SSL Contracts in the South East

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 141 118 206
Rank change year-on-year -23 +88 +12
Contract jobs citing SSL 18 88 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.60% 1.58% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.51% 7.01% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 43 12
10th Percentile £491 £400 £388
25th Percentile £503 £506 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.38% +17.50%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £700
90th Percentile £725 - £745
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £50.75 -
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 513 1,255 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.04% 22.58% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 617 590
10th Percentile £216 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 131 74
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £20.26 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £85.65 £80.25
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 South East

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SSL in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the South East 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
Hampshire -22 10 £575 -8.00% 2
Thames Valley +38 9 £638 +59.38% 7
Berkshire +26 9 £638 +59.38% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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%) IIS
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Network Security
2 3 (16.67%) HTTP
2 3 (16.67%) HTTPS
2 3 (16.67%) NGFW
3 2 (11.11%) BIG-IP
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (11.11%) Firewall
3 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 2 (11.11%) Wireless
3 2 (11.11%) X.509
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (5.56%) DMVPN
4 1 (5.56%) IPFIX
4 1 (5.56%) IPsec
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Web Services
2 3 (16.67%) SAML
3 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Key Management
2 4 (22.22%) Cryptography
2 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) SIEM
3 3 (16.67%) Application Security
3 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 3 (16.67%) Data Security
3 3 (16.67%) Digital Identity
3 3 (16.67%) Microservices
3 3 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 3 (16.67%) Service Design
3 3 (16.67%) Software Distribution
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 2 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Bash
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) Degree
4 3 (16.67%) CISM
4 3 (16.67%) CISSP
5 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
1 3 (16.67%) WSUS
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) CASB
2 1 (5.56%) QRadar
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) F5
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) Thales
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Aruba
3 1 (5.56%) Blue Coat
3 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.56%) Juniper
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk