SSL Contracts in London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring SSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 322 385
Rank change year-on-year +29 +63 +43
Contract jobs citing SSL 60 69 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.39% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.56% 4.01% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 48 88
10th Percentile £325 £400 £425
25th Percentile £389 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +1.10% -1.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £758 £750 £739
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.00
England median hourly rate £81.35 £45.88 £63.23
% change year-on-year +77.31% -27.44% +22.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Central London +10 11 £450 +9.09% 10
West London +16 6 £400 -11.11% 1
South London - 2 £600 -
SSL
England

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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 4 (6.67%) Apache
1 4 (6.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.33%) nginx
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) AWS
2 14 (23.33%) Azure
3 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (11.67%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (11.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (8.33%) GitHub
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (6.67%) Cloudflare
6 4 (6.67%) Serverless
6 4 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (40.00%) Firewall
2 22 (36.67%) DNS
3 18 (30.00%) VPN
4 15 (25.00%) Network Security
5 14 (23.33%) BGP
6 13 (21.67%) OSPF
7 12 (20.00%) SMTP
8 11 (18.33%) Wireless
9 10 (16.67%) HTTP
9 10 (16.67%) WAN
10 9 (15.00%) IPsec
10 9 (15.00%) S/MIME
11 8 (13.33%) TCP/IP
12 7 (11.67%) DHCP
12 7 (11.67%) FTP
12 7 (11.67%) VLAN
13 6 (10.00%) EIGRP
13 6 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (10.00%) LAN
13 6 (10.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Power BI
1 3 (5.00%) Redis
2 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Maven
3 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Banking
3 9 (15.00%) Finance
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.67%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.67%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Network Engineer
2 10 (16.67%) Lead
3 6 (10.00%) Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Developer
4 5 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Administrator
5 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Network Administrator
5 3 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) .NET Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) C# Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) PHP Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) .NET
2 8 (13.33%) JSON
3 7 (11.67%) REST
3 7 (11.67%) XML
4 6 (10.00%) SOAP
4 6 (10.00%) Web Services
5 5 (8.33%) SAML
6 4 (6.67%) CSS
6 4 (6.67%) HTML
6 4 (6.67%) JDBC
6 4 (6.67%) LDAP
6 4 (6.67%) OAuth
6 4 (6.67%) ODBC
6 4 (6.67%) React
6 4 (6.67%) RESTful
7 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.00%) Node.js
7 3 (5.00%) OpenID
7 3 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) PKI
2 10 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 7 (11.67%) Algorithms
3 7 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (10.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Windows
2 7 (11.67%) Unix
3 5 (8.33%) Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Android
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Agile
2 14 (23.33%) Key Management
2 14 (23.33%) Migration
3 13 (21.67%) DevOps
4 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 8 (13.33%) Microservices
7 7 (11.67%) Computer Science
7 7 (11.67%) Cryptography
7 7 (11.67%) Process Improvement
7 7 (11.67%) Risk Assessment
7 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
8 6 (10.00%) Data Security
8 6 (10.00%) Load Balancing
8 6 (10.00%) SDLC
8 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (8.33%) Business Analysis
9 5 (8.33%) Front End Development
9 5 (8.33%) Security Operations
10 4 (6.67%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) PowerShell
2 15 (25.00%) Python
3 9 (15.00%) C#
4 6 (10.00%) ActionScript
4 6 (10.00%) ActionScript 2.0
4 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.67%) Bash
5 4 (6.67%) C
5 4 (6.67%) PHP
6 3 (5.00%) Bicep
6 3 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (5.00%) SQL
6 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.33%) Perl
8 1 (1.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (11.67%) CCNP
2 7 (11.67%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.67%) CCSA
4 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) CCIE
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.67%) CCSE
6 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) NIST
1 3 (5.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.67%) Firmware
2 3 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (1.67%) RACF
3 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Single Sign-On
1 7 (11.67%) Terraform
2 4 (6.67%) Ansible
2 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.00%) CA Spectrum
3 3 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.67%) Argo
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.67%) Istio
5 1 (1.67%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.67%) Packer
5 1 (1.67%) SCCM
5 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Cisco
2 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (20.00%) F5
4 7 (11.67%) Juniper
4 7 (11.67%) Palo Alto
5 6 (10.00%) Meraki
6 5 (8.33%) CheckPoint
6 5 (8.33%) SolarWinds
7 4 (6.67%) IBM
7 4 (6.67%) IBM Sterling
7 4 (6.67%) OpenText
7 4 (6.67%) Qualtrics
7 4 (6.67%) SAP
8 3 (5.00%) Arista
8 3 (5.00%) McAfee
8 3 (5.00%) Qualys
8 3 (5.00%) Tenable
9 2 (3.33%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.33%) Splunk