SSL Contract Job Trends in England

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SSL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 408 423
Rank change year-on-year +87 +15 +25
Contract jobs citing SSL 187 120 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.68% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.79% 3.07% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 63 113
10th Percentile £361 £335 £350
25th Percentile £401 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £627
90th Percentile £709 £760 £687
UK median daily rate £557 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +1.27% +7.32% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 12
10th Percentile - - £55.19
25th Percentile £45.00 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -28.01% +14.75%
75th Percentile £82.26 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £85.00 - £66.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +36.84% -28.01% +19.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,232 3,907 5,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.73% 12.08% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,247 3,617
10th Percentile £220 £243 £225
25th Percentile £363 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £615
90th Percentile £688 £688 £706
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 180 303
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.19 £16.84
25th Percentile £24.25 £24.09 £23.00
Median hourly rate £39.66 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -30.85% +1.52% +37.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.22
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.50 £56.45
% change year-on-year -15.84% -10.53% +42.90%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in England

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSL

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in England over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSL

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SSL in England over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SSL in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
London +49 94 £600 - 18
Midlands -2 30 £378 - 8
North of England -9 28 £535 -2.60% 11
West Midlands +9 26 £380 - 8
North West -6 17 £604 +94.68% 6
South East +21 16 £380 -27.71% 9
East of England +12 15 £603 +39.31% 6
Yorkshire -21 9 £500 -19.81% 5
East Midlands -9 4 £358 -
South West +17 3 £557 +7.37% 2
North East -2 2 £535 -2.73% 1
SSL
UK

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 21 (11.23%) Confluence
2 6 (3.21%) Apache
3 4 (2.14%) JBoss
4 3 (1.60%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.60%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.60%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.07%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.07%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.53%) CMS
6 1 (0.53%) IIS
6 1 (0.53%) nginx
6 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.53%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.53%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.55%) AWS
2 35 (18.72%) Azure
3 26 (13.90%) Amazon EC2
3 26 (13.90%) Amazon S3
3 26 (13.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 23 (12.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (10.16%) Amazon ELB
6 16 (8.56%) GCP
7 10 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.35%) Serverless
8 9 (4.81%) Entra ID
9 8 (4.28%) AWS KMS
9 8 (4.28%) GitHub
10 7 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.67%) IaaS
12 5 (2.67%) PaaS
13 4 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (46.52%) Firewall
2 84 (44.92%) DNS
3 72 (38.50%) VPN
4 69 (36.90%) TCP/IP
5 66 (35.29%) Network Security
6 42 (22.46%) HTTP
7 26 (13.90%) BGP
8 25 (13.37%) IPsec
9 23 (12.30%) OSPF
9 23 (12.30%) Wireless
10 22 (11.76%) VLAN
11 21 (11.23%) WAN
12 20 (10.70%) HTTPS
13 17 (9.09%) DHCP
14 14 (7.49%) DMVPN
15 13 (6.95%) FTP
16 12 (6.42%) SMTP
17 11 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 11 (5.88%) Wireshark
18 10 (5.35%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.21%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.07%) Big Data
5 2 (1.07%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.07%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.07%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.07%) Parquet
6 1 (0.53%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 31 (16.58%) Git
3 22 (11.76%) JIRA
4 18 (9.63%) GitLab
5 6 (3.21%) Fiddler
6 5 (2.67%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.14%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.60%) Log4j
9 2 (1.07%) MLflow
9 2 (1.07%) Poetry
9 2 (1.07%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.53%) Postman
10 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 50 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (12.30%) Finance
4 22 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.49%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.28%) Banking
7 5 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.67%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.67%) Military
8 4 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Advertising
10 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.07%) Law
10 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.53%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (18.18%) Senior
2 30 (16.04%) Network Engineer
3 29 (15.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (13.90%) Architect
5 21 (11.23%) Security Engineer
6 16 (8.56%) Developer
7 15 (8.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (7.49%) Analyst
9 12 (6.42%) SOC Analyst
10 11 (5.88%) Lead
10 11 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
11 10 (5.35%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (5.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.35%) ServiceNow Architect
12 9 (4.81%) Python Engineer
12 9 (4.81%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Automation Engineer
14 7 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (3.74%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.65%) LDAP
2 30 (16.04%) REST
3 23 (12.30%) SAML
4 22 (11.76%) SOAP
5 21 (11.23%) JSON
5 21 (11.23%) Web Services
6 17 (9.09%) OAuth
7 16 (8.56%) AngularJS
7 16 (8.56%) HTML
7 16 (8.56%) JDBC
8 13 (6.95%) Apache Camel
8 13 (6.95%) HTML5
8 13 (6.95%) jQuery
8 13 (6.95%) ODBC
8 13 (6.95%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (5.88%) 802.1X
10 8 (4.28%) XML
11 7 (3.74%) Kafka
12 5 (2.67%) Middleware
12 5 (2.67%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.37%) PKI
2 19 (10.16%) Management Information System
3 18 (9.63%) Data Centre
4 12 (6.42%) Cyberattack
5 10 (5.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (4.81%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.81%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (4.28%) CSOC
7 8 (4.28%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (3.74%) Algorithms
9 6 (3.21%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.67%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.67%) Security Posture
11 4 (2.14%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.60%) State Machine
13 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
13 2 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (24.60%) Linux
2 26 (13.90%) Windows
3 16 (8.56%) Unix
4 6 (3.21%) Check Point GAiA
5 5 (2.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.60%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.60%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.07%) CentOS
8 1 (0.53%) Android
8 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.53%) VMS
8 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.53%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.83%) DevOps
2 38 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (19.25%) CI/CD
3 36 (19.25%) High Availability
4 30 (16.04%) Incident Response
4 30 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 29 (15.51%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (13.90%) SIEM
8 25 (13.37%) Agile
8 25 (13.37%) Cloud Security
8 25 (13.37%) Infrastructure Automation
9 22 (11.76%) Load Balancing
9 22 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
10 19 (10.16%) Containerisation
10 19 (10.16%) Microservices
10 19 (10.16%) Scrum
11 18 (9.63%) DevSecOps
12 17 (9.09%) Change Management
12 17 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 62 (33.16%) Python
2 27 (14.44%) Bash
3 20 (10.70%) PowerShell
4 18 (9.63%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.88%) SQL
6 10 (5.35%) Java
7 8 (4.28%) Perl
8 5 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.14%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.07%) ActionScript
10 2 (1.07%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (1.07%) C
10 2 (1.07%) Groovy
11 1 (0.53%) C#
11 1 (0.53%) C++
11 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 81 (43.32%) Security Cleared
2 67 (35.83%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.42%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (5.88%) Degree
5 9 (4.81%) CISSP
6 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.74%) CCNP
8 6 (3.21%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.21%) CCSA
8 6 (3.21%) CCSE
9 4 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.14%) MCSA
9 4 (2.14%) MCSE
10 3 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.07%) CREST Certified
11 2 (1.07%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.35%) NIST
2 9 (4.81%) GDPR
3 8 (4.28%) SOC 2
4 7 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.21%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.14%) FIPS 140-2
7 3 (1.60%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.60%) QA
8 2 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.07%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.53%) GLBA
9 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (20.32%) Docker
2 20 (10.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.28%) Firmware
4 5 (2.67%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.67%) vSphere
5 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.07%) NDS
6 2 (1.07%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (29.95%) Ansible
2 42 (22.46%) Terraform
3 24 (12.83%) Kubernetes
3 24 (12.83%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (4.28%) FortiGate
4 8 (4.28%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.21%) CASB
6 5 (2.67%) Nessus
6 5 (2.67%) Tivoli
7 4 (2.14%) CA Spectrum
7 4 (2.14%) Nagios
8 3 (1.60%) Grafana
8 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.60%) SCCM
9 2 (1.07%) Argo
9 2 (1.07%) Istio
9 2 (1.07%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.07%) Puppet
9 2 (1.07%) SELinux
Vendors
1 51 (27.27%) F5
2 42 (22.46%) CheckPoint
3 29 (15.51%) Cisco
4 25 (13.37%) Palo Alto
4 25 (13.37%) Splunk
5 21 (11.23%) Juniper
6 19 (10.16%) Blue Coat
7 17 (9.09%) Microsoft
7 17 (9.09%) Remedy
7 17 (9.09%) ServiceNow
8 15 (8.02%) Fortinet
8 15 (8.02%) Oracle
9 13 (6.95%) BMC
9 13 (6.95%) HP
9 13 (6.95%) Ivanti
10 12 (6.42%) SolarWinds
11 10 (5.35%) VMware
11 10 (5.35%) Zscaler
12 9 (4.81%) IBM
12 9 (4.81%) Meraki