SSL Job Trends in London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 357 456
Rank change year-on-year -20 +99 +50
Permanent jobs citing SSL 26 27 60
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.13% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.30% 2.04% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 22 17 52
10th Percentile - - £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,000 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £87,031
90th Percentile - £78,300 £88,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,005 1,323 3,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.84% 10.48% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 990 947 2,015
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,125 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,773 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £88,438 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SSL job vacancy trend in London

SSL
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SSL

SSL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SSL in London

SSL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
West London - 2 - -
SSL
England

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (11.54%) WordPress
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
2 2 (7.69%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (46.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Datadog
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
3 1 (3.85%) Route 53
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
3 1 (3.85%) Slack
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (61.54%) DNS
2 12 (46.15%) Cisco ISE
2 12 (46.15%) Cisco Wireless
2 12 (46.15%) Firewall
2 12 (46.15%) Network Security
2 12 (46.15%) SD-WAN
2 12 (46.15%) VPN
2 12 (46.15%) WAN
2 12 (46.15%) Wireless
3 10 (38.46%) BIG-IP
3 10 (38.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 10 (38.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (19.23%) BGP
4 5 (19.23%) EIGRP
4 5 (19.23%) HSRP
4 5 (19.23%) OSPF
4 5 (19.23%) VLAN
4 5 (19.23%) VRRP
5 2 (7.69%) Broadband
5 2 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (23.08%) Health Technology
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 10 (38.46%) Senior
2 10 (38.46%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Integration Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Director
5 1 (3.85%) Operations Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) FHIR
2 2 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) LAMP
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth
3 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (57.69%) PKI
2 12 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 12 (46.15%) Security Posture
3 6 (23.08%) NHS
4 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
5 2 (7.69%) Blog
5 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (7.69%) Cyberattack
5 2 (7.69%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (3.85%) Anti-Piracy
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 12 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (46.15%) Enterprise Architecture
2 12 (46.15%) Network Design
2 12 (46.15%) Network Monitoring
2 12 (46.15%) Security Architecture
3 10 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (23.08%) API Integration
5 5 (19.23%) High Availability
6 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (11.54%) BCP
8 2 (7.69%) Cryptography
8 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (7.69%) DevOps
8 2 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (7.69%) Key Management
8 2 (7.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 1 (3.85%) Data Migration
9 1 (3.85%) Data Protection
9 1 (3.85%) IT Governance
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Bash
2 1 (3.85%) PHP
2 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) CCNP
1 12 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) CISSP
2 1 (3.85%) OSCP
2 1 (3.85%) RHCE
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (53.85%) NIST
2 12 (46.15%) PCI DSS
3 6 (23.08%) HL7
3 6 (23.08%) SNOMED CT
4 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (7.69%) SLA
5 1 (3.85%) GDPR
5 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Arista
1 12 (46.15%) Cisco
1 12 (46.15%) ForeScout
1 12 (46.15%) Infoblox
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
1 12 (46.15%) Palo Alto
1 12 (46.15%) SevOne
1 12 (46.15%) SolarWinds
1 12 (46.15%) Splunk
2 10 (38.46%) F5
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.69%) Thales
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Imperva