SSL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SSL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 118 147
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 +20
Contract jobs citing SSL 10 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.53% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.92% 5.67% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £426 £580 £463
25th Percentile £522 £663 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £850 £506
Median % change year-on-year -30.88% +67.90% -15.63%
75th Percentile £663 £919 £548
90th Percentile £775 £930 £564
Central London median daily rate £590 £850 £550
% change year-on-year -30.59% +54.55% -8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 169 194 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.59% 9.33% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 113 179
10th Percentile £263 £350 £210
25th Percentile £365 £420 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £527 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -2.50% +2.37%
75th Percentile £672 £638 £632
90th Percentile £737 £757 £695
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.10% -2.33% +2.38%
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
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SSL

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SSL

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) HTTP
3 3 (30.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) BGP
4 1 (10.00%) FTP
4 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) OSPF
4 1 (10.00%) SMTP
4 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
1 3 (30.00%) REST
1 3 (30.00%) SAML
1 3 (30.00%) SOAP
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) HTML5
2 2 (20.00%) JDBC
2 2 (20.00%) jQuery
2 2 (20.00%) LDAP
2 2 (20.00%) ODBC
2 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) ITSM
5 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (20.00%) OWASP
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 1 (10.00%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (10.00%) GIAC
2 1 (10.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) BMC
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Ivanti
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (20.00%) Remedy
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Axway
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler