SSL Contracts in Central London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring SSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 131 156
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 +15
Contract jobs citing SSL 7 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.35% 0.21% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.41% 2.01% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £394 £404 £428
25th Percentile £481 £409 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £595 £909 £700
90th Percentile £609 £926 £734
London median daily rate £538 £550 £638
% change year-on-year -2.27% -13.73% +8.05%

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 205 249 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.31% 10.52% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 165 270
10th Percentile £250 £240 £180
25th Percentile £385 £350 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £669
90th Percentile £760 £738 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
London median hourly rate £33.75 £23.80 £38.27
% change year-on-year +41.81% -37.81% +39.16%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SSL in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in Central London

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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 3 July 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 +10 5 £500 -21.57% 15
City of Westminster - 2 £590 -
SSL
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) HTTP
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
3 2 (28.57%) BGP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) FTP
3 2 (28.57%) SMTP
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) IPsec
4 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Hedge funds
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) OWASP
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Chaos Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Network Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Fintech
4 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) CCSE
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) GIAC
1 1 (14.29%) SANS
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Arista
2 2 (28.57%) Meraki
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Sun
3 1 (14.29%) 3PAR
3 1 (14.29%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) Forcepoint
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Trend Micro