SSL Job Trends in England

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 536 605
Rank change year-on-year -79 +69 +66
Permanent jobs citing SSL 90 93 249
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.47% 1.52% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 77 62 218
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,500 £34,850
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,105 6,132 12,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.36% 15.51% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4,016 3,430 8,529
10th Percentile £27,793 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,483 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -7.50%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SSL job vacancy trend in England

SSL
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SSL

SSL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SSL in England

SSL
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the England region over the 6 months to 15 June 2026. 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
South East -17 28 £42,500 -32.00% 11
London -32 28 £67,500 +12.50% 8
Midlands -20 9 £52,500 -25.00% 5
North of England -26 9 £65,000 +36.84% 6
East of England -24 7 £37,500 +36.36% 2
West Midlands -17 6 £62,125 - 1
North West - 6 £52,500 - 4
South West -67 4 £40,000 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire -29 3 £70,932 +49.33% 2
East Midlands - 3 £36,000 - 4
SSL
UK

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.56%) Apache
2 5 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.44%) Anypoint
3 4 (4.44%) Mule
3 4 (4.44%) nginx
4 3 (3.33%) IIS
5 2 (2.22%) JBoss
5 2 (2.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.56%) Azure
2 23 (25.56%) AWS
3 18 (20.00%) Datadog
4 14 (15.56%) Entra ID
5 13 (14.44%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (8.89%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (7.78%) Cloudflare
8 6 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.56%) GCP
9 5 (5.56%) Google Workspace
9 5 (5.56%) SaaS
9 5 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.22%) GitHub
10 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.22%) Route 53
11 1 (1.11%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (1.11%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (1.11%) CloudFront
11 1 (1.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (60.00%) DNS
2 47 (52.22%) VPN
3 34 (37.78%) Firewall
4 33 (36.67%) WAN
5 29 (32.22%) Network Security
6 27 (30.00%) SD-WAN
7 26 (28.89%) VLAN
8 18 (20.00%) DHCP
9 17 (18.89%) BGP
10 16 (17.78%) Wireless
11 15 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
11 15 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
12 14 (15.56%) IPsec
13 13 (14.44%) HTTP
14 12 (13.33%) SSH
15 10 (11.11%) BIG-IP
15 10 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 10 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 9 (10.00%) TCP/IP
17 8 (8.89%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) JIRA
2 4 (4.44%) Git
3 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.22%) Subversion
4 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Finance
4 5 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.56%) Retail
5 4 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.33%) Health Technology
6 3 (3.33%) Law
7 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Marketing
8 1 (1.11%) Advertising
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Network Engineer
2 18 (20.00%) Senior
3 13 (14.44%) Analyst
4 12 (13.33%) Architect
5 11 (12.22%) Support Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Developer
6 10 (11.11%) IT Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (10.00%) IT Support
8 8 (8.89%) Security Architect
9 7 (7.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 7 (7.78%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Network Architect
9 7 (7.78%) Network Security Architect
9 7 (7.78%) Security Analyst
9 7 (7.78%) SOC Analyst
10 6 (6.67%) Incident Analyst
10 6 (6.67%) Security Incident Analyst
11 5 (5.56%) Service Analyst
11 5 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.89%) OAuth
2 11 (12.22%) SAML
3 7 (7.78%) OAuth2
3 7 (7.78%) REST
4 5 (5.56%) LDAP
4 5 (5.56%) Web Services
5 4 (4.44%) JWT
5 4 (4.44%) MUnit
5 4 (4.44%) RAML
5 4 (4.44%) RESTful
6 3 (3.33%) CSS
6 3 (3.33%) FHIR
6 3 (3.33%) HTML
6 3 (3.33%) JDBC
6 3 (3.33%) JSON
6 3 (3.33%) OpenID
6 3 (3.33%) SOAP
6 3 (3.33%) XML
7 2 (2.22%) HTML5
7 2 (2.22%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (30.00%) PKI
2 21 (23.33%) Security Posture
3 17 (18.89%) Data Centre
4 11 (12.22%) Onboarding
5 7 (7.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (6.67%) Driving Licence
7 5 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (4.44%) Cyberattack
8 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (3.33%) NHS
10 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (1.11%) Anti-Piracy
11 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (27.78%) Windows
2 19 (21.11%) Linux
3 9 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.44%) Mac OS
4 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.33%) AIX
6 1 (1.11%) FreeBSD
6 1 (1.11%) OpenBSD
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.11%) Unix
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.22%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (24.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (23.33%) Business Continuity
4 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (17.78%) ITIL
5 16 (17.78%) Network Monitoring
5 16 (17.78%) Security Architecture
6 15 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 15 (16.67%) High Availability
6 15 (16.67%) Network Design
7 12 (13.33%) Project Delivery
7 12 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 10 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (10.00%) Cryptography
10 9 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
10 9 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
10 9 (10.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.22%) Python
2 15 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.67%) SQL
4 4 (4.44%) Bash
4 4 (4.44%) DataWeave
5 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.22%) C#
6 2 (2.22%) Go
6 2 (2.22%) PHP
6 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) CCNP
1 21 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (17.78%) SC Cleared
2 16 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 12 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 8 (8.89%) Degree
5 5 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.44%) DBS Check
6 4 (4.44%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (3.33%) CCNA
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.11%) CCIE
9 1 (1.11%) CISSP
9 1 (1.11%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.11%) RHCE
9 1 (1.11%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (30.00%) NIST
2 17 (18.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (17.78%) PCI DSS
4 12 (13.33%) SLA
5 5 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (4.44%) GDPR
7 3 (3.33%) HL7
7 3 (3.33%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (2.22%) ISO 22301
8 2 (2.22%) ISO 9001
9 1 (1.11%) NCSC
9 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (18.89%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.22%) Docker
5 2 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.11%) KVM
6 1 (1.11%) Samba
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (18.89%) Ansible
2 12 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (12.22%) FortiGate
4 10 (11.11%) CASB
5 7 (7.78%) Terraform
6 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (5.56%) Graylog
8 4 (4.44%) CloudHub
8 4 (4.44%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (3.33%) Grafana
9 3 (3.33%) Netcool
9 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.22%) Nagios
11 1 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (1.11%) Proxmox
11 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 41 (45.56%) Microsoft
2 29 (32.22%) Cisco
3 24 (26.67%) Splunk
4 23 (25.56%) Palo Alto
5 21 (23.33%) SolarWinds
6 15 (16.67%) Arista
6 15 (16.67%) ForeScout
6 15 (16.67%) Infoblox
6 15 (16.67%) SevOne
7 11 (12.22%) F5
8 10 (11.11%) ServiceNow
9 9 (10.00%) VMware
10 6 (6.67%) SAP
11 5 (5.56%) Google
11 5 (5.56%) Salesforce
11 5 (5.56%) Veeam
12 4 (4.44%) Apple
12 4 (4.44%) MuleSoft
12 4 (4.44%) SonicWALL
12 4 (4.44%) Thales