SSL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing SSL 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.084% - 0.096%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.98% - 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South West median daily rate £500 £543 -
% change year-on-year -7.83% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -0.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 102 84 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.55% 15.67% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 41 81
10th Percentile £184 £235 £210
25th Percentile £444 £300 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £563 £565 £650
90th Percentile £641 £625 £688
South West median daily rate £520 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -5.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 14
10th Percentile £19.33 £68.00 £12.49
25th Percentile £60.00 £72.50 £21.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +13.21% +576.02%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £83.25
90th Percentile £102.50 - £88.50
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +87.50% +308.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SSL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SSL

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SSL

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (100.00%) fastlane
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
1 1 (100.00%) XCTest
1 1 (100.00%) XCUITest
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Core Data
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Swift