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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 275 348
Rank change year-on-year -7 +73 +56
Contract jobs citing SSL 71 128 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.60% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.40% 3.90% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 68 67
10th Percentile £352 £385 £303
25th Percentile £375 £432 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £486
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +23.46% -4.71%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £552
90th Percentile £625 - £655
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £528
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.00% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £80.34 £40.40 £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% +8.90%
75th Percentile £81.91 - £63.23
90th Percentile £83.05 £47.60 £69.61
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £45.88 £63.23
% change year-on-year +77.31% -27.44% +20.44%

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 2,089 3,279 3,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.38% 15.43% 15.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,843 2,219
10th Percentile £200 £205 £206
25th Percentile £325 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 369 303
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.69 £9.80
Median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.17% +150.00% -14.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £62.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.48 £45.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +136.84% -33.23%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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
North of England +19 18 £500 +15.21% 18
East of England +33 16 £600 +106.90% 3
South East -19 15 £375 -40.00% 9
Midlands +21 14 £358 -46.96% 7
Yorkshire +7 12 £500 +15.21% 5
West Midlands +11 10 - - 1
North West +1 4 £354 - 12
East Midlands - 4 £358 - 6
South West +49 3 £585 +17.00% 12
Wales +6 3 £500 -9.09% 2
Scotland -6 2 £600 +11.11% 6
North East - 2 £535 - 1
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 7 (9.86%) Confluence
2 4 (5.63%) Apache
2 4 (5.63%) JBoss
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (2.82%) IIS
4 2 (2.82%) nginx
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.41%) CMS
5 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.41%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.41%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.35%) AWS
2 17 (23.94%) Azure
3 7 (9.86%) AWS KMS
4 6 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (8.45%) OpenShift
5 5 (7.04%) GitHub
6 4 (5.63%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.63%) GCP
6 4 (5.63%) Serverless
6 4 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (4.23%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.23%) OCI
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (43.66%) DNS
2 25 (35.21%) Network Security
3 23 (32.39%) HTTP
4 22 (30.99%) Firewall
5 18 (25.35%) VPN
6 16 (22.54%) VLAN
7 15 (21.13%) TCP/IP
8 14 (19.72%) FTP
9 13 (18.31%) SMTP
10 12 (16.90%) IPsec
11 11 (15.49%) DHCP
12 10 (14.08%) BGP
12 10 (14.08%) OSPF
13 7 (9.86%) HTTPS
14 6 (8.45%) SAN
14 6 (8.45%) Wireless
15 5 (7.04%) WAN
16 4 (5.63%) NAS
17 3 (4.23%) LAN
17 3 (4.23%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.23%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Jenkins
2 9 (12.68%) Git
3 8 (11.27%) JIRA
4 2 (2.82%) GitLab
4 2 (2.82%) Maven
4 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.41%) Log4j
5 1 (1.41%) Mockito
5 1 (1.41%) Toad
General
1 26 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.86%) Telecoms
4 6 (8.45%) Finance
5 4 (5.63%) Banking
5 4 (5.63%) Law
5 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.41%) Aviation
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (16.90%) Analyst
2 11 (15.49%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (11.27%) Architect
3 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Check Point Expert
4 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Lead
6 4 (5.63%) Network Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Administrator
7 3 (4.23%) Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior
8 2 (2.82%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (29.58%) LDAP
2 11 (15.49%) REST
3 9 (12.68%) Kafka
3 9 (12.68%) Web Services
4 6 (8.45%) 802.1X
5 5 (7.04%) Middleware
5 5 (7.04%) OAuth
6 4 (5.63%) HTML
6 4 (5.63%) Spring
6 4 (5.63%) Spring Batch
6 4 (5.63%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.23%) CSS
7 3 (4.23%) JPA
7 3 (4.23%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (4.23%) RAML
7 3 (4.23%) React
7 3 (4.23%) RESTful
8 2 (2.82%) XML
8 2 (2.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.31%) PKI
2 12 (16.90%) Cyberattack
3 11 (15.49%) Management Information System
4 10 (14.08%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (14.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (12.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (11.27%) CSOC
7 4 (5.63%) Clustering
8 3 (4.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (4.23%) State Machine
9 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.82%) YARA
10 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.41%) e-Learning
10 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.41%) Replication
10 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.54%) Windows
2 9 (12.68%) Linux
3 6 (8.45%) Check Point GAiA
4 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (4.23%) CentOS
5 3 (4.23%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.82%) Debian
6 2 (2.82%) Unix
6 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.41%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (23.94%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (22.54%) SIEM
4 14 (19.72%) High Availability
5 13 (18.31%) Information Security
5 13 (18.31%) Threat Detection
6 12 (16.90%) CI/CD
6 12 (16.90%) Containerisation
7 11 (15.49%) DevOps
8 10 (14.08%) Agile
8 10 (14.08%) Information Management
8 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (14.08%) Key Management
8 10 (14.08%) Network Packet Capture
8 10 (14.08%) Security Operations
9 9 (12.68%) Analytics
9 9 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (12.68%) Incident Response
10 8 (11.27%) Cryptography
11 7 (9.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.27%) SQL
2 6 (8.45%) PL/SQL
2 6 (8.45%) Python
3 5 (7.04%) Java
3 5 (7.04%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.82%) ActionScript
5 2 (2.82%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (2.82%) Bash
5 2 (2.82%) C
6 1 (1.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (42.25%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 18 (25.35%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.45%) CCSE
4 6 (8.45%) Degree
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) CCDP
7 1 (1.41%) CCIE
7 1 (1.41%) CCNP
7 1 (1.41%) CISSP
7 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) GCIH
7 1 (1.41%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.41%) MCSE
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) GDPR
2 5 (7.04%) NIST
3 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.63%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.82%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (2.82%) NIST 800
4 2 (2.82%) SLA
5 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Docker
2 8 (11.27%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.45%) Hyper-V
4 5 (7.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 5 (7.04%) vSphere
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.41%) LXC
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.68%) Ansible
2 9 (12.68%) Prometheus
3 8 (11.27%) Grafana
4 6 (8.45%) FortiGate
5 5 (7.04%) Tivoli
6 4 (5.63%) Puppet
6 4 (5.63%) Terraform
7 3 (4.23%) OPNET
7 3 (4.23%) SCCM
8 2 (2.82%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.82%) Nagios
8 2 (2.82%) Nessus
8 2 (2.82%) WSUS
9 1 (1.41%) CASB
9 1 (1.41%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.41%) QRadar
9 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Oracle
2 12 (16.90%) Splunk
3 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
4 8 (11.27%) Fortinet
4 8 (11.27%) VMware
5 7 (9.86%) CheckPoint
5 7 (9.86%) Cisco
5 7 (9.86%) SolarWinds
6 6 (8.45%) Citrix
6 6 (8.45%) IBM
6 6 (8.45%) Veeam
7 5 (7.04%) Confluent
8 4 (5.63%) Arista
8 4 (5.63%) Juniper
9 3 (4.23%) F5
9 3 (4.23%) Palo Alto
9 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
9 3 (4.23%) Thales
10 2 (2.82%) Blue Coat
10 2 (2.82%) Zscaler