SSL Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.54% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - -
75th Percentile £344 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £380 £458 £425
% change year-on-year -16.94% +7.65% -28.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 18 19 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 27.69% 16.67% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 14
10th Percentile £173 £377 £375
25th Percentile £266 £394 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £400 £516 £566
90th Percentile £500 £618 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £402 £475 £405
% change year-on-year -15.37% +17.28% -9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 8
10th Percentile £27.50 - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £16.26 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.50% -29.30% -5.15%
75th Percentile £32.63 - £28.75
90th Percentile £39.23 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +13.40%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

SSL job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing SSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing SSL

SSL
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £338 -
SSL
West Midlands

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes