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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 116 117
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +52
Contract jobs citing SSL 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.20% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.10% 1.08% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £301 - £401
25th Percentile £378 £475 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +21.21% -15.38%
75th Percentile £529 £525 £428
90th Percentile £579 - £434
Central London median daily rate £472 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +4.78% +9.09% -13.16%

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 129 186 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.33% 10.41% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 128 161
10th Percentile £369 £252 £225
25th Percentile £424 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £657 £650 £607
90th Percentile £738 £730 £745
Central London median daily rate £513 £535 £450
% change year-on-year -4.21% +18.89% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £20.31 - -
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +140.74% -34.47%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £16.59
90th Percentile £42.74 - £17.99
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £16.22
% change year-on-year -21.63% +100.43% -21.30%

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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 12 March 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Akamai
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Anti-Spyware
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CCSE
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) 3PAR
3 1 (25.00%) Axway
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Trend Micro