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 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 129 113 119
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +35
Contract jobs citing SSL 2 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.084% 0.29% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.43% 2.98% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £275 £361 £404
25th Percentile £313 £434 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% -21.57% +21.43%
75th Percentile £463 £548 £909
90th Percentile £486 £591 £926
Central London median daily rate £400 £540 £638
% change year-on-year -25.88% -15.29% +10.87%

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 140 168 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 5.89% 9.86% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 114 146
10th Percentile £231 £252 £196
25th Percentile £413 £430 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £625
90th Percentile £738 £768 £781
Central London median daily rate £538 £541 £450
% change year-on-year -0.69% +20.28% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £19.64 - -
25th Percentile £20.08 £23.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.12% +81.48% -51.53%
75th Percentile £44.35 £25.25 £14.25
90th Percentile £56.74 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £24.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +6.57% +81.48% -51.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SSL job vacancy trend 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 10 June 2026.

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 & Capabilities in the City of 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