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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 395 438
Rank change year-on-year +73 +43 -59
Contract jobs citing SSL 69 94 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.36% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.15% 3.65% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 75 119
10th Percentile £400 £450 £450
25th Percentile £467 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +18.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £752 £675
England median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +21.05%
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 1,664 2,572 3,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.54% 9.98% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 1,808 2,549
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +2.50% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £493 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 53 87
10th Percentile £14.48 £19.14 £20.96
25th Percentile £16.56 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.00 £29.12
Median % change year-on-year -34.72% +23.63% -38.47%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £46.81
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +1.21%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +30 5 £425 -19.05% 2
West London - 2 £450 - 1
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 1 (1.45%) Confluence
6 1 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (1.45%) IIS
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.45%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.39%) AWS
2 10 (14.49%) Azure
3 5 (7.25%) GitHub
4 4 (5.80%) Firebase
4 4 (5.80%) Flurry Analytics
4 4 (5.80%) PubNub
5 3 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.35%) SaaS
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.90%) AWS KMS
6 2 (2.90%) GCP
6 2 (2.90%) IaaS
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.45%) Asana
7 1 (1.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (28.99%) Firewall
2 18 (26.09%) HTTP
3 17 (24.64%) TCP/IP
4 15 (21.74%) VPN
5 14 (20.29%) DNS
6 12 (17.39%) 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
10 4 (5.80%) DHCP
10 4 (5.80%) Wireless
11 3 (4.35%) FTP
11 3 (4.35%) HTTPS
11 3 (4.35%) Kerberos
11 3 (4.35%) LAN
11 3 (4.35%) MPLS
11 3 (4.35%) SMTP
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 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.25%) IBM UrbanCode
3 4 (5.80%) Git
4 2 (2.90%) Postman
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.74%) 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
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Architect
2 11 (15.94%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Linux Server Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Server Engineer
3 9 (13.04%) Network Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Security Architect
5 6 (8.70%) Developer
5 6 (8.70%) Mainframe Architect
5 6 (8.70%) Senior
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
8 3 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Implementation Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Network 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%) Kafka
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%) 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%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.59%) DataPower
3 6 (8.70%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.80%) PKI
5 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.45%) Blog
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Replication
6 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.33%) Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Windows
3 5 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.25%) Unix
4 4 (5.80%) Android
5 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
2 8 (11.59%) Migration
2 8 (11.59%) Security Architecture
3 7 (10.14%) DevOps
3 7 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (10.14%) Test Automation
3 7 (10.14%) Validation
4 5 (7.25%) Agile
4 5 (7.25%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (7.25%) Server Management
5 4 (5.80%) Android Development
5 4 (5.80%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (5.80%) Configuration Management
5 4 (5.80%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (5.80%) Project Delivery
5 4 (5.80%) TDD
5 4 (5.80%) Unit Testing
6 3 (4.35%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (4.35%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) Python
2 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.70%) Shell Script
3 4 (5.80%) Java
3 4 (5.80%) Kotlin
4 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.90%) Bash
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 3 (4.35%) CCIE
3 3 (4.35%) Degree
4 2 (2.90%) CISA
4 2 (2.90%) CISM
4 2 (2.90%) CISSP
4 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
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
1 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) RACF
2 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.35%) Docker
3 3 (4.35%) Terminal Services
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.90%) XenApp
5 1 (1.45%) Terminal Server
5 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Progress Chef
1 11 (15.94%) Puppet
2 7 (10.14%) Ansible
3 6 (8.70%) zSecure
4 5 (7.25%) Terraform
5 4 (5.80%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.35%) Packer
7 2 (2.90%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.90%) Grafana
7 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) IBM
2 9 (13.04%) Cisco
3 8 (11.59%) Palo Alto
4 6 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.70%) Oracle
5 5 (7.25%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.35%) Citrix
6 3 (4.35%) SAP
6 3 (4.35%) Temenos
7 2 (2.90%) Aruba
7 2 (2.90%) CA
7 2 (2.90%) Confluent
7 2 (2.90%) Juniper
7 2 (2.90%) Meraki
8 1 (1.45%) Cadence
8 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.45%) Sage
8 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.45%) VMware
8 1 (1.45%) Zscaler