SSL Job Trends in Birmingham

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 95 142
Rank change year-on-year -25 +47 -27
Permanent jobs citing SSL 1 4 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.032% 0.35% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.33% 1.88% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 - £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £60,375
90th Percentile - - £63,750
West Midlands median annual salary £58,375 - £54,000
% change year-on-year - - -13.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

SSL falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 75 213 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.44% 18.55% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 58 147 292
10th Percentile £28,175 £33,350 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,700 £51,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +14.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £58,750 £73,750 £61,438
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,574 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.74% +7.23% -5.56%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SSL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SSL job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SSL
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SSL

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) Pascal
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft