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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 614 679 731
Rank change year-on-year +65 +52 -134
Permanent jobs citing SSL 291 304 548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.14% 1.89% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 219 171 395
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,968 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £88,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,364 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +36.97% -25.00% -4.76%

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 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +91 254 £52,500 -12.50% 47
UK excluding London +60 212 £51,364 +36.97% 30
Work from Home +89 158 £54,000 -16.92% 38
South East +59 80 £52,500 +16.67% 12
North of England +86 68 £47,500 +26.67% 6
London +73 65 £75,000 +15.38% 16
North West +55 49 £42,500 +18.06% 4
Midlands +23 28 £52,500 -16.00% 2
Yorkshire +96 20 £57,500 +43.75% 2
West Midlands +27 14 £54,000 -13.60% 1
South West -2 14 £52,500 +64.06% 5
East Midlands - 14 £52,500 - 1
Wales +23 12 £50,000 - 1
Scotland -74 8 - - 2
East of England -3 7 £46,500 +32.86% 4
North East -7 5 £62,500 +66.67%
Northern Ireland +29 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 (15.81%) WebLogic
2 42 (14.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (12.71%) IIS
4 22 (7.56%) SharePoint
5 18 (6.19%) Apache
5 18 (6.19%) nginx
6 13 (4.47%) CMS
7 12 (4.12%) WordPress
8 11 (3.78%) Confluence
9 9 (3.09%) Tomcat
10 8 (2.75%) Skype for Business
11 3 (1.03%) JBoss
12 2 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
13 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 46 (15.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (2.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.72%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (38.83%) Azure
2 97 (33.33%) AWS
3 62 (21.31%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (15.81%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (15.81%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (7.56%) SaaS
6 15 (5.15%) Entra ID
7 12 (4.12%) IaaS
7 12 (4.12%) iTunes
8 10 (3.44%) PaaS
8 10 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (2.75%) GCP
10 7 (2.41%) AWS Direct Connect
10 7 (2.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (1.72%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.37%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.37%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.03%) Datadog
13 3 (1.03%) GitHub
13 3 (1.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 164 (56.36%) DNS
2 128 (43.99%) Firewall
3 118 (40.55%) TCP/IP
4 89 (30.58%) VPN
5 88 (30.24%) BGP
6 59 (20.27%) WAN
7 53 (18.21%) LAN
8 50 (17.18%) Network Security
9 49 (16.84%) DHCP
10 37 (12.71%) IPsec
11 35 (12.03%) OSPF
12 26 (8.93%) HTTP
12 26 (8.93%) MPLS
12 26 (8.93%) Wireless
13 25 (8.59%) HTTPS
14 24 (8.25%) Internet
14 24 (8.25%) VoIP
15 22 (7.56%) SNMP
16 21 (7.22%) SD-WAN
16 21 (7.22%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.53%) Relational Database
2 49 (16.84%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (16.15%) RDBMS
4 46 (15.81%) Oracle Database
5 43 (14.78%) SQL Server
6 21 (7.22%) MySQL
7 5 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.37%) Power BI
9 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (4.12%) Git
2 11 (3.78%) JIRA
3 8 (2.75%) Vagrant
4 6 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.72%) GitLab
6 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.34%) Log4Net
8 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.34%) Selenium
8 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (9.97%) Finance
4 12 (4.12%) Law
4 12 (4.12%) Marketing
4 12 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (4.12%) Telecoms
5 11 (3.78%) Banking
5 11 (3.78%) Legal
6 9 (3.09%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Aviation
8 4 (1.37%) Avionics
8 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.69%) Electronics
10 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Police
11 1 (0.34%) Automotive
11 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (28.87%) Lead
2 69 (23.71%) Architect
3 47 (16.15%) Solutions Architect
4 46 (15.81%) Lead Architect
4 46 (15.81%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 41 (14.09%) Developer
5 41 (14.09%) Senior
6 38 (13.06%) Network Engineer
7 24 (8.25%) Support Engineer
8 23 (7.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (6.53%) IT Engineer
9 19 (6.53%) Lead Developer
10 18 (6.19%) Analyst
11 14 (4.81%) Administrator
12 13 (4.47%) Consultant
12 13 (4.47%) Security Analyst
13 12 (4.12%) IT Support
13 12 (4.12%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (4.12%) Project Engineer
13 12 (4.12%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (16.84%) HTML
1 49 (16.84%) RabbitMQ
2 46 (15.81%) Spring Boot
3 38 (13.06%) CSS
4 30 (10.31%) .NET
5 24 (8.25%) React
6 23 (7.90%) REST
7 22 (7.56%) AngularJS
7 22 (7.56%) ASP.NET
7 22 (7.56%) ASP.NET MVC
7 22 (7.56%) XML
8 19 (6.53%) jQuery
8 19 (6.53%) Tailwind CSS
8 19 (6.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 19 (6.53%) Vue
8 19 (6.53%) WPF
9 17 (5.84%) 802.1X
10 16 (5.50%) LDAP
11 15 (5.15%) Web Services
12 14 (4.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.90%) Public Cloud
2 48 (16.49%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (13.75%) Data Centre
4 35 (12.03%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (6.19%) Management Information System
6 17 (5.84%) Replication
7 11 (3.78%) CMDB
7 11 (3.78%) PKI
8 10 (3.44%) Driving Licence
8 10 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.75%) Client/Server
9 8 (2.75%) EFT
9 8 (2.75%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (2.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.37%) Cyberattack
13 3 (1.03%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 96 (32.99%) Linux
2 71 (24.40%) Windows
3 59 (20.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (11.00%) Windows Server
5 14 (4.81%) Unix
6 8 (2.75%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.75%) CentOS
6 8 (2.75%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.75%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.75%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (2.41%) Android
8 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (1.03%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (26.12%) Agile
2 74 (25.43%) Migration
3 69 (23.71%) Project Management
4 66 (22.68%) Load Balancing
5 57 (19.59%) Collaborative Working
6 54 (18.56%) Open Source
7 52 (17.87%) Scrum
8 48 (16.49%) SDLC
9 47 (16.15%) ArchiMate
9 47 (16.15%) Kanban
10 46 (15.81%) Actionable Insight
10 46 (15.81%) Cloud Operations
10 46 (15.81%) Data Migration
10 46 (15.81%) Re-Platforming
10 46 (15.81%) Systems Engineering
10 46 (15.81%) TOGAF
11 40 (13.75%) ITIL
12 35 (12.03%) Web Development
13 34 (11.68%) Information Security
14 32 (11.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.53%) SQL
2 34 (11.68%) PowerShell
3 29 (9.97%) JavaScript
4 27 (9.28%) C#
5 26 (8.93%) Python
6 19 (6.53%) XAML
7 12 (4.12%) PHP
8 9 (3.09%) Bash
9 8 (2.75%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.06%) Java
11 2 (0.69%) C
11 2 (0.69%) C++
11 2 (0.69%) Ruby
11 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.34%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.34%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.34%) AWK
12 1 (0.34%) Go
12 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (27.49%) Security Cleared
2 73 (25.09%) SC Cleared
3 51 (17.53%) Azure Certification
4 47 (16.15%) AWS Certification
5 46 (15.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 37 (12.71%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (11.34%) Degree
8 16 (5.50%) CCNA
9 15 (5.15%) CCNP
10 12 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.78%) MCSA
11 11 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (3.09%) GIAC
13 8 (2.75%) DV Cleared
14 7 (2.41%) CCIE
15 6 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (2.06%) JNCIA
16 5 (1.72%) JNCIE
16 5 (1.72%) VCAP
16 5 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.06%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.72%) NCSC
3 5 (1.72%) SLA
4 3 (1.03%) GRC
4 3 (1.03%) NIST
5 2 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 68 (23.37%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.47%) Docker
4 10 (3.44%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.44%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.06%) vSphere
6 5 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.34%) NFS
9 1 (0.34%) RACF
Systems Management
1 21 (7.22%) Ansible
2 13 (4.47%) Terraform
3 12 (4.12%) Puppet
3 12 (4.12%) SCCM
3 12 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.78%) Progress Chef
5 10 (3.44%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.75%) HP UCMDB
6 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.06%) Endace
8 5 (1.72%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.72%) Pingdom
8 5 (1.72%) ZABBIX
9 4 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.37%) Nagios
9 4 (1.37%) WSUS
10 3 (1.03%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.69%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.69%) Foglight
Vendors
1 66 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 50 (17.18%) Cisco
3 46 (15.81%) Oracle
3 46 (15.81%) Sparx
4 39 (13.40%) VMware
5 23 (7.90%) Juniper
6 19 (6.53%) CheckPoint
6 19 (6.53%) F5
6 19 (6.53%) Veeam
7 16 (5.50%) ServiceNow
8 14 (4.81%) Fortinet
8 14 (4.81%) HP
8 14 (4.81%) SolarWinds
9 13 (4.47%) Citrix
10 9 (3.09%) Google
11 8 (2.75%) Atlassian
11 8 (2.75%) BMC
11 8 (2.75%) Globalscape
11 8 (2.75%) Remedy
11 8 (2.75%) Ribbon