Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 473 527
Rank change year-on-year +109 +54 -105
Contract jobs citing SSL 215 235 354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.41% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.99% 3.32% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 177 223
10th Percentile £400 £381 £400
25th Percentile £451 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £743 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +20.60% -0.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile £40.40 £57.75 £43.85
25th Percentile - £62.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £45.88 £63.23 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% +20.44% -0.94%
75th Percentile - £69.61 £56.25
90th Percentile £58.10 £78.79 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £62.62 £57.50
% change year-on-year -26.73% +8.90% +8.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,394 7,082 9,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 12.40% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,571 6,235
10th Percentile £205 £235 £232
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 464 368
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -8.99%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSL over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSL in the UK

SSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SSL over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SSL in the UK

SSL
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 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
England +109 192 £600 +9.09% 40
UK excluding London +90 128 £600 +20.60% 25
South East +92 89 £625 +6.38% 10
Work from Home +74 80 £625 +11.61% 16
London +71 68 £575 -4.17% 14
North of England -1 17 £434 -10.70% 5
Yorkshire +24 12 £434 -38.00% 3
Scotland +46 10 £540 -1.82% 3
Midlands +29 6 £675 +51.69%
West Midlands +16 6 £675 +51.69%
North West -5 5 - - 2
East of England +13 4 £290 -58.57% 4
South West +7 2 £500 -9.09% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.58%) WebSphere
2 8 (3.72%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (3.26%) Confluence
3 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.26%) WebLogic
4 6 (2.79%) Apache
4 6 (2.79%) CMS
5 4 (1.86%) nginx
5 4 (1.86%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.40%) Drupal
6 3 (1.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.47%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.47%) IIS
7 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.47%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (1.40%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 74 (34.42%) Azure
2 67 (31.16%) AWS
3 10 (4.65%) GitHub
4 9 (4.19%) GCP
5 8 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.86%) Firebase
7 4 (1.86%) Flurry Analytics
7 4 (1.86%) PaaS
7 4 (1.86%) PubNub
7 4 (1.86%) SaaS
7 4 (1.86%) Serverless
8 3 (1.40%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (1.40%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (1.40%) Apigee
8 3 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.40%) IaaS
8 3 (1.40%) Kong
8 3 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (21.40%) Firewall
2 41 (19.07%) BGP
3 35 (16.28%) MPLS
4 31 (14.42%) HTTP
4 31 (14.42%) VPN
4 31 (14.42%) WAN
5 30 (13.95%) DNS
6 27 (12.56%) TCP/IP
7 26 (12.09%) Cisco Firepower
8 18 (8.37%) IPsec
9 17 (7.91%) Network Security
10 12 (5.58%) OSPF
11 11 (5.12%) SNMP
12 8 (3.72%) DHCP
12 8 (3.72%) VLAN
13 7 (3.26%) FTP
13 7 (3.26%) SMTP
13 7 (3.26%) SSH
14 6 (2.79%) HSRP
14 6 (2.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.79%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.86%) Mixpanel
3 3 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.40%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.40%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (14.42%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.91%) Git
3 12 (5.58%) JIRA
4 7 (3.26%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (2.33%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.33%) Selenium
6 4 (1.86%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.86%) GitLab
6 4 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.40%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.40%) gulp
7 3 (1.40%) Maven
7 3 (1.40%) Postman
7 3 (1.40%) Subversion
7 3 (1.40%) Travis CI
8 2 (0.93%) JMeter
General
1 42 (19.53%) Finance
2 30 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.19%) Banking
6 7 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.86%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.40%) Electronics
9 3 (1.40%) Marketing
10 2 (0.93%) Automotive
10 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.47%) French Language
11 1 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 91 (42.33%) Architect
2 27 (12.56%) Network Architect
3 17 (7.91%) Senior
4 15 (6.98%) Network Engineer
5 11 (5.12%) Developer
5 11 (5.12%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (5.12%) Linux Server Engineer
5 11 (5.12%) Server Engineer
6 10 (4.65%) Security Architect
7 9 (4.19%) Lead
8 8 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.26%) Applications Specialist
9 7 (3.26%) Consultant
9 7 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.26%) Server Specialist
9 7 (3.26%) WebSphere Server Specialist
9 7 (3.26%) WebSphere Specialist
10 6 (2.79%) Administrator
10 6 (2.79%) Mainframe Architect
11 5 (2.33%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.00%) Web Services
2 12 (5.58%) Kafka
3 9 (4.19%) RESTful
3 9 (4.19%) SAML
3 9 (4.19%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (3.72%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (3.72%) LDAP
4 8 (3.72%) OAuth
5 7 (3.26%) JSON
5 7 (3.26%) XML
6 6 (2.79%) OpenID
7 5 (2.33%) .NET
8 4 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.86%) JWT
8 4 (1.86%) WebSockets
8 4 (1.86%) YAML
9 3 (1.40%) Jinja
9 3 (1.40%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.40%) NETCONF
9 3 (1.40%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 64 (29.77%) PKI
2 22 (10.23%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.58%) DataPower
4 11 (5.12%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.79%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.40%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.40%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.40%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.93%) Shadow IT
10 1 (0.47%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 55 (25.58%) Linux
2 28 (13.02%) Windows
3 11 (5.12%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.65%) Unix
5 7 (3.26%) Android
6 4 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.93%) VMS
9 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (20.47%) Key Management
2 43 (20.00%) Cryptography
3 33 (15.35%) CI/CD
4 28 (13.02%) DevOps
5 27 (12.56%) Agile
5 27 (12.56%) Network Management
6 26 (12.09%) Customer Requirements
6 26 (12.09%) Network Design
6 26 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
7 22 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (8.84%) ITIL
9 17 (7.91%) Change Management
10 14 (6.51%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (6.51%) Migration
11 13 (6.05%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (6.05%) Kalman Filter
12 11 (5.12%) Test Automation
13 10 (4.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (4.19%) Kanban
14 9 (4.19%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.77%) Python
2 12 (5.58%) Java
3 9 (4.19%) Bash
3 9 (4.19%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.33%) Shell Script
6 4 (1.86%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.40%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.93%) Perl
8 2 (0.93%) SQL
9 1 (0.47%) ABAP
9 1 (0.47%) Groovy
9 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 97 (45.12%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.51%) Degree
3 47 (21.86%) DV Cleared
4 44 (20.47%) SC Cleared
5 15 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.65%) CCNP
7 9 (4.19%) MCSE
7 9 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.33%) CCIE
8 5 (2.33%) CCNA
8 5 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.93%) CISA
11 2 (0.93%) CISM
11 2 (0.93%) CISSP
11 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.65%) QA
2 4 (1.86%) NCSC
3 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.93%) SLA
4 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (26.05%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.26%) Docker
3 6 (2.79%) RACF
4 5 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.86%) Firmware
5 4 (1.86%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.86%) vSphere
6 3 (1.40%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.93%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.93%) XenApp
8 1 (0.47%) Postfix
8 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (13.49%) Ansible
2 26 (12.09%) Endace
3 15 (6.98%) Progress Chef
3 15 (6.98%) Puppet
4 9 (4.19%) Terraform
5 8 (3.72%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.79%) zSecure
7 5 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.86%) Grafana
8 4 (1.86%) SCCM
9 3 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.40%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.40%) Kibana
9 3 (1.40%) logstash
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.93%) Packer
11 1 (0.47%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 42 (19.53%) Cisco
2 33 (15.35%) Juniper
3 31 (14.42%) F5
4 28 (13.02%) IBM
5 19 (8.84%) Microsoft
6 14 (6.51%) Palo Alto
7 12 (5.58%) ServiceNow
8 11 (5.12%) Oracle
9 8 (3.72%) Solace
10 6 (2.79%) Citrix
10 6 (2.79%) SAP
10 6 (2.79%) Splunk
10 6 (2.79%) VMware
11 5 (2.33%) Aruba
12 4 (1.86%) Google
12 4 (1.86%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.86%) Zscaler
13 3 (1.40%) Sage
13 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
13 3 (1.40%) Symantec