SSL Contracts in London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SSL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 385 437
Rank change year-on-year +60 +52 -67
Contract jobs citing SSL 69 110 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.41% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.03% 4.11% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 91 115
10th Percentile £400 £425 £449
25th Percentile £472 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +9.79%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £675
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.00
Median hourly rate - £83.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - +80.43% -
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £63.23 £51.75
% change year-on-year -27.44% +22.18% +11.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

SSL is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,712 2,674 3,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.67% 9.88% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,889 2,582
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £743 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 52 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.22 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.64 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.21 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.37% +37.74% +45.83%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.55
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in London

SSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in London.

Daily rate trend for SSL in London

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in London

SSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in London.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London +25 5 £413 -21.43% 3
West London - 2 £450 - 2
SSL
England

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (14.49%) WebSphere
2 6 (8.70%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (7.25%) WebLogic
4 4 (5.80%) Tomcat
5 3 (4.35%) Apache
5 3 (4.35%) JBoss
5 3 (4.35%) nginx
6 2 (2.90%) IIS
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (1.45%) Confluence
7 1 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (1.45%) IBM Domino
7 1 (1.45%) IBM Notes
7 1 (1.45%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.39%) Azure
2 11 (15.94%) AWS
3 5 (7.25%) GitHub
4 4 (5.80%) Firebase
4 4 (5.80%) Flurry Analytics
4 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.80%) PubNub
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (4.35%) SaaS
6 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.90%) GCP
6 2 (2.90%) IaaS
6 2 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.43%) Firewall
2 18 (26.09%) HTTP
3 17 (24.64%) TCP/IP
4 16 (23.19%) DNS
5 15 (21.74%) VPN
6 14 (20.29%) Network Security
7 10 (14.49%) IPsec
8 9 (13.04%) BGP
8 9 (13.04%) OSPF
9 5 (7.25%) SNMP
9 5 (7.25%) SSH
9 5 (7.25%) Wireless
10 4 (5.80%) DHCP
10 4 (5.80%) SMTP
11 3 (4.35%) FTP
11 3 (4.35%) HTTPS
11 3 (4.35%) LAN
11 3 (4.35%) MPLS
11 3 (4.35%) VLAN
11 3 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) Mixpanel
1 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.35%) RDBMS
2 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (23.19%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.25%) IBM UrbanCode
3 4 (5.80%) Git
4 2 (2.90%) Postman
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.29%) Finance
3 5 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.80%) Banking
4 4 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Electronics
5 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.35%) Marketing
6 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Linux Engineer
1 11 (15.94%) Linux Server Engineer
1 11 (15.94%) Server Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Architect
3 9 (13.04%) Network Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Developer
4 7 (10.14%) Senior
5 6 (8.70%) Security Architect
6 5 (7.25%) Applications Specialist
6 5 (7.25%) Lead
6 5 (7.25%) Server Specialist
6 5 (7.25%) WebSphere Server Specialist
6 5 (7.25%) WebSphere Specialist
7 4 (5.80%) Android Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Mainframe Architect
7 4 (5.80%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Administrator
8 3 (4.35%) Implementation Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (5.80%) SAML
3 3 (4.35%) IBM Integration Bus
3 3 (4.35%) OAuth
3 3 (4.35%) OpenID
4 2 (2.90%) Jinja
4 2 (2.90%) JSON
4 2 (2.90%) NETCONF
4 2 (2.90%) RESTful
4 2 (2.90%) SPML
4 2 (2.90%) XML
4 2 (2.90%) YANG
5 1 (1.45%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.45%) Kafka
5 1 (1.45%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.45%) LDAP
5 1 (1.45%) Next.js
5 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.45%) Web Services
5 1 (1.45%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.59%) DataPower
3 4 (5.80%) Mainframe
3 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.80%) PKI
4 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.45%) Blog
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.33%) Linux
2 10 (14.49%) Windows
3 4 (5.80%) Android
3 4 (5.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.35%) Unix
5 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
2 10 (14.49%) Migration
3 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.14%) DevOps
4 7 (10.14%) Test Automation
4 7 (10.14%) Validation
5 6 (8.70%) Agile
5 6 (8.70%) Security Architecture
6 5 (7.25%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (7.25%) Server Management
7 4 (5.80%) Android Development
7 4 (5.80%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (5.80%) Computer Science
7 4 (5.80%) Configuration Management
7 4 (5.80%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (5.80%) Mobile Application Development
7 4 (5.80%) Project Delivery
7 4 (5.80%) Runbook
7 4 (5.80%) TDD
7 4 (5.80%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.70%) Python
3 4 (5.80%) Java
3 4 (5.80%) Kotlin
3 4 (5.80%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.35%) Bash
4 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.45%) C
5 1 (1.45%) C++
5 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) DV Cleared
1 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) CCNP
2 7 (10.14%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.25%) Degree
4 3 (4.35%) CCIE
4 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.90%) CISA
5 2 (2.90%) CISM
5 2 (2.90%) CISSP
5 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (2.90%) NCSC
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.45%) NIST
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.80%) RACF
2 3 (4.35%) Terminal Services
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.90%) XenApp
4 1 (1.45%) Docker
4 1 (1.45%) Terminal Server
4 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Progress Chef
1 11 (15.94%) Puppet
2 6 (8.70%) Ansible
3 4 (5.80%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (5.80%) Terraform
3 4 (5.80%) zSecure
4 2 (2.90%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.45%) Packer
5 1 (1.45%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) IBM
2 10 (14.49%) Cisco
3 8 (11.59%) Palo Alto
4 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
5 6 (8.70%) Oracle
6 3 (4.35%) Citrix
6 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.35%) SAP
6 3 (4.35%) Temenos
7 2 (2.90%) Aruba
7 2 (2.90%) CA
7 2 (2.90%) Juniper
7 2 (2.90%) Meraki
8 1 (1.45%) Cadence
8 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.45%) Lotus
8 1 (1.45%) Sage
8 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.45%) VMware
8 1 (1.45%) Zscaler