SSL Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSL 20 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 6.04% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
North West median daily rate £610 £540 -
% change year-on-year +12.96% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 78 28 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 23.56% 16.97% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 12
10th Percentile £130 £149 £158
25th Percentile £143 £163 £162
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £169 £205 £285
Median % change year-on-year -17.68% -28.07% -32.94%
75th Percentile £345 £388 £318
90th Percentile £428 £538 £381
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.92 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £19.84 - £21.50
75th Percentile £21.76 - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £58.10 £24.59 £33.62
% change year-on-year +136.32% -26.86% +7.57%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

SSL job vacancy trend in Merseyside

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SSL

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SSL

SSL
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
Liverpool - 20 £300 - 1
SSL
North West

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) DNS
1 20 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 19 (95.00%) BIG-IP
2 19 (95.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 19 (95.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 19 (95.00%) HTTP
2 19 (95.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (5.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 19 (95.00%) Fiddler
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (95.00%) Banking
1 19 (95.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (95.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 19 (95.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 19 (95.00%) Network Engineer
1 19 (95.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (95.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 19 (95.00%) Load Balancing
1 19 (95.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 1 (5.00%) Agile
2 1 (5.00%) Change Management
2 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (5.00%) ITIL
2 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (5.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
System Software
1 19 (95.00%) Firmware
1 19 (95.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.00%) SCCM
1 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (95.00%) Blue Coat
2 19 (95.00%) F5
2 19 (95.00%) McAfee
2 19 (95.00%) NetApp
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds