SSL Contracts in England

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 354 461 514
Rank change year-on-year +107 +53 -106
Contract jobs citing SSL 189 179 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.37% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.91% 2.99% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 139 177
10th Percentile £363 £350 £410
25th Percentile £440 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £701 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £40.40 £57.75 £43.43
25th Percentile - £62.00 £45.56
Median hourly rate £45.88 £63.23 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% +22.18% +11.29%
75th Percentile - £69.61 £56.56
90th Percentile £58.10 £78.79 £57.88
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
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,829 5,995 8,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.08% 12.56% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,897 3,907 5,307
10th Percentile £213 £240 £226
25th Percentile £350 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £646 £618
90th Percentile £697 £735 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 407 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.01 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £62.35
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SSL in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SSL in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the England 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% 6
London +73 69 £575 -8.00% 16
North of England +11 17 £434 -10.70% 5
Yorkshire +25 12 £434 -38.00% 1
Midlands +23 6 £675 +58.82% 7
West Midlands +13 6 £675 +58.82% 5
East of England +6 5 £290 -47.27% 2
North West -6 5 - - 4
South West 0 2 £500 -9.09% 6
SSL
UK

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.35%) WebSphere
2 8 (4.23%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (3.70%) CMS
3 7 (3.70%) WebLogic
4 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.65%) Apache
5 5 (2.65%) Confluence
6 4 (2.12%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.59%) Drupal
7 3 (1.59%) JBoss
7 3 (1.59%) nginx
8 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.53%) IIS
8 1 (0.53%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 64 (33.86%) AWS
2 59 (31.22%) Azure
3 7 (3.70%) GitHub
4 6 (3.17%) GCP
5 4 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (2.12%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (2.12%) AWS KMS
5 4 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.12%) Firebase
5 4 (2.12%) Flurry Analytics
5 4 (2.12%) PaaS
5 4 (2.12%) PubNub
5 4 (2.12%) SaaS
5 4 (2.12%) Serverless
6 3 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (1.59%) Kong
6 3 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (20.63%) BGP
2 33 (17.46%) MPLS
3 30 (15.87%) Firewall
3 30 (15.87%) WAN
4 27 (14.29%) HTTP
5 26 (13.76%) Cisco Firepower
6 25 (13.23%) TCP/IP
7 24 (12.70%) DNS
8 19 (10.05%) VPN
9 15 (7.94%) IPsec
10 13 (6.88%) Network Security
11 10 (5.29%) OSPF
12 9 (4.76%) SNMP
13 8 (4.23%) FTP
13 8 (4.23%) SMTP
14 7 (3.70%) Kerberos
14 7 (3.70%) SSH
14 7 (3.70%) VLAN
15 6 (3.17%) DHCP
15 6 (3.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.12%) Mixpanel
3 3 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.59%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.59%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 33 (17.46%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.94%) Git
3 9 (4.76%) JIRA
4 7 (3.70%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (2.65%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.65%) Selenium
6 3 (1.59%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.59%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.59%) GitLab
6 3 (1.59%) gulp
6 3 (1.59%) Maven
6 3 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.59%) Subversion
6 3 (1.59%) Travis CI
7 2 (1.06%) JMeter
General
1 42 (22.22%) Finance
2 26 (13.76%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.17%) Banking
6 5 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.65%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.12%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.59%) Electronics
8 3 (1.59%) Marketing
9 2 (1.06%) Automotive
9 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 87 (46.03%) Architect
2 27 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 13 (6.88%) Senior
4 12 (6.35%) Network Engineer
5 11 (5.82%) Developer
5 11 (5.82%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (5.82%) Linux Server Engineer
5 11 (5.82%) Server Engineer
6 10 (5.29%) Security Architect
7 9 (4.76%) Lead
8 7 (3.70%) Applications Specialist
8 7 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.70%) Server Specialist
8 7 (3.70%) WebSphere Server Specialist
8 7 (3.70%) WebSphere Specialist
9 6 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.17%) Mainframe Architect
10 5 (2.65%) Senior Architect
10 5 (2.65%) Senior Network Architect
11 4 (2.12%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (21.16%) Web Services
2 14 (7.41%) Kafka
3 9 (4.76%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (4.23%) OAuth
4 8 (4.23%) SAML
5 7 (3.70%) RESTful
6 6 (3.17%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (3.17%) JSON
6 6 (3.17%) OpenID
6 6 (3.17%) XML
7 5 (2.65%) .NET
7 5 (2.65%) LDAP
8 4 (2.12%) JWT
8 4 (2.12%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.12%) YAML
9 3 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.59%) IBM Integration Bus
9 3 (1.59%) JPA
9 3 (1.59%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 55 (29.10%) PKI
2 20 (10.58%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.35%) DataPower
4 10 (5.29%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.17%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (2.65%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.12%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.59%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.59%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Replication
9 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.53%) IoT
10 1 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 52 (27.51%) Linux
2 21 (11.11%) Windows
3 13 (6.88%) Unix
4 8 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.70%) Android
6 6 (3.17%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.59%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (21.69%) Key Management
2 40 (21.16%) Cryptography
3 29 (15.34%) CI/CD
4 26 (13.76%) Customer Requirements
4 26 (13.76%) DevOps
4 26 (13.76%) Network Design
4 26 (13.76%) Network Management
5 25 (13.23%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (7.94%) Agile
8 14 (7.41%) Migration
9 12 (6.35%) Change Management
9 12 (6.35%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (5.82%) ITIL
11 9 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (4.76%) Validation
12 8 (4.23%) Architectural Patterns
12 8 (4.23%) Security Architecture
13 7 (3.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.52%) Python
2 11 (5.82%) Java
3 9 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 4 (2.12%) Bash
4 4 (2.12%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.12%) Kotlin
5 3 (1.59%) ActionScript
6 2 (1.06%) SQL
7 1 (0.53%) ABAP
7 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 95 (50.26%) Security Cleared
2 47 (24.87%) Degree
2 47 (24.87%) DV Cleared
3 44 (23.28%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.35%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (3.70%) CCNP
6 5 (2.65%) CCNA
7 4 (2.12%) MCSE
7 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.59%) CCIE
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.06%) CISA
9 2 (1.06%) CISM
9 2 (1.06%) CISSP
9 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.29%) QA
2 5 (2.65%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.06%) NCSC
3 2 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (25.93%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.76%) Docker
3 6 (3.17%) RACF
4 5 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.12%) Firmware
5 4 (2.12%) vSphere
6 3 (1.59%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.06%) XenApp
8 1 (0.53%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (13.76%) Endace
2 23 (12.17%) Ansible
3 14 (7.41%) Progress Chef
3 14 (7.41%) Puppet
4 10 (5.29%) Terraform
5 8 (4.23%) Grafana
5 8 (4.23%) Kubernetes
5 8 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.17%) Packer
6 6 (3.17%) zSecure
7 4 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.59%) Kibana
8 3 (1.59%) logstash
9 2 (1.06%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.53%) Argo
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.53%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 39 (20.63%) Cisco
2 32 (16.93%) Juniper
3 30 (15.87%) F5
4 25 (13.23%) IBM
5 14 (7.41%) Microsoft
6 11 (5.82%) Oracle
7 10 (5.29%) Palo Alto
8 9 (4.76%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.70%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.70%) Splunk
10 6 (3.17%) SAP
10 6 (3.17%) Solace
11 5 (2.65%) Confluent
11 5 (2.65%) VMware
12 4 (2.12%) Darktrace
12 4 (2.12%) FireEye
12 4 (2.12%) IronPort
12 4 (2.12%) LogRhythm
12 4 (2.12%) Symantec
13 3 (1.59%) Salesforce