SSL Contracts in Scotland

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring SSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 145 162
Rank change year-on-year +38 +17 -8
Contract jobs citing SSL 8 19 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.71% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.64% 5.28% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 11
10th Percentile £461 £485 £463
25th Percentile £478 £514 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +18.34%
75th Percentile £559 - £541
90th Percentile £561 £565 £545
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 360 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.27% 13.47% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 221 200
10th Percentile £179 £160 £224
25th Percentile £229 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £460 £470
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £633 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 19
10th Percentile £12.88 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.88 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.14 £10.63 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.60% -79.06% +40.06%
75th Percentile £29.56 £38.18 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.18 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Edinburgh +29 4 £488 -10.92% 1
Glasgow +10 4 £555 +0.91%
SSL
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Catchpoint
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) IPv6
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 3 (37.50%) Security Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (37.50%) PKI
3 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Email Filtering
3 3 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (25.00%) BCP
4 2 (25.00%) Compliance Management
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (50.00%) MCSE
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CCIE
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) AppNeta
1 2 (25.00%) Arista
1 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (25.00%) Sage
1 2 (25.00%) Tufin
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft