SSL Jobs in the UK excluding London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SSL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 600 594
Rank change year-on-year +60 -6 -110
Permanent jobs citing SSL 212 163 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.17% 1.48% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 154 69 193
10th Percentile £31,625 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,364 £37,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.97% -25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,968 £83,750 £77,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SSL is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,766 11,047 10,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.94% 17.88% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,096 4,889 6,514
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the UK excluding London

SSL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SSL in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SSL in the UK excluding London

SSL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SSL in the UK excluding London

SSL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
South East +59 80 £52,500 +16.67% 12
North of England +86 68 £47,500 +26.67% 6
North West +55 49 £42,500 +18.06% 4
Midlands +23 28 £52,500 -16.00% 2
Yorkshire +96 20 £57,500 +43.75% 2
West Midlands +27 14 £54,000 -13.60% 1
South West -2 14 £52,500 +64.06% 5
East Midlands - 14 £52,500 - 1
Wales +23 12 £50,000 - 1
Scotland -74 8 - - 2
East of England -3 7 £46,500 +32.86% 4
North East -7 5 £62,500 +66.67%
Northern Ireland +29 4 - -
SSL
UK

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 41 (19.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (18.87%) WebLogic
3 30 (14.15%) IIS
4 21 (9.91%) SharePoint
5 14 (6.60%) Apache
5 14 (6.60%) nginx
6 13 (6.13%) CMS
7 12 (5.66%) WordPress
8 7 (3.30%) Confluence
9 4 (1.89%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.94%) JBoss
11 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 40 (18.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.36%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (41.51%) Azure
2 76 (35.85%) AWS
3 59 (27.83%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (18.87%) Amazon EKS
4 40 (18.87%) Amazon SQS
5 15 (7.08%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.66%) IaaS
6 12 (5.66%) iTunes
7 10 (4.72%) PaaS
8 8 (3.77%) GCP
9 6 (2.83%) SaaS
10 5 (2.36%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.89%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.42%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.42%) Slack
13 2 (0.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 128 (60.38%) DNS
2 90 (42.45%) TCP/IP
3 87 (41.04%) Firewall
4 66 (31.13%) BGP
5 54 (25.47%) VPN
6 39 (18.40%) WAN
7 36 (16.98%) Network Security
8 35 (16.51%) DHCP
9 33 (15.57%) LAN
10 25 (11.79%) IPsec
11 20 (9.43%) OSPF
12 16 (7.55%) NAS
12 16 (7.55%) SAN
13 15 (7.08%) HTTP
13 15 (7.08%) VLAN
14 14 (6.60%) SMTP
15 13 (6.13%) SD-WAN
16 11 (5.19%) MPLS
17 10 (4.72%) SNMP
17 10 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.34%) Amazon RDS
1 41 (19.34%) Relational Database
1 41 (19.34%) SQL Server
2 40 (18.87%) Oracle Database
2 40 (18.87%) RDBMS
3 21 (9.91%) MySQL
4 5 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.36%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.89%) Power BI
6 2 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (4.25%) Git
2 7 (3.30%) JIRA
3 4 (1.89%) Vagrant
4 3 (1.42%) GitLab
5 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.47%) Log4Net
6 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 66 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.43%) Finance
3 14 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.66%) Marketing
5 11 (5.19%) Legal
6 8 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.36%) Banking
8 4 (1.89%) Aviation
8 4 (1.89%) Avionics
8 4 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.89%) Law
8 4 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Electronics
10 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 73 (34.43%) Lead
2 53 (25.00%) Architect
3 41 (19.34%) Solutions Architect
4 40 (18.87%) Lead Architect
4 40 (18.87%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 35 (16.51%) Developer
6 29 (13.68%) Network Engineer
7 23 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (9.43%) Senior
9 19 (8.96%) IT Engineer
9 19 (8.96%) Lead Developer
10 18 (8.49%) Support Engineer
11 12 (5.66%) IT Support
11 12 (5.66%) IT Support Engineer
11 12 (5.66%) Project Engineer
11 12 (5.66%) Web Manager
12 10 (4.72%) Web Developer
13 8 (3.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.30%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 6 (2.83%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (19.81%) RabbitMQ
2 40 (18.87%) Spring Boot
3 29 (13.68%) HTML
4 27 (12.74%) .NET
5 26 (12.26%) CSS
6 23 (10.85%) React
7 22 (10.38%) AngularJS
7 22 (10.38%) ASP.NET
7 22 (10.38%) ASP.NET MVC
8 19 (8.96%) jQuery
8 19 (8.96%) REST
8 19 (8.96%) Tailwind CSS
8 19 (8.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 19 (8.96%) Vue
8 19 (8.96%) WPF
9 5 (2.36%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.42%) HTML5
10 3 (1.42%) OAuth
10 3 (1.42%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.42%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.75%) Public Cloud
2 40 (18.87%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (14.15%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (9.43%) Data Centre
5 15 (7.08%) Replication
6 10 (4.72%) Driving Licence
7 9 (4.25%) PKI
8 8 (3.77%) EFT
9 7 (3.30%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.83%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.36%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (2.36%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.89%) Cyberattack
13 3 (1.42%) IBM Storwize
13 3 (1.42%) Robotics
14 2 (0.94%) Fibre Optics
14 2 (0.94%) Molecular Biology
15 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (33.96%) Linux
2 61 (28.77%) Windows
3 47 (22.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (14.62%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (3.30%) Android
6 7 (3.30%) Apple iOS
6 7 (3.30%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.89%) CentOS
7 4 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.89%) Unix
7 4 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.42%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (29.72%) Project Management
2 62 (29.25%) Migration
3 61 (28.77%) Agile
4 51 (24.06%) Collaborative Working
5 41 (19.34%) ArchiMate
6 40 (18.87%) Actionable Insight
6 40 (18.87%) Cloud Operations
6 40 (18.87%) Data Migration
6 40 (18.87%) Kanban
6 40 (18.87%) Load Balancing
6 40 (18.87%) Open Source
6 40 (18.87%) Re-Platforming
6 40 (18.87%) Scrum
6 40 (18.87%) SDLC
6 40 (18.87%) Systems Engineering
6 40 (18.87%) TOGAF
7 34 (16.04%) Web Development
8 31 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (10.85%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.11%) SQL
2 25 (11.79%) C#
3 19 (8.96%) XAML
4 18 (8.49%) PowerShell
5 12 (5.66%) PHP
6 10 (4.72%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.30%) Python
8 6 (2.83%) Bash
9 4 (1.89%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.94%) Ruby
10 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.47%) AWK
Qualifications
1 63 (29.72%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.89%) SC Cleared
3 45 (21.23%) Azure Certification
4 41 (19.34%) AWS Certification
5 40 (18.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (11.32%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (9.91%) Degree
8 12 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (4.72%) CCNP
10 8 (3.77%) CCNA
10 8 (3.77%) DV Cleared
11 7 (3.30%) CCIE
12 6 (2.83%) JNCIA
13 5 (2.36%) Citrix Certification
13 5 (2.36%) JNCIE
13 5 (2.36%) VCAP
13 5 (2.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (1.89%) CREST Certified
14 4 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.36%) SLA
3 2 (0.94%) QA
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (24.06%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.72%) Hyper-V
3 10 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (2.83%) Docker
4 6 (2.83%) vSphere
5 3 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.94%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.47%) NFS
7 1 (0.47%) RACF
Systems Management
1 12 (5.66%) SCCM
2 11 (5.19%) Ansible
3 10 (4.72%) Terraform
3 10 (4.72%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.83%) Endace
4 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.36%) ZABBIX
6 4 (1.89%) WSUS
7 3 (1.42%) Puppet
7 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.94%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.94%) Nagios
8 2 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 47 (22.17%) Microsoft
2 40 (18.87%) Oracle
2 40 (18.87%) Sparx
3 38 (17.92%) VMware
4 35 (16.51%) Cisco
5 19 (8.96%) Veeam
6 16 (7.55%) Juniper
7 13 (6.13%) Citrix
7 13 (6.13%) F5
8 8 (3.77%) Globalscape
9 6 (2.83%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.83%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.83%) HP
10 5 (2.36%) Sage
11 4 (1.89%) Dell
11 4 (1.89%) Google
11 4 (1.89%) Meraki
12 3 (1.42%) Aruba
12 3 (1.42%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.42%) WatchGuard