SSL Jobs in England

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring SSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SSL over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 589 674
Rank change year-on-year +70 +85 -16
Permanent jobs citing SSL 168 260 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.91% 2.14% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 58 208 144
10th Percentile £27,125 £33,900 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,313 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,375 £64,063 £75,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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 8,810 12,136 13,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.99% 13.56% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,706 8,540 7,030
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,813 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in England

SSL
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SSL in England

SSL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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
London +105 55 £60,000 -20.00% 39
South East +37 36 £62,500 +19.05% 39
East of England +62 23 £27,500 -49.54% 7
South West +101 13 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Midlands +66 7 £70,000 +33.33% 3
West Midlands +51 6 - -
North of England -11 2 £47,500 +5.33% 7
Yorkshire +45 1 £47,500 -9.52% 5
North West -40 1 - -
SSL
UK

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (5.95%) IIS
2 9 (5.36%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.79%) WordPress
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 120 (71.43%) AWS
2 90 (53.57%) AWS Lambda
2 90 (53.57%) Serverless
3 37 (22.02%) Azure
4 22 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 12 (7.14%) SaaS
6 12 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (6.55%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (5.36%) Google Workspace
8 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (5.36%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 7 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.17%) AWS KMS
11 5 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.79%) Amazon Glacier
12 3 (1.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 84 (50.00%) Broadband
2 82 (48.81%) SSH
3 27 (16.07%) Firewall
4 19 (11.31%) TCP/IP
5 17 (10.12%) IPsec
6 15 (8.93%) BGP
6 15 (8.93%) VPN
7 13 (7.74%) OSPF
7 13 (7.74%) VLAN
8 11 (6.55%) DNS
9 10 (5.95%) LAN
9 10 (5.95%) Wireless
10 9 (5.36%) DMARC
10 9 (5.36%) EIGRP
10 9 (5.36%) HTTP
11 7 (4.17%) WAN
12 6 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (3.57%) Network Security
12 6 (3.57%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.98%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.95%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.98%) Electronic Patient Records
4 4 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.19%) MySQL
5 2 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.36%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (2.98%) Git
4 3 (1.79%) JIRA
4 3 (1.79%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.19%) Maven
6 1 (0.60%) Gradle
6 1 (0.60%) Log4Net
6 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 117 (69.64%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.93%) Finance
3 14 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (5.36%) Czech Language
4 9 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.98%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.38%) Law
9 2 (1.19%) Banking
9 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 88 (52.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 85 (50.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (8.33%) IT Support
4 12 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 11 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (5.95%) Administrator
6 10 (5.95%) Analyst
6 10 (5.95%) Lead
6 10 (5.95%) Senior
7 9 (5.36%) IT Administrator
8 7 (4.17%) Development Manager
9 6 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (3.57%) Technical Support
10 5 (2.98%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (2.98%) Integration Specialist
10 5 (2.98%) Security Analyst
10 5 (2.98%) Senior Network Engineer
11 4 (2.38%) Architect
11 4 (2.38%) IT Engineer
12 3 (1.79%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (50.60%) Web Services
2 84 (50.00%) RESTful
3 16 (9.52%) JSON
4 13 (7.74%) REST
4 13 (7.74%) XML
5 12 (7.14%) SOAP
6 9 (5.36%) OAuth
7 7 (4.17%) Android Jetpack
7 7 (4.17%) Jetpack Compose
7 7 (4.17%) SwiftUI
7 7 (4.17%) UIKit
7 7 (4.17%) YAML
8 6 (3.57%) 802.1X
9 5 (2.98%) FHIR
10 3 (1.79%) LDAP
11 2 (1.19%) Ajax
11 2 (1.19%) EJB
11 2 (1.19%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (1.19%) Middleware
11 2 (1.19%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 86 (51.19%) Onboarding
1 86 (51.19%) PKI
2 83 (49.40%) Management Information System
3 82 (48.81%) Cyber Threat
3 82 (48.81%) Cyberattack
4 14 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 9 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (4.17%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.98%) NHS
9 3 (1.79%) iPad
9 3 (1.79%) iPhone
10 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.19%) Clustering
10 2 (1.19%) Derivative
10 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.60%) CMDB
11 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.29%) Linux
2 19 (11.31%) Windows
3 14 (8.33%) Unix
4 8 (4.76%) Ubuntu
5 7 (4.17%) Android
5 7 (4.17%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.79%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.79%) VMS
7 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.60%) CentOS
8 1 (0.60%) Debian
8 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.60%) Solaris
8 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (60.12%) Roadmaps
2 96 (57.14%) DevOps
3 95 (56.55%) Cybersecurity
4 93 (55.36%) Key Management
5 89 (52.98%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 84 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
7 82 (48.81%) Programme Delivery
7 82 (48.81%) Use Case
8 25 (14.88%) Agile
9 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.52%) Project Management
11 15 (8.93%) Customer Service
11 15 (8.93%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (8.33%) Business Continuity
13 13 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (7.74%) Patch Management
14 11 (6.55%) Cloud Security
14 11 (6.55%) ITIL
15 10 (5.95%) CRM
15 10 (5.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (57.74%) Python
2 21 (12.50%) Java
3 19 (11.31%) PowerShell
4 17 (10.12%) SQL
5 11 (6.55%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.36%) Shell Script
6 9 (5.36%) VBA
7 7 (4.17%) Kotlin
7 7 (4.17%) Swift
8 3 (1.79%) Bash
8 3 (1.79%) Groovy
8 3 (1.79%) Perl
8 3 (1.79%) Ruby
9 1 (0.60%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (11.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.36%) CCNP
2 9 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (5.36%) CompTIA Security+
2 9 (5.36%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.76%) Degree
4 7 (4.17%) CCNA
4 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.98%) CompTIA CySA+
6 5 (2.98%) GIAC
6 5 (2.98%) MCSA
7 2 (1.19%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.19%) CISM
7 2 (1.19%) CISSP
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) CCA
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (50.60%) NIST
3 5 (2.98%) HL7
3 5 (2.98%) NCSC
3 5 (2.98%) SNOMED CT
4 3 (1.79%) GDPR
4 3 (1.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 119 (70.83%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (6.55%) Docker
4 7 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.19%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (55.36%) Terraform
2 18 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (8.93%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (7.74%) Ansible
5 8 (4.76%) Nessus
6 7 (4.17%) Proxmox
7 6 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.79%) Kubernetes
8 3 (1.79%) Nagios
9 2 (1.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (1.19%) Graylog
10 1 (0.60%) Grafana
10 1 (0.60%) HP UCMDB
10 1 (0.60%) Puppet
10 1 (0.60%) SCCM
10 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (51.19%) Thales
2 31 (18.45%) Microsoft
3 23 (13.69%) Cisco
4 10 (5.95%) Juniper
4 10 (5.95%) Meraki
5 9 (5.36%) Oracle
6 8 (4.76%) Google
7 7 (4.17%) Zscaler
8 4 (2.38%) Citrix
8 4 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.38%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.38%) VMware
9 3 (1.79%) Apple
9 3 (1.79%) Avaya
9 3 (1.79%) Concur
9 3 (1.79%) F5
9 3 (1.79%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.79%) SAP
9 3 (1.79%) SevOne
9 3 (1.79%) Splunk