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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 612 578 692
Rank change year-on-year -34 +114 -3
Permanent jobs citing SSL 81 254 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.29% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.97% 2.11% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 57 201 152
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,050
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.09% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 8,311 12,058 13,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.77% 13.96% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,748 8,529 7,169
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 18 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 18 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 +77 27 £60,000 -20.00% 53
South East +31 25 £62,500 +19.05% 28
South West +105 11 £50,000 -4.76% 9
East of England +42 11 £27,500 -49.54% 2
Midlands +44 7 £70,000 +33.33% 4
West Midlands +41 6 - - 2
North of England -15 4 £47,500 +11.76% 6
North West -47 3 £48,750 +14.71% 3
Yorkshire +51 1 £47,500 -9.52% 3
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 9 (11.11%) IIS
2 8 (9.88%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.70%) WordPress
4 2 (2.47%) Apache
5 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.23%) CMS
5 1 (1.23%) Confluence
5 1 (1.23%) nginx
5 1 (1.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (8.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (46.91%) Azure
2 34 (41.98%) AWS
3 25 (30.86%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (27.16%) Entra ID
5 12 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (13.58%) Amazon S3
7 10 (12.35%) SaaS
8 8 (9.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 8 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (9.88%) Google Workspace
8 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (9.88%) Power Automate
8 8 (9.88%) Serverless
9 7 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (8.64%) AWS KMS
10 5 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (3.70%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.86%) Firewall
2 17 (20.99%) IPsec
3 16 (19.75%) TCP/IP
4 15 (18.52%) VPN
5 14 (17.28%) DNS
6 13 (16.05%) BGP
7 12 (14.81%) OSPF
8 9 (11.11%) LAN
8 9 (11.11%) VLAN
8 9 (11.11%) Wireless
9 8 (9.88%) DMARC
9 8 (9.88%) EIGRP
10 7 (8.64%) HTTP
11 6 (7.41%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (7.41%) WAN
12 5 (6.17%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (6.17%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (6.17%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (6.17%) RIP
12 5 (6.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.94%) MySQL
4 3 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.64%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (3.70%) Git
3 3 (3.70%) JIRA
3 3 (3.70%) Vagrant
4 2 (2.47%) Maven
5 1 (1.23%) Gradle
5 1 (1.23%) Log4Net
5 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (13.58%) Finance
4 10 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.88%) Czech Language
5 8 (9.88%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.70%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (16.05%) Analyst
1 13 (16.05%) IT Support
2 11 (13.58%) Administrator
3 10 (12.35%) Network Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) IT Administrator
5 7 (8.64%) Development Manager
5 7 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Senior
6 6 (7.41%) Technical Support
7 5 (6.17%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Security Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Lead
9 3 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.52%) JSON
2 14 (17.28%) XML
3 11 (13.58%) SOAP
4 10 (12.35%) REST
5 9 (11.11%) OAuth
6 7 (8.64%) Android Jetpack
6 7 (8.64%) Jetpack Compose
6 7 (8.64%) SwiftUI
6 7 (8.64%) UIKit
7 5 (6.17%) 802.1X
7 5 (6.17%) YAML
8 3 (3.70%) FHIR
8 3 (3.70%) LDAP
8 3 (3.70%) Middleware
8 3 (3.70%) Web Services
9 2 (2.47%) EDI
9 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.47%) HTML
9 2 (2.47%) LAMP
9 2 (2.47%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 8 (9.88%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (8.64%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.70%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.70%) Clustering
6 3 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.70%) iPad
6 3 (3.70%) iPhone
6 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.70%) NHS
6 3 (3.70%) PKI
7 2 (2.47%) Life Science
7 2 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.47%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.47%) Replication
7 2 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 29 (35.80%) Linux
2 21 (25.93%) Windows
3 16 (19.75%) Unix
4 8 (9.88%) Ubuntu
5 7 (8.64%) Android
5 7 (8.64%) Apple iOS
6 6 (7.41%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.70%) CentOS
7 3 (3.70%) VMS
8 2 (2.47%) AIX
8 2 (2.47%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.47%) Solaris
8 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
8 2 (2.47%) zOS
9 1 (1.23%) Debian
9 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.40%) Agile
2 19 (23.46%) Roadmaps
3 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (19.75%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (19.75%) Project Management
5 15 (18.52%) Customer Service
5 15 (18.52%) DevOps
6 13 (16.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (16.05%) ITIL
6 13 (16.05%) Patch Management
7 12 (14.81%) Business Continuity
8 10 (12.35%) Cloud Security
8 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (12.35%) Key Management
8 10 (12.35%) Technology Roadmap
8 10 (12.35%) Vulnerability Management
9 9 (11.11%) CRM
10 8 (9.88%) Portfolio Management
10 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.88%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.69%) PowerShell
2 18 (22.22%) Java
3 16 (19.75%) Python
3 16 (19.75%) SQL
4 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 8 (9.88%) VBA
7 7 (8.64%) Kotlin
7 7 (8.64%) Swift
8 5 (6.17%) Perl
9 4 (4.94%) C#
10 3 (3.70%) Bash
10 3 (3.70%) Go
10 3 (3.70%) Groovy
10 3 (3.70%) Ruby
11 2 (2.47%) AWK
11 2 (2.47%) C
11 2 (2.47%) C++
11 2 (2.47%) Korn
11 2 (2.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.58%) CompTIA Security+
3 9 (11.11%) CCNP
3 9 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (9.88%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
5 7 (8.64%) CCNA
5 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (6.17%) CompTIA CySA+
6 5 (6.17%) Degree
6 5 (6.17%) GIAC
6 5 (6.17%) MCSA
7 2 (2.47%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.23%) CCA
8 1 (1.23%) CISM
8 1 (1.23%) CISSP
8 1 (1.23%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.17%) NCSC
3 3 (3.70%) HL7
3 3 (3.70%) SLA
3 3 (3.70%) SNOMED CT
4 2 (2.47%) GDPR
4 2 (2.47%) NIST
4 2 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (45.68%) Active Directory
2 12 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (11.11%) Docker
4 7 (8.64%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.47%) KVM
5 2 (2.47%) Postfix
5 2 (2.47%) Sendmail
6 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (16.05%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (13.58%) Terraform
4 10 (12.35%) Nessus
5 9 (11.11%) Ansible
6 7 (8.64%) Proxmox
7 5 (6.17%) Graylog
7 5 (6.17%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (6.17%) Nagios
8 3 (3.70%) Grafana
9 1 (1.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (1.23%) HP UCMDB
9 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
9 1 (1.23%) Puppet
9 1 (1.23%) SCCM
9 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (1.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 20 (24.69%) Cisco
3 11 (13.58%) Juniper
4 10 (12.35%) Oracle
5 9 (11.11%) Meraki
6 7 (8.64%) Google
7 6 (7.41%) Apple
8 5 (6.17%) SAP
8 5 (6.17%) Zscaler
9 4 (4.94%) Citrix
9 4 (4.94%) Palo Alto
9 4 (4.94%) Red Hat
9 4 (4.94%) SolarWinds
9 4 (4.94%) VMware
10 3 (3.70%) Concur
10 3 (3.70%) HubSpot
10 3 (3.70%) Splunk
10 3 (3.70%) Tenable
10 3 (3.70%) Thales
11 2 (2.47%) Okta