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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 227 265
Rank change year-on-year -32 +38 -36
Permanent jobs citing SSL 9 6 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.061% 0.10% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 0.70% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 24
10th Percentile £21,750 - £37,500
25th Percentile £30,750 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.92%
75th Percentile £50,375 - £57,000
90th Percentile £55,000 - £68,125
England median annual salary £52,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +14.29% -

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 758 856 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.15% 14.71% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 593 515 788
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £74,895 £71,250 £68,400
England median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -2.91%

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

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 August 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 26 August 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
East Midlands - 5 £22,500 -
West Midlands -31 4 £48,250 - 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 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (22.22%) Cloudflare
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
4 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) HTTP
4 2 (22.22%) HTTPS
4 2 (22.22%) Network Security
4 2 (22.22%) SMTP
4 2 (22.22%) SSH
5 1 (11.11%) IPsec
5 1 (11.11%) PBX
5 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) VLAN
5 1 (11.11%) VoIP
5 1 (11.11%) WAN
5 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Service Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Delphi Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) iPad
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Observability
2 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 3 (33.33%) Runbook
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) Information Security
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Telematics
3 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Delphi
3 1 (11.11%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) Samba
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) Avaya
3 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Sage