentile £187 £160 £179
25th Percentile £363 £356 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £626 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 16
10th Percentile £15.43 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.69 - £41.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -26.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £53.89
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Glasgow +8 13 £623 +15.81% 1
Edinburgh +43 3 £438 -19.91%
SSL
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) Catchpoint
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) HTTP
1 9 (56.25%) TCP/IP
2 7 (43.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (43.75%) NetScaler
3 5 (31.25%) Firewall
4 2 (12.50%) DNS
4 2 (12.50%) IPv6
4 2 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Git
2 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (18.75%) Linux Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Security Specialist
4 3 (18.75%) Unix Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Java Applications Developer
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Service Management Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
2 5 (31.25%) Twisted
3 2 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Unix
3 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Automation
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Low Latency
4 5 (31.25%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (18.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Email Filtering
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
6 3 (18.75%) Security Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Static Application Security Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) Bash
2 9 (56.25%) Java
2 9 (56.25%) Perl
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (18.75%) MCSE
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (12.50%) CCIE
2 2 (12.50%) CCNP
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) F5
2 2 (12.50%) AppNeta
2 2 (12.50%) Arista
2 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 2 (12.50%) Sage
2 2 (12.50%) Tufin