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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 426 388
Rank change year-on-year +91 -38 -121
Permanent jobs citing SSL 44 40 108
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.29% 0.20% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.13% 1.65% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 29 20 99
10th Percentile £38,500 £30,000 £38,353
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,000 £46,955
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -24.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £76,250 £64,938 £88,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,000 -
UK median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% -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 1,405 2,417 3,069
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.10% 12.20% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 977 1,394 2,568
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £85,977
UK median annual salary £37,625 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.01% +6.00% -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 16 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 17 (38.64%) Tomcat
2 16 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 16 (36.36%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (15.91%) IIS
4 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.27%) Apache
5 1 (2.27%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) AWS
2 15 (34.09%) Azure
3 12 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (18.18%) Serverless
5 6 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (13.64%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 6 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (13.64%) Azure Storage
5 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
5 6 (13.64%) Route 53
5 6 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (11.36%) IaaS
7 2 (4.55%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (29.55%) Firewall
1 13 (29.55%) VPN
2 9 (20.45%) TCP/IP
3 7 (15.91%) VLAN
4 6 (13.64%) DNS
4 6 (13.64%) SD-WAN
4 6 (13.64%) WAN
5 5 (11.36%) HTTP
5 5 (11.36%) SSH
6 3 (6.82%) Broadband
7 2 (4.55%) HTTPS
7 2 (4.55%) Internet
7 2 (4.55%) IPsec
7 2 (4.55%) LAN
7 2 (4.55%) S/MIME
7 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (4.55%) Wireless
7 2 (4.55%) Wireshark
7 2 (4.55%) X.509
8 1 (2.27%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (38.64%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (36.36%) DB2
3 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 6 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.55%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Git
General
1 18 (40.91%) Banking
2 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.73%) Investment Banking
4 9 (20.45%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Czech Language
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Applications Support
2 15 (34.09%) Linux Support
3 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (22.73%) Unix Support
5 9 (20.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (18.18%) Support Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (11.36%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (11.36%) 3rd Line Support Technician
8 5 (11.36%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (11.36%) Linux Support Engineer
8 5 (11.36%) Support Technician
9 3 (6.82%) IT Support
9 3 (6.82%) Senior
10 2 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (36.36%) LDAP
1 16 (36.36%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (4.55%) EJB
2 2 (4.55%) JSON
2 2 (4.55%) OAuth
2 2 (4.55%) REST
2 2 (4.55%) RESTful
2 2 (4.55%) SOAP
2 2 (4.55%) Web Services
2 2 (4.55%) XML
3 1 (2.27%) Jinja
3 1 (2.27%) SAML
3 1 (2.27%) XSLT
3 1 (2.27%) YAML
3 1 (2.27%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (38.64%) Management Information System
2 16 (36.36%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (13.64%) CMDB
4 5 (11.36%) PKI
5 3 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
6 2 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.55%) Cyberattack
6 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.55%) iPad
6 2 (4.55%) iPhone
6 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.55%) Tandem
7 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 35 (79.55%) Windows
2 22 (50.00%) Linux
3 20 (45.45%) Unix
4 16 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (27.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.55%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) ITIL
2 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (36.36%) Change Management
3 16 (36.36%) Release Management
3 16 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 8 (18.18%) Migration
5 8 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
6 7 (15.91%) Security Management
7 6 (13.64%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (13.64%) Service Management
7 6 (13.64%) Storage Management
8 5 (11.36%) Data Protection
8 5 (11.36%) DevOps
8 5 (11.36%) ISMS
8 5 (11.36%) Mobile Device Management
8 5 (11.36%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) SQL
3 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.82%) Java
5 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (54.55%) Degree
2 16 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 16 (36.36%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (11.36%) CCNA
3 5 (11.36%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (11.36%) DBS Check
4 3 (6.82%) CISSP
5 2 (4.55%) CISM
5 2 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) GCFA
5 2 (4.55%) GCIA
5 2 (4.55%) GCIH
5 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (36.36%) SLA
2 6 (13.64%) NIST
3 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.55%) COBIT
4 2 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.64%) Hyper-V
2 6 (13.64%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (20.45%) Terraform
3 5 (11.36%) Autotask
4 2 (4.55%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (4.55%) Grafana
4 2 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.55%) Suricata
5 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Red Hat
2 16 (36.36%) IBM
3 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 10 (22.73%) ServiceNow
4 6 (13.64%) SonicWALL
5 4 (9.09%) Thales
6 2 (4.55%) Google
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.55%) Splunk
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco
7 1 (2.27%) Imperva
7 1 (2.27%) Nokia