X.509 Contracts in England

X.509
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring X.509 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited X.509 over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 532 598
Rank change year-on-year +34 +66 +168
Contract jobs citing X.509 5 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.018% 0.003% 0.022%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.14% 0.024% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile - - £673
25th Percentile £525 £425 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £450 £725
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -37.93% +7.41%
75th Percentile £678 £475 £738
90th Percentile £684 - -
UK median daily rate £588 £450 £700
% change year-on-year +30.56% -35.71% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

X.509 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 3,459 4,188 5,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.45% 12.49% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,143 2,594 3,780
10th Percentile £235 £241 £230
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% - -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £633
90th Percentile £675 £688 £731
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 293 239
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £12.93
25th Percentile £23.13 £20.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.75 £54.88 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +9.75% +92.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.99
90th Percentile £85.75 £75.00 £75.73
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +55.04%

X.509
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing X.509 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for X.509 in England

X.509
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing X.509 in England.

Daily rate trend for X.509 in England

X.509
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing X.509 in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for X.509 in England

X.509
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing X.509 in England.

Hourly rate trend for X.509 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 X.509 within the England region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
North West - 2 £663 - 1
East of England - 2 £525 - 2
North of England - 2 £663 - 1
X.509
UK

X.509
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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (40.00%) Datadog
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) PKI
2 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Informatics
2 2 (40.00%) Key Management
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) OWASP
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Security Hardening
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) SOLID
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (20.00%) Gemalto
3 1 (20.00%) Thales