SSL Jobs in the UK excluding London

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 545 589
Rank change year-on-year +61 +44 +2
Permanent jobs citing SSL 61 212 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.22% 2.16% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 38 154 69
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,625 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,563 £40,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £51,364 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +36.97% -25.00%
75th Percentile £63,438 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,375 £67,968 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

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 4,991 9,796 11,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.64% 13.97% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,082 7,129 4,890
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,889 £31,250 £31,576
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year - -5.94% -3.81%

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 2025.

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 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
South East +51 24 £60,000 +14.29% 18
South West +110 11 £50,000 -4.76% 15
Scotland +132 10 £40,000 - 5
Midlands +55 7 £70,000 +33.33% 6
East of England +67 6 £30,000 -35.48% 7
West Midlands +42 6 - - 4
North of England +11 4 £47,500 - 17
North West -9 3 £48,750 +14.71% 12
Yorkshire +50 1 £47,500 -17.39% 5
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 4 (6.56%) IIS
1 4 (6.56%) SharePoint
1 4 (6.56%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.64%) CICS
3 1 (1.64%) CMS
3 1 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) AWS
2 24 (39.34%) Azure
3 15 (24.59%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (19.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (14.75%) Entra ID
6 8 (13.11%) Amazon S3
7 7 (11.48%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (11.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 7 (11.48%) AWS KMS
7 7 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.48%) Serverless
8 6 (9.84%) SaaS
9 4 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.56%) OneDrive
10 3 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.92%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (4.92%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (4.92%) Cloudflare
10 3 (4.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.87%) Firewall
1 17 (27.87%) VPN
2 15 (24.59%) IPsec
3 12 (19.67%) BGP
4 11 (18.03%) OSPF
4 11 (18.03%) TCP/IP
5 8 (13.11%) DNS
5 8 (13.11%) HTTP
6 7 (11.48%) EIGRP
6 7 (11.48%) VLAN
7 6 (9.84%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (9.84%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (9.84%) Ethernet VPN
7 6 (9.84%) RIP
7 6 (9.84%) VXLAN
7 6 (9.84%) Wireless
8 4 (6.56%) VoIP
9 3 (4.92%) FTP
9 3 (4.92%) LAN
9 3 (4.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.56%) MySQL
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.48%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (6.56%) JIRA
4 3 (4.92%) Git
4 3 (4.92%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.64%) Log4Net
5 1 (1.64%) Maven
5 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Finance
3 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.92%) Czech Language
5 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Network Engineer
2 10 (16.39%) IT Support
3 8 (13.11%) Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Development Manager
4 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Senior
5 6 (9.84%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Technical Support
6 5 (8.20%) Administrator
7 4 (6.56%) IT Support Technician
7 4 (6.56%) IT Technician
7 4 (6.56%) Project Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Senior IT Support
7 4 (6.56%) Senior IT Technician
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Support Technician
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Technician
7 4 (6.56%) Support Technician
8 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) JSON
2 9 (14.75%) OAuth
3 8 (13.11%) XML
4 7 (11.48%) Android Jetpack
4 7 (11.48%) Jetpack Compose
4 7 (11.48%) SwiftUI
4 7 (11.48%) UIKit
5 5 (8.20%) Middleware
5 5 (8.20%) REST
5 5 (8.20%) SOAP
5 5 (8.20%) YAML
6 2 (3.28%) EDI
6 2 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.28%) LAMP
6 2 (3.28%) LDAP
6 2 (3.28%) Loki
6 2 (3.28%) Web Services
7 1 (1.64%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.64%) Angular 2
7 1 (1.64%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.48%) Virtual Team
3 6 (9.84%) Replication
4 4 (6.56%) Clustering
5 3 (4.92%) Client/Server
5 3 (4.92%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.28%) Life Science
6 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.28%) PKI
6 2 (3.28%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (3.28%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (37.70%) Linux
2 16 (26.23%) Windows
3 13 (21.31%) Unix
4 9 (14.75%) Ubuntu
5 7 (11.48%) Android
5 7 (11.48%) Apple iOS
6 6 (9.84%) Windows Server
7 5 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (6.56%) Solaris
8 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (6.56%) zOS
9 3 (4.92%) CentOS
9 3 (4.92%) Mac OS
9 3 (4.92%) VMS
10 2 (3.28%) AIX
10 2 (3.28%) Debian
10 2 (3.28%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) Agile
2 17 (27.87%) DevOps
2 17 (27.87%) Roadmaps
3 13 (21.31%) Customer Service
4 12 (19.67%) Patch Management
5 11 (18.03%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (14.75%) Key Management
7 8 (13.11%) Capacity Management
7 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.48%) Android Development
8 7 (11.48%) iOS Development
8 7 (11.48%) IT Strategy
8 7 (11.48%) Mobile Development
8 7 (11.48%) Software Delivery
8 7 (11.48%) Strategic Roadmap
8 7 (11.48%) Technical Architecture
8 7 (11.48%) Technology Roadmap
8 7 (11.48%) Technology Strategy
9 6 (9.84%) Project Management
10 5 (8.20%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) Python
2 14 (22.95%) Java
3 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
3 10 (16.39%) SQL
4 8 (13.11%) Shell Script
5 7 (11.48%) Kotlin
5 7 (11.48%) Swift
6 5 (8.20%) Perl
7 4 (6.56%) C#
7 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.92%) Bash
8 3 (4.92%) Go
8 3 (4.92%) Groovy
8 3 (4.92%) Ruby
8 3 (4.92%) VBA
9 2 (3.28%) AWK
9 2 (3.28%) C
9 2 (3.28%) C++
9 2 (3.28%) Korn
9 2 (3.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (32.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.75%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (13.11%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.48%) CCNA
4 7 (11.48%) CCNP
4 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared
6 5 (8.20%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.28%) A+ Certification
7 2 (3.28%) Degree
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.64%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.28%) SLA
5 1 (1.64%) GDPR
5 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (37.70%) Active Directory
2 9 (14.75%) Docker
3 7 (11.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (11.48%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.28%) KVM
5 2 (3.28%) Postfix
5 2 (3.28%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) Nessus
2 9 (14.75%) Ansible
3 7 (11.48%) Proxmox
3 7 (11.48%) Terraform
4 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (8.20%) Graylog
5 5 (8.20%) Nagios
6 4 (6.56%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (3.28%) Grafana
9 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (1.64%) Puppet
9 1 (1.64%) SCCM
9 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.03%) Cisco
2 11 (18.03%) Juniper
3 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
4 5 (8.20%) Oracle
5 3 (4.92%) Apple
5 3 (4.92%) VMware
6 2 (3.28%) Aruba
6 2 (3.28%) Citrix
6 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.28%) Google
6 2 (3.28%) IBM
6 2 (3.28%) Okta
6 2 (3.28%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.28%) SAP
6 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.28%) Splunk
6 2 (3.28%) Tenable
6 2 (3.28%) Thales
7 1 (1.64%) Zscaler