Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SSL over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 629 697 670
Rank change year-on-year +68 -27 -74
Permanent jobs citing SSL 293 260 697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.27% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.17% 1.68% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 222 156 372
10th Percentile £34,550 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £71,563
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,364 £37,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +36.97% -28.57% -0.47%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSL.

Salary trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SSL in the UK

SSL
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +98 259 £52,500 -8.70% 43
UK excluding London +56 216 £51,364 +36.97% 27
Work from Home +72 148 £52,500 -16.00% 29
South East +61 87 £52,500 +41.89% 7
London +102 64 £75,000 +15.38% 16
North of England +79 64 £43,798 +16.79% 5
North West +47 49 £42,500 +11.11% 3
Midlands +11 27 £52,500 -16.00% 5
South West -26 17 £52,500 +61.54% 3
Yorkshire +79 16 £52,500 +31.25% 2
East Midlands - 14 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands +12 13 £54,000 -13.60% 4
Wales +11 10 £50,000 - 2
East of England -15 8 £54,500 +67.69% 5
Scotland -67 8 - - 2
North East -10 5 £62,500 +66.67%
Northern Ireland +18 4 - -

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 46 (15.70%) WebLogic
2 39 (13.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (12.63%) IIS
4 23 (7.85%) SharePoint
5 22 (7.51%) nginx
6 21 (7.17%) Apache
7 13 (4.44%) CMS
8 12 (4.10%) WordPress
9 8 (2.73%) Skype for Business
10 7 (2.39%) Confluence
11 6 (2.05%) JBoss
12 5 (1.71%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (15.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.71%) Sage X3
3 4 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (37.88%) Azure
2 98 (33.45%) AWS
3 60 (20.48%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (15.70%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (15.70%) Amazon SQS
5 15 (5.12%) SaaS
6 13 (4.44%) Entra ID
7 12 (4.10%) iTunes
8 10 (3.41%) IaaS
8 10 (3.41%) PaaS
9 9 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (2.39%) AWS Direct Connect
10 7 (2.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (2.39%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.05%) Datadog
12 4 (1.37%) GCP
12 4 (1.37%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.02%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 156 (53.24%) DNS
2 124 (42.32%) Firewall
3 111 (37.88%) TCP/IP
4 87 (29.69%) BGP
5 82 (27.99%) VPN
6 61 (20.82%) WAN
7 58 (19.80%) Network Security
8 55 (18.77%) LAN
9 45 (15.36%) DHCP
10 35 (11.95%) IPsec
11 34 (11.60%) OSPF
12 26 (8.87%) MPLS
13 25 (8.53%) HTTP
13 25 (8.53%) HTTPS
13 25 (8.53%) Wireless
14 23 (7.85%) Internet
14 23 (7.85%) VoIP
15 21 (7.17%) SNMP
16 20 (6.83%) SD-WAN
16 20 (6.83%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.41%) Relational Database
2 49 (16.72%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (16.04%) RDBMS
4 46 (15.70%) Oracle Database
5 39 (13.31%) SQL Server
6 17 (5.80%) MySQL
7 5 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (5.46%) Git
2 10 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.73%) Vagrant
4 7 (2.39%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.39%) JIRA
5 5 (1.71%) GitLab
5 5 (1.71%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.34%) Log4Net
6 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.34%) Selenium
6 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (8.87%) Finance
4 15 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.10%) Law
6 12 (4.10%) Marketing
7 10 (3.41%) Legal
8 9 (3.07%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.05%) Banking
9 6 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.37%) Aviation
10 4 (1.37%) Avionics
10 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.68%) Automotive
12 2 (0.68%) Electronics
12 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Police
13 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (28.67%) Lead
2 68 (23.21%) Architect
3 46 (15.70%) Lead Architect
3 46 (15.70%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 46 (15.70%) Network Engineer
3 46 (15.70%) Solutions Architect
4 42 (14.33%) Developer
5 37 (12.63%) Senior
6 24 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (7.17%) Analyst
8 20 (6.83%) IT Engineer
9 19 (6.48%) Lead Developer
9 19 (6.48%) Support Engineer
10 16 (5.46%) Security Analyst
11 13 (4.44%) Administrator
12 12 (4.10%) IT Support
12 12 (4.10%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) Project Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) Security Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.06%) RabbitMQ
2 47 (16.04%) HTML
3 46 (15.70%) Spring Boot
4 37 (12.63%) CSS
5 30 (10.24%) .NET
6 27 (9.22%) React
7 23 (7.85%) AngularJS
7 23 (7.85%) REST
8 22 (7.51%) ASP.NET
8 22 (7.51%) ASP.NET MVC
9 20 (6.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 19 (6.48%) jQuery
10 19 (6.48%) Tailwind CSS
10 19 (6.48%) Vue
10 19 (6.48%) WPF
11 17 (5.80%) 802.1X
11 17 (5.80%) XML
12 11 (3.75%) LDAP
13 10 (3.41%) SOAP
14 9 (3.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.06%) Public Cloud
2 47 (16.04%) Enterprise Software
3 39 (13.31%) Data Centre
4 36 (12.29%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (6.14%) Management Information System
5 18 (6.14%) Replication
6 11 (3.75%) PKI
7 10 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.73%) Client/Server
8 8 (2.73%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.73%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (2.39%) CMDB
9 7 (2.39%) EFT
9 7 (2.39%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.37%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (1.02%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 99 (33.79%) Linux
2 72 (24.57%) Windows
3 63 (21.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (9.90%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.44%) Unix
6 8 (2.73%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.73%) CentOS
6 8 (2.73%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.73%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.39%) Android
8 6 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (1.02%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (25.26%) Migration
2 73 (24.91%) Agile
3 67 (22.87%) Project Management
4 65 (22.18%) Load Balancing
5 56 (19.11%) Collaborative Working
6 55 (18.77%) Open Source
7 51 (17.41%) Scrum
8 48 (16.38%) SDLC
9 47 (16.04%) Kanban
10 46 (15.70%) Actionable Insight
10 46 (15.70%) ArchiMate
10 46 (15.70%) Cloud Operations
10 46 (15.70%) Data Migration
10 46 (15.70%) Re-Platforming
10 46 (15.70%) Systems Engineering
10 46 (15.70%) TOGAF
11 35 (11.95%) Information Security
12 34 (11.60%) ITIL
12 34 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (11.60%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 50 (17.06%) SQL
2 33 (11.26%) PowerShell
3 29 (9.90%) Python
4 27 (9.22%) C#
4 27 (9.22%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.48%) XAML
6 13 (4.44%) Bash
6 13 (4.44%) PHP
7 8 (2.73%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.39%) Java
9 3 (1.02%) C
9 3 (1.02%) C++
9 3 (1.02%) Ruby
10 2 (0.68%) AWK
10 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.34%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.34%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.34%) Go
11 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (28.67%) Security Cleared
2 75 (25.60%) SC Cleared
3 52 (17.75%) Azure Certification
4 47 (16.04%) AWS Certification
5 46 (15.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 38 (12.97%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (9.56%) Degree
8 17 (5.80%) CCNA
9 16 (5.46%) DV Cleared
10 15 (5.12%) CCNP
11 12 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (3.41%) MCSA
14 9 (3.07%) GIAC
15 7 (2.39%) CCIE
16 6 (2.05%) JNCIA
17 5 (1.71%) Citrix Certification
17 5 (1.71%) JNCIE
17 5 (1.71%) MCSE
17 5 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.05%) NIST
3 5 (1.71%) NCSC
3 5 (1.71%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.71%) SLA
4 3 (1.02%) COBIT
4 3 (1.02%) GRC
5 2 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 65 (22.18%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.46%) Docker
4 10 (3.41%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (3.07%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (2.05%) vSphere
8 4 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 24 (8.19%) Ansible
2 16 (5.46%) Puppet
2 16 (5.46%) Terraform
3 15 (5.12%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (4.78%) Progress Chef
5 11 (3.75%) SCCM
6 9 (3.07%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.73%) Kubernetes
8 7 (2.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (2.39%) Nagios
9 6 (2.05%) Endace
9 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.71%) Pingdom
10 5 (1.71%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.37%) HP UCMDB
11 4 (1.37%) WSUS
12 2 (0.68%) Backup Exec
12 2 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.68%) Foglight
12 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 64 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 59 (20.14%) Cisco
3 47 (16.04%) Oracle
4 46 (15.70%) Sparx
5 40 (13.65%) VMware
6 26 (8.87%) F5
7 24 (8.19%) Juniper
8 18 (6.14%) CheckPoint
8 18 (6.14%) Veeam
9 14 (4.78%) Fortinet
10 12 (4.10%) Citrix
10 12 (4.10%) SolarWinds
11 11 (3.75%) ServiceNow
12 10 (3.41%) HP
13 9 (3.07%) Google
13 9 (3.07%) Red Hat
13 9 (3.07%) Ribbon
14 7 (2.39%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.39%) Splunk
14 7 (2.39%) Tufin