SSL Contracts in the Midlands

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 103 127 158
Rank change year-on-year +24 +31 +41
Contract jobs citing SSL 8 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.74% 1.22% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - £479 £381
25th Percentile - £597 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +51.69% -2.47%
75th Percentile - £688 £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 492 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.18% 17.85% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 294 337
10th Percentile £162 £200 £250
25th Percentile £249 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.64%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £594
90th Percentile £693 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 36 17
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.28 £12.50
25th Percentile - £13.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -31.08% +18.31%
75th Percentile £18.13 £24.35 £28.50
90th Percentile £24.21 £28.75 £40.25
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 the Midlands

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SSL in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +16 8 - - 3
SSL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
1 6 (75.00%) VLAN
2 4 (50.00%) BGP
2 4 (50.00%) IPsec
2 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 4 (50.00%) OSPF
2 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) HTTP
3 2 (25.00%) NetScaler
3 2 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (25.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Check Point Expert
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
1 2 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Check Point GAiA
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) CentOS
2 2 (25.00%) Debian
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Log Aggregation
2 2 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Release Management
2 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Server Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CCSE
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (25.00%) Nessus
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Sophos
2 2 (25.00%) VMware