SSL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SSL over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 338 454
Rank change year-on-year +73 +116 -132
Contract jobs citing SSL 82 131 167
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.52% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.25% 4.53% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 104 98
10th Percentile £413 £404 £389
25th Percentile £500 £483 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% +11.94% -1.91%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £671 £671 £638
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £51.75
25th Percentile £58.75 £51.37 £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £55.32 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.98% +0.58% -
75th Percentile £66.25 £59.28 £57.50
90th Percentile - - £58.25
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £63.23 £51.02
% change year-on-year -27.44% +23.93% -3.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

SSL is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,561 2,895 4,322
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.34% 11.52% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,922 2,924
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +13.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSL trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SSL over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 4 (4.88%) IIS
1 4 (4.88%) WebLogic
1 4 (4.88%) WebSphere
1 4 (4.88%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.22%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.22%) Apache
2 1 (1.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.22%) nginx
2 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 47 (57.32%) Azure
2 39 (47.56%) AWS
3 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.44%) Apigee
5 2 (2.44%) Catchpoint
5 2 (2.44%) GitHub
5 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.22%) Boomi
6 1 (1.22%) GCP
6 1 (1.22%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.22%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.95%) Firewall
2 13 (15.85%) VPN
3 11 (13.41%) Network Security
4 8 (9.76%) DNS
5 6 (7.32%) IPsec
6 4 (4.88%) BGP
6 4 (4.88%) OSPF
6 4 (4.88%) tcpdump
7 3 (3.66%) Wireless
7 3 (3.66%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.44%) HTTP
8 2 (2.44%) IPv6
8 2 (2.44%) SSH
9 1 (1.22%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.22%) DHCP
9 1 (1.22%) Internet
9 1 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.22%) MPLS
9 1 (1.22%) SNMP
9 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.22%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.22%) MySQL
2 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.66%) JIRA
3 2 (2.44%) gulp
3 2 (2.44%) Maven
4 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.22%) Git
4 1 (1.22%) GitLab
4 1 (1.22%) Postman
4 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (3.66%) Finance
3 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.22%) Banking
5 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.22%) French Language
5 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (51.22%) Architect
2 7 (8.54%) Security Architect
3 6 (7.32%) Senior
4 5 (6.10%) Consultant
4 5 (6.10%) Lead
4 5 (6.10%) Mainframe Architect
4 5 (6.10%) Network Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Applications Specialist
5 4 (4.88%) Developer
5 4 (4.88%) Server Specialist
5 4 (4.88%) Technical Leader
5 4 (4.88%) WebSphere Server Specialist
5 4 (4.88%) WebSphere Specialist
6 3 (3.66%) Automation Consultant
6 3 (3.66%) Implementation Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 2 (2.44%) Designer
7 2 (2.44%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (2.44%) Python Developer
7 2 (2.44%) Senior Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (41.46%) Web Services
2 4 (4.88%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.88%) LDAP
3 3 (3.66%) OAuth
3 3 (3.66%) RESTful
3 3 (3.66%) SAML
3 3 (3.66%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (2.44%) .NET
4 2 (2.44%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (2.44%) Kafka
4 2 (2.44%) Middleware
4 2 (2.44%) Node.js
4 2 (2.44%) OpenID
5 1 (1.22%) Django
5 1 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.22%) Flask
5 1 (1.22%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.22%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (1.22%) Pandas
5 1 (1.22%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 38 (46.34%) PKI
2 5 (6.10%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.10%) Mainframe
3 4 (4.88%) DataPower
3 4 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.66%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.44%) Shadow IT
6 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.22%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.22%) IoT
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.83%) Linux
2 11 (13.41%) Windows
3 4 (4.88%) VMS
4 2 (2.44%) Android
4 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.12%) Cryptography
2 36 (43.90%) Key Management
3 9 (10.98%) DevOps
3 9 (10.98%) Migration
4 8 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (7.32%) Agile
5 6 (7.32%) Cost Reduction
5 6 (7.32%) Kalman Filter
6 5 (6.10%) Change Management
6 5 (6.10%) Security Architecture
7 4 (4.88%) RBAC
7 4 (4.88%) Storage Management
7 4 (4.88%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (3.66%) CI/CD
8 3 (3.66%) Configuration Management
8 3 (3.66%) ITIL
8 3 (3.66%) Runbook
8 3 (3.66%) Web Filtering
9 2 (2.44%) Analytics
9 2 (2.44%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.76%) Python
2 6 (7.32%) SQL
3 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.66%) Bash
4 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.44%) Java
6 1 (1.22%) Perl
6 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (45.12%) Degree
1 37 (45.12%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.05%) SC Cleared
3 22 (26.83%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.32%) CCNP
4 6 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.44%) CCIE
6 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.22%) MCSE
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.44%) QA
2 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.22%) GDPR
2 1 (1.22%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (53.66%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.10%) RACF
3 2 (2.44%) Docker
3 2 (2.44%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.22%) Postfix
4 1 (1.22%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 9 (10.98%) Ansible
2 5 (6.10%) SCCM
2 5 (6.10%) zSecure
3 1 (1.22%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.22%) Puppet
3 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (14.63%) IBM
2 6 (7.32%) Palo Alto
3 5 (6.10%) Cisco
3 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.66%) Citrix
4 3 (3.66%) Google
4 3 (3.66%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.44%) AppNeta
5 2 (2.44%) Arista
5 2 (2.44%) Aruba
5 2 (2.44%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle
5 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.44%) Solace
5 2 (2.44%) Tufin
6 1 (1.22%) Dell
6 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.22%) NETGEAR
6 1 (1.22%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.22%) Veeam