SSL Contracts in the South West

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 104 156 154
Rank change year-on-year +52 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing SSL 7 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.42% 0.031% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.72% 0.19% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 6
10th Percentile £327 - £483
25th Percentile £420 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £603 - £631
90th Percentile £692 - £656
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £56.68
25th Percentile - £58.75 £62.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.62
Median % change year-on-year - -0.18% -
75th Percentile - £66.25 £63.23
90th Percentile - - £69.61
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 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 257 528 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 16.51% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 416
10th Percentile £250 £276 £206
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £717
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 125
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.70
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire - 6 £585 -
Cornwall - 1 £500 -
SSL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) BIG-IP
3 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) HP Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
1 4 (57.14%) PKI
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Change Control
1 4 (57.14%) Cryptography
1 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (57.14%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Server Building
3 2 (28.57%) Server Virtualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Software Deployment
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) OPNET
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) Remedy
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto