SSL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 363 402
Rank change year-on-year +99 +39 -74
Contract jobs citing SSL 129 88 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.37% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.81% 2.47% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 58 56
10th Percentile £378 £305 £313
25th Percentile £430 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £492 £480
Median % change year-on-year +22.01% +2.45% +12.94%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £521
90th Percentile £688 £700 £566
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £41.32 £56.68 £50.21
25th Percentile - £62.00 £51.22
Median hourly rate £45.88 £62.62 £53.52
Median % change year-on-year -26.73% +16.99% +0.98%
75th Percentile £61.16 £63.23 £56.45
90th Percentile £66.88 £69.61 £57.83
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
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,385 3,559 4,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.46% 14.90% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,940 2,259 2,651
10th Percentile £203 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 322 237
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £59.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
% change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SSL in the UK excluding London

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the UK excluding London

SSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SSL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SSL in the UK excluding London

SSL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
South East +93 88 £625 +6.38% 14
Scotland +47 16 £589 +7.78% 3
North of England +9 14 £431 -11.32% 8
Yorkshire +21 9 £431 -38.43% 5
Midlands +26 6 £675 +51.69% 4
West Midlands +20 6 £675 +51.69% 3
North West +5 5 - - 3
East of England +18 4 £290 -58.57% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
South West +11 1 - - 5
SSL
UK

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.65%) CMS
2 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.33%) Drupal
4 2 (1.55%) Apache
4 2 (1.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 54 (41.86%) Azure
2 51 (39.53%) AWS
3 4 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.10%) Serverless
4 3 (2.33%) Apigee
4 3 (2.33%) GCP
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.33%) PaaS
4 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.55%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (1.55%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.55%) Catchpoint
5 2 (1.55%) IaaS
5 2 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.78%) GitHub
6 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (23.26%) BGP
1 30 (23.26%) MPLS
2 27 (20.93%) WAN
3 25 (19.38%) Cisco Firepower
4 17 (13.18%) HTTP
5 15 (11.63%) Firewall
6 14 (10.85%) TCP/IP
7 11 (8.53%) DNS
8 7 (5.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 7 (5.43%) NetScaler
9 6 (4.65%) IPsec
9 6 (4.65%) SAN
9 6 (4.65%) VPN
10 4 (3.10%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (3.10%) FTP
10 4 (3.10%) iSCSI
10 4 (3.10%) NAS
10 4 (3.10%) SMTP
10 4 (3.10%) SNMP
10 4 (3.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (13.18%) Jenkins
2 16 (12.40%) Git
3 7 (5.43%) JIRA
4 5 (3.88%) Bitbucket
4 5 (3.88%) Selenium
5 3 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.33%) gulp
5 3 (2.33%) Maven
5 3 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.33%) Subversion
6 2 (1.55%) JMeter
General
1 28 (21.71%) Finance
2 13 (10.08%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.20%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.88%) Banking
7 2 (1.55%) Automotive
7 2 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Advertising
8 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.78%) Local Government
8 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (59.69%) Architect
2 25 (19.38%) Network Architect
3 11 (8.53%) Developer
4 7 (5.43%) Senior
5 6 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (4.65%) Network Engineer
5 6 (4.65%) Python Developer
6 5 (3.88%) Java Developer
6 5 (3.88%) Senior Architect
6 5 (3.88%) Senior Network Architect
7 4 (3.10%) Lead
8 3 (2.33%) Analyst
8 3 (2.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 3 (2.33%) Designer
8 3 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (2.33%) Linux Developer
8 3 (2.33%) Security Specialist
8 3 (2.33%) SOC Analyst
8 3 (2.33%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (31.78%) Web Services
2 8 (6.20%) Kafka
2 8 (6.20%) REST
3 7 (5.43%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (3.88%) .NET
5 5 (3.88%) RESTful
5 5 (3.88%) Twisted
6 4 (3.10%) LDAP
6 4 (3.10%) SAML
7 3 (2.33%) JDBC
7 3 (2.33%) JPA
7 3 (2.33%) JWT
7 3 (2.33%) Node.js
7 3 (2.33%) OAuth
7 3 (2.33%) OpenID
7 3 (2.33%) Spring
7 3 (2.33%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.55%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.55%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 57 (44.19%) PKI
2 7 (5.43%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.65%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.10%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.33%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.33%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.68%) Linux
2 15 (11.63%) Windows
3 14 (10.85%) Unix
4 6 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.33%) Android
5 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.55%) VMS
7 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.33%) Key Management
2 42 (32.56%) Cryptography
3 25 (19.38%) Network Design
3 25 (19.38%) Network Management
3 25 (19.38%) Technical Leadership
4 24 (18.60%) Customer Requirements
5 19 (14.73%) CI/CD
6 17 (13.18%) Agile
7 16 (12.40%) DevOps
8 15 (11.63%) ITIL
9 12 (9.30%) Change Management
10 11 (8.53%) Migration
11 9 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (6.98%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (6.20%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (4.65%) ITSM
13 6 (4.65%) Kanban
13 6 (4.65%) Load Balancing
13 6 (4.65%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.40%) Python
2 15 (11.63%) Java
3 10 (7.75%) Bash
4 9 (6.98%) Perl
5 8 (6.20%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (65.12%) Security Cleared
2 51 (39.53%) Degree
3 44 (34.11%) SC Cleared
4 36 (27.91%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.20%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (5.43%) MCSE
6 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.88%) CCNA
8 4 (3.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.55%) CCIE
10 2 (1.55%) CCNP
10 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) QA
2 2 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.55%) SLA
3 1 (0.78%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (36.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.10%) Firmware
2 4 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.10%) vSphere
3 3 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (19.38%) Endace
2 13 (10.08%) Ansible
3 3 (2.33%) SCCM
4 2 (1.55%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.55%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (26.36%) F5
2 30 (23.26%) Cisco
2 30 (23.26%) Juniper
3 10 (7.75%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.65%) IBM
5 6 (4.65%) Solace
6 5 (3.88%) Oracle
6 5 (3.88%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.10%) VMware
8 3 (2.33%) Darktrace
8 3 (2.33%) FireEye
8 3 (2.33%) Google
8 3 (2.33%) IronPort
8 3 (2.33%) LogRhythm
8 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.33%) Splunk
8 3 (2.33%) Symantec
9 2 (1.55%) AppNeta
9 2 (1.55%) Arista