SSL Contract Job Trends in Central London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 117 118
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 +41
Contract jobs citing SSL 6 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.23% 0.58% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.70% 5.50% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 3
10th Percentile £325 £459 £480
25th Percentile £438 £516 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £590 £850
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% -30.59% +21.43%
75th Percentile £523 £623 £919
90th Percentile £532 £775 £930
London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -15.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 222 218 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.49% 10.53% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 152 144
10th Percentile £313 £263 £251
25th Percentile £413 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £543 £505
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +7.43% -8.18%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £602
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
London median daily rate £505 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £19.42 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £21.88 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% - -
75th Percentile £64.69 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £76.88 £61.54 -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £27.58 £22.90
% change year-on-year -0.27% +20.41% -47.33%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

SSL job vacancy trend in Central London

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SSL

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in Central London over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in Central London

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SSL

SSL
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 August 2026. 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
City of London -13 6 £507 -13.79% 2
SSL
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) IPsec
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) OSPF
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PCRE
1 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Content Development
2 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) SOAR
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCSE
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) QRadar
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) 3PAR
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Forcepoint
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Trend Micro