SSL Contracts in the West Midlands

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 113 164
Rank change year-on-year +2 +51 -1
Contract jobs citing SSL 3 10 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.14% 2.31% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £415 £503
25th Percentile £454 £419 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £425 £585
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% -27.35% +20.00%
75th Percentile £461 £469 £625
90th Percentile - £488 -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +5.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 263 433 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.91% 22.00% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 230 271
10th Percentile £200 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £435
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.05% +3.76%
75th Percentile £616 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 20 7
10th Percentile £17.62 - £13.40
25th Percentile £26.25 £23.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.75 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +18.56% +52.90%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £26.06
90th Percentile £45.00 £67.63 £26.38
England median hourly rate £49.00 £56.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.26% +25.53% +117.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Birmingham +5 1 £458 -
SSL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
3 1 (33.33%) NGFW
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Debian
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Log Aggregation
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Nessus
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Sophos
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds