SSL Contracts in Edinburgh

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 65 69 110
Rank change year-on-year +4 +41 +18
Contract jobs citing SSL 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.37% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.23% 3.53% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £540
25th Percentile £569 £431 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £438 £546
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% -19.91% +9.25%
75th Percentile £606 £444 £549
90th Percentile - - £550
Scotland median daily rate £544 £589 £546
% change year-on-year -7.64% +7.78% +9.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 85 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.92% 10.43% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 77
10th Percentile £176 £178 £163
25th Percentile £245 £240 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +4.40%
75th Percentile £544 £646 £525
90th Percentile £595 £750 £575
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 2
10th Percentile - £14.33 £24.08
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £28.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £36.63
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -50.12% -22.88%
75th Percentile £23.53 £52.06 £46.19
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £51.18
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
% change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in Edinburgh

SSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for SSL in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Email Filtering
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware