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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 412 377
Rank change year-on-year +91 -35 -62
Permanent jobs citing SSL 45 36 93
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.29% 0.21% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.32% 1.58% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 35 20 88
10th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £45,653
25th Percentile £39,375 £38,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,313 £88,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,000 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +8.70%

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 1,354 2,279 2,773
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.85% 13.17% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 918 1,323 2,345
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,056 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

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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 24 December 2025.

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 16 (35.56%) Tomcat
1 16 (35.56%) WebSphere
1 16 (35.56%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (13.33%) IIS
4 1 (2.22%) Apache
4 1 (2.22%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) AWS
2 17 (37.78%) Azure
3 11 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.56%) Entra ID
5 6 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 6 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.33%) Azure Storage
5 6 (13.33%) Route 53
5 6 (13.33%) Serverless
5 6 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (11.11%) IaaS
6 5 (11.11%) SaaS
7 4 (8.89%) GCP
8 2 (4.44%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (31.11%) Firewall
1 14 (31.11%) VPN
2 13 (28.89%) DNS
3 10 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 8 (17.78%) VLAN
5 7 (15.56%) HTTP
5 7 (15.56%) WAN
6 6 (13.33%) SD-WAN
7 3 (6.67%) DHCP
7 3 (6.67%) FTP
7 3 (6.67%) Internet
7 3 (6.67%) LAN
7 3 (6.67%) SMTP
7 3 (6.67%) SNMP
7 3 (6.67%) SSH
7 3 (6.67%) Telnet
7 3 (6.67%) Wireless
8 2 (4.44%) IPsec
8 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (35.56%) DB2
1 16 (35.56%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
3 6 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 18 (40.00%) Banking
2 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 9 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Applications Support
2 15 (33.33%) Linux Support
3 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Unix Support
5 8 (17.78%) Support Engineer
6 7 (15.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Technician
8 5 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) Linux Support Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) Support Technician
9 4 (8.89%) Head of Cybersecurity
9 4 (8.89%) Head of IT
10 3 (6.67%) Junior
10 3 (6.67%) Site Engineer
10 3 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (35.56%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (35.56%) LDAP
1 16 (35.56%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (4.44%) OAuth
3 1 (2.22%) JSON
3 1 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (2.22%) SAML
3 1 (2.22%) SOAP
3 1 (2.22%) XML
3 1 (2.22%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (35.56%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (13.33%) CMDB
4 4 (8.89%) Digital Media
4 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.44%) iPad
6 2 (4.44%) iPhone
6 2 (4.44%) PKI
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (82.22%) Windows
2 22 (48.89%) Linux
3 19 (42.22%) Unix
4 16 (35.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (31.11%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.44%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) ITIL
2 20 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (35.56%) Change Management
3 16 (35.56%) Release Management
3 16 (35.56%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (28.89%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (17.78%) Proactive Monitoring
6 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (15.56%) Data Loss Prevention
6 7 (15.56%) Incident Response
6 7 (15.56%) Migration
7 6 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (13.33%) Cloud Security
7 6 (13.33%) Service Management
7 6 (13.33%) SIEM
7 6 (13.33%) Storage Management
7 6 (13.33%) Threat Detection
8 5 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) SQL
3 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (57.78%) Degree
2 16 (35.56%) AWS Certification
2 16 (35.56%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (11.11%) CCNA
3 5 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (11.11%) CISSP
3 5 (11.11%) DBS Check
4 4 (8.89%) CEH
4 4 (8.89%) CISM
5 2 (4.44%) GCFA
5 2 (4.44%) GCIA
5 2 (4.44%) GCIH
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (35.56%) SLA
2 6 (13.33%) NIST
3 4 (8.89%) GDPR
3 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.89%) SOC 2
4 2 (4.44%) COBIT
5 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 6 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (15.56%) Terraform
3 5 (11.11%) Autotask
4 3 (6.67%) Grafana
4 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.44%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (4.44%) Suricata
6 1 (2.22%) Ansible
6 1 (2.22%) CASB
6 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Red Hat
2 16 (35.56%) IBM
3 10 (22.22%) ServiceNow
4 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (13.33%) SonicWALL
6 3 (6.67%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.67%) Splunk
7 2 (4.44%) Google
8 1 (2.22%) Imperva
8 1 (2.22%) Meraki
8 1 (2.22%) Netskope
8 1 (2.22%) Oracle