SSL Job Trends in the West Midlands

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring SSL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 204 161
Rank change year-on-year +41 -43 +102
Permanent jobs citing SSL 6 12 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.19% 0.21% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.47% 1.63% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 28
10th Percentile - £41,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +0.88% -13.80%
75th Percentile £53,750 £70,625 £57,000
90th Percentile - £77,500 £57,385
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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 408 735 726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.65% 12.62% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 318 344 587
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,150 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £34,938 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £49,008 £44,242
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% +10.77% -11.52%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.79% -3.81% -

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

SSL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SSL

SSL
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 29 September 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
Worcestershire - 3 £52,500 - 4
Birmingham +25 2 - - 2
Solihull -4 1 - -
SSL
England

SSL
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 2 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) 3G
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) GPRS
1 3 (50.00%) GSM
1 3 (50.00%) Modbus
1 3 (50.00%) RS-232
1 3 (50.00%) RS-485
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (33.33%) Vagrant
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Firmware Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (50.00%) FreeRTOS
2 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Key Management
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C
1 3 (50.00%) C++
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) MISRA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
1 3 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (50.00%) Firmware
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Nessus
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Nagios
2 2 (33.33%) Proxmox
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) VMware