SSL Contracts in Cheshire

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing SSL 1 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.22% - 2.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.54% - 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £270
25th Percentile - - £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.31%
75th Percentile - - £363
90th Percentile - - £417
North West median daily rate £600 - £325
% change year-on-year - - +0.31%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 65 77 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.48% 15.28% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 58
10th Percentile £203 £65 £248
25th Percentile £313 £199 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.81% +20.38%
75th Percentile £492 £519 £569
90th Percentile £584 £582 £630
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - +19.55% -5.90%
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in Cheshire

SSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in Cheshire

SSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Chester - 1 £600 -
SSL
North West

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) L2TP
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk