SSL Contracts in the East of England

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 108 120
Rank change year-on-year +44 +12 +18
Contract jobs citing SSL 18 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.92% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.18% 1.35% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £534 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £290 £700
Median % change year-on-year +106.90% -58.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £625 £364 -
90th Percentile £629 £498 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile £81.91 - -
90th Percentile £83.05 - -
England median hourly rate £81.35 £45.88 £63.23
% change year-on-year +77.31% -27.44% +22.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 296 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.45% 15.51% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 147 199
10th Percentile £225 £199 £202
25th Percentile £344 £261 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £494 £661
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 103 43
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.22 -
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 - £74.35
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SSL in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +40 16 £600 +106.90% 4
Bedfordshire - 2 £525 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (11.11%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Akamai
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) DNS
1 16 (88.89%) HTTP
2 15 (83.33%) FTP
2 15 (83.33%) SMTP
3 13 (72.22%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) X.509
5 1 (5.56%) BGP
5 1 (5.56%) DHCP
5 1 (5.56%) DMVPN
5 1 (5.56%) DWDM
5 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
5 1 (5.56%) IGRP
5 1 (5.56%) Internet
5 1 (5.56%) IPsec
5 1 (5.56%) LAN
5 1 (5.56%) MPLS
5 1 (5.56%) OSPF
5 1 (5.56%) SNMP
5 1 (5.56%) VPN
5 1 (5.56%) WAN
General
1 11 (61.11%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Aviation
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Analyst
2 13 (72.22%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Junior
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) LDAP
2 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Cyberattack
2 11 (61.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (55.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (55.56%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (44.44%) CSOC
5 7 (38.89%) Management Information System
6 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
6 2 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (11.11%) PKI
6 2 (11.11%) YARA
7 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
7 1 (5.56%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (66.67%) Threat Detection
3 11 (61.11%) Network Packet Capture
4 10 (55.56%) Information Management
4 10 (55.56%) Information Security
4 10 (55.56%) Security Operations
5 8 (44.44%) Incident Response
6 7 (38.89%) Analytics
6 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (38.89%) Behavioural Analytics
6 7 (38.89%) Machine Learning
6 7 (38.89%) SIEM
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.11%) Key Management
7 2 (11.11%) RBAC
8 1 (5.56%) Business Strategy
8 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.56%) Roadmaps
8 1 (5.56%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CCDP
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) FIPS 140-2
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
1 2 (11.11%) NIST 800
1 2 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Darktrace
1 2 (11.11%) FireEye
1 2 (11.11%) IronPort
1 2 (11.11%) LogRhythm
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Splunk
1 2 (11.11%) Symantec
2 1 (5.56%) Arista
2 1 (5.56%) Blue Coat
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) Citrix
2 1 (5.56%) F5
2 1 (5.56%) Juniper
2 1 (5.56%) Riverbed
2 1 (5.56%) Twitter
2 1 (5.56%) Zscaler