SSL Job Trends in the Midlands

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 254 200
Rank change year-on-year +46 -54 +90
Permanent jobs citing SSL 6 13 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.11% 0.15% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.89% 1.25% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 29
10th Percentile - £41,625 £32,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +0.88% -15.27%
75th Percentile £55,000 £70,313 £57,000
90th Percentile £60,040 £76,875 £57,385
England median annual salary £65,000 £52,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.22% -8.26% +4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 671 1,038 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.99% 11.72% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 494 424 815
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,645 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,950 £73,375 £67,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,050 £52,300
% change year-on-year -24.60% +1.43% -0.38%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SSL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SSL
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SSL

SSL
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
West Midlands +36 6 £52,500 +5.00% 1
SSL
England

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) 3G
2 4 (66.67%) GPRS
2 4 (66.67%) GSM
2 4 (66.67%) Modbus
2 4 (66.67%) RS-232
2 4 (66.67%) RS-485
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) FTP
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) SMTP
4 1 (16.67%) SNMP
4 1 (16.67%) SSH
4 1 (16.67%) Telnet
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) C Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) C/C++ Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded C Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded C Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded C++ Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded Linux Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (66.67%) FreeRTOS
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Software Development
1 4 (66.67%) Secure Coding
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C
1 4 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded C++
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) MISRA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (66.67%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware