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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 419 388
Rank change year-on-year +61 -31 -122
Permanent jobs citing SSL 47 39 106
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 0.20% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.77% 1.63% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28 19 96
10th Percentile £34,125 £36,400 £38,353
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,000 £46,779
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £79,063 £66,625 £88,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,000 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%

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 1,697 2,388 3,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.70% 12.03% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 994 1,378 2,533
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +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 6 November 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 20 (42.55%) Tomcat
2 16 (34.04%) WebSphere
2 16 (34.04%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (21.28%) IIS
4 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.13%) Apache
5 1 (2.13%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Magento
1 1 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) AWS
2 18 (38.30%) Azure
3 15 (31.91%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (19.15%) Entra ID
5 8 (17.02%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (17.02%) Serverless
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon S3
6 6 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (12.77%) Azure Storage
6 6 (12.77%) Route 53
6 6 (12.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (10.64%) IaaS
8 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (8.51%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.13%) Cloudflare
9 1 (2.13%) GCP
9 1 (2.13%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.53%) Firewall
1 12 (25.53%) VPN
2 8 (17.02%) TCP/IP
3 7 (14.89%) SSH
4 6 (12.77%) SD-WAN
4 6 (12.77%) VLAN
4 6 (12.77%) WAN
5 4 (8.51%) DMARC
5 4 (8.51%) DNS
5 4 (8.51%) HTTP
6 3 (6.38%) Broadband
7 2 (4.26%) S/MIME
7 2 (4.26%) Wireshark
7 2 (4.26%) X.509
8 1 (2.13%) BGP
8 1 (2.13%) Internet
8 1 (2.13%) IPsec
8 1 (2.13%) Telnet
8 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (42.55%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (34.04%) DB2
3 10 (21.28%) SQL Server
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (8.51%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Git
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 18 (38.30%) Banking
2 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 10 (21.28%) Investment Banking
4 8 (17.02%) Finance
5 4 (8.51%) Czech Language
5 4 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Applications Support
2 15 (31.91%) Linux Support
3 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (21.28%) Unix Support
5 9 (19.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (14.89%) Support Engineer
8 6 (12.77%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (12.77%) Applications Support Engineer
8 6 (12.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (10.64%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (10.64%) 3rd Line Support Technician
9 5 (10.64%) IT Support
9 5 (10.64%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (10.64%) Linux Support Engineer
9 5 (10.64%) Senior
9 5 (10.64%) Support Technician
10 4 (8.51%) Administrator
10 4 (8.51%) Senior Manager
10 4 (8.51%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (34.04%) LDAP
1 16 (34.04%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (8.51%) JSON
2 4 (8.51%) REST
2 4 (8.51%) SOAP
2 4 (8.51%) XML
3 2 (4.26%) EJB
3 2 (4.26%) RESTful
3 2 (4.26%) Web Services
4 1 (2.13%) Jinja
4 1 (2.13%) Middleware
4 1 (2.13%) OAuth
4 1 (2.13%) SAML
4 1 (2.13%) YAML
4 1 (2.13%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.17%) Management Information System
2 16 (34.04%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (17.02%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (12.77%) CMDB
5 5 (10.64%) PKI
6 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (8.51%) Tandem
7 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
7 2 (4.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (4.26%) Cyberattack
7 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (2.13%) iPad
8 1 (2.13%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 36 (76.60%) Windows
2 24 (51.06%) Linux
3 23 (48.94%) Unix
4 16 (34.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (25.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 18 (38.30%) ITIL
2 16 (34.04%) Change Management
2 16 (34.04%) Release Management
2 16 (34.04%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (27.66%) Customer Service
4 12 (25.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (21.28%) Migration
6 9 (19.15%) Security Management
7 8 (17.02%) Proactive Monitoring
8 7 (14.89%) Roadmaps
9 6 (12.77%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (12.77%) Agile
9 6 (12.77%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (12.77%) Service Management
9 6 (12.77%) Storage Management
10 5 (10.64%) Information Security Management
10 5 (10.64%) Project Management
10 5 (10.64%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) Python
2 15 (31.91%) SQL
3 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
4 8 (17.02%) Java
5 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.51%) VBA
6 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (51.06%) 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 3 (6.38%) CISSP
5 2 (4.26%) CISM
5 2 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) GCFA
5 2 (4.26%) GCIA
5 2 (4.26%) GCIH
5 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) OSCP
6 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.17%) SLA
2 6 (12.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (12.77%) NIST
3 2 (4.26%) COBIT
3 2 (4.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.77%) Hyper-V
2 6 (12.77%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.13%) Docker
3 1 (2.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 15 (31.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (19.15%) Terraform
3 5 (10.64%) Autotask
4 4 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (4.26%) Ansible
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (4.26%) Suricata
6 1 (2.13%) Grafana
6 1 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (36.17%) Red Hat
2 16 (34.04%) IBM
3 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
4 10 (21.28%) ServiceNow
5 6 (12.77%) SonicWALL
6 4 (8.51%) Oracle
6 4 (8.51%) Thales
7 2 (4.26%) Google
8 1 (2.13%) Adobe
8 1 (2.13%) Cisco
8 1 (2.13%) Freshdesk
8 1 (2.13%) Imperva
8 1 (2.13%) Nokia
8 1 (2.13%) PayPal
8 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.13%) Splunk