X.509 Contract Job Trends in London

X.509
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring X.509 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing X.509 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.037% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £538 £525 -
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

X.509 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 1,508 1,291 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.92% 10.32% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 838 1,115
10th Percentile £300 £263 £225
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 50
10th Percentile £16.04 £18.88 £14.46
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £16.40
Median hourly rate £29.52 £37.50 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% +58.56% -35.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £90.63 £63.05 £60.00
England median hourly rate £29.52 £39.32 £41.50
% change year-on-year -24.92% -5.25% +121.75%

X.509
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing X.509 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

X.509 job vacancy trend in London

X.509
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing X.509.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing X.509

X.509
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing X.509.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing X.509

X.509
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 X.509 within the London region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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 - 2 - -
X.509
England

X.509
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) OCI
3 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SSH
2 1 (14.29%) IPsec
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) SPIFFE
2 1 (14.29%) EJB
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Key Management
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Cryptography
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Management
6 1 (14.29%) Application Security
6 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
6 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) GDPR
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
4 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Zscaler