SSL Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 72 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 -21 +23
Contract jobs citing SSL 4 5 27
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.53% 0.66% 3.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.26% 5.15% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 16
10th Percentile £448 £394 £425
25th Percentile £489 £413 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £628
90th Percentile - £590 £780
Scotland median daily rate £525 £515 £547
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.89% +4.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 76 97 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 10.07% 12.85% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 51 85
10th Percentile £191 £263 £412
25th Percentile £310 £361 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -22.91% +41.88%
75th Percentile £473 £544 £650
90th Percentile £568 £600 £700
Scotland median daily rate £425 £445 £525
% change year-on-year -4.44% -15.29% +22.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +189.47% +7.22% +34.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £19.50 £18.02
90th Percentile - - £18.57
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £19.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year +294.74% -66.31% +244.74%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

SSL job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SSL

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Management
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 4 (100.00%) MuleSoft