SSL Job Trends in the North of England

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 294 333
Rank change year-on-year -36 +39 +52
Permanent jobs citing SSL 8 1 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.040% 0.012% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.54% 0.062% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 52
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,800 £47,500 £45,096
Median % change year-on-year +32.21% +5.33% +20.26%
75th Percentile £69,981 £51,250 £58,125
90th Percentile £77,424 - £67,968
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -8.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,486 1,624 2,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.51% 19.91% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 830 662 1,673
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,000 £25,775
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £33,875 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.44% -20.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SSL job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SSL

SSL
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SSL in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
North West - 7 £60,600 - 3
Yorkshire -37 1 £70,932 +49.33% 2
SSL
England

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) JBoss
1 2 (25.00%) nginx
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) FTP
3 1 (12.50%) SMTP
3 1 (12.50%) SNMP
3 1 (12.50%) SSH
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Junior
1 3 (37.50%) Site Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) CSS3
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) HTML5
1 2 (25.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (25.00%) OAuth
1 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (25.00%) OpenID
1 2 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) API Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) RBAC
3 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 3 (37.50%) SolarWinds
3 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (25.00%) New Relic
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft