SSL Contract Job Trends in the South West

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring SSL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 132 144
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 +24
Contract jobs citing SSL 3 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.15% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.20% 1.91% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £503 £403
25th Percentile - £508 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £519 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% +22.06% -3.85%
75th Percentile - £533 £456
90th Percentile - £539 £468
England median daily rate £566 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +2.91% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £63.58
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +36.84% -28.01% +14.75%

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 250 366 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.81% 14.43% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 213 265
10th Percentile £216 £354 £225
25th Percentile £278 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% -0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £649 £675 £700
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 25 68
10th Percentile £29.67 £12.05 £44.63
25th Percentile £47.50 - £48.32
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +15.06% -5.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.98
90th Percentile - £81.00 £75.38
England median hourly rate £39.66 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -30.85% +1.52% +37.78%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SSL

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SSL

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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 29 September 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 +12 2 - -
Somerset - 1 £557 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) JDBC
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) ODBC
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) BMC
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Ivanti
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow