SSL Contracts

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 466 512
Rank change year-on-year +70 +46 -78
Contract jobs citing SSL 211 234 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.42% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.90% 3.31% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 179 240
10th Percentile £378 £378 £405
25th Percentile £453 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £743 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +23.46% -2.80% +16.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile £40.40 £57.75 £43.85
25th Percentile - £62.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £45.88 £63.23 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% +20.44% -0.94%
75th Percentile - £69.61 £56.25
90th Percentile £47.60 £78.79 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £62.62 £57.50
% change year-on-year -26.73% +8.90% +8.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,412 7,077 9,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 12.74% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,208 4,557 6,456
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 446 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +6.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.76% -13.95% -2.27%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSL.

Daily rate trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the UK

SSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSL.

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +119 192 £600 +14.29% 40
UK excluding London +79 127 £600 +23.46% 26
South East +86 85 £625 +13.64% 4
Work from Home +53 75 £624 +12.34% 27
London +64 70 £575 -9.80% 11
North of England +8 18 £434 -10.70% 3
Yorkshire +16 12 £434 -38.00% 1
Scotland +29 8 £540 -1.82%
Midlands +20 6 £675 +58.82% 8
West Midlands +11 6 £675 +58.82% 6
East of England 0 6 £290 -43.41% 3
North West -8 6 - - 2
Wales +18 2 £550 +29.41% 2
South West +3 2 £500 -14.89% 6
Northern Ireland +3 2 - -

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (5.69%) WebSphere
2 9 (4.27%) Apache
3 8 (3.79%) CMS
3 8 (3.79%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (3.32%) WebLogic
5 6 (2.84%) Confluence
6 4 (1.90%) nginx
6 4 (1.90%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.42%) Drupal
7 3 (1.42%) JBoss
8 1 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.47%) IIS
8 1 (0.47%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (1.42%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 66 (31.28%) AWS
2 64 (30.33%) Azure
3 9 (4.27%) GitHub
4 8 (3.79%) GCP
5 6 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.37%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (2.37%) AWS KMS
7 4 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.90%) Firebase
7 4 (1.90%) Flurry Analytics
7 4 (1.90%) PaaS
7 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.90%) PubNub
7 4 (1.90%) SaaS
7 4 (1.90%) Serverless
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 41 (19.43%) BGP
1 41 (19.43%) Firewall
2 34 (16.11%) MPLS
3 31 (14.69%) WAN
4 29 (13.74%) DNS
5 28 (13.27%) HTTP
6 27 (12.80%) VPN
7 26 (12.32%) Cisco Firepower
7 26 (12.32%) TCP/IP
8 18 (8.53%) IPsec
9 17 (8.06%) Network Security
10 12 (5.69%) OSPF
11 10 (4.74%) FTP
11 10 (4.74%) SNMP
12 9 (4.27%) SMTP
13 8 (3.79%) DHCP
13 8 (3.79%) Kerberos
13 8 (3.79%) VLAN
14 7 (3.32%) SSH
15 6 (2.84%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.32%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.90%) Mixpanel
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.95%) MySQL
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (17.06%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.06%) Git
3 9 (4.27%) JIRA
4 7 (3.32%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (2.37%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.37%) Selenium
6 4 (1.90%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.90%) GitLab
6 4 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.42%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.42%) gulp
7 3 (1.42%) Maven
7 3 (1.42%) Subversion
7 3 (1.42%) Travis CI
8 2 (0.95%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
General
1 43 (20.38%) Finance
2 27 (12.80%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.64%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.27%) Banking
6 5 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.37%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Electronics
8 3 (1.42%) Marketing
9 2 (0.95%) Automotive
9 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Advertising
10 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) French Language
10 1 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 87 (41.23%) Architect
2 27 (12.80%) Network Architect
3 17 (8.06%) Senior
4 14 (6.64%) Network Engineer
5 11 (5.21%) Developer
5 11 (5.21%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (5.21%) Linux Server Engineer
5 11 (5.21%) Server Engineer
6 10 (4.74%) Security Architect
7 9 (4.27%) Lead
8 8 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.32%) Administrator
9 7 (3.32%) Applications Specialist
9 7 (3.32%) Server Specialist
9 7 (3.32%) WebSphere Server Specialist
9 7 (3.32%) WebSphere Specialist
10 6 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.84%) Mainframe Architect
11 5 (2.37%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.37%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.96%) Web Services
2 19 (9.00%) Kafka
3 9 (4.27%) LDAP
3 9 (4.27%) RESTful
3 9 (4.27%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (3.79%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (3.79%) JSON
4 8 (3.79%) OAuth
4 8 (3.79%) SAML
4 8 (3.79%) XML
5 6 (2.84%) OpenID
6 5 (2.37%) .NET
7 4 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.90%) JWT
7 4 (1.90%) WebSockets
7 4 (1.90%) YAML
8 3 (1.42%) Jinja
8 3 (1.42%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.42%) NETCONF
8 3 (1.42%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 59 (27.96%) PKI
2 22 (10.43%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.69%) DataPower
4 11 (5.21%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (2.84%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.37%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.37%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.37%) Replication
7 4 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.42%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.42%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.95%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 58 (27.49%) Linux
2 28 (13.27%) Windows
3 14 (6.64%) Unix
4 10 (4.74%) Windows Server
5 9 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.32%) Android
7 3 (1.42%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (19.43%) Key Management
2 40 (18.96%) Cryptography
3 32 (15.17%) CI/CD
4 30 (14.22%) DevOps
5 26 (12.32%) Customer Requirements
5 26 (12.32%) Network Design
5 26 (12.32%) Network Management
6 25 (11.85%) Technical Leadership
7 21 (9.95%) Agile
8 20 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (8.06%) Change Management
9 17 (8.06%) ITIL
10 14 (6.64%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (6.64%) Migration
11 12 (5.69%) Kalman Filter
12 9 (4.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (4.27%) Test Automation
12 9 (4.27%) Validation
13 8 (3.79%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.37%) Python
2 12 (5.69%) Java
3 10 (4.74%) Shell Script
4 9 (4.27%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.84%) Bash
6 4 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.90%) Kotlin
6 4 (1.90%) SQL
7 3 (1.42%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.47%) ABAP
8 1 (0.47%) C#
8 1 (0.47%) Groovy
8 1 (0.47%) Perl
8 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 97 (45.97%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.64%) Degree
3 48 (22.75%) DV Cleared
4 44 (20.85%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.11%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.74%) CCNP
7 8 (3.79%) MCSE
7 8 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.37%) CCIE
8 5 (2.37%) CCNA
9 4 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.95%) CISA
10 2 (0.95%) CISM
10 2 (0.95%) CISSP
10 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.74%) QA
2 6 (2.84%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.42%) NCSC
4 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.95%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 57 (27.01%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.69%) Docker
3 6 (2.84%) RACF
4 5 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.90%) Firmware
5 4 (1.90%) vSphere
6 3 (1.42%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.42%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.95%) XenApp
8 1 (0.47%) Postfix
8 1 (0.47%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (12.80%) Ansible
2 26 (12.32%) Endace
3 15 (7.11%) Progress Chef
3 15 (7.11%) Puppet
4 13 (6.16%) Terraform
5 10 (4.74%) Kubernetes
5 10 (4.74%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.27%) Grafana
7 7 (3.32%) Packer
8 6 (2.84%) zSecure
9 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.42%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.42%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.42%) Kibana
10 3 (1.42%) logstash
10 3 (1.42%) SCCM
11 2 (0.95%) Argo
11 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.47%) OpenVAS
12 1 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 41 (19.43%) Cisco
2 33 (15.64%) Juniper
3 30 (14.22%) F5
4 27 (12.80%) IBM
5 17 (8.06%) Microsoft
6 14 (6.64%) Palo Alto
7 11 (5.21%) Oracle
7 11 (5.21%) ServiceNow
8 9 (4.27%) Splunk
9 8 (3.79%) Red Hat
9 8 (3.79%) Solace
10 7 (3.32%) Confluent
11 6 (2.84%) SAP
12 5 (2.37%) Aruba
12 5 (2.37%) Citrix
12 5 (2.37%) FireEye
12 5 (2.37%) Google
12 5 (2.37%) LogRhythm
12 5 (2.37%) Symantec
12 5 (2.37%) VMware