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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 469 427
Rank change year-on-year +84 -42 -124
Permanent jobs citing SSL 44 38 85
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.16% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.44% 1.02% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 27 18 75
10th Percentile £26,250 £37,100 £37,140
25th Percentile £38,125 £38,000 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £76,250 £66,438 £88,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,000 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -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 1,804 3,712 3,301
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.11% 15.90% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,043 1,607 2,760
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

SSL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SSL
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing SSL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing SSL

SSL
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SSL over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

SSL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (40.91%) Tomcat
2 13 (29.55%) IIS
3 9 (20.45%) WebSphere
3 9 (20.45%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.27%) Apache
5 1 (2.27%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (6.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Magento
1 1 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (47.73%) Azure
2 16 (36.36%) AWS
2 16 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (27.27%) Entra ID
4 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Copilot
4 9 (20.45%) Power Automate
5 6 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.64%) Serverless
6 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Storage
6 4 (9.09%) Route 53
6 4 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (6.82%) IaaS
8 2 (4.55%) SaaS
9 1 (2.27%) Akamai
9 1 (2.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.45%) DMARC
1 9 (20.45%) VPN
2 8 (18.18%) Firewall
3 7 (15.91%) SSH
4 5 (11.36%) SD-WAN
4 5 (11.36%) WAN
5 4 (9.09%) HTTP
5 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 4 (9.09%) VLAN
6 3 (6.82%) Broadband
6 3 (6.82%) S/MIME
6 3 (6.82%) X.509
7 2 (4.55%) BGP
7 2 (4.55%) DNS
7 2 (4.55%) Wireshark
8 1 (2.27%) HTTPS
8 1 (2.27%) IOS XR
8 1 (2.27%) Network Security
8 1 (2.27%) OSPF
8 1 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (29.55%) SQL Server
3 9 (20.45%) DB2
4 5 (11.36%) NonStop SQL
5 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.00%) Banking
3 9 (20.45%) Czech Language
3 9 (20.45%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Finance
5 5 (11.36%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) Marketing
7 1 (2.27%) Retail
7 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Administrator
1 9 (20.45%) Applications Support
1 9 (20.45%) IT Administrator
1 9 (20.45%) IT Support
2 8 (18.18%) Linux Support
3 7 (15.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Senior
4 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Manager
5 5 (11.36%) Systems Manager
5 5 (11.36%) Unix Support
6 4 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support Technician
7 3 (6.82%) Linux Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.00%) SOAP
2 10 (22.73%) LDAP
2 10 (22.73%) REST
2 10 (22.73%) XML
3 9 (20.45%) JSON
3 9 (20.45%) LAPP Stack
3 9 (20.45%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (6.82%) EJB
4 3 (6.82%) Web Services
5 2 (4.55%) Middleware
5 2 (4.55%) OAuth
5 2 (4.55%) RESTful
5 2 (4.55%) SAML
6 1 (2.27%) Ajax
6 1 (2.27%) CSS
6 1 (2.27%) HTML
6 1 (2.27%) JDBC
6 1 (2.27%) Jinja
6 1 (2.27%) SAP PI
6 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (22.73%) Management Information System
3 9 (20.45%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (20.45%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (13.64%) PKI
5 5 (11.36%) CMDB
5 5 (11.36%) Tandem
6 3 (6.82%) Algorithms
7 2 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (4.55%) Cyberattack
7 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (63.64%) Windows
2 22 (50.00%) Linux
3 21 (47.73%) Unix
4 9 (20.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Customer Service
2 12 (27.27%) Agile
2 12 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (25.00%) ITIL
3 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (22.73%) CRM
4 10 (22.73%) Project Management
5 9 (20.45%) Change Management
5 9 (20.45%) Data Privacy
5 9 (20.45%) Migration
5 9 (20.45%) Portfolio Management
5 9 (20.45%) Release Management
5 9 (20.45%) Technology Roadmap
5 9 (20.45%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (18.18%) Security Management
7 6 (13.64%) Patch Management
7 6 (13.64%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) SQL
2 14 (31.82%) Java
2 14 (31.82%) Python
3 13 (29.55%) PowerShell
4 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 9 (20.45%) VBA
6 1 (2.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (40.91%) Degree
2 9 (20.45%) AWS Certification
2 9 (20.45%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (9.09%) CISSP
3 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.82%) CCNA
4 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.82%) CISM
4 3 (6.82%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (6.82%) DBS Check
4 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) GCFA
5 2 (4.55%) GCIA
5 2 (4.55%) GCIH
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) OSCP
6 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (22.73%) SLA
3 7 (15.91%) NIST
4 4 (9.09%) GDPR
5 2 (4.55%) COBIT
6 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 4 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.27%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (20.45%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (15.91%) Terraform
4 3 (6.82%) Ansible
4 3 (6.82%) Autotask
4 3 (6.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (4.55%) Suricata
6 1 (2.27%) Grafana
6 1 (2.27%) HP UCMDB
6 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) Red Hat
3 9 (20.45%) IBM
3 9 (20.45%) Oracle
4 6 (13.64%) ServiceNow
5 5 (11.36%) Thales
6 4 (9.09%) SonicWALL
7 2 (4.55%) Cisco
7 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.27%) Adobe
8 1 (2.27%) BMC
8 1 (2.27%) Freshdesk
8 1 (2.27%) Google
8 1 (2.27%) HP
8 1 (2.27%) Imperva
8 1 (2.27%) Meraki
8 1 (2.27%) Nokia
8 1 (2.27%) Remedy
8 1 (2.27%) SAP
8 1 (2.27%) Splunk