SSL Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 74 100
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 +18
Contract jobs citing SSL 3 12 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.28% 1.06% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.64% 5.29% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £382 £500 -
25th Percentile £385 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -39.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £397 £675 -
90th Percentile £399 £720 -
South East median daily rate £380 £625 £463
% change year-on-year -39.28% +35.14% -7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 183 227 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.93% 20.07% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 120 121
10th Percentile £380 £368 £239
25th Percentile £500 £463 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +25.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £613
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 27 32
10th Percentile £45.20 £33.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £51.50 £44.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +22.91% +15.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £71.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.60 £75.00 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.99
% change year-on-year -21.43% +20.71% +28.87%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

SSL job vacancy trend in Hampshire

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SSL

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SSL

SSL
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Southampton - 1 - -
Portsmouth - 1 £384 -
SSL
South East

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
2 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SSH
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
1 1 (33.33%) Poetry
1 1 (33.33%) PyCharm
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Avro
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Rsyslog
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper