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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 700 739
Rank change year-on-year +78 +39 -135
Permanent jobs citing SSL 287 277 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.12% 1.76% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 215 163 382
10th Percentile £33,300 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,950 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +7.18% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,364 £37,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +36.97% -26.83% -2.38%

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 13,519 15,777 20,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.57% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,018 11,667
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SSL in the UK

SSL
Top 17 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 9 May 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
England +107 252 £52,500 -12.50% 49
UK excluding London +63 209 £51,364 +36.97% 30
Work from Home +74 151 £53,250 -18.08% 23
South East +47 82 £52,500 +23.53% 11
North of England +86 64 £42,500 +13.33% 6
London +52 64 £75,000 +15.38% 19
North West +57 49 £42,500 +18.06% 3
Midlands +6 28 £52,500 -16.00% 3
Yorkshire +90 16 £52,500 +31.25% 3
West Midlands +14 14 £54,000 -13.60% 2
South West -22 14 £52,500 +64.06% 4
East Midlands - 14 £52,500 - 1
Wales +12 10 £50,000 - 1
East of England +5 8 £54,500 +55.71% 4
Scotland -76 8 - - 3
North East -9 5 £62,500 +66.67%
Northern Ireland +25 4 - -

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 46 (16.03%) WebLogic
2 40 (13.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (12.89%) IIS
4 22 (7.67%) SharePoint
5 20 (6.97%) nginx
6 19 (6.62%) Apache
7 13 (4.53%) CMS
8 12 (4.18%) WordPress
9 8 (2.79%) Skype for Business
10 7 (2.44%) Confluence
11 5 (1.74%) Tomcat
12 4 (1.39%) JBoss
13 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (16.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (2.09%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.74%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (37.63%) Azure
2 98 (34.15%) AWS
3 59 (20.56%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (16.03%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (16.03%) Amazon SQS
5 19 (6.62%) SaaS
6 13 (4.53%) Entra ID
7 12 (4.18%) iTunes
8 10 (3.48%) IaaS
8 10 (3.48%) PaaS
8 10 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (2.44%) AWS Direct Connect
9 7 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 5 (1.74%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.39%) Datadog
11 4 (1.39%) GCP
11 4 (1.39%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 157 (54.70%) DNS
2 123 (42.86%) Firewall
3 112 (39.02%) TCP/IP
4 87 (30.31%) BGP
5 84 (29.27%) VPN
6 59 (20.56%) WAN
7 53 (18.47%) LAN
7 53 (18.47%) Network Security
8 46 (16.03%) DHCP
9 36 (12.54%) IPsec
10 34 (11.85%) OSPF
11 26 (9.06%) HTTP
11 26 (9.06%) MPLS
11 26 (9.06%) Wireless
12 25 (8.71%) HTTPS
13 24 (8.36%) Internet
13 24 (8.36%) VoIP
14 22 (7.67%) SNMP
15 21 (7.32%) SMTP
16 20 (6.97%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.77%) Relational Database
2 49 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (16.38%) RDBMS
4 46 (16.03%) Oracle Database
5 39 (13.59%) SQL Server
6 17 (5.92%) MySQL
7 5 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (4.88%) Git
2 8 (2.79%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.79%) Vagrant
3 7 (2.44%) JIRA
4 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.74%) GitLab
5 3 (1.05%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.35%) Log4Net
6 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.35%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 86 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (8.36%) Finance
4 13 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (4.18%) Law
5 12 (4.18%) Marketing
5 12 (4.18%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.48%) Legal
7 9 (3.14%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.09%) Banking
8 6 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.39%) Aviation
9 4 (1.39%) Avionics
9 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.70%) Automotive
11 2 (0.70%) Electronics
11 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Police
12 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (29.27%) Lead
2 69 (24.04%) Architect
3 47 (16.38%) Solutions Architect
4 46 (16.03%) Lead Architect
4 46 (16.03%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 41 (14.29%) Developer
6 40 (13.94%) Network Engineer
7 39 (13.59%) Senior
8 24 (8.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (6.62%) Analyst
9 19 (6.62%) IT Engineer
9 19 (6.62%) Lead Developer
9 19 (6.62%) Support Engineer
10 14 (4.88%) Security Analyst
11 13 (4.53%) Administrator
12 12 (4.18%) IT Support
12 12 (4.18%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (4.18%) Project Engineer
12 12 (4.18%) Web Manager
13 10 (3.48%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.42%) RabbitMQ
2 48 (16.72%) HTML
3 46 (16.03%) Spring Boot
4 37 (12.89%) CSS
5 30 (10.45%) .NET
6 25 (8.71%) React
7 23 (8.01%) REST
8 22 (7.67%) AngularJS
8 22 (7.67%) ASP.NET
8 22 (7.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 20 (6.97%) XML
10 19 (6.62%) jQuery
10 19 (6.62%) Tailwind CSS
10 19 (6.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 19 (6.62%) Vue
10 19 (6.62%) WPF
11 17 (5.92%) 802.1X
12 14 (4.88%) LDAP
13 13 (4.53%) Web Services
14 12 (4.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.77%) Public Cloud
2 47 (16.38%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (13.94%) Data Centre
4 36 (12.54%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (6.27%) Management Information System
5 18 (6.27%) Replication
6 11 (3.83%) PKI
7 10 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.14%) CMDB
9 8 (2.79%) Client/Server
9 8 (2.79%) Driving Licence
9 8 (2.79%) EFT
9 8 (2.79%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (2.44%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.74%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.39%) Cyberattack
14 3 (1.05%) IBM Storwize
Operating Systems
1 95 (33.10%) Linux
2 71 (24.74%) Windows
3 61 (21.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (10.45%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.83%) Unix
6 8 (2.79%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.79%) CentOS
6 8 (2.79%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.79%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.44%) Android
8 6 (2.09%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (1.05%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (25.78%) Migration
2 73 (25.44%) Agile
3 68 (23.69%) Project Management
4 66 (23.00%) Load Balancing
5 57 (19.86%) Collaborative Working
6 54 (18.82%) Open Source
7 52 (18.12%) Scrum
8 48 (16.72%) SDLC
9 47 (16.38%) ArchiMate
9 47 (16.38%) Kanban
10 46 (16.03%) Actionable Insight
10 46 (16.03%) Cloud Operations
10 46 (16.03%) Data Migration
10 46 (16.03%) Re-Platforming
10 46 (16.03%) Systems Engineering
10 46 (16.03%) TOGAF
11 39 (13.59%) ITIL
12 35 (12.20%) Web Development
13 34 (11.85%) Information Security
13 34 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.77%) SQL
2 34 (11.85%) PowerShell
3 28 (9.76%) JavaScript
4 27 (9.41%) C#
4 27 (9.41%) Python
5 19 (6.62%) XAML
6 13 (4.53%) PHP
7 11 (3.83%) Bash
8 8 (2.79%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.44%) Java
10 3 (1.05%) C
10 3 (1.05%) C++
10 3 (1.05%) Ruby
11 2 (0.70%) AWK
11 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.35%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.35%) Go
12 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (28.22%) Security Cleared
2 73 (25.44%) SC Cleared
3 51 (17.77%) Azure Certification
4 47 (16.38%) AWS Certification
5 46 (16.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 38 (13.24%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (10.45%) Degree
8 16 (5.57%) CCNA
8 16 (5.57%) CCNP
9 12 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.83%) DV Cleared
10 11 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (3.48%) MCSA
12 9 (3.14%) GIAC
13 7 (2.44%) CCIE
14 6 (2.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (2.09%) JNCIA
15 5 (1.74%) JNCIE
15 5 (1.74%) VCAP
15 5 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.09%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.74%) NCSC
3 5 (1.74%) SLA
4 4 (1.39%) NIST
5 3 (1.05%) GRC
6 2 (0.70%) QA
7 1 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 66 (23.00%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.88%) Docker
4 10 (3.48%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.79%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (2.09%) vSphere
7 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.35%) NFS
9 1 (0.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 22 (7.67%) Ansible
2 14 (4.88%) Puppet
2 14 (4.88%) Terraform
3 13 (4.53%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (4.18%) Progress Chef
4 12 (4.18%) SCCM
5 10 (3.48%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.09%) Endace
6 6 (2.09%) HP UCMDB
6 6 (2.09%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.74%) Nagios
7 5 (1.74%) Pingdom
7 5 (1.74%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.39%) WSUS
9 2 (0.70%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.70%) Foglight
9 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 64 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 52 (18.12%) Cisco
3 47 (16.38%) Oracle
4 46 (16.03%) Sparx
5 38 (13.24%) VMware
6 23 (8.01%) Juniper
7 22 (7.67%) F5
8 19 (6.62%) CheckPoint
9 18 (6.27%) Veeam
10 14 (4.88%) Fortinet
10 14 (4.88%) ServiceNow
11 13 (4.53%) Citrix
11 13 (4.53%) SolarWinds
12 12 (4.18%) HP
13 9 (3.14%) Google
14 8 (2.79%) Globalscape
14 8 (2.79%) Ribbon
15 7 (2.44%) Arista
15 7 (2.44%) Tufin
16 6 (2.09%) IBM