Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 620 622 709
Rank change year-on-year +2 +87 +31
Permanent jobs citing SSL 97 287 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.13% 2.12% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 66 215 167
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% +5.45%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £78,125 £75,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,364 £37,500
% change year-on-year -7.52% +36.97% -28.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,582 13,531 15,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 13.64% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,313 9,431 7,998
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -3.23%

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 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SSL in the UK

SSL
Top 13 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 12 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
England -21 78 £55,000 +4.76% 161
UK excluding London +21 65 £47,500 -7.52% 113
Work from Home +17 28 £55,000 +3.29% 130
London +76 26 £60,000 -20.00% 100
South East +39 24 £62,500 +19.05% 65
South West +103 11 £50,000 -4.76% 15
Scotland +114 10 £40,000 - 4
East of England +48 10 £27,500 -49.54% 4
Midlands +49 7 £70,000 +33.33% 9
West Midlands +53 6 - - 3
North of England +2 4 £47,500 +11.76% 14
North West -44 3 £48,750 +14.71% 8
Yorkshire +55 1 £47,500 -9.52% 6

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 8 (8.25%) IIS
1 8 (8.25%) Tomcat
2 7 (7.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.09%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.09%) WordPress
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.03%) CICS
4 1 (1.03%) CMS
4 1 (1.03%) Confluence
4 1 (1.03%) nginx
4 1 (1.03%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (7.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) Magento
2 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.33%) Azure
2 38 (39.18%) AWS
3 27 (27.84%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (21.65%) Entra ID
5 13 (13.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (12.37%) Amazon S3
7 10 (10.31%) SaaS
8 8 (8.25%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (8.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 8 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (8.25%) Google Workspace
8 8 (8.25%) Serverless
9 7 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (7.22%) AWS KMS
9 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (7.22%) Power Automate
10 5 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.12%) GCP
11 4 (4.12%) OneDrive
12 3 (3.09%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.77%) Firewall
2 21 (21.65%) IPsec
3 19 (19.59%) VPN
4 17 (17.53%) TCP/IP
5 15 (15.46%) DNS
6 13 (13.40%) BGP
6 13 (13.40%) VLAN
7 12 (12.37%) OSPF
7 12 (12.37%) Wireless
8 9 (9.28%) HTTP
8 9 (9.28%) LAN
9 8 (8.25%) EIGRP
10 7 (7.22%) DMARC
11 6 (6.19%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (6.19%) WAN
12 5 (5.15%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (5.15%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (5.15%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (5.15%) RIP
12 5 (5.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.28%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.19%) Electronic Patient Records
3 6 (6.19%) MySQL
4 4 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.06%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.03%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.03%) Redis
6 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.22%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (5.15%) JIRA
4 4 (4.12%) Git
5 3 (3.09%) Vagrant
6 2 (2.06%) Maven
7 1 (1.03%) Gradle
7 1 (1.03%) Log4Net
7 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.37%) Finance
2 12 (12.37%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.22%) Czech Language
4 7 (7.22%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Health Technology
6 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Marketing
7 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (17.53%) IT Support
2 15 (15.46%) Analyst
3 13 (13.40%) Senior
4 10 (10.31%) Administrator
4 10 (10.31%) Linux Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Network Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Development Manager
6 7 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) IT Administrator
6 7 (7.22%) Lead
7 6 (6.19%) Integration Specialist
7 6 (6.19%) IT Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Technical Support
8 5 (5.15%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Security Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.46%) JSON
2 13 (13.40%) XML
3 11 (11.34%) SOAP
4 10 (10.31%) OAuth
4 10 (10.31%) REST
5 7 (7.22%) Android Jetpack
5 7 (7.22%) Jetpack Compose
5 7 (7.22%) Middleware
5 7 (7.22%) SwiftUI
5 7 (7.22%) UIKit
6 6 (6.19%) FHIR
7 5 (5.15%) 802.1X
7 5 (5.15%) YAML
8 3 (3.09%) LDAP
8 3 (3.09%) Web Services
9 2 (2.06%) Ajax
9 2 (2.06%) EDI
9 2 (2.06%) HTML
9 2 (2.06%) LAMP
9 2 (2.06%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.43%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (12.37%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.25%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (7.22%) Virtual Team
5 6 (6.19%) NHS
5 6 (6.19%) Replication
6 5 (5.15%) Clustering
7 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.09%) Client/Server
8 3 (3.09%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (3.09%) iPad
8 3 (3.09%) iPhone
8 3 (3.09%) PKI
8 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.09%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (2.06%) Life Science
9 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (2.06%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 34 (35.05%) Linux
2 24 (24.74%) Windows
3 17 (17.53%) Unix
4 9 (9.28%) Ubuntu
5 7 (7.22%) Android
5 7 (7.22%) Apple iOS
6 6 (6.19%) Mac OS
6 6 (6.19%) Windows Server
7 5 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (4.12%) Solaris
8 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (4.12%) zOS
9 3 (3.09%) CentOS
9 3 (3.09%) VMS
10 2 (2.06%) AIX
10 2 (2.06%) Debian
10 2 (2.06%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.84%) Agile
2 23 (23.71%) Customer Service
3 21 (21.65%) Roadmaps
4 18 (18.56%) DevOps
5 17 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.49%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (16.49%) Patch Management
7 15 (15.46%) Project Management
8 13 (13.40%) ITIL
9 12 (12.37%) Business Continuity
9 12 (12.37%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (11.34%) Technology Roadmap
11 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (10.31%) Key Management
11 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (9.28%) Cloud Security
12 9 (9.28%) CRM
12 9 (9.28%) Vulnerability Management
13 8 (8.25%) Capacity Management
13 8 (8.25%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.68%) PowerShell
2 20 (20.62%) Java
3 18 (18.56%) SQL
4 17 (17.53%) Python
5 9 (9.28%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.28%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.22%) Kotlin
6 7 (7.22%) Swift
6 7 (7.22%) VBA
7 6 (6.19%) Bash
8 5 (5.15%) Perl
9 4 (4.12%) C#
10 3 (3.09%) Go
10 3 (3.09%) Groovy
10 3 (3.09%) PHP
10 3 (3.09%) Ruby
11 2 (2.06%) AWK
11 2 (2.06%) C
11 2 (2.06%) C++
11 2 (2.06%) Korn
Qualifications
1 21 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.34%) CompTIA Security+
2 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (9.28%) CCNP
3 9 (9.28%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (8.25%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.25%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.22%) CCNA
5 7 (7.22%) Degree
6 5 (5.15%) CompTIA CySA+
6 5 (5.15%) GIAC
6 5 (5.15%) MCSA
7 2 (2.06%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.03%) CCA
8 1 (1.03%) CISM
8 1 (1.03%) CISSP
8 1 (1.03%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.19%) HL7
2 6 (6.19%) SNOMED CT
3 5 (5.15%) NCSC
3 5 (5.15%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (4.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (4.12%) SLA
5 2 (2.06%) GDPR
5 2 (2.06%) NIST
6 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (36.08%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (10.31%) Docker
4 7 (7.22%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (5.15%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.06%) KVM
6 2 (2.06%) Postfix
6 2 (2.06%) Sendmail
6 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (1.03%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 15 (15.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (11.34%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (11.34%) Terraform
3 10 (10.31%) Ansible
3 10 (10.31%) Nessus
4 7 (7.22%) Proxmox
5 5 (5.15%) Graylog
5 5 (5.15%) Nagios
6 4 (4.12%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (4.12%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (3.09%) Grafana
8 1 (1.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (1.03%) HP UCMDB
8 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.03%) Puppet
8 1 (1.03%) SCCM
8 1 (1.03%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (1.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (37.11%) Microsoft
2 20 (20.62%) Cisco
3 11 (11.34%) Juniper
4 9 (9.28%) Meraki
4 9 (9.28%) Oracle
5 8 (8.25%) Google
6 7 (7.22%) Red Hat
6 7 (7.22%) VMware
7 6 (6.19%) Apple
7 6 (6.19%) SAP
8 5 (5.15%) Zscaler
9 4 (4.12%) Citrix
9 4 (4.12%) Palo Alto
9 4 (4.12%) SolarWinds
10 3 (3.09%) Concur
10 3 (3.09%) HubSpot
10 3 (3.09%) Splunk
10 3 (3.09%) Tenable
10 3 (3.09%) Thales
11 2 (2.06%) ForeScout