SSL Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring SSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SSL over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 450 506
Rank change year-on-year +95 +56 -174
Permanent jobs citing SSL 112 148 121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.43% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.01% 2.94% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 19 89 93
10th Percentile - £37,900 £36,371
25th Percentile £26,250 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -9.48% +10.48%
75th Percentile £69,375 £63,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £71,000 £88,750
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 5,583 5,039 4,181
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.07% 14.81% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,996 3,112 3,257
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,750 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £53,951 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £74,258 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% -6.86% -2.86%

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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

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SSL.

SSL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SSL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 10 (8.93%) IIS
2 9 (8.04%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.89%) CMS
3 1 (0.89%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (9.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.89%) Magento
1 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (81.25%) AWS
2 82 (73.21%) AWS Lambda
2 82 (73.21%) Serverless
3 18 (16.07%) Azure
4 12 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (9.82%) Entra ID
6 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Copilot
6 9 (8.04%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.68%) SaaS
8 2 (1.79%) Akamai
8 2 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.89%) GCP
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 1 (0.89%) Sage Pay
9 1 (0.89%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 87 (77.68%) SSH
2 84 (75.00%) Broadband
3 9 (8.04%) DMARC
4 5 (4.46%) BGP
4 5 (4.46%) Firewall
4 5 (4.46%) HTTP
5 4 (3.57%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.57%) VPN
6 3 (2.68%) DNS
6 3 (2.68%) LAN
6 3 (2.68%) OSPF
6 3 (2.68%) S/MIME
6 3 (2.68%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.68%) WAN
6 3 (2.68%) X.509
7 2 (1.79%) IOS XR
7 2 (1.79%) IPsec
7 2 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (1.79%) VoIP
8 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.46%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.89%) Redis
4 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Git
2 1 (0.89%) JIRA
2 1 (0.89%) Log4Net
2 1 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 97 (86.61%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.04%) Czech Language
2 9 (8.04%) Organisational Skills
2 9 (8.04%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.79%) Finance
4 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.89%) Marketing
5 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (74.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 82 (73.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (9.82%) IT Support
3 11 (9.82%) Senior
4 9 (8.04%) Administrator
4 9 (8.04%) IT Administrator
5 5 (4.46%) Network Engineer
5 5 (4.46%) Senior Manager
5 5 (4.46%) Systems Manager
6 4 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (2.68%) Architect
7 3 (2.68%) Consultant
7 3 (2.68%) Security Architect
8 2 (1.79%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (1.79%) 3rd Line Technical Support
8 2 (1.79%) Design Engineer
8 2 (1.79%) Network Design Engineer
8 2 (1.79%) Senior Consultant
8 2 (1.79%) Senior Network Design Engineer
8 2 (1.79%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (74.11%) Web Services
2 82 (73.21%) RESTful
3 12 (10.71%) JSON
4 11 (9.82%) SOAP
4 11 (9.82%) XML
5 10 (8.93%) REST
6 4 (3.57%) YAML
7 3 (2.68%) EJB
7 3 (2.68%) Middleware
8 2 (1.79%) Ajax
8 2 (1.79%) HTML
8 2 (1.79%) Jinja
8 2 (1.79%) LDAP
8 2 (1.79%) YANG
9 1 (0.89%) Angular 2
9 1 (0.89%) HTML5
9 1 (0.89%) JWT
9 1 (0.89%) Ninject
9 1 (0.89%) OAuth
9 1 (0.89%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 85 (75.89%) PKI
2 82 (73.21%) Cyber Threat
2 82 (73.21%) Cyberattack
2 82 (73.21%) Management Information System
2 82 (73.21%) Onboarding
3 14 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (8.04%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.46%) Tandem
6 3 (2.68%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.89%) CMDB
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.93%) Windows
2 9 (8.04%) Linux
2 9 (8.04%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (83.04%) Roadmaps
2 85 (75.89%) DevOps
2 85 (75.89%) Key Management
3 84 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
4 83 (74.11%) Cybersecurity
4 83 (74.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 82 (73.21%) Programme Delivery
5 82 (73.21%) Use Case
6 14 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 11 (9.82%) Agile
7 11 (9.82%) CRM
7 11 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (9.82%) Project Management
8 9 (8.04%) Data Privacy
8 9 (8.04%) Portfolio Management
8 9 (8.04%) Technology Roadmap
9 6 (5.36%) Patch Management
10 5 (4.46%) Migration
10 5 (4.46%) Security Management
11 4 (3.57%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 85 (75.89%) Python
2 16 (14.29%) SQL
3 14 (12.50%) Java
4 11 (9.82%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.04%) PowerShell
5 9 (8.04%) VBA
6 1 (0.89%) C#
6 1 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (5.36%) Degree
1 6 (5.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) CISM
3 3 (2.68%) CISSP
3 3 (2.68%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.79%) CCNP
4 2 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.89%) CCA
5 1 (0.89%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (81.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (75.89%) NIST
3 4 (3.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (86.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.79%) Docker
3 1 (0.89%) Varnish
3 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (73.21%) Terraform
2 12 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (8.04%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.68%) Ansible
4 3 (2.68%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (1.79%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.89%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 85 (75.89%) Thales
2 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.04%) Oracle
4 7 (6.25%) Cisco
5 3 (2.68%) Citrix
6 2 (1.79%) Aruba
6 2 (1.79%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.79%) Juniper
6 2 (1.79%) Nokia
6 2 (1.79%) Okta
6 2 (1.79%) PayPal
7 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.89%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.89%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.89%) Google
7 1 (0.89%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.89%) Meraki
7 1 (0.89%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.89%) SolarWinds