SSL Job Trends in Wales

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Permanent jobs citing SSL 4 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.36% - 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.04% - 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £52,800 - £61,231
25th Percentile £73,500 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.06%
75th Percentile - - £72,433
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 196 148 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 17.44% 15.40% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 133 88 92
10th Percentile £21,620 £23,750 £25,225
25th Percentile - £27,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £43,500 £42,845
Median % change year-on-year -42.33% +1.53% -4.79%
75th Percentile £35,000 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £51,450 £65,000 £69,800
UK median annual salary £38,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.97% +7.00% -4.76%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

SSL job vacancy trend in Wales

SSL
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SSL

SSL
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SSL in Wales over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SSL in Wales

SSL
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 Wales - 4 £85,000 - 6
SSL
UK

SSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Media
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
1 3 (75.00%) Tech Ops
1 3 (75.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CEH
1 3 (75.00%) CISM
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
1 3 (75.00%) SOC 2