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

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 132 193
Rank change year-on-year -17 +61 +43
Contract jobs citing SSL 16 52 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 1.07% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.66% 5.47% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 39 12
10th Percentile £369 £475 £382
25th Percentile - £575 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £625 £488
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.21% -4.41%
75th Percentile £416 £638 £581
90th Percentile £538 £678 £611
England median daily rate £550 £611 £550
% change year-on-year -9.98% +11.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £66.49
% change year-on-year +87.62% -35.33% +15.63%

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 602 951 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.90% 19.65% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 518 607
10th Percentile £213 £254 £210
25th Percentile £357 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +1.10%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £580
90th Percentile £638 £663 £680
England median daily rate £492 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -2.24% +0.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 100 58
10th Percentile £14.20 £25.90 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.94 £51.06 £21.41
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £58.20
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -1.46% +30.06%
75th Percentile £67.31 £70.00 £73.19
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.02 £75.67
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +57.14%

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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 17 August 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 17 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
Hampshire -21 6 £442 -29.28% 2
Kent - 5 £375 -
Berkshire +12 3 £600 +41.18% 3
Thames Valley +9 3 £600 +41.18% 7
Surrey +13 2 - - 2
SSL
England

SSL
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 5 (31.25%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.25%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) AWS KMS
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) OCI
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (43.75%) VLAN
2 7 (43.75%) VPN
3 6 (37.50%) DNS
4 5 (31.25%) DHCP
5 3 (18.75%) Firewall
5 3 (18.75%) Network Security
6 2 (12.50%) BGP
6 2 (12.50%) HTTPS
6 2 (12.50%) IPsec
6 2 (12.50%) OSPF
7 1 (6.25%) HTTP
7 1 (6.25%) IPFIX
7 1 (6.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Parquet
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) MLflow
3 1 (6.25%) Poetry
3 1 (6.25%) PyCharm
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Advertising
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) OAuth
2 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Avro
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) Flask
3 1 (6.25%) NumPy
3 1 (6.25%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Cryptography
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Digital Identity
4 3 (18.75%) Key Management
4 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) API Management
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Network Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Groovy
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
1 5 (31.25%) vSphere
2 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (12.50%) Docker
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Tivoli
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Argo
3 1 (6.25%) Istio
3 1 (6.25%) QRadar
3 1 (6.25%) Rsyslog
3 1 (6.25%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) SCOM
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Citrix
1 5 (31.25%) SolarWinds
1 5 (31.25%) Veeam
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) Thales
3 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Cloudera
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk