Hybrid/Remote SSL Job Trends

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SSL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 393 409
Rank change year-on-year +49 +16 +126
Permanent jobs citing SSL 43 28 143
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.26% 0.19% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.53% 1.52% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 34 22 134
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,250 £39,113
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,424 £57,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £63,625 £88,750
UK median annual salary £58,375 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +6.14% +1.85% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,697 1,844 3,967
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.20% 12.76% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 939 1,189 3,440
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,733 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +4.76% -8.61%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £41,000 £53,275 £47,500
% change year-on-year -23.04% +12.16% -9.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SSL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SSL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSL

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSL over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

SSL salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (20.93%) Tomcat
1 9 (20.93%) WebSphere
1 9 (20.93%) WebSphere Application Server
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (6.98%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 15 (34.88%) Azure
3 7 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.95%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.63%) SaaS
6 4 (9.30%) GCP
6 4 (9.30%) IaaS
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Storage
7 3 (6.98%) Route 53
7 3 (6.98%) Serverless
7 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.65%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (37.21%) DNS
2 15 (34.88%) VPN
3 13 (30.23%) Firewall
4 9 (20.93%) HTTP
4 9 (20.93%) TCP/IP
5 8 (18.60%) VLAN
6 5 (11.63%) WAN
7 4 (9.30%) SD-WAN
7 4 (9.30%) SMTP
8 3 (6.98%) DHCP
8 3 (6.98%) FTP
8 3 (6.98%) Internet
8 3 (6.98%) LAN
8 3 (6.98%) SNMP
8 3 (6.98%) SSH
8 3 (6.98%) Telnet
8 3 (6.98%) Wireless
9 2 (4.65%) HTTPS
9 2 (4.65%) IPsec
9 2 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) DB2
1 9 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Banking
3 8 (18.60%) Finance
4 6 (13.95%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Applications Support
1 9 (20.93%) Linux Support
2 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (13.95%) Unix Support
3 5 (11.63%) Junior
3 5 (11.63%) Site Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Support Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (9.30%) 3rd Line Support Technician
4 4 (9.30%) Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 4 (9.30%) Head of IT
4 4 (9.30%) Support Technician
5 3 (6.98%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) LDAP
2 9 (20.93%) LAPP Stack
2 9 (20.93%) WebSphere MQ
3 4 (9.30%) REST
4 3 (6.98%) JDBC
4 3 (6.98%) SAML
4 3 (6.98%) Web Services
5 1 (2.33%) JSON
5 1 (2.33%) Kafka
5 1 (2.33%) OAuth
5 1 (2.33%) SOAP
5 1 (2.33%) XML
5 1 (2.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Management Information System
2 9 (20.93%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.30%) Digital Media
3 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
3 4 (9.30%) PKI
4 3 (6.98%) CMDB
4 3 (6.98%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.65%) iPad
5 2 (4.65%) iPhone
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Windows
2 15 (34.88%) Linux
3 10 (23.26%) Windows Server
4 9 (20.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (20.93%) Unix
5 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.65%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.33%) FreeBSD
6 1 (2.33%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) ITIL
2 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (23.26%) Change Management
4 9 (20.93%) Release Management
4 9 (20.93%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (16.28%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (16.28%) Migration
5 7 (16.28%) Service Delivery
6 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (13.95%) Data Loss Prevention
6 6 (13.95%) Incident Response
6 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.63%) Agile
7 5 (11.63%) Cloud Security
7 5 (11.63%) Roadmaps
7 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (9.30%) Computer Science
8 4 (9.30%) Cryptography
8 4 (9.30%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) Python
2 5 (11.63%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (41.86%) Degree
2 9 (20.93%) AWS Certification
2 9 (20.93%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (11.63%) CISSP
4 4 (9.30%) CCNA
4 4 (9.30%) CEH
4 4 (9.30%) CISM
4 4 (9.30%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CCIE
5 1 (2.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.26%) SLA
2 4 (9.30%) GDPR
2 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.30%) NIST
2 4 (9.30%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.98%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.33%) KVM
4 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (16.28%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (11.63%) Grafana
3 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
3 5 (11.63%) Terraform
4 4 (9.30%) Autotask
5 2 (4.65%) Ansible
5 2 (4.65%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (2.33%) CASB
6 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.33%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) IBM
2 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.93%) Red Hat
2 9 (20.93%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.63%) SolarWinds
3 5 (11.63%) Splunk
4 3 (6.98%) SonicWALL
5 2 (4.65%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco
6 1 (2.33%) Meraki
6 1 (2.33%) Netskope
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) VMware