SSL Contracts in the West Midlands

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 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 105 131 165
Rank change year-on-year +26 +34 -46
Contract jobs citing SSL 7 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.38% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.77% 2.54% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile £410 £381 -
25th Percentile £425 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £445 £444
Median % change year-on-year +51.69% +0.28% +10.94%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £502
90th Percentile - - £504
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +16.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 395 355 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.35% 14.89% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 218 260
10th Percentile £203 £263 £165
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £504
90th Percentile £688 £700 £619
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 17
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.93
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.38
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +3 3 £675 +58.82%
Birmingham +4 1 - -
Solihull -13 1 £425 -8.60%
Coventry - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £400 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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