SSL Contracts in London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 337 391 429
Rank change year-on-year +54 +38 -44
Contract jobs citing SSL 63 91 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.36% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.79% 3.54% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 72 124
10th Percentile £355 £425 £450
25th Percentile £456 £469 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +8.51% +17.50%
75th Percentile £743 £664 £671
90th Percentile £795 £768 £693
England median daily rate £600 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.00
Median hourly rate - £83.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - +80.43% -
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £63.23 £51.75
% change year-on-year -27.44% +22.18% +11.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,664 2,568 3,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.41% 10.21% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,808 2,579
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +12.82%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 90
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +36.60% -43.48%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £43.29
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £63.39
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in London

SSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in London

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +29 5 £638 +10.87% 10
West London +22 2 £450 -32.84% 1
SSL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (9.52%) WebSphere
2 4 (6.35%) Tomcat
2 4 (6.35%) WebLogic
2 4 (6.35%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (4.76%) Apache
3 3 (4.76%) JBoss
3 3 (4.76%) nginx
4 1 (1.59%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.59%) IIS
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.59%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.22%) AWS
2 8 (12.70%) Azure
3 5 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (7.94%) Amazon S3
3 5 (7.94%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (7.94%) AWS KMS
3 5 (7.94%) GitHub
4 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (6.35%) Firebase
4 4 (6.35%) Flurry Analytics
4 4 (6.35%) PubNub
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.76%) SaaS
6 2 (3.17%) IaaS
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.59%) PaaS
7 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (28.57%) Firewall
2 17 (26.98%) TCP/IP
3 16 (25.40%) HTTP
4 12 (19.05%) DNS
4 12 (19.05%) Network Security
4 12 (19.05%) VPN
5 10 (15.87%) IPsec
6 9 (14.29%) BGP
6 9 (14.29%) OSPF
7 7 (11.11%) Kerberos
8 5 (7.94%) SNMP
8 5 (7.94%) SSH
9 4 (6.35%) DHCP
9 4 (6.35%) Wireless
10 3 (4.76%) FTP
10 3 (4.76%) HTTPS
10 3 (4.76%) LAN
10 3 (4.76%) MPLS
10 3 (4.76%) SMTP
10 3 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Mixpanel
1 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (34.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.52%) Git
3 4 (6.35%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 17 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Finance
3 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.35%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.76%) Electronics
5 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.76%) Marketing
5 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (17.46%) Architect
1 11 (17.46%) Linux Engineer
1 11 (17.46%) Linux Server Engineer
1 11 (17.46%) Server Engineer
2 8 (12.70%) Network Engineer
2 8 (12.70%) Security Architect
3 7 (11.11%) Developer
4 6 (9.52%) Mainframe Architect
5 5 (7.94%) Senior
6 4 (6.35%) Android Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Applications Specialist
6 4 (6.35%) Lead
6 4 (6.35%) Server Specialist
6 4 (6.35%) WebSphere Server Specialist
6 4 (6.35%) WebSphere Specialist
7 3 (4.76%) Implementation Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) Kafka
2 5 (7.94%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (4.76%) IBM Integration Bus
3 3 (4.76%) OAuth
3 3 (4.76%) OpenID
3 3 (4.76%) SAML
4 2 (3.17%) Jinja
4 2 (3.17%) JSON
4 2 (3.17%) NETCONF
4 2 (3.17%) RESTful
4 2 (3.17%) SPML
4 2 (3.17%) XML
4 2 (3.17%) YANG
5 1 (1.59%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.59%) Next.js
5 1 (1.59%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.59%) Web Services
5 1 (1.59%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.40%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.52%) DataPower
2 6 (9.52%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.35%) PKI
4 3 (4.76%) Replication
5 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) Blog
6 1 (1.59%) Clustering
6 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (39.68%) Linux
2 9 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (14.29%) Unix
3 8 (12.70%) Windows
4 4 (6.35%) Android
5 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
2 9 (14.29%) DevOps
3 8 (12.70%) Migration
3 8 (12.70%) Security Architecture
4 5 (7.94%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (7.94%) Server Management
4 5 (7.94%) Test Automation
5 4 (6.35%) Android Development
5 4 (6.35%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (6.35%) Configuration Management
5 4 (6.35%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (6.35%) TDD
5 4 (6.35%) Unit Testing
6 3 (4.76%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (4.76%) Incident Management
6 3 (4.76%) Programme Management
6 3 (4.76%) Software Engineering
6 3 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) Python
1 10 (15.87%) Shell Script
2 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.35%) Java
3 4 (6.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) DV Cleared
1 11 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.11%) CCNP
2 7 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.76%) CCIE
4 2 (3.17%) CISA
4 2 (3.17%) CISM
4 2 (3.17%) CISSP
4 2 (3.17%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (3.17%) NCSC
3 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.11%) Docker
3 6 (9.52%) RACF
4 3 (4.76%) Terminal Services
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.17%) XenApp
6 1 (1.59%) Terminal Server
6 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) Progress Chef
1 11 (17.46%) Puppet
2 8 (12.70%) Ansible
2 8 (12.70%) Terraform
3 7 (11.11%) Packer
4 6 (9.52%) Grafana
4 6 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 6 (9.52%) zSecure
5 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.17%) Argo
7 2 (3.17%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) IBM
2 9 (14.29%) Cisco
3 8 (12.70%) Palo Alto
3 8 (12.70%) Red Hat
4 6 (9.52%) Confluent
4 6 (9.52%) Oracle
5 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.76%) Citrix
6 3 (4.76%) SAP
6 3 (4.76%) Temenos
7 2 (3.17%) Aruba
7 2 (3.17%) CA
7 2 (3.17%) Juniper
7 2 (3.17%) Meraki
8 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.59%) Sage
8 1 (1.59%) VMware
8 1 (1.59%) Zscaler