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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 118 122
Rank change year-on-year -26 +4 +20
Contract jobs citing SSL 6 12 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.25% 0.63% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.44% 6.45% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 3
10th Percentile £507 £470 £580
25th Percentile £508 £544 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £590 £850
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% -30.59% +44.68%
75th Percentile £533 £623 £919
90th Percentile £536 £775 £930
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.23%

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 246 186 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.33% 9.75% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 134 155
10th Percentile £259 £254 £350
25th Percentile £384 £386 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +1.05% -
75th Percentile £638 £661 £638
90th Percentile £721 £713 £747
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £27.10 £20.89 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £21.96 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £24.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +155.10% -24.62% -33.33%
75th Percentile £155.34 £45.41 £33.75
90th Percentile - £57.51 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -28.14% +33.33%

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

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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

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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 8 October 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 -21 6 £519 -11.70% 3
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 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Application Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OpenID
1 2 (33.33%) PCRE
1 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
1 2 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
1 4 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) 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%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk