SSL Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Contract jobs citing SSL 7 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.96% - 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.77% - 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.61%
West Yorkshire median daily rate £600 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -27.61%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 65 64 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 8.89% 11.81% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 44 86
10th Percentile £267 £176 £313
25th Percentile £341 £243 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £476 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.57% -2.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £588
90th Percentile £571 £750 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +2.35% -10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £28.60 £17.35
% change year-on-year +74.86% +64.84% -57.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

SSL job vacancy trend in Leeds

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SSL

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SSL

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon ELB
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
2 5 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
1 6 (85.71%) VPN
2 5 (71.43%) DNS
3 4 (57.14%) Network Security
4 2 (28.57%) IPsec
4 2 (28.57%) Kerberos
5 1 (14.29%) BGP
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
3 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) ArchiMate
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) SIEM
6 1 (14.29%) SOA
6 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
6 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Bash
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) CheckPoint
1 5 (71.43%) F5
1 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Zscaler