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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 355 399
Rank change year-on-year +83 +44 -73
Contract jobs citing SSL 126 92 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.82% 2.59% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 67 59
10th Percentile £385 £313 £363
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.60% -0.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £598
90th Percentile - £693 £636
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile £40.40 £56.68 -
25th Percentile - £62.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £45.88 £62.62 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.73% +8.90% +8.49%
75th Percentile - £63.23 £58.75
90th Percentile £58.10 £69.61 -
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £63.23 £52.50
% change year-on-year -27.44% +20.44% -0.94%

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 3,295 3,548 4,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.80% 15.48% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,866 2,221 2,761
10th Percentile £205 £210 £188
25th Percentile £350 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £550
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 300 237
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.37
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.05
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.13 £47.50
90th Percentile £71.01 £75.00 £59.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

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 2 June 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

SSL
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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +76 85 £625 +7.53% 7
North of England +11 17 £434 -10.70% 5
Yorkshire +25 12 £434 -38.00% 1
Scotland +35 9 £525 -4.55% 1
Midlands +23 6 £675 +58.82% 6
West Midlands +13 6 £675 +58.82% 5
East of England +6 5 £290 -47.27% 2
North West -6 5 - - 4
Wales +16 2 £550 +27.54% 3
South West 0 2 £500 -9.09% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
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 7 (5.56%) CMS
2 6 (4.76%) Confluence
3 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (3.17%) Apache
5 3 (2.38%) Drupal
6 1 (0.79%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 56 (44.44%) Azure
2 51 (40.48%) AWS
3 8 (6.35%) GCP
4 5 (3.97%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.17%) GitHub
5 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.17%) Serverless
6 3 (2.38%) Apigee
6 3 (2.38%) Kong
6 3 (2.38%) PaaS
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.59%) Catchpoint
7 2 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.79%) IaaS
8 1 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (23.81%) BGP
1 30 (23.81%) MPLS
2 27 (21.43%) WAN
3 26 (20.63%) Cisco Firepower
4 18 (14.29%) Firewall
5 14 (11.11%) DNS
6 11 (8.73%) HTTP
7 9 (7.14%) VPN
8 8 (6.35%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.97%) FTP
9 5 (3.97%) IPsec
9 5 (3.97%) SAN
9 5 (3.97%) SMTP
10 4 (3.17%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (3.17%) iSCSI
10 4 (3.17%) NAS
10 4 (3.17%) SNMP
10 4 (3.17%) VLAN
10 4 (3.17%) VoIP
11 3 (2.38%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 13 (10.32%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.94%) Git
3 9 (7.14%) JIRA
4 5 (3.97%) Bitbucket
4 5 (3.97%) Selenium
5 3 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (2.38%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.38%) GitLab
5 3 (2.38%) gulp
5 3 (2.38%) Maven
5 3 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.38%) Subversion
5 3 (2.38%) Travis CI
6 2 (1.59%) JMeter
General
1 26 (20.63%) Finance
2 12 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.56%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.38%) Banking
6 2 (1.59%) Automotive
6 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.79%) Advertising
7 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.79%) Local Government
7 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (60.32%) Architect
2 26 (20.63%) Network Architect
3 8 (6.35%) Senior
4 5 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (3.97%) Network Engineer
4 5 (3.97%) Senior Architect
4 5 (3.97%) Senior Network Architect
5 4 (3.17%) Analyst
5 4 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 4 (3.17%) Developer
5 4 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (3.17%) Lead
5 4 (3.17%) Security Specialist
5 4 (3.17%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (2.38%) Designer
6 3 (2.38%) Junior
6 3 (2.38%) Junior Analyst
7 2 (1.59%) Consultant
7 2 (1.59%) Security Architect
7 2 (1.59%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (30.95%) Web Services
2 10 (7.94%) Kafka
3 6 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (3.97%) .NET
4 5 (3.97%) LDAP
4 5 (3.97%) RESTful
5 4 (3.17%) OAuth
5 4 (3.17%) SAML
6 3 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.38%) JDBC
6 3 (2.38%) JPA
6 3 (2.38%) JSON
6 3 (2.38%) JWT
6 3 (2.38%) Node.js
6 3 (2.38%) OpenID
6 3 (2.38%) Spring
6 3 (2.38%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.38%) XML
6 3 (2.38%) YAML
7 2 (1.59%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 55 (43.65%) PKI
2 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.97%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (3.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.17%) Cyberattack
4 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.38%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.59%) Replication
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.79%) IoT
7 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.22%) Linux
2 17 (13.49%) Windows
3 7 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.97%) Unix
5 3 (2.38%) Android
5 3 (2.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (32.54%) Key Management
2 40 (31.75%) Cryptography
3 26 (20.63%) Network Design
3 26 (20.63%) Network Management
4 25 (19.84%) Customer Requirements
4 25 (19.84%) Technical Leadership
5 20 (15.87%) Agile
6 18 (14.29%) DevOps
7 16 (12.70%) ITIL
8 14 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 12 (9.52%) Change Management
9 12 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (6.35%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (4.76%) DevSecOps
12 6 (4.76%) ITSM
12 6 (4.76%) Kalman Filter
12 6 (4.76%) Kanban
12 6 (4.76%) Migration
12 6 (4.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.73%) Python
2 6 (4.76%) Java
3 4 (3.17%) Bash
4 3 (2.38%) ActionScript
4 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 50 (39.68%) Degree
3 44 (34.92%) SC Cleared
4 36 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 9 (7.14%) MCSE
5 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.97%) CCNA
7 5 (3.97%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.59%) CCIE
9 2 (1.59%) CCNP
9 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (36.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.17%) Firmware
2 4 (3.17%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.17%) vSphere
3 3 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (20.63%) Endace
2 16 (12.70%) Ansible
3 5 (3.97%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.17%) SCCM
5 3 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (2.38%) Grafana
5 3 (2.38%) Kibana
5 3 (2.38%) logstash
5 3 (2.38%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.38%) Puppet
5 3 (2.38%) Terraform
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 30 (23.81%) Cisco
1 30 (23.81%) F5
1 30 (23.81%) Juniper
2 10 (7.94%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.56%) Splunk
5 6 (4.76%) IBM
5 6 (4.76%) Solace
6 5 (3.97%) Google
6 5 (3.97%) Oracle
7 4 (3.17%) Darktrace
7 4 (3.17%) FireEye
7 4 (3.17%) IronPort
7 4 (3.17%) LogRhythm
7 4 (3.17%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.17%) Symantec
7 4 (3.17%) VMware
8 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.59%) Sage
9 2 (1.59%) SAP