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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 112 116
Rank change year-on-year -21 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing SSL 6 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.28% 0.58% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.96% 6.17% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £507 £459 £580
25th Percentile £508 £522 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £588 £850
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -30.88% +54.55%
75th Percentile £533 £663 £919
90th Percentile £536 £775 £930
Central London median daily rate £519 £590 £850
% change year-on-year -12.08% -30.59% +44.68%

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 203 162 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.47% 9.40% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 117 130
10th Percentile £283 £263 £350
25th Percentile £381 £388 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £531
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +0.99% -1.71%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £648
90th Percentile £722 £721 £758
Central London median daily rate £514 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -3.16% +1.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £23.30 £20.89 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.96 £31.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.90% -24.62% -33.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.41 £33.75
90th Percentile £119.20 £57.51 -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £24.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +155.10% -24.62% -33.33%

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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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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Application Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OpenID
1 2 (33.33%) PCRE
1 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
1 2 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
1 4 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Content Development
2 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk