SSL Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 59 70
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing SSL 7 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.78% 0.95% 0.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.97% 6.82% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.61%
Yorkshire median daily rate £675 £550 £350
% change year-on-year +22.73% +57.14% -20.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £26.78

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 78 88 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.72% 13.88% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 57 105
10th Percentile £213 £192 £313
25th Percentile £290 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £575
90th Percentile £561 £743 £669
Yorkshire median daily rate £468 £408 £430
% change year-on-year +14.85% -5.23% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £13.18 £14.30
25th Percentile £47.50 £14.49 £15.99
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.60 £17.35
Median % change year-on-year +74.86% +64.84% -57.95%
75th Percentile £52.50 £41.50 £20.24
90th Percentile - - £24.17
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £19.82
% change year-on-year -4.26% -18.31% +102.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

SSL job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Leeds - 7 £600 - 1
SSL
Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon ELB
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
2 5 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
1 6 (85.71%) VPN
2 5 (71.43%) DNS
3 4 (57.14%) Network Security
4 2 (28.57%) IPsec
4 2 (28.57%) Kerberos
5 1 (14.29%) BGP
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
3 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) ArchiMate
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) SIEM
6 1 (14.29%) SOA
6 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
6 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Bash
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) CheckPoint
1 5 (71.43%) F5
1 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Zscaler