SSL Contracts in the North West

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 118 132 134
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +28
Contract jobs citing SSL 2 5 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% 0.18% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.61% 1.37% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £263
25th Percentile - - £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.31%
75th Percentile - - £381
90th Percentile - - £486
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 327 364 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.62% 13.21% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 253 298
10th Percentile £185 £199 £288
25th Percentile £300 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £653 £575
90th Percentile £600 £825 £650
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.72 £17.92
25th Percentile £21.12 £18.48 £19.17
Median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%
75th Percentile £25.47 £45.88 £51.45
90th Percentile £25.90 £83.76 £52.13
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +16 1 - - 10
Cheshire - 1 £600 -
SSL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) DMZ
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) DWDM
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) L2TP
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Multicast
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Arista
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) McAfee
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk