SSL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 262 271 378
Rank change year-on-year +9 +107 +26
Contract jobs citing SSL 74 129 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.62% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.77% 3.73% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 65 53
10th Percentile £420 £378 £293
25th Percentile £503 £430 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +20.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £606
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £80.34 £41.32 £56.68
25th Percentile £80.59 - £62.00
Median hourly rate £81.35 £45.88 £62.62
Median % change year-on-year +77.31% -26.73% +16.99%
75th Percentile £81.91 £61.16 £63.23
90th Percentile £83.05 £66.88 £69.61
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £45.88 £63.23
% change year-on-year +77.31% -27.44% +23.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,965 3,454 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.39% 16.63% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,982 2,287
10th Percentile £200 £204 £207
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 358 328
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.48 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the UK excluding London

SSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SSL in the UK excluding London

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the UK excluding London

SSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the UK excluding London

SSL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the UK excluding London 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
East of England +44 18 £600 +106.90% 7
South East -23 18 £600 -4.00% 21
North of England +21 16 £590 +36.89% 12
Midlands +24 8 - - 6
West Midlands +16 8 - - 3
Yorkshire +7 8 £413 -4.29% 2
South West +52 7 £585 - 13
North East - 6 £590 -
Scotland +2 5 £544 -7.64% 4
North West +14 2 £600 - 10
Wales - 2 - -
SSL
UK

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (8.11%) nginx
2 5 (6.76%) IIS
3 2 (2.70%) CMS
3 2 (2.70%) Confluence
3 2 (2.70%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.35%) Apache
4 1 (1.35%) JBoss
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.35%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.35%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.35%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (1.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.35%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.38%) AWS
2 16 (21.62%) Azure
3 7 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.76%) AWS KMS
4 5 (6.76%) GCP
4 5 (6.76%) OpenShift
4 5 (6.76%) SaaS
5 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.05%) PaaS
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.70%) GitHub
6 2 (2.70%) IaaS
6 2 (2.70%) OCI
6 2 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.35%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 26 (35.14%) DNS
2 24 (32.43%) HTTP
2 24 (32.43%) Network Security
3 16 (21.62%) FTP
4 15 (20.27%) SMTP
5 12 (16.22%) Firewall
6 11 (14.86%) VPN
7 8 (10.81%) IPsec
8 7 (9.46%) HTTPS
9 6 (8.11%) BGP
9 6 (8.11%) OSPF
9 6 (8.11%) SAN
9 6 (8.11%) TCP/IP
9 6 (8.11%) VLAN
10 5 (6.76%) WAN
11 4 (5.41%) DHCP
11 4 (5.41%) NAS
11 4 (5.41%) Wireless
11 4 (5.41%) X.509
12 3 (4.05%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.05%) Git
2 3 (4.05%) GitLab
2 3 (4.05%) JIRA
3 2 (2.70%) Maven
3 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.35%) Mockito
4 1 (1.35%) Toad
General
1 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.46%) Finance
5 6 (8.11%) Banking
6 5 (6.76%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.41%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.35%) Aviation
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) Architect
2 14 (18.92%) Analyst
3 13 (17.57%) SOC Analyst
4 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Administrator
5 4 (5.41%) Check Point Expert
5 4 (5.41%) Consultant
5 4 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Senior
6 3 (4.05%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) SCCM Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Security Architect
7 2 (2.70%) Applications Architect
7 2 (2.70%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (2.70%) Security Analyst
7 2 (2.70%) Security Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Security Specialist
7 2 (2.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (29.73%) LDAP
2 10 (13.51%) REST
3 8 (10.81%) Middleware
4 7 (9.46%) 802.1X
5 6 (8.11%) Web Services
6 5 (6.76%) Kafka
7 4 (5.41%) SAML
7 4 (5.41%) SOAP
8 3 (4.05%) OAuth
9 2 (2.70%) JWT
9 2 (2.70%) XML
9 2 (2.70%) YAML
10 1 (1.35%) AWS CDK
10 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.35%) HTML
10 1 (1.35%) JSON
10 1 (1.35%) Spring
10 1 (1.35%) Spring Batch
10 1 (1.35%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.35%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) Cyberattack
1 13 (17.57%) PKI
2 12 (16.22%) Management Information System
3 11 (14.86%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (14.86%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (13.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (10.81%) CSOC
6 4 (5.41%) Clustering
6 4 (5.41%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.70%) YARA
8 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.35%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.35%) FMCG
8 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.32%) Windows
2 11 (14.86%) Windows Server
3 8 (10.81%) Linux
4 6 (8.11%) Windows 10
5 4 (5.41%) Check Point GAiA
5 4 (5.41%) Windows 7
5 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (4.05%) CentOS
6 3 (4.05%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.70%) Debian
7 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.70%) Unix
7 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.68%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (21.62%) Information Security
3 15 (20.27%) SIEM
4 13 (17.57%) DevOps
4 13 (17.57%) Key Management
4 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.22%) Threat Detection
6 11 (14.86%) High Availability
6 11 (14.86%) Information Management
6 11 (14.86%) Network Packet Capture
6 11 (14.86%) Security Operations
7 10 (13.51%) Cryptography
8 9 (12.16%) Analytics
8 9 (12.16%) ITIL
9 8 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (10.81%) Incident Response
9 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (9.46%) Agile
10 7 (9.46%) Behavioural Analytics
10 7 (9.46%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
1 8 (10.81%) Python
2 7 (9.46%) SQL
3 4 (5.41%) Bash
4 3 (4.05%) Perl
4 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.70%) ActionScript
5 2 (2.70%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (2.70%) C
5 2 (2.70%) Java
5 2 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (52.70%) Security Cleared
2 25 (33.78%) DV Cleared
3 20 (27.03%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.46%) Degree
5 4 (5.41%) CCSE
6 3 (4.05%) CISM
6 3 (4.05%) CISSP
6 3 (4.05%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.35%) CCDP
8 1 (1.35%) CCIE
8 1 (1.35%) CCNP
8 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) GDPR
2 3 (4.05%) NIST
3 2 (2.70%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.70%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.70%) SLA
3 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 16 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.81%) Docker
3 5 (6.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (6.76%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (5.41%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.35%) LXC
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.81%) Grafana
2 8 (10.81%) Prometheus
2 8 (10.81%) SCCM
3 7 (9.46%) Terraform
4 5 (6.76%) WSUS
5 4 (5.41%) Ansible
5 4 (5.41%) FortiGate
6 3 (4.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (4.05%) OPNET
7 2 (2.70%) Nessus
7 2 (2.70%) Puppet
8 1 (1.35%) CASB
8 1 (1.35%) Kibana
8 1 (1.35%) logstash
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (1.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.16%) Splunk
3 7 (9.46%) Oracle
4 6 (8.11%) Cisco
4 6 (8.11%) F5
5 5 (6.76%) CheckPoint
5 5 (6.76%) Confluent
5 5 (6.76%) Fortinet
5 5 (6.76%) IBM
5 5 (6.76%) VMware
6 4 (5.41%) HP
6 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.05%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.05%) Thales
8 2 (2.70%) Arista
8 2 (2.70%) Darktrace
8 2 (2.70%) Dell
8 2 (2.70%) FireEye
8 2 (2.70%) Juniper
8 2 (2.70%) LogRhythm