JSSE Contract Job Trends

Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JSSE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 594 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JSSE 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.012% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JSSE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,220 7,490 9,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.91% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 4,765 6,913
10th Percentile £354 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 97 175
10th Percentile £30.70 £21.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £35.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.92 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.75 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -0.38% +25.26% -20.17%

JSSE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JSSE job vacancy trend in the UK

JSSE
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSSE within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 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
London - 1 £615 -
England - 1 £615 -

JSSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JAAS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sparx
1 1 (100.00%) WSO2