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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 210 259
Rank change year-on-year -8 +49 +63
Permanent jobs citing SSL 15 8 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.95% 0.94% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 29
10th Percentile £49,675 £42,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 - £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62,894 £70,000 £57,000
90th Percentile £63,810 £74,500 £62,830
England median annual salary £59,250 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +18.50% -7.41% -10.00%

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 1,573 848 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.12% 16.15% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 408 435 1,260
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,863 £35,000 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £50,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.50% +19.05% -6.67%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £66,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £53,250 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.19% +9.79% -4.90%

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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SSL in the Midlands

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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 10 March 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 Midlands +7 13 £57,125 +26.94% 7
East Midlands - 2 £44,250 -
SSL
England

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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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) TCP/IP
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
3 4 (26.67%) 3G
3 4 (26.67%) GPRS
3 4 (26.67%) GSM
3 4 (26.67%) Modbus
3 4 (26.67%) RS-232
3 4 (26.67%) RS-485
3 4 (26.67%) VPN
4 3 (20.00%) Firewall
5 2 (13.33%) DHCP
5 2 (13.33%) FTP
5 2 (13.33%) HTTP
5 2 (13.33%) Internet
5 2 (13.33%) SMTP
5 2 (13.33%) SNMP
5 2 (13.33%) SSH
5 2 (13.33%) Telnet
5 2 (13.33%) WAN
6 1 (6.67%) LAN
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) C Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded C Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded Linux Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) LDAP
2 3 (20.00%) JDBC
2 3 (20.00%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) SAML
2 3 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (20.00%) PKI
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (26.67%) FreeRTOS
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (26.67%) Embedded Software Development
1 4 (26.67%) Secure Coding
1 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
1 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (26.67%) Zero Trust
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (20.00%) ITSM
2 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Cryptography
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (13.33%) Product Requirements
3 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C
1 4 (26.67%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) Embedded C++
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) CCIE
1 1 (6.67%) CCNP
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) MISRA
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (26.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (26.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (20.00%) CASB
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Netskope
1 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Meraki
3 1 (6.67%) Okta
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Veeam
3 1 (6.67%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Zerto