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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 376 450
Rank change year-on-year -32 +74 -41
Permanent jobs citing SSL 53 49 44
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.21% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.39% 2.78% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 43 30 20
10th Percentile £40,000 £26,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £55,125 £38,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% +21.05% -24.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £64,313
90th Percentile - £87,500 £89,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -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 2,217 1,765 3,409
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.89% 10.46% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 993 1,531
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,294 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -21.57% -0.97%

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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 2 October 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 13 (24.53%) Anypoint
1 13 (24.53%) Mule
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.77%) CMS
4 1 (1.89%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) ExpressionEngine
4 1 (1.89%) IIS
4 1 (1.89%) nginx
4 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.89%) Houdini
1 1 (1.89%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 21 (39.62%) Azure
2 16 (30.19%) AWS
3 11 (20.75%) Entra ID
4 8 (15.09%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.55%) Cloudflare
6 3 (5.66%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.77%) GitHub
7 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.89%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.89%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.89%) PaaS
8 1 (1.89%) Route 53
8 1 (1.89%) SaaS
8 1 (1.89%) Serverless
8 1 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (52.83%) DNS
2 23 (43.40%) VPN
3 18 (33.96%) DHCP
4 17 (32.08%) HTTP
5 14 (26.42%) BGP
5 14 (26.42%) IPsec
5 14 (26.42%) SSH
6 13 (24.53%) Network Security
6 13 (24.53%) VLAN
7 12 (22.64%) SNMP
8 11 (20.75%) MPLS
8 11 (20.75%) WAN
9 10 (18.87%) Firewall
9 10 (18.87%) FTP
9 10 (18.87%) ICMP
9 10 (18.87%) SD-WAN
10 9 (16.98%) TCP/IP
11 5 (9.43%) Broadband
12 4 (7.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (7.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.89%) Big Data
2 1 (1.89%) MySQL
2 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Git
1 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (24.53%) Law
1 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Marketing
2 4 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Finance
3 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.77%) Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Retail
4 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Developer
2 13 (24.53%) Lead
2 13 (24.53%) Lead Developer
2 13 (24.53%) MuleSoft Developer
3 11 (20.75%) Architect
4 10 (18.87%) Network Architect
4 10 (18.87%) Network Security Architect
4 10 (18.87%) Security Architect
5 6 (11.32%) Network Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (7.55%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 4 (7.55%) Platform Specialist
6 4 (7.55%) Security Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) IT Support
7 3 (5.66%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (43.40%) OAuth
2 13 (24.53%) JWT
2 13 (24.53%) MUnit
2 13 (24.53%) OAuth2
2 13 (24.53%) RAML
3 11 (20.75%) SAML
4 5 (9.43%) RESTful
5 3 (5.66%) HTML
6 2 (3.77%) CSS
6 2 (3.77%) Terraform
7 1 (1.89%) .NET
7 1 (1.89%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.89%) Framer.js
7 1 (1.89%) Kafka
7 1 (1.89%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (1.89%) LDAP
7 1 (1.89%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (1.89%) REST
7 1 (1.89%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (1.89%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.42%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (18.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 6 (11.32%) Onboarding
3 6 (11.32%) PKI
4 5 (9.43%) Security Posture
5 4 (7.55%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (7.55%) Cyberattack
5 4 (7.55%) Replication
6 3 (5.66%) iPad
7 2 (3.77%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.77%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.89%) Motion Graphics
8 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Windows
2 7 (13.21%) Linux
3 3 (5.66%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (28.30%) CI/CD
3 14 (26.42%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (24.53%) Batch Processing
4 13 (24.53%) Event-Driven
4 13 (24.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 13 (24.53%) Mentoring
4 13 (24.53%) Test Automation
5 10 (18.87%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 10 (18.87%) Network Segmentation
6 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.43%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (9.43%) RBAC
8 4 (7.55%) Cryptography
8 4 (7.55%) DevOps
8 4 (7.55%) E-Discovery
8 4 (7.55%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (7.55%) Key Management
8 4 (7.55%) Load Balancing
8 4 (7.55%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) DataWeave
2 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.21%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.66%) SQL
4 2 (3.77%) Bash
5 1 (1.89%) Bicep
5 1 (1.89%) C#
5 1 (1.89%) Delphi
5 1 (1.89%) Pascal
5 1 (1.89%) PHP
5 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (30.19%) SC Cleared
1 16 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) Degree
3 2 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (3.77%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 14 (26.42%) NIST
2 5 (9.43%) SLA
3 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) CloudHub
2 11 (20.75%) CASB
3 10 (18.87%) FortiGate
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.66%) Ansible
6 2 (3.77%) Graylog
7 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.89%) Puppet
7 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (43.40%) Microsoft
2 15 (28.30%) Cisco
3 13 (24.53%) MuleSoft
3 13 (24.53%) Salesforce
3 13 (24.53%) SAP
3 13 (24.53%) ServiceNow
4 10 (18.87%) Palo Alto
5 5 (9.43%) Google
6 4 (7.55%) F5
6 4 (7.55%) Thales
7 3 (5.66%) Fortinet
7 3 (5.66%) Ubiquiti
7 3 (5.66%) VMware
8 2 (3.77%) Arista
9 1 (1.89%) Acronis
9 1 (1.89%) Adobe
9 1 (1.89%) Foundry
9 1 (1.89%) Meraki
9 1 (1.89%) SonicWALL