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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 268 316
Rank change year-on-year +8 +48 +113
Contract jobs citing SSL 49 74 142
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.50% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.44% 4.80% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 53 108
10th Percentile £337 £403 £386
25th Percentile £375 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £622 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +13.09% +5.26%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £728 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -9.57% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.37
Median hourly rate - - £55.32
75th Percentile - - £59.28
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.35 £45.88 £63.23
% change year-on-year +77.31% -27.44% +20.44%

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 1,104 1,543 2,814
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.98% 10.51% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 998 1,857
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 106
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £19.00
25th Percentile £40.50 £14.27 £31.25
Median hourly rate £63.00 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £87.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%

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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 3 July 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 6 (12.24%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.04%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) Azure
2 12 (24.49%) AWS
3 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.24%) GitHub
5 5 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.20%) Azure AKS
5 5 (10.20%) PaaS
6 4 (8.16%) AWS KMS
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.16%) IaaS
6 4 (8.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.12%) Serverless
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.61%) DNS
2 14 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 14 (28.57%) VPN
3 13 (26.53%) Firewall
4 8 (16.33%) DHCP
5 7 (14.29%) IPsec
5 7 (14.29%) Network Security
5 7 (14.29%) VLAN
6 6 (12.24%) HTTPS
7 5 (10.20%) BGP
7 5 (10.20%) FTP
7 5 (10.20%) HTTP
7 5 (10.20%) OSPF
7 5 (10.20%) SMTP
7 5 (10.20%) WAN
8 3 (6.12%) Internet
8 3 (6.12%) LAN
8 3 (6.12%) S/MIME
8 3 (6.12%) Wireless
9 2 (4.08%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.04%) Mixpanel
2 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.08%) GitLab
5 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.04%) Crashlytics
5 1 (2.04%) fastlane
5 1 (2.04%) Git
5 1 (2.04%) JUnit
5 1 (2.04%) Log4j
5 1 (2.04%) Mockito
5 1 (2.04%) Toad
5 1 (2.04%) XCUITest
General
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.20%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Banking
4 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Retail
5 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) Architect
2 6 (12.24%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Lead
3 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Network Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Security Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Developer
6 2 (4.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Site Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) REST
2 5 (10.20%) 802.1X
2 5 (10.20%) OAuth
3 4 (8.16%) .NET
4 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.12%) HTML
4 3 (6.12%) JSON
4 3 (6.12%) LDAP
4 3 (6.12%) OAuth2
4 3 (6.12%) SAML
4 3 (6.12%) SOAP
4 3 (6.12%) Web Services
5 2 (4.08%) Apache Camel
5 2 (4.08%) JDBC
5 2 (4.08%) JWT
5 2 (4.08%) OpenID
5 2 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.08%) RxJS
5 2 (4.08%) XML
5 2 (4.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) PKI
2 5 (10.20%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.16%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.16%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.04%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.04%) FMCG
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Linux
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (6.12%) Unix
5 2 (4.08%) Android
6 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.04%) CentOS
6 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) DevOps
2 15 (30.61%) Agile
3 13 (26.53%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.33%) Cloud Security
4 8 (16.33%) Key Management
5 7 (14.29%) Cryptography
5 7 (14.29%) Microservices
6 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) Information Security
7 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.20%) Secure Coding
7 5 (10.20%) Server Management
7 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
8 4 (8.16%) Data Protection
8 4 (8.16%) OWASP
8 4 (8.16%) Project Management
8 4 (8.16%) Release Management
8 4 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (8.16%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.16%) C#
2 4 (8.16%) SQL
3 3 (6.12%) ActionScript
3 3 (6.12%) ActionScript 2.0
3 3 (6.12%) Bash
3 3 (6.12%) Java
3 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.12%) Python
4 2 (4.08%) Bicep
4 2 (4.08%) Kotlin
4 2 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.04%) C
5 1 (2.04%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.08%) GIAC
6 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.04%) CCDP
6 1 (2.04%) CISM
6 1 (2.04%) CISSP
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.04%) Degree
6 1 (2.04%) SANS
6 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) GDPR
2 6 (12.24%) NIST
3 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.16%) SOC 2
4 3 (6.12%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.08%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (4.08%) NIST 800
5 2 (4.08%) QA
6 1 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.16%) Hyper-V
2 4 (8.16%) vSphere
3 3 (6.12%) Docker
4 1 (2.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.24%) Terraform
3 4 (8.16%) Ansible
3 4 (8.16%) Grafana
3 4 (8.16%) Tivoli
4 3 (6.12%) OPNET
4 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.04%) CASB
6 1 (2.04%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.04%) Puppet
6 1 (2.04%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) Cisco
3 6 (12.24%) F5
4 5 (10.20%) CheckPoint
4 5 (10.20%) Citrix
4 5 (10.20%) Palo Alto
5 4 (8.16%) SolarWinds
5 4 (8.16%) Veeam
5 4 (8.16%) VMware
6 3 (6.12%) IBM
6 3 (6.12%) Juniper
6 3 (6.12%) Splunk
7 2 (4.08%) Aruba
7 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
7 2 (4.08%) Blue Coat
7 2 (4.08%) Forcepoint
7 2 (4.08%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (4.08%) Oracle
7 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow