SSL Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSL over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 121 147
Rank change year-on-year +4 +26 +19
Contract jobs citing SSL 5 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.23% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.86% 2.33% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £361 £404 £419
25th Percentile £434 £409 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £548 £909 £700
90th Percentile £591 £926 £745
Central London median daily rate £540 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -15.29% +2.00% +4.17%

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 175 215 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.63% 10.08% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 133 240
10th Percentile £259 £239 £213
25th Percentile £418 £350 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -15.56% +4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £619 £675
90th Percentile £744 £773 £789
Central London median daily rate £544 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +17.57% -15.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SSL in the City of London

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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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the City of London

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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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) FTP
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) SMTP
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) OWASP
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Chaos Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Fintech
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) CCSE
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) GIAC
1 1 (20.00%) SANS
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) 3PAR
2 1 (20.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Trend Micro