SSL Contracts

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 381 440
Rank change year-on-year -20 +59 +60
Contract jobs citing SSL 149 200 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.78% 3.69% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 120 182
10th Percentile £335 £350 £376
25th Percentile £375 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £486
% change year-on-year -16.67% +23.46% -6.54%
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% +19.27%
75th Percentile £81.91 - £72.80
90th Percentile £83.05 £47.60 £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.35 £45.88 £62.00
% change year-on-year +77.31% -26.00% +7.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,941 5,422 7,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.39% 12.51% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 3,197 4,666
10th Percentile £231 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £502
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.30% +0.30%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 429 419
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +102.16% -23.40%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.55 £47.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -33.59% +94.08% +8.78%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the UK

SSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 July 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
England +12 134 £520 -13.33% 272
London +52 70 £550 -2.22% 113
UK excluding London -18 67 £500 -16.67% 175
Work from Home +6 49 £538 -14.00% 70
North of England +4 17 £500 +15.21% 41
Midlands +18 14 £358 -46.96% 22
South East -31 14 £375 -40.00% 45
East of England +31 12 £563 +93.97% 29
Yorkshire +3 11 £500 +15.21% 15
West Midlands +12 10 - - 10
North West +2 4 £354 - 23
Scotland -5 4 £525 - 14
East Midlands - 4 £358 - 12
South West +36 3 £585 +17.00% 23
Wales +7 3 £500 -9.09% 4
North East - 2 £535 - 3

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (8.72%) Confluence
2 4 (2.68%) Apache
2 4 (2.68%) JBoss
2 4 (2.68%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.68%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (2.01%) nginx
3 3 (2.01%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (2.01%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (2.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.67%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.67%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.01%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 43 (28.86%) AWS
2 39 (26.17%) Azure
3 12 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (8.05%) GitHub
4 9 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (6.04%) AWS KMS
4 9 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (6.04%) Serverless
5 8 (5.37%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.37%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (4.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (4.70%) PaaS
6 7 (4.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (4.03%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.03%) Azure AKS
7 6 (4.03%) GCP
7 6 (4.03%) IaaS
8 5 (3.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 57 (38.26%) DNS
2 55 (36.91%) Firewall
3 45 (30.20%) VPN
4 43 (28.86%) Network Security
5 31 (20.81%) BGP
5 31 (20.81%) HTTP
6 30 (20.13%) VLAN
7 29 (19.46%) DHCP
7 29 (19.46%) OSPF
7 29 (19.46%) TCP/IP
8 21 (14.09%) WAN
8 21 (14.09%) Wireless
9 20 (13.42%) IPsec
10 18 (12.08%) FTP
11 17 (11.41%) HTTPS
11 17 (11.41%) SMTP
12 13 (8.72%) EIGRP
12 13 (8.72%) SD-WAN
13 12 (8.05%) LAN
14 11 (7.38%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.68%) RDBMS
3 3 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.01%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.01%) Power BI
3 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.67%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (10.74%) Jenkins
1 16 (10.74%) JIRA
2 11 (7.38%) Git
3 3 (2.01%) GitLab
3 3 (2.01%) Log4j
3 3 (2.01%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.34%) Maven
4 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.67%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.67%) fastlane
5 1 (0.67%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.67%) JUnit
5 1 (0.67%) Mockito
5 1 (0.67%) Postman
5 1 (0.67%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.67%) Toad
5 1 (0.67%) XCUITest
General
1 49 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (12.75%) Finance
4 13 (8.72%) Banking
5 11 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.37%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Law
9 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Aviation
10 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.67%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.67%) Military
11 1 (0.67%) Retail
11 1 (0.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (16.11%) Architect
2 15 (10.07%) Network Engineer
3 14 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (9.40%) Security Engineer
4 12 (8.05%) Analyst
5 11 (7.38%) Lead
6 9 (6.04%) Administrator
7 8 (5.37%) Developer
8 7 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) Network Security Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) Senior
8 7 (4.70%) SOC Analyst
9 6 (4.03%) Check Point Expert
9 6 (4.03%) Consultant
10 5 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Network Administrator
10 5 (3.36%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.46%) REST
2 28 (18.79%) LDAP
3 19 (12.75%) Web Services
4 15 (10.07%) SOAP
5 13 (8.72%) JSON
5 13 (8.72%) SAML
6 12 (8.05%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.38%) JDBC
7 11 (7.38%) OAuth
8 10 (6.71%) HTML
8 10 (6.71%) Kafka
9 9 (6.04%) XML
10 8 (5.37%) 802.1X
10 8 (5.37%) Middleware
10 8 (5.37%) ODBC
11 7 (4.70%) .NET
11 7 (4.70%) RESTful
12 5 (3.36%) Apache Camel
12 5 (3.36%) CSS
12 5 (3.36%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.78%) PKI
2 14 (9.40%) Onboarding
3 11 (7.38%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.38%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.37%) Cyberattack
5 7 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.36%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (3.36%) CSOC
8 4 (2.68%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.68%) Clustering
8 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.01%) State Machine
9 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.46%) Windows
2 21 (14.09%) Linux
3 12 (8.05%) Unix
4 6 (4.03%) Check Point GAiA
5 5 (3.36%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.68%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.01%) Android
7 3 (2.01%) CentOS
7 3 (2.01%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.34%) Debian
9 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.67%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.19%) Agile
2 39 (26.17%) DevOps
3 33 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (20.13%) CI/CD
5 21 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (13.42%) Key Management
7 18 (12.08%) Cryptography
8 17 (11.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (11.41%) Microservices
8 17 (11.41%) SIEM
9 15 (10.07%) Containerisation
9 15 (10.07%) High Availability
10 14 (9.40%) Cloud Security
11 13 (8.72%) Process Improvement
12 12 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (8.05%) Information Security
12 12 (8.05%) Scrum
12 12 (8.05%) Security Operations
12 12 (8.05%) Threat Detection
13 11 (7.38%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.09%) PowerShell
2 19 (12.75%) Python
3 12 (8.05%) JavaScript
4 10 (6.71%) ActionScript
4 10 (6.71%) ActionScript 2.0
4 10 (6.71%) SQL
5 9 (6.04%) Java
6 7 (4.70%) Bash
6 7 (4.70%) C
6 7 (4.70%) C#
6 7 (4.70%) PL/SQL
7 6 (4.03%) Perl
8 5 (3.36%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.01%) Bicep
9 3 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.01%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.67%) Swift
11 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (30.20%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.46%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.07%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (10.07%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.72%) CCNP
4 13 (8.72%) Degree
5 9 (6.04%) CCSA
6 7 (4.70%) CCSE
7 5 (3.36%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.01%) CCIE
9 3 (2.01%) GIAC
9 3 (2.01%) SANS
10 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.34%) CISSP
10 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.34%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) GDPR
1 9 (6.04%) NIST
2 7 (4.70%) SOC 2
3 5 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.68%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.68%) QA
4 4 (2.68%) SLA
5 2 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.34%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (1.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 15 (10.07%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.40%) Docker
3 8 (5.37%) Firmware
4 6 (4.03%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 5 (3.36%) vSphere
6 3 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.67%) LXC
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (14.77%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.75%) Ansible
3 14 (9.40%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (8.05%) Terraform
5 11 (7.38%) Grafana
5 11 (7.38%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.70%) CA Spectrum
7 6 (4.03%) FortiGate
8 5 (3.36%) Tivoli
9 4 (2.68%) Puppet
9 4 (2.68%) SCCM
10 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.01%) OPNET
11 2 (1.34%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.34%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (1.34%) Nagios
11 2 (1.34%) Nessus
11 2 (1.34%) SELinux
12 1 (0.67%) Oracle Identity Management
12 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (20.81%) Cisco
2 21 (14.09%) F5
3 20 (13.42%) CheckPoint
4 19 (12.75%) Microsoft
5 17 (11.41%) Splunk
6 16 (10.74%) Juniper
7 15 (10.07%) Oracle
7 15 (10.07%) SolarWinds
8 13 (8.72%) IBM
9 12 (8.05%) Meraki
10 11 (7.38%) Fortinet
11 10 (6.71%) Palo Alto
11 10 (6.71%) VMware
12 9 (6.04%) Arista
13 7 (4.70%) Citrix
14 6 (4.03%) IBM Sterling
14 6 (4.03%) Veeam
15 5 (3.36%) Confluent
15 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
15 5 (3.36%) Thales