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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 395 479
Rank change year-on-year -2 +84 +2
Permanent jobs citing SSL 44 31 105
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.21% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.92% 1.62% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 34 19 89
10th Percentile £36,625 - £37,900
25th Percentile £48,750 £26,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.00% -4.76% -10.94%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,922 £78,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £56,250 £61,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.16% +16.67% -

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 2,290 1,919 4,978
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.00% 12.02% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 1,165 3,184
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -6.86%

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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 July 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 6 (13.64%) Anypoint
1 6 (13.64%) Mule
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) IIS
2 1 (2.27%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.27%) Houdini
1 1 (2.27%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) AWS
1 17 (38.64%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) SaaS
3 3 (6.82%) Cloudflare
3 3 (6.82%) GCP
3 3 (6.82%) GitHub
3 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.27%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.27%) Route 53
5 1 (2.27%) Slack
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (40.91%) DNS
2 17 (38.64%) VPN
3 14 (31.82%) HTTP
4 13 (29.55%) SSH
5 11 (25.00%) BGP
5 11 (25.00%) DHCP
5 11 (25.00%) Network Security
5 11 (25.00%) WAN
6 10 (22.73%) IPsec
6 10 (22.73%) MPLS
6 10 (22.73%) SD-WAN
6 10 (22.73%) VLAN
7 9 (20.45%) FTP
7 9 (20.45%) ICMP
7 9 (20.45%) SNMP
8 7 (15.91%) Firewall
9 5 (11.36%) Broadband
10 2 (4.55%) EIGRP
10 2 (4.55%) OSPF
10 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.27%) MySQL
1 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 3 (6.82%) Git
3 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Law
4 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.55%) Retail
8 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Architect
2 10 (22.73%) Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Network Architect
3 9 (20.45%) Network Security Architect
3 9 (20.45%) Security Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Lead
4 6 (13.64%) Lead Developer
4 6 (13.64%) MuleSoft Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Analyst
6 4 (9.09%) Senior
7 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Architect
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Technical Architect
7 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Incident Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) IT Support
8 2 (4.55%) Security Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) OAuth
2 13 (29.55%) SAML
3 7 (15.91%) REST
4 6 (13.64%) JWT
4 6 (13.64%) MUnit
4 6 (13.64%) OAuth2
4 6 (13.64%) RAML
5 4 (9.09%) LDAP
5 4 (9.09%) RESTful
6 3 (6.82%) JDBC
6 3 (6.82%) JSON
6 3 (6.82%) SOAP
6 3 (6.82%) Web Services
6 3 (6.82%) XML
7 2 (4.55%) Kafka
8 1 (2.27%) .NET
8 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
8 1 (2.27%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (2.27%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (2.27%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 9 (20.45%) PKI
2 8 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 7 (15.91%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (9.09%) Cyberattack
4 4 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (6.82%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.27%) Anti-Piracy
7 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.27%) Motion Graphics
7 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Linux
1 8 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) FreeBSD
2 1 (2.27%) OpenBSD
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (22.73%) Mentoring
3 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
3 9 (20.45%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 9 (20.45%) Network Segmentation
4 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (15.91%) Cryptography
6 6 (13.64%) Agile
6 6 (13.64%) Batch Processing
6 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven
6 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (13.64%) Key Management
6 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.36%) BCP
7 5 (11.36%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (11.36%) Project Delivery
8 4 (9.09%) ITIL
8 4 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) DataWeave
2 5 (11.36%) Python
3 4 (9.09%) SQL
4 3 (6.82%) Bash
4 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.27%) C#
5 1 (2.27%) Delphi
5 1 (2.27%) Pascal
5 1 (2.27%) PHP
5 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
1 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.27%) CCIE
4 1 (2.27%) CCNP
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (29.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (29.55%) NIST
2 8 (18.18%) SLA
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.27%) KVM
2 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) CASB
2 9 (20.45%) FortiGate
3 7 (15.91%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (13.64%) CloudHub
5 3 (6.82%) Ansible
5 3 (6.82%) Terraform
6 2 (4.55%) Grafana
6 2 (4.55%) Graylog
6 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.55%) Puppet
7 1 (2.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) Cisco
3 9 (20.45%) Palo Alto
3 9 (20.45%) ServiceNow
4 6 (13.64%) MuleSoft
4 6 (13.64%) Salesforce
4 6 (13.64%) SAP
5 5 (11.36%) Splunk
6 4 (9.09%) Thales
7 2 (4.55%) IBM
7 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.55%) VMware
8 1 (2.27%) Adobe
8 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.27%) Foundry
8 1 (2.27%) Google
8 1 (2.27%) Meraki
8 1 (2.27%) SonicWALL