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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 126 142
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 +51
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SSL 22 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.86% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.75% 2.66% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 6
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £351 £663 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £675 £563
Median % change year-on-year -45.48% +20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £380 £688 £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £553 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -7.92% +9.09% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 376 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.78% 13.96% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 228 310
10th Percentile £238 £204 £206
25th Percentile £330 £309 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +16.47% -
75th Percentile £563 £626 £575
90th Percentile £641 £733 £726
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 23
10th Percentile - - £13.55
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £14.27 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.72% -48.11% +52.78%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.15 £54.00
90th Percentile £39.23 - £67.50
England median hourly rate £42.00 £54.94 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.55% -2.75% +43.01%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSL

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSL

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DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +9 18 £380 -43.70% 1
East Midlands -6 4 £358 - 2
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 3 (13.64%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
1 3 (13.64%) GCP
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) Firewall
1 15 (68.18%) IPsec
2 13 (59.09%) DNS
2 13 (59.09%) VPN
3 10 (45.45%) Network Security
4 9 (40.91%) TCP/IP
4 9 (40.91%) VLAN
4 9 (40.91%) Wireless
5 8 (36.36%) BGP
5 8 (36.36%) OSPF
6 7 (31.82%) Cisco IPT
6 7 (31.82%) DMVPN
6 7 (31.82%) HTTP
6 7 (31.82%) WAN
7 3 (13.64%) HTTPS
8 2 (9.09%) DMZ
8 2 (9.09%) EIGRP
8 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (9.09%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Parquet
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Fiddler
3 1 (4.55%) MLflow
3 1 (4.55%) Poetry
3 1 (4.55%) PyCharm
3 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Check Point Expert
1 6 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Junior
4 2 (9.09%) Junior Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
4 2 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) 802.1X
2 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
2 3 (13.64%) CSS
2 3 (13.64%) HTML
2 3 (13.64%) JPA
2 3 (13.64%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (13.64%) RAML
2 3 (13.64%) React
2 3 (13.64%) REST
2 3 (13.64%) RESTful
2 3 (13.64%) Spring
2 3 (13.64%) Spring Batch
2 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
2 3 (13.64%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Avro
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Flask
3 1 (4.55%) NumPy
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) State Machine
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) PKI
4 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (40.91%) Change Management
3 7 (31.82%) Inventory Management
4 6 (27.27%) High Availability
4 6 (27.27%) SIEM
5 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
6 3 (13.64%) API Development
6 3 (13.64%) Clean Code
6 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
6 3 (13.64%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (13.64%) Microservices
7 2 (9.09%) Coaching
7 2 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (9.09%) Product Backlog
7 2 (9.09%) Product Requirements
7 2 (9.09%) Product Strategy
7 2 (9.09%) Product Vision
7 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) CCSE
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) FortiGate
2 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Nagios
4 1 (4.55%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Istio
4 1 (4.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) CheckPoint
2 9 (40.91%) Blue Coat
2 9 (40.91%) Cisco
2 9 (40.91%) F5
2 9 (40.91%) Juniper
3 6 (27.27%) Fortinet
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle
5 2 (9.09%) Arista
5 2 (9.09%) McAfee
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.09%) NetApp
5 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.55%) Cloudera
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.55%) Veeam
6 1 (4.55%) VMware
6 1 (4.55%) Zerto