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 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 62 92
Rank change year-on-year -31 +30 -2
Contract jobs citing SSL 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.18% 0.51% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.41% 4.29% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £371 - -
25th Percentile £384 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +50.00% -40.74%
75th Percentile £434 £625 £419
90th Percentile £444 - £430
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £508 £400
% change year-on-year -11.33% +26.88% -

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 142 70 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.57% 11.95% 18.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 40 101
10th Percentile £326 £209 £213
25th Percentile £413 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £609 £500 £608
90th Percentile £668 £554 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £449 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -0.33% -12.20% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 13
10th Percentile £16.01 - £77.22
25th Percentile £19.34 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £55.00 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -58.18% -37.11% +16.61%
75th Percentile £35.22 - £87.53
90th Percentile £56.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £83.77
% change year-on-year -40.91% -34.34% +20.67%

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (50.00%) HSRP
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VRRP
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IP Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IP Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IP Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior IP Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior IP Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Ekahau
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet