SSL Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 77 93
Rank change year-on-year -28 +16 +15
Contract jobs citing SSL 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.43% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.71% 1.09% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +77.14% - -
75th Percentile £645 - -
90th Percentile £653 - -
North West median daily rate £623 £354 -
% change year-on-year +75.99% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £45.88

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 140 92 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 7.57% 10.07% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 63 156
10th Percentile £274 £195 £213
25th Percentile £375 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £581 £500 £750
90th Percentile £638 £615 £850
North West median daily rate £486 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +7.90% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £12.98 - £18.90
25th Percentile £15.25 - £29.25
Median hourly rate £17.06 - £41.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +107.78%
75th Percentile £18.06 - £62.56
90th Percentile £22.06 - £87.43
North West median hourly rate £19.84 £47.37 £40.44
% change year-on-year -58.12% +17.14% +29.41%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

SSL job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SSL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in Manchester over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SSL

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
3 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ISPF
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (37.50%) Clustering
1 3 (37.50%) Mainframe
1 3 (37.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
2 3 (37.50%) Log Correlation
2 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Ticket Management
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) GitOps
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) ActionScript
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (37.50%) MCSA
1 3 (37.50%) MCSE
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) RACF
2 1 (12.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) CASB
1 3 (37.50%) Nessus
1 3 (37.50%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) CyberArk
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
1 3 (37.50%) Remedy
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
1 3 (37.50%) Tenable
2 1 (12.50%) Confluent
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
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