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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 119 134
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 +25
Contract jobs citing SSL 2 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.078% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.18% 3.48% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £275 £394 £404
25th Percentile £313 £481 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £540 £638
Median % change year-on-year -25.88% -15.29% +10.87%
75th Percentile £463 £595 £909
90th Percentile £486 £609 £926
London median daily rate £515 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.43% - -9.80%

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 170 201 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.65% 10.58% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 138 170
10th Percentile £238 £250 £204
25th Percentile £406 £395 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £541 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.69% +20.28% -18.18%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £600
90th Percentile £733 £758 £739
London median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £19.93 - -
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £26.11 £24.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +81.48% -51.53%
75th Percentile - £25.25 £14.25
90th Percentile £49.44 - -
London median hourly rate £25.63 £40.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year -35.93% +68.07% -34.38%

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

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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 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in Central London

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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

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 10 June 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 -16 2 £400 -19.95% 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Anti-Spyware
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) 3PAR
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro