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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 277 208
Rank change year-on-year +47 -69 +77
Permanent jobs citing SSL 5 9 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.089% 0.089% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.59% 0.81% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 25
10th Percentile - £43,400 £32,000
25th Percentile - £50,000 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £58,750 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year - +18.53% -13.80%
75th Percentile - £70,313 £53,478
90th Percentile - £73,125 £57,385
England median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% - -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 845 1,114 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.07% 11.06% 19.45%
Number of salaries quoted 506 596 762
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,750 £42,500 £43,375
Median % change year-on-year -15.88% -2.02% -13.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,563 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% -3.85% -0.95%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SSL 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 18 September 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 +42 5 - - 5
SSL
England

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (80.00%) AWS KMS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (60.00%) Vagrant
4 1 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 5 (100.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Key Management
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Server Management
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (20.00%) Log Aggregation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) Groovy
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Nessus
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Proxmox
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Nagios
4 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) VMware