SSL Job Trends in Manchester

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 134 143
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 +101
Permanent jobs citing SSL 12 17 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.42% 0.64% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.06% 7.08% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile - - £43,750
25th Percentile £37,500 - £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +73.61%
75th Percentile £42,500 - £64,375
90th Percentile £61,310 - £64,750
North West median annual salary £40,500 £48,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.92% +2.63% +20.01%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 582 240 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.31% 9.00% 11.32%
Number of salaries quoted 139 138 240
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,063 £37,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £45,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -13.46% +9.47%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £69,850
90th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £78,875
North West median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% +5.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

SSL job vacancy trend in Manchester

SSL
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SSL

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Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in Manchester over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SSL in Manchester

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) JBoss
2 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (41.67%) IaaS
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
1 6 (50.00%) HTTP
1 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) VLAN
2 5 (41.67%) VPN
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) FTP
3 1 (8.33%) SMTP
3 1 (8.33%) SNMP
3 1 (8.33%) SSH
3 1 (8.33%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 5 (41.67%) 3rd Line Support Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Junior
1 5 (41.67%) Site Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Support Technician
2 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) CSS3
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) HTML5
1 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (8.33%) OpenID
1 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) Customer Service
2 5 (41.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
2 5 (41.67%) Information Security
2 5 (41.67%) Information Security Management
2 5 (41.67%) ISMS
2 5 (41.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 5 (41.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 5 (41.67%) Security Management
2 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.33%) API Development
3 1 (8.33%) API Integration
3 1 (8.33%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (8.33%) BDD
3 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) CCNA
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (41.67%) DBS Check
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Autotask
1 5 (41.67%) Grafana
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (41.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (50.00%) Splunk
2 5 (41.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) New Relic
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat