SSL Jobs in Scotland

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring SSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SSL over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 276 202
Rank change year-on-year +121 -74 +28
Permanent jobs citing SSL 10 8 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.33% 0.12% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.83% 1.23% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £36,750 - £26,000
25th Percentile £37,500 - £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £28,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -51.30%
75th Percentile £42,500 - £29,750
90th Percentile - - £57,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 353 649 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.57% 9.67% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 199 391 264
10th Percentile - £28,000 £26,825
25th Percentile £23,504 £35,375 £36,265
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% -0.99% +5.21%
75th Percentile £64,375 £62,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £85,250 £70,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in Scotland

SSL
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSL in Scotland.

Salary trend for SSL in Scotland

SSL
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Highlands - 4 £40,000 -
Fife - 3 - - 1
Edinburgh +18 2 - - 3
SSL
UK

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) CICS
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (40.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) IPsec
1 4 (40.00%) VLAN
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
1 4 (40.00%) Wireless
2 3 (30.00%) SSH
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (10.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Senior
2 5 (50.00%) IT Support
3 4 (40.00%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (40.00%) IT Technician
3 4 (40.00%) Senior IT Support
3 4 (40.00%) Senior IT Technician
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Support Technician
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Technician
3 4 (40.00%) Support Technician
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Manager
4 3 (30.00%) Systems Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Linux Support
5 1 (10.00%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Project Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (30.00%) Tandem
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Debian
3 1 (10.00%) Solaris
3 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Customer Service
2 7 (70.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (30.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (30.00%) Security Management
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (10.00%) Design Thinking
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Observability
6 1 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (10.00%) Release Train
6 1 (10.00%) SDLC
6 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) JCL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat