SSL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 263 345
Rank change year-on-year +21 +82 +125
Contract jobs citing SSL 62 82 133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.53% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.94% 5.09% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 46 103
10th Percentile £340 £413 £403
25th Percentile £400 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 - £685
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £58.53 -
25th Percentile - £58.56 £51.37
Median hourly rate - £62.75 £55.32
Median % change year-on-year - +13.43% +0.58%
75th Percentile - £67.19 £59.28
90th Percentile - £67.38 -
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £45.88 £63.23
% change year-on-year +77.31% -27.44% +23.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

SSL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SSL.

SSL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SSL over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SSL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SSL.

SSL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.23%) Apache
1 2 (3.23%) nginx
1 2 (3.23%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.61%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (35.48%) AWS
2 16 (25.81%) Azure
3 6 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (9.68%) AWS KMS
3 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.68%) GCP
4 5 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (8.06%) PaaS
4 5 (8.06%) SaaS
4 5 (8.06%) Serverless
5 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (6.45%) GitHub
5 4 (6.45%) IaaS
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.84%) Datadog
6 3 (4.84%) Route 53
6 3 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.23%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 19 (30.65%) VPN
2 18 (29.03%) DNS
3 17 (27.42%) TCP/IP
4 16 (25.81%) IPsec
5 15 (24.19%) Firewall
6 13 (20.97%) Network Security
7 11 (17.74%) BGP
7 11 (17.74%) OSPF
8 9 (14.52%) HTTP
8 9 (14.52%) S/MIME
9 7 (11.29%) SMTP
9 7 (11.29%) WAN
10 6 (9.68%) MPLS
10 6 (9.68%) VLAN
11 5 (8.06%) FTP
11 5 (8.06%) LAN
11 5 (8.06%) SNMP
11 5 (8.06%) TACACS
11 5 (8.06%) Wireless
12 4 (6.45%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) MongoDB
1 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.23%) Power BI
3 2 (3.23%) Redis
3 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) GitLab
2 3 (4.84%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) Maven
3 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.23%) JIRA
4 1 (1.61%) Mockito
4 1 (1.61%) Toad
General
1 20 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Finance
3 6 (9.68%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Front Office
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Architect
2 8 (12.90%) Lead
3 7 (11.29%) Network Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Support Specialist
5 4 (6.45%) Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Security Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Site Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Consultant
6 3 (4.84%) Network Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Security Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Senior
6 3 (4.84%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Administrator
7 2 (3.23%) Implementation Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Network Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) OAuth
1 7 (11.29%) REST
2 6 (9.68%) .NET
2 6 (9.68%) OpenID
2 6 (9.68%) SAML
3 5 (8.06%) 802.1X
3 5 (8.06%) Node.js
4 4 (6.45%) HTML
4 4 (6.45%) OAuth2
4 4 (6.45%) Spring
4 4 (6.45%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.45%) Web Services
4 4 (6.45%) YAML
5 3 (4.84%) CSS
5 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.84%) React
5 3 (4.84%) RESTful
5 3 (4.84%) XACML
6 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (3.23%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.19%) PKI
2 9 (14.52%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.06%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.23%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.61%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.61%) FMCG
7 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Linux
2 7 (11.29%) Windows
3 5 (8.06%) Unix
4 1 (1.61%) CentOS
4 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.03%) Agile
1 18 (29.03%) DevOps
2 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
2 13 (20.97%) Key Management
3 11 (17.74%) Microservices
4 10 (16.13%) Migration
5 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.90%) Information Security
7 7 (11.29%) Cryptography
7 7 (11.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (9.68%) Computer Science
8 6 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (9.68%) Data Security
8 6 (9.68%) Load Balancing
8 6 (9.68%) Project Management
8 6 (9.68%) Security Architecture
8 6 (9.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (8.06%) Design Patterns
9 5 (8.06%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (8.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) PowerShell
2 10 (16.13%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) SQL
4 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.68%) C#
6 5 (8.06%) Java
7 3 (4.84%) ActionScript
7 3 (4.84%) ActionScript 2.0
7 3 (4.84%) Bash
8 2 (3.23%) Bicep
8 2 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (3.23%) PHP
8 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.61%) C
9 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (9.68%) Degree
3 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.84%) CCNP
5 3 (4.84%) CISM
5 3 (4.84%) CISSP
5 3 (4.84%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.61%) CCDP
7 1 (1.61%) CCNA
7 1 (1.61%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) GDPR
1 5 (8.06%) NIST
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.84%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.84%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.23%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (3.23%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Active Directory
1 7 (11.29%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) RACF
3 1 (1.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Terraform
2 6 (9.68%) Grafana
2 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.06%) Ansible
4 4 (6.45%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.84%) OPNET
5 3 (4.84%) Packer
6 2 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.61%) CASB
7 1 (1.61%) Kibana
7 1 (1.61%) logstash
7 1 (1.61%) SCCM
7 1 (1.61%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 15 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (22.58%) Cisco
2 14 (22.58%) F5
3 11 (17.74%) Palo Alto
4 8 (12.90%) CheckPoint
5 3 (4.84%) Juniper
6 2 (3.23%) Arista
6 2 (3.23%) Aruba
6 2 (3.23%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.23%) Blue Coat
6 2 (3.23%) Forcepoint
6 2 (3.23%) IBM
6 2 (3.23%) IBM Sterling
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle
6 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.23%) VMware
6 2 (3.23%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.61%) Okta
7 1 (1.61%) Thales
7 1 (1.61%) Ubiquiti