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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 436 406
Rank change year-on-year +74 -30 -121
Permanent jobs citing SSL 51 40 104
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.31% 0.20% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.97% 1.67% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 30 20 94
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,500 £38,547
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,000 £46,426
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -24.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £76,250 £64,313 £87,188
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.21% -7.83% +4.55%

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 1,717 2,399 3,165
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.54% 11.88% 13.69%
Number of salaries quoted 989 1,421 2,637
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,500 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.62% +5.00% -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 21 October 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 24 (47.06%) Tomcat
2 15 (29.41%) IIS
2 15 (29.41%) WebSphere
2 15 (29.41%) WebSphere Application Server
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.96%) Apache
4 1 (1.96%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (11.76%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Magento
1 1 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (45.10%) Azure
2 21 (41.18%) AWS
3 20 (39.22%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (27.45%) Entra ID
5 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Copilot
5 9 (17.65%) Power Automate
6 8 (15.69%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (15.69%) Serverless
7 6 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (11.76%) Amazon S3
7 6 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (11.76%) Azure Storage
7 6 (11.76%) Route 53
7 6 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (9.80%) IaaS
9 1 (1.96%) Akamai
9 1 (1.96%) GCP
9 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.57%) Firewall
1 11 (21.57%) VPN
2 9 (17.65%) DMARC
3 8 (15.69%) SSH
4 7 (13.73%) TCP/IP
5 6 (11.76%) SD-WAN
5 6 (11.76%) WAN
6 5 (9.80%) VLAN
7 4 (7.84%) HTTP
8 3 (5.88%) Broadband
8 3 (5.88%) DNS
9 2 (3.92%) S/MIME
9 2 (3.92%) Wireshark
9 2 (3.92%) X.509
10 1 (1.96%) BGP
10 1 (1.96%) DHCP
10 1 (1.96%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.96%) SMTP
10 1 (1.96%) SNMP
10 1 (1.96%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (29.41%) DB2
2 15 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 6 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (9.80%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 17 (33.33%) Banking
3 9 (17.65%) Czech Language
3 9 (17.65%) Investment Banking
3 9 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (15.69%) Finance
5 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Applications Support
2 14 (27.45%) Linux Support
3 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Support
4 9 (17.65%) Administrator
4 9 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) IT Administrator
4 9 (17.65%) IT Support
4 9 (17.65%) Unix Support
5 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Applications Support Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Senior
6 6 (11.76%) Support Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (9.80%) 3rd Line Support Technician
7 5 (9.80%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Linux Support Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Senior Manager
7 5 (9.80%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (29.41%) LAPP Stack
1 15 (29.41%) LDAP
1 15 (29.41%) WebSphere MQ
2 9 (17.65%) JSON
2 9 (17.65%) REST
2 9 (17.65%) SOAP
2 9 (17.65%) XML
3 2 (3.92%) EJB
3 2 (3.92%) RESTful
3 2 (3.92%) Web Services
4 1 (1.96%) Jinja
4 1 (1.96%) Middleware
4 1 (1.96%) OAuth
4 1 (1.96%) SAML
4 1 (1.96%) YAML
4 1 (1.96%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Management Information System
2 15 (29.41%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (27.45%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (11.76%) CMDB
6 5 (9.80%) PKI
6 5 (9.80%) Tandem
7 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.92%) Cyberattack
7 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 39 (76.47%) Windows
2 28 (54.90%) Linux
3 27 (52.94%) Unix
4 15 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (23.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Customer Service
2 18 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (33.33%) ITIL
4 15 (29.41%) Change Management
4 15 (29.41%) Release Management
4 15 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
5 12 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (23.53%) Roadmaps
6 11 (21.57%) Agile
6 11 (21.57%) Migration
7 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (19.61%) Project Management
7 10 (19.61%) Security Management
8 9 (17.65%) CRM
8 9 (17.65%) Data Privacy
8 9 (17.65%) Portfolio Management
8 9 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
9 8 (15.69%) Proactive Monitoring
10 6 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (11.76%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) SQL
2 19 (37.25%) Python
3 15 (29.41%) PowerShell
4 14 (27.45%) Java
5 9 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 9 (17.65%) VBA
6 1 (1.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) Degree
2 15 (29.41%) AWS Certification
2 15 (29.41%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (9.80%) CCNA
3 5 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (9.80%) DBS Check
4 3 (5.88%) CISSP
5 2 (3.92%) CISM
5 2 (3.92%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) GCFA
5 2 (3.92%) GCIA
5 2 (3.92%) GCIH
5 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.96%) OSCP
6 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (31.37%) SLA
2 11 (21.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (11.76%) NIST
4 2 (3.92%) COBIT
4 2 (3.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (37.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.76%) Hyper-V
2 6 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.96%) Docker
3 1 (1.96%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (17.65%) Terraform
3 5 (9.80%) Autotask
4 2 (3.92%) Ansible
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (3.92%) Suricata
5 1 (1.96%) Grafana
5 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (31.37%) Red Hat
3 15 (29.41%) IBM
4 9 (17.65%) Oracle
4 9 (17.65%) ServiceNow
5 6 (11.76%) SonicWALL
6 4 (7.84%) Thales
7 1 (1.96%) Adobe
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco
7 1 (1.96%) Freshdesk
7 1 (1.96%) Google
7 1 (1.96%) Imperva
7 1 (1.96%) Nokia
7 1 (1.96%) PayPal
7 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.96%) Splunk