X.509 Contracts in the UK excluding London

X.509
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring X.509 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited X.509 over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 374 422
Rank change year-on-year +11 +48 +98
Contract jobs citing X.509 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.005% 0.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.036% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £425 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -35.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £678 £475 £725
90th Percentile £684 - -
UK median daily rate £588 £450 £688
% change year-on-year +30.56% -34.55% +1.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

X.509 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 2,176 2,795 3,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.19% 15.27% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 1,640 2,140
10th Percentile £204 £206 £205
25th Percentile £331 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £457
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.36% +1.60%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £575
90th Percentile £640 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 276 190
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.56 £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.25 £54.88 £56.91
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% -3.58% +116.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -5.61% -9.26% +54.29%

X.509
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing X.509 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for X.509 in the UK excluding London

X.509
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing X.509 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for X.509 in the UK excluding London

X.509
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing X.509 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for X.509 in the UK excluding London

X.509
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing X.509 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for X.509 in the UK excluding London

X.509
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 X.509 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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 West - 2 £663 - 1
East of England - 2 £525 - 2
North of England - 2 £663 - 1
X.509
UK

X.509
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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) Datadog
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) PKI
2 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) API Development
1 2 (50.00%) BDD
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Coaching
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Informatics
1 2 (50.00%) Key Management
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) OWASP
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
1 2 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) SOLID
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) FIPS 140-2
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft