SSL Contracts in the Thames Valley

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 93 131 145
Rank change year-on-year +38 +14 -4
Contract jobs citing SSL 9 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.52% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.57% 2.31% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £469 - £251
25th Percentile £561 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -31.91% +43.29%
75th Percentile £650 £409 £606
90th Percentile - £426 £655
South East median daily rate £600 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.38% +17.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 605 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.68% 22.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 291
10th Percentile £242 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.46% +5.51%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 50 15
10th Percentile - £17.79 £19.70
25th Percentile - £23.78 £25.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.15% -1.52% +288.24%
75th Percentile £22.09 £85.65 £80.25
90th Percentile £31.44 £87.47 £81.22
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SSL in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +26 9 £638 +59.38% 4
SSL
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (11.11%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) NGFW
3 2 (22.22%) BIG-IP
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (11.11%) DMVPN
4 1 (11.11%) IPFIX
4 1 (11.11%) IPsec
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) SIEM
2 3 (33.33%) Application Security
2 3 (33.33%) Data Security
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 3 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) RBAC
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CISM
1 3 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) CASB
2 1 (11.11%) QRadar
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) F5
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Aruba
3 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk