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

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 153 153
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +72
Contract jobs citing SSL 18 12 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.29% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.32% 2.51% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 32
10th Percentile £350 £453 £350
25th Percentile £356 £486 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £566 £486
Median % change year-on-year -11.66% +16.46% -2.80%
75th Percentile £603 £626 £628
90th Percentile £614 £633 £698
England median daily rate £538 £611 £525
% change year-on-year -12.03% +16.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £66.49
% change year-on-year +87.62% -35.33% +21.78%

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 542 478 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.69% 11.60% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 310 453
10th Percentile £175 £211 £201
25th Percentile £325 £389 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £565
90th Percentile £638 £823 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 19 16
10th Percentile £21.20 £14.95 £15.72
25th Percentile £23.00 £19.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.00 £24.87 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% +36.27% -3.31%
75th Percentile £49.08 £47.38 £30.31
90th Percentile £61.73 £51.91 £46.17
England median hourly rate £43.50 £54.88 £50.42
% change year-on-year -20.73% +8.84% +80.88%

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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 8 August 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 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire -13 9 £500 -19.61% 4
North West -9 8 £600 +17.65% 6
North East - 1 £520 -
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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 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.56%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 3 (16.67%) Serverless
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (38.89%) DNS
3 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (22.22%) Network Security
4 4 (22.22%) VPN
5 2 (11.11%) NAS
5 2 (11.11%) SAN
6 1 (5.56%) BGP
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (5.56%) DMZ
6 1 (5.56%) DWDM
6 1 (5.56%) Internet
6 1 (5.56%) IPsec
6 1 (5.56%) L2TP
6 1 (5.56%) MPLS
6 1 (5.56%) OSPF
6 1 (5.56%) WAN
6 1 (5.56%) WebEx
6 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) Log4j
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Italian Language
2 1 (5.56%) Polish Language
2 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Kafka
1 7 (38.89%) LDAP
2 3 (16.67%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (11.11%) Middleware
4 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
4 1 (5.56%) JDBC
4 1 (5.56%) JMS
4 1 (5.56%) JNDI
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) SAML
4 1 (5.56%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (5.56%) XML
4 1 (5.56%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) High Availability
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
2 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL
3 4 (22.22%) Validation
4 3 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (16.67%) Log Correlation
4 3 (16.67%) Observability
4 3 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) RBAC
4 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.56%) ActionScript
3 1 (5.56%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) Perl
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) CISSP
2 3 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (16.67%) MCSA
2 3 (16.67%) MCSE
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) CCIE
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
1 2 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
1 7 (38.89%) Prometheus
2 6 (33.33%) Grafana
2 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Terraform
4 3 (16.67%) CASB
4 3 (16.67%) Nessus
5 2 (11.11%) Kustomize
5 2 (11.11%) Puppet
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Splunk
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 4 (22.22%) IBM
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 3 (16.67%) Confluent
4 3 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 3 (16.67%) Remedy
4 3 (16.67%) Tenable
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
6 1 (5.56%) Apple
6 1 (5.56%) Arista
6 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) McAfee
6 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.56%) TIBCO
6 1 (5.56%) Zscaler