Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 549 461 649
Rank change year-on-year -88 +188 -76
Permanent jobs citing SSL 185 874 500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.69% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.25% 5.54% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 159 282 332
10th Percentile £38,183 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,603 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £88,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £88,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,218 15,777 16,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.19% 12.54% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,418 10,533 11,407
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SSL in the UK

SSL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for SSL in the UK

SSL
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
England -45 167 £60,000 +9.09% 72
UK excluding London -130 114 £52,500 +5.00% 51
Work from Home -108 111 £62,500 +13.64% 45
London +152 65 £82,500 +37.50% 29
South East +26 31 £52,500 -12.50% 15
West Midlands +109 30 £49,565 -4.99% 6
Midlands +101 30 £49,565 -5.59% 7
South West +33 24 £62,500 +50.60% 2
North of England +40 16 £62,500 +52.44% 17
Yorkshire +85 9 £67,500 +92.86% 6
Wales +11 9 £70,576 +66.06% 2
North West +51 7 £55,000 +34.15% 9
Scotland -42 2 £70,576 +93.36% 7
East of England +56 1 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Northern Ireland -31 1 - -

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (13.51%) MS Exchange
2 13 (7.03%) Confluence
2 13 (7.03%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.70%) nginx
4 3 (1.62%) IIS
5 2 (1.08%) Apache
5 2 (1.08%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.08%) JBoss
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (13.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (30.81%) Azure
2 36 (19.46%) SaaS
3 34 (18.38%) AWS
4 31 (16.76%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (9.73%) GCP
6 14 (7.57%) OpenShift
7 13 (7.03%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.49%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.24%) PaaS
10 5 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.16%) IaaS
12 2 (1.08%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (0.54%) Datadog
13 1 (0.54%) GitHub
13 1 (0.54%) Route 53
13 1 (0.54%) Serverless
13 1 (0.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 68 (36.76%) DNS
2 66 (35.68%) VPN
3 59 (31.89%) HTTP
3 59 (31.89%) TCP/IP
4 47 (25.41%) DHCP
5 44 (23.78%) SMTP
6 43 (23.24%) Firewall
7 31 (16.76%) FTP
8 28 (15.14%) SNMP
9 27 (14.59%) SSH
10 25 (13.51%) WAN
11 24 (12.97%) LAN
12 23 (12.43%) Telnet
13 19 (10.27%) Network Security
14 18 (9.73%) BGP
14 18 (9.73%) IPsec
15 15 (8.11%) OSPF
16 11 (5.95%) SD-WAN
17 10 (5.41%) VLAN
18 9 (4.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.59%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.57%) MySQL
3 13 (7.03%) Power BI
4 8 (4.32%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) JIRA
2 11 (5.95%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.41%) Selenium
4 8 (4.32%) JMeter
4 8 (4.32%) SoapUI
4 8 (4.32%) TestLink
5 6 (3.24%) Git
5 6 (3.24%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.62%) GitLab
7 1 (0.54%) Ant
7 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.54%) JUnit
7 1 (0.54%) Maven
7 1 (0.54%) Postman
7 1 (0.54%) Subversion
7 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (17.84%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.14%) Finance
3 20 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.57%) Banking
5 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.24%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.70%) Retail
7 4 (2.16%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.16%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.16%) Publishing
7 4 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.08%) Advertising
8 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Legal
8 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.54%) Aviation
9 1 (0.54%) Military
9 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (36.76%) Senior
2 29 (15.68%) Consultant
2 29 (15.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (15.14%) Technical Consultant
4 26 (14.05%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 25 (13.51%) ITSM Consultant
5 25 (13.51%) Senior Consultant
5 25 (13.51%) Senior ITSM Consultant
5 25 (13.51%) Senior ServiceNow Consultant
5 25 (13.51%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 25 (13.51%) Support Engineer
6 20 (10.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (8.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager
7 15 (8.11%) Cyber Threat Manager
7 15 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (8.11%) Network Engineer
7 15 (8.11%) Threat Intelligence Manager
8 11 (5.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (23.24%) LDAP
2 37 (20.00%) HTML
3 35 (18.92%) CSS
4 30 (16.22%) Web Services
5 29 (15.68%) XML
6 27 (14.59%) SOAP
7 25 (13.51%) Ajax
8 16 (8.65%) Kafka
9 14 (7.57%) Middleware
10 13 (7.03%) REST
11 9 (4.86%) .NET
12 8 (4.32%) ASP.NET
13 7 (3.78%) .NET Core
13 7 (3.78%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (3.24%) .NET Framework
14 6 (3.24%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (3.24%) Entity Framework
15 5 (2.70%) 802.1X
16 3 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
17 2 (1.08%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.30%) Data Centre
2 28 (15.14%) CMDB
3 23 (12.43%) EFT
4 19 (10.27%) Cyber Threat
5 16 (8.65%) Product Ownership
5 16 (8.65%) Public Cloud
6 13 (7.03%) PKI
7 5 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.62%) IoT
9 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.62%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.62%) SCADA
10 2 (1.08%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.08%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.08%) Replication
11 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 53 (28.65%) Windows
2 52 (28.11%) Linux
3 31 (16.76%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.57%) Unix
5 11 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.08%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.54%) VMS
9 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (32.43%) ITIL
2 40 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 36 (19.46%) Presales
4 31 (16.76%) Customer Requirements
4 31 (16.76%) DevOps
5 29 (15.68%) Service Management
6 27 (14.59%) Disaster Recovery
6 27 (14.59%) ITSM
7 26 (14.05%) Technical Architecture
8 25 (13.51%) Customer Engagement
8 25 (13.51%) IT Asset Management
8 25 (13.51%) Thought Leadership
9 24 (12.97%) Server Patching
10 23 (12.43%) High Availability
10 23 (12.43%) Open Source
10 23 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (10.81%) Agile
12 18 (9.73%) Mentoring
13 15 (8.11%) OSINT
13 15 (8.11%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.46%) PowerShell
2 35 (18.92%) JavaScript
3 24 (12.97%) Python
4 16 (8.65%) Bash
5 14 (7.57%) SQL
6 9 (4.86%) C#
7 7 (3.78%) Java
8 3 (1.62%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.08%) C++
9 2 (1.08%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) AWK
10 1 (0.54%) C
10 1 (0.54%) Ruby
10 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 49 (26.49%) SC Cleared
3 48 (25.95%) Degree
4 21 (11.35%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.11%) CREST Certified
5 15 (8.11%) GIAC
6 11 (5.95%) CCNA
7 9 (4.86%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (3.24%) CCNP
9 6 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.24%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.70%) CCSP
10 5 (2.70%) CISSP
10 5 (2.70%) JNCIA
11 4 (2.16%) CCA
11 4 (2.16%) CISM
11 4 (2.16%) Citrix Certification
11 4 (2.16%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.16%) QA
2 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.62%) NIST
2 3 (1.62%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.08%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.54%) PMO
4 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (22.70%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.51%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (8.11%) Docker
4 12 (6.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 12 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (3.24%) XenDesktop
6 5 (2.70%) vSphere
7 4 (2.16%) XenApp
8 3 (1.62%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.62%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.54%) Firmware
9 1 (0.54%) RACF
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (13.51%) HP UCMDB
2 24 (12.97%) vCenter Server
3 23 (12.43%) SCCM
4 20 (10.81%) Ansible
5 15 (8.11%) Terraform
6 14 (7.57%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.70%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.70%) Puppet
8 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.08%) Endace
9 2 (1.08%) VxRail
10 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.54%) FlexNet
10 1 (0.54%) Grafana
10 1 (0.54%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.54%) Nagios
10 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.54%) vRealize
10 1 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (23.24%) Microsoft
2 35 (18.92%) VMware
3 30 (16.22%) Citrix
3 30 (16.22%) ServiceNow
4 28 (15.14%) HP
5 25 (13.51%) BMC
5 25 (13.51%) Remedy
6 23 (12.43%) Globalscape
7 19 (10.27%) Cisco
8 14 (7.57%) Atlassian
9 8 (4.32%) F5
10 7 (3.78%) Fortinet
10 7 (3.78%) Meraki
10 7 (3.78%) SolarWinds
11 6 (3.24%) WatchGuard
12 5 (2.70%) Aruba
13 4 (2.16%) Juniper
13 4 (2.16%) Splunk
14 3 (1.62%) McAfee
14 3 (1.62%) Veeam