SSL Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 47 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing SSL 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.43% 0.82% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.41% 15.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £331 £351 -
25th Percentile £496 £352 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £354 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.56% - -
75th Percentile £646 £356 -
90th Percentile £650 £357 -
Cheshire median daily rate £600 £358 -
% change year-on-year +67.60% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 13 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 26.52% 5.35% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 11 5
10th Percentile £364 £358 -
25th Percentile £417 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -5.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £619 £492 £525
90th Percentile £653 - £683
Cheshire median daily rate £489 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

SSL job vacancy trend in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing SSL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in Knutsford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (50.00%) Key Management
1 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Log Correlation
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) SABSA
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) MCSA
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CASB
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Symantec
1 1 (25.00%) Tenable
1 1 (25.00%) Zscaler