SSL Contracts in the North of England

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 167 167 230
Rank change year-on-year 0 +63 -63
Contract jobs citing SSL 18 35 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.64% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.19% 5.23% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 9
10th Percentile £421 £280 £411
25th Percentile £430 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £486 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.70% -15.48% +27.07%
75th Percentile £495 £499 £639
90th Percentile £627 £700 £646
England median daily rate £600 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £57.50
75th Percentile £46.60 - £58.75
90th Percentile £47.89 - -
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
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 565 669 938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.66% 12.29% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 445 658
10th Percentile £200 £206 £179
25th Percentile £313 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +2.22% +11.11%
75th Percentile £614 £568 £550
90th Percentile £775 £670 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 23
10th Percentile £13.31 - £10.67
25th Percentile £21.19 £9.80 £16.12
Median hourly rate £25.44 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +139.28% -39.74% +4.38%
75th Percentile £45.97 £16.67 £21.33
90th Percentile £48.75 £37.85 £51.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +18 12 £434 -38.00% 1
North West -6 6 - - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Apigee
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (16.67%) Kong
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) HTTP
2 4 (22.22%) DNS
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 4 (22.22%) VPN
3 3 (16.67%) BIG-IP
3 3 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (5.56%) DHCP
4 1 (5.56%) FTP
4 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (33.33%) JIRA
3 5 (27.78%) Git
4 3 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 3 (16.67%) CircleCI
4 3 (16.67%) GitLab
4 3 (16.67%) gulp
4 3 (16.67%) Maven
4 3 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (16.67%) Travis CI
5 1 (5.56%) Metasploit
General
1 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Designer
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Build Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Apigee Developer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (16.67%) JDBC
2 3 (16.67%) JPA
2 3 (16.67%) JSON
2 3 (16.67%) JWT
2 3 (16.67%) Node.js
2 3 (16.67%) OAuth
2 3 (16.67%) OpenID
2 3 (16.67%) RESTful
2 3 (16.67%) SAML
2 3 (16.67%) Spring
2 3 (16.67%) WebSockets
2 3 (16.67%) XML
2 3 (16.67%) YAML
3 2 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (5.56%) Middleware
4 1 (5.56%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Android
2 3 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Change Management
3 6 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 6 (33.33%) ITIL
3 6 (33.33%) ITSM
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
6 3 (16.67%) Project Management
6 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) Use Case
6 3 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) ActionScript
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (16.67%) Grafana
3 3 (16.67%) Kibana
3 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) logstash
3 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
4 1 (5.56%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) IBM
1 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 6 (33.33%) Solace
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 3 (16.67%) F5
3 3 (16.67%) Google
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) Sage
5 1 (5.56%) Cognizant
5 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.56%) Qualys