SSL Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 86 100
Rank change year-on-year -30 +14 +36
Contract jobs citing SSL 15 12 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.83% 0.88% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.21% 6.15% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £500 £549 £346
25th Percentile £506 £549 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +57.14% -23.66%
75th Percentile £688 £656 -
90th Percentile £693 £720 £413
England median daily rate £575 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +36.84% -28.01% +14.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 208 195 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.52% 14.29% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 108 164
10th Percentile £203 £172 £193
25th Percentile £328 £222 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £423 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.09% -6.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £544 £556 £588
90th Percentile £638 £654 £675
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile - £11.97 £16.17
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.30 £17.22
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +4.07%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £45.15 - £30.32
England median hourly rate £33.39 £50.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -33.23% -11.49% +25.53%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

SSL job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SSL
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SSL

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in Yorkshire

SSL
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SSL

SSL
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
West Yorkshire -13 9 £500 -
South Yorkshire -38 5 £675 +6.00% 1
SSL
England

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) TPMS
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (46.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Firewall
1 9 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 9 (60.00%) VPN
2 8 (53.33%) DNS
3 6 (40.00%) Network Security
4 4 (26.67%) SNMP
4 4 (26.67%) SSH
5 2 (13.33%) IPsec
6 1 (6.67%) BGP
6 1 (6.67%) Internet
6 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
6 1 (6.67%) LAN
6 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (53.33%) Git
3 6 (40.00%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) Log4j
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Cryptography Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) JDBC
2 1 (6.67%) JMS
2 1 (6.67%) JNDI
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 7 (46.67%) Observability
3 6 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 6 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Cryptography
5 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (26.67%) Data Security
5 4 (26.67%) High Availability
5 4 (26.67%) OWASP
5 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) SIEM
6 3 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) FFIEC
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) GDPR
1 6 (40.00%) NIST
2 4 (26.67%) GLBA
2 4 (26.67%) PCI DSS
3 2 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Ansible
1 8 (53.33%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
3 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (13.33%) Kustomize
4 2 (13.33%) Puppet
5 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Splunk
2 5 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 5 (33.33%) F5
2 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 3 (20.00%) Thales
4 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) TIBCO
4 1 (6.67%) Zscaler