SSL Contract Job Trends in West London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring SSL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 37 58
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 +7
Contract jobs citing SSL 8 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 2.95% 0.71% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.26% 3.64% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £350 £378 -
25th Percentile £378 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £450 £670
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% -32.84% -10.67%
75th Percentile £433 £500 -
90th Percentile £450 £523 -
London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 78 55 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 28.78% 19.64% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 37 79
10th Percentile £250 £250 £141
25th Percentile £357 £270 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £700
90th Percentile £513 £613 £838
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £83.25
25th Percentile - - £84.38
Median hourly rate £52.00 £23.80 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year +118.49% -72.80% +360.53%
75th Percentile - £44.40 £89.38
90th Percentile - £56.76 £89.75
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% +33.33% +9.79%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in West London

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SSL

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing SSL

SSL
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Hillingdon -7 6 £419 -6.94%
SSL
London

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) BGP
2 6 (75.00%) DHCP
2 6 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (75.00%) Network Security
2 6 (75.00%) OSPF
2 6 (75.00%) SD-WAN
2 6 (75.00%) VLAN
2 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 6 (75.00%) WAN
2 6 (75.00%) Wireless
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco Wireless
3 5 (62.50%) LAN
3 5 (62.50%) WLAN
4 4 (50.00%) DMVPN
4 4 (50.00%) EIGRP
5 2 (25.00%) HTTP
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Network Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Security Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) CentOS
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (12.50%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) CCNP
1 6 (75.00%) CCSA
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) RHCE
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Firmware
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) CA Spectrum
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Nagios
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
1 6 (75.00%) F5
1 6 (75.00%) Meraki
2 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
2 5 (62.50%) Juniper
2 5 (62.50%) SolarWinds
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Splunk