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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 399 388
Rank change year-on-year +76 -11 +103
Permanent jobs citing SSL 47 38 96
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.31% 0.23% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.34% 1.73% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 37 22 90
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,188 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £63,438 £88,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,725 -
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 1,406 2,191 2,904
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.24% 13.31% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 882 1,232 2,459
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -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 15 January 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 16 (34.04%) Tomcat
1 16 (34.04%) WebSphere
1 16 (34.04%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (12.77%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 26 (55.32%) AWS
2 17 (36.17%) Azure
3 11 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (14.89%) Entra ID
5 6 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (12.77%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (12.77%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (12.77%) Amazon S3
5 6 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (12.77%) Azure Storage
5 6 (12.77%) Route 53
5 6 (12.77%) Serverless
5 6 (12.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (10.64%) IaaS
7 4 (8.51%) GCP
7 4 (8.51%) SaaS
8 2 (4.26%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.04%) DNS
2 14 (29.79%) Firewall
2 14 (29.79%) VPN
3 10 (21.28%) TCP/IP
4 9 (19.15%) HTTP
5 8 (17.02%) VLAN
6 7 (14.89%) WAN
7 6 (12.77%) SD-WAN
8 3 (6.38%) DHCP
8 3 (6.38%) FTP
8 3 (6.38%) Internet
8 3 (6.38%) LAN
8 3 (6.38%) SMTP
8 3 (6.38%) SNMP
8 3 (6.38%) SSH
8 3 (6.38%) Telnet
8 3 (6.38%) Wireless
9 2 (4.26%) IPsec
9 2 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (4.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) DB2
1 16 (34.04%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
3 6 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 18 (38.30%) Banking
2 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 10 (21.28%) Investment Banking
4 9 (19.15%) Finance
5 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Applications Support
2 15 (31.91%) Linux Support
3 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (21.28%) Unix Support
5 8 (17.02%) Support Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Applications Support Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Junior
6 6 (12.77%) Site Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (10.64%) 3rd Line Support Technician
7 5 (10.64%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Linux Support Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Support Technician
8 4 (8.51%) Head of Cybersecurity
8 4 (8.51%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (34.04%) LDAP
1 16 (34.04%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (2.13%) JSON
2 1 (2.13%) OAuth
2 1 (2.13%) REST
2 1 (2.13%) SOAP
2 1 (2.13%) XML
2 1 (2.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (31.91%) Management Information System
3 6 (12.77%) CMDB
4 4 (8.51%) Digital Media
4 4 (8.51%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.38%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.26%) iPad
6 2 (4.26%) iPhone
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 40 (85.11%) Windows
2 24 (51.06%) Linux
3 18 (38.30%) Unix
4 16 (34.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (29.79%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (63.83%) ITIL
2 20 (42.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (34.04%) Change Management
3 16 (34.04%) Release Management
3 16 (34.04%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (27.66%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (17.02%) Proactive Monitoring
6 7 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (14.89%) Data Loss Prevention
6 7 (14.89%) Incident Response
6 7 (14.89%) Migration
7 6 (12.77%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (12.77%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.77%) Service Management
7 6 (12.77%) SIEM
7 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (12.77%) Storage Management
7 6 (12.77%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) Python
2 7 (14.89%) SQL
3 6 (12.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (55.32%) Degree
2 16 (34.04%) AWS Certification
2 16 (34.04%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (10.64%) CCNA
3 5 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (10.64%) DBS Check
4 4 (8.51%) CEH
4 4 (8.51%) CISM
4 4 (8.51%) CISSP
5 2 (4.26%) GCFA
5 2 (4.26%) GCIA
5 2 (4.26%) GCIH
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (34.04%) SLA
2 6 (12.77%) NIST
3 4 (8.51%) GDPR
3 4 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.51%) SOC 2
4 2 (4.26%) COBIT
5 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.77%) Hyper-V
2 6 (12.77%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.77%) Grafana
2 6 (12.77%) Prometheus
2 6 (12.77%) Terraform
3 5 (10.64%) Autotask
4 2 (4.26%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (4.26%) Suricata
5 1 (2.13%) CASB
5 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) IBM
1 16 (34.04%) Red Hat
2 10 (21.28%) ServiceNow
3 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.77%) SolarWinds
4 6 (12.77%) SonicWALL
4 6 (12.77%) Splunk
5 2 (4.26%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) Meraki
6 1 (2.13%) Netskope
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle