SSL Contracts in the North of England

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 150 171 187
Rank change year-on-year +21 +16 +29
Contract jobs citing SSL 16 14 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.29% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.90% 2.34% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 18
10th Percentile £463 £415 £271
25th Percentile £520 £430 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £431 £443
Median % change year-on-year +36.89% -2.71% +21.20%
75th Percentile £600 £435 £670
90th Percentile £618 £445 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
England median hourly rate £81.35 £45.88 £63.23
% change year-on-year +77.31% -27.44% +22.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SSL in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +7 8 £413 -4.29% 2
North East - 6 £590 -
North West +14 2 £600 - 10
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (31.25%) nginx
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Kong
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) NAS
1 4 (25.00%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) IPsec
2 2 (12.50%) MPLS
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 2 (12.50%) WAN
2 2 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (6.25%) BGP
3 1 (6.25%) DMZ
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) DWDM
3 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
3 1 (6.25%) Internet
3 1 (6.25%) L2TP
3 1 (6.25%) LAN
3 1 (6.25%) OSPF
3 1 (6.25%) SSH
3 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
3 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Architect
2 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Network Implementation Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (31.25%) Kafka
2 5 (31.25%) LDAP
2 5 (31.25%) Middleware
3 3 (18.75%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
4 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Robotics
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
1 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
2 5 (31.25%) High Availability
2 5 (31.25%) Key Management
3 2 (12.50%) B2B
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Cryptography
3 2 (12.50%) Data Security
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.25%) Information Management
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL
4 1 (6.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) ActionScript
1 2 (12.50%) ActionScript 2.0
1 2 (12.50%) C
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 2 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CCIE
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (50.00%) Grafana
2 8 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (31.25%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Kibana
4 1 (6.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Splunk
2 5 (31.25%) Confluent
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) IBM
5 1 (6.25%) Arista
5 1 (6.25%) F5
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (6.25%) McAfee
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow