SSL Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing SSL 3 13 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.44% 2.92% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.90% 20.00% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £568 £322
25th Percentile £663 £597 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £624 £357
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% +74.53% -24.79%
75th Percentile £688 £669 £388
90th Percentile - £725 £403
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £622 £350
% change year-on-year -3.54% +77.71% -26.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 77 65 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.34% 14.61% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 34 23
10th Percentile £285 £209 £190
25th Percentile £406 £220 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £590
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -12.08% +31.11%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £646 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £486 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +14.41% - -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -38.64% +2.33%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

SSL job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SSL

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SSL

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Sheffield -33 3 £675 +8.26% 1
SSL
Yorkshire

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) TPMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) SSH
General
1 3 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) GLBA
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) Thales