SSL Contract Job Trends in Reading

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 76 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing SSL 1 15 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.14% 1.39% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.96% 6.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 12 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £650 £425
% change year-on-year -30.77% +52.94% -3.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 104 223 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.81% 20.61% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 95 145
10th Percentile £255 £300 £205
25th Percentile £333 £400 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £426
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +17.44% -16.52%
75th Percentile £594 £608 £575
90th Percentile £630 £650 £615
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £59.50 - £65.68
25th Percentile £66.25 £56.25 £66.69
Median hourly rate £79.50 £57.50 £69.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.26% -16.97% -
75th Percentile £87.94 £58.75 £72.69
90th Percentile £91.43 - £74.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £71.07
% change year-on-year +13.04% -19.09% +215.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

SSL job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SSL

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SSL

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft