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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 122 145
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 +24
Contract jobs citing SSL 14 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.72% 0.48% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.97% 5.00% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £475 £580 £477
25th Percentile £519 £663 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £850 £588
Median % change year-on-year -31.76% +44.68% -2.08%
75th Percentile £622 £919 £700
90th Percentile £775 £930 £768
London median daily rate £600 £600 £620
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +12.73%

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 201 220 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.30% 9.54% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 134 221
10th Percentile £258 £272 £206
25th Percentile £368 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £669 £625 £638
90th Percentile £770 £748 £700
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%

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

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 12 £575 -32.35% 3
City of Westminster - 2 £590 -
SSL
London

SSL
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 6 (42.86%) HTTP
3 5 (35.71%) DNS
4 4 (28.57%) Network Security
4 4 (28.57%) VPN
5 3 (21.43%) BGP
6 2 (14.29%) FTP
6 2 (14.29%) SMTP
6 2 (14.29%) WAN
6 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
7 1 (7.14%) IPsec
7 1 (7.14%) iSCSI
7 1 (7.14%) OSPF
7 1 (7.14%) Wireless
7 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) QA Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) JSON
1 3 (21.43%) REST
1 3 (21.43%) SAML
1 3 (21.43%) SOAP
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Camel
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) HTML5
2 2 (14.29%) JDBC
2 2 (14.29%) jQuery
2 2 (14.29%) LDAP
2 2 (14.29%) ODBC
2 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) OAuth
3 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) SIEM
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) OWASP
6 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
6 2 (14.29%) Network Performance Management
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Management
6 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) SDLC
6 2 (14.29%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) CCSE
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CREST Certified
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) GIAC
2 1 (7.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) F5
2 3 (21.43%) CheckPoint
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
2 3 (21.43%) HP
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
3 2 (14.29%) Arista
3 2 (14.29%) BMC
3 2 (14.29%) Ivanti
3 2 (14.29%) Meraki
3 2 (14.29%) Remedy
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) 3PAR
4 1 (7.14%) Axway
4 1 (7.14%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (7.14%) Forcepoint
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Trend Micro
4 1 (7.14%) Zscaler