SSL Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SSL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing SSL 15 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.48% - 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.10% - 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £480 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.90%
75th Percentile £654 - -
90th Percentile £704 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £380 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -14.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

SSL falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 124 74 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.50% 10.39% 23.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 39 83
10th Percentile £243 £165 £204
25th Percentile £313 £213 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £385 £385
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -3.75%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £509
90th Percentile £575 £584 £705
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -7.69% +14.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £44.35 £25.13 £52.50
25th Percentile £44.88 £30.94 £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £41.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.94% -36.54% +225.00%
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £51.65 £56.38 £69.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +46.67%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SSL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SSL

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (60.00%) DNS
2 9 (60.00%) Firewall
2 9 (60.00%) VPN
3 8 (53.33%) Network Security
4 6 (40.00%) BGP
4 6 (40.00%) IPsec
4 6 (40.00%) OSPF
4 6 (40.00%) VLAN
5 5 (33.33%) BIG-IP
5 5 (33.33%) DMZ
5 5 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 5 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (33.33%) HTTP
5 5 (33.33%) Wireshark
6 1 (6.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Parquet
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Fiddler
2 4 (26.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) MLflow
4 1 (6.67%) Poetry
4 1 (6.67%) PyCharm
4 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Check Point Expert
1 6 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Junior
4 3 (20.00%) Junior Network Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IP Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Avro
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) Flask
1 1 (6.67%) NumPy
1 1 (6.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) High Availability
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) SIEM
4 5 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 5 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
7 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (6.67%) Data Engineering
8 1 (6.67%) Dependency Management
8 1 (6.67%) ETL
8 1 (6.67%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 1 (6.67%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) CCSE
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) Argo
4 1 (6.67%) Istio
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 8 (53.33%) F5
3 6 (40.00%) Fortinet
4 5 (33.33%) Blue Coat
4 5 (33.33%) McAfee
4 5 (33.33%) NetApp
5 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
6 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (6.67%) VMware