SSL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 432 560
Rank change year-on-year -96 +128 +33
Permanent jobs citing SSL 43 62 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.069% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.54% 1.61% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 36 42 156
10th Percentile £36,875 £28,725 £31,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,364
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.66% +36.97%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,212 £69,625 £68,359
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,961 3,855 9,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.77% 14.60% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,898 2,598 7,189
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £45,000 £43,227
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +4.10% -3.94%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -6.86%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SSL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SSL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SSL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SSL

SSL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

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 17 April 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
Midlands -47 10 £59,250 -15.36% 2
North of England -49 10 £50,300 -1.85% 4
North West -12 9 £40,000 -17.95% 3
East of England -20 8 £46,250 +34.06% 5
West Midlands -21 8 £60,600 - 2
Wales - 7 £85,000 - 1
South East -58 5 £46,000 -23.33% 12
South West -51 3 £40,000 -20.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 £44,250 -
Yorkshire -58 1 £70,932 +49.33%
SSL
UK

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.65%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) CMS
2 2 (4.65%) JBoss
2 2 (4.65%) nginx
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) WordPress
3 1 (2.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 17 (39.53%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) SaaS
4 8 (18.60%) GCP
5 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Datadog
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.33%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (48.84%) DNS
2 12 (27.91%) Firewall
3 11 (25.58%) VPN
4 9 (20.93%) TCP/IP
5 8 (18.60%) HTTP
5 8 (18.60%) VLAN
6 7 (16.28%) DHCP
7 5 (11.63%) Network Security
7 5 (11.63%) WAN
8 4 (9.30%) LAN
9 3 (6.98%) DMZ
9 3 (6.98%) SMTP
9 3 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (6.98%) Wireless
10 2 (4.65%) Ethernet
10 2 (4.65%) FTP
10 2 (4.65%) HTTPS
10 2 (4.65%) Internet
10 2 (4.65%) SSH
10 2 (4.65%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.65%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) Subversion
General
1 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.98%) Retail
6 2 (4.65%) Advertising
6 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (16.28%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) Head of IT
3 5 (11.63%) Junior
3 5 (11.63%) Site Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 4 (9.30%) IT Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) IT Support
5 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Applications Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Service Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) REST
2 6 (13.95%) OAuth
2 6 (13.95%) Web Services
3 4 (9.30%) JSON
3 4 (9.30%) LDAP
3 4 (9.30%) SOAP
3 4 (9.30%) XML
4 3 (6.98%) JDBC
4 3 (6.98%) SAML
5 2 (4.65%) CSS
5 2 (4.65%) CSS3
5 2 (4.65%) HTML
5 2 (4.65%) HTML5
5 2 (4.65%) Kafka
5 2 (4.65%) Keycloak
5 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.65%) OpenID
5 2 (4.65%) React
6 1 (2.33%) .NET
6 1 (2.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Onboarding
2 6 (13.95%) Security Posture
3 5 (11.63%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (11.63%) PKI
4 4 (9.30%) Digital Media
5 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
6 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.65%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Windows
2 13 (30.23%) Linux
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.65%) Android
4 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.65%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.33%) FreeBSD
5 1 (2.33%) OpenBSD
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) ITIL
2 10 (23.26%) Incident Response
3 9 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (16.28%) Cloud Security
4 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
4 7 (16.28%) High Availability
5 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.95%) DevOps
6 5 (11.63%) Agile
6 5 (11.63%) API Integration
6 5 (11.63%) Decision-Making
6 5 (11.63%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
6 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (9.30%) Cryptography
7 4 (9.30%) Migration
7 4 (9.30%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) SQL
2 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.98%) Bash
3 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.98%) Python
4 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Degree
2 5 (11.63%) CISSP
3 4 (9.30%) CCNP
3 4 (9.30%) CEH
3 4 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (9.30%) CISM
4 3 (6.98%) CCNA
4 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.33%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) GDPR
1 7 (16.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.30%) NIST
2 4 (9.30%) SLA
2 4 (9.30%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.33%) KVM
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (11.63%) Grafana
2 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.98%) Ansible
4 3 (6.98%) CASB
4 3 (6.98%) FortiGate
4 3 (6.98%) Terraform
5 2 (4.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (4.65%) Argo
5 2 (4.65%) Istio
5 2 (4.65%) Nagios
5 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.65%) Puppet
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Splunk
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 7 (16.28%) VMware
4 5 (11.63%) SolarWinds
5 3 (6.98%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (6.98%) Dell
5 3 (6.98%) Netskope
5 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.65%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.65%) Cisco
6 2 (4.65%) IBM
6 2 (4.65%) New Relic
6 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.33%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.33%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.33%) Meraki
7 1 (2.33%) Oracle
7 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.33%) Veeam