SSL Jobs in the West Midlands

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 233 266
Rank change year-on-year +43 +33 -24
Permanent jobs citing SSL 6 14 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 1.40% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 0 14 9
10th Percentile - £46,860 £50,250
25th Percentile - £48,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £54,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £57,000 £66,250
90th Percentile - £63,750 -
England 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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 504 1,000 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.29% 13.81% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 301 829 521
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,910 £25,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,950 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

SSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SSL in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SSL in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Birmingham +28 4 - - 3
Solihull - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
SSL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (50.00%) Vagrant
4 1 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Maven
4 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Ubuntu
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
4 1 (16.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Capacity Management
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Patch Management
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Key Management
2 4 (66.67%) Server Management
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (50.00%) Groovy
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
2 3 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Nessus
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Proxmox
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) Nagios
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Sophos
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler