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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 120 140
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 +34
Contract jobs citing SSL 11 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.57% 0.55% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.08% 4.94% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £464 £449 -
25th Percentile £538 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £575
90th Percentile £775 £829 -
London median daily rate £600 £550 £584
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.78% +6.14%

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 181 263 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.45% 11.17% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 169 188
10th Percentile £275 £344 £225
25th Percentile £413 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.33%
75th Percentile £662 £638 £619
90th Percentile £738 £739 £700
London median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £22.32 - -
25th Percentile £24.61 £31.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £20.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +56.89% -0.17%
75th Percentile £36.49 £33.75 £37.19
90th Percentile £54.73 - £61.38
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +8.16%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 +1 11 £575 -19.30% 16
SSL
London

SSL
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 (18.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Akamai
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) HTTPS
3 3 (27.27%) VPN
4 2 (18.18%) HTTP
5 1 (9.09%) BGP
5 1 (9.09%) DHCP
5 1 (9.09%) Internet
5 1 (9.09%) Network Security
5 1 (9.09%) OSPF
5 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) Robot Framework
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Financial Institution
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Firewall Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) JSON
1 4 (36.36%) REST
1 4 (36.36%) SOAP
2 3 (27.27%) SAML
3 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Camel
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) HTML5
3 2 (18.18%) JDBC
3 2 (18.18%) jQuery
3 2 (18.18%) LDAP
3 2 (18.18%) OAuth
3 2 (18.18%) ODBC
3 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
3 2 (18.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
5 2 (18.18%) API Development
5 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) ITSM
5 2 (18.18%) Low Latency
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) SIEM
5 2 (18.18%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) CREST Certified
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) GIAC
2 1 (9.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) F5
2 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
2 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
3 2 (18.18%) Axway
3 2 (18.18%) BMC
3 2 (18.18%) HP
3 2 (18.18%) Ivanti
3 2 (18.18%) Remedy
3 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) Zscaler