SSL Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 54 52
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing SSL 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.13% 0.59% 0.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.67% 3.85% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £331 £304 £551
25th Percentile £352 £306 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £310 £555
Median % change year-on-year +26.29% -44.14% +23.33%
75th Percentile £570 £413 £561
90th Percentile £630 £474 £564
North West median daily rate £604 £385 £580
% change year-on-year +56.75% -33.62% +28.89%

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 120 78 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.02% 15.35% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 39 74
10th Percentile £313 £295 £170
25th Percentile £372 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £587
90th Percentile £688 £750 £614
North West median daily rate £471 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.88% -4.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.06 - -
90th Percentile £67.25 - -
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
% change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

SSL job vacancy trend in Cheshire

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SSL

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in Cheshire over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in Cheshire

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SSL

SSL
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 12 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
Knutsford -18 5 £358 +15.48% 1
Chester - 3 £425 -
SSL
North West

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) JBoss
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (37.50%) HTTP
3 2 (25.00%) BIG-IP
3 2 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Fiddler
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Junior
2 2 (25.00%) Junior Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Web Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) LDAP
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Log Correlation
3 2 (25.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Ticket Management
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (25.00%) MCSA
1 2 (25.00%) MCSE
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) CASB
2 2 (25.00%) Nessus
2 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Blue Coat
1 3 (37.50%) F5
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (25.00%) McAfee
2 2 (25.00%) Remedy
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Tenable
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft