SSL Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 473 325
Rank change year-on-year +65 -148 +155
Permanent jobs citing SSL 127 106 874
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.32% 1.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.03% 2.73% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 70 83 168
10th Percentile £38,900 £36,371 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,625 £44,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,563 £88,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 4,190 3,882 9,409
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.00% 11.83% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,346 3,097 5,593
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,456
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.85% +2.65%
75th Percentile £67,968 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSL trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SSL over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 46 (36.22%) WebLogic
2 30 (23.62%) IIS
3 10 (7.87%) Tomcat
4 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.79%) nginx
6 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 46 (36.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (59.06%) Azure
2 60 (47.24%) AWS
3 46 (36.22%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (36.22%) Amazon SQS
4 13 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.09%) SaaS
6 5 (3.94%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.94%) IaaS
6 5 (3.94%) PaaS
7 4 (3.15%) GCP
8 3 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.36%) Slack
8 3 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.79%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 95 (74.80%) DNS
2 81 (63.78%) TCP/IP
3 55 (43.31%) BGP
4 52 (40.94%) Firewall
5 18 (14.17%) VPN
6 14 (11.02%) DHCP
7 12 (9.45%) SNMP
8 11 (8.66%) HTTPS
8 11 (8.66%) LAN
8 11 (8.66%) SMTP
8 11 (8.66%) WAN
9 10 (7.87%) HTTP
9 10 (7.87%) Wireless
10 9 (7.09%) Network Security
10 9 (7.09%) OSPF
10 9 (7.09%) SSH
10 9 (7.09%) VLAN
11 8 (6.30%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (5.51%) IPsec
12 7 (5.51%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (36.22%) Amazon RDS
1 46 (36.22%) Oracle Database
1 46 (36.22%) RDBMS
1 46 (36.22%) Relational Database
2 20 (15.75%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.15%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.79%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 8 (6.30%) Vagrant
2 4 (3.15%) Burp Suite
2 4 (3.15%) Git
2 4 (3.15%) Metasploit
3 3 (2.36%) GitLab
3 3 (2.36%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (48.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.09%) Finance
2 9 (7.09%) Telecoms
3 7 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.94%) Banking
4 5 (3.94%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.15%) Legal
5 4 (3.15%) Marketing
6 2 (1.57%) Law
7 1 (0.79%) Automotive
7 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (55.12%) Lead
2 48 (37.80%) Architect
3 46 (36.22%) Lead Architect
3 46 (36.22%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 46 (36.22%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (17.32%) Developer
5 19 (14.96%) Lead Developer
6 14 (11.02%) Senior
7 11 (8.66%) Network Engineer
8 10 (7.87%) Applications Support
9 9 (7.09%) Administrator
9 9 (7.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.30%) Linux Administrator
10 8 (6.30%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 8 (6.30%) Systems Administrator
11 6 (4.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.72%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Applications Support Analyst
12 5 (3.94%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (37.01%) RabbitMQ
2 46 (36.22%) Spring Boot
3 23 (18.11%) CSS
3 23 (18.11%) HTML
4 20 (15.75%) .NET
4 20 (15.75%) ASP.NET
4 20 (15.75%) ASP.NET MVC
5 19 (14.96%) AngularJS
5 19 (14.96%) jQuery
5 19 (14.96%) React
5 19 (14.96%) REST
5 19 (14.96%) Tailwind CSS
5 19 (14.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 19 (14.96%) Vue
5 19 (14.96%) WPF
6 4 (3.15%) Web Services
6 4 (3.15%) XML
7 3 (2.36%) Flash
7 3 (2.36%) LDAP
7 3 (2.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (36.22%) Enterprise Software
1 46 (36.22%) Public Cloud
2 20 (15.75%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (14.96%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.94%) EFT
5 4 (3.15%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.15%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.15%) IoT
5 4 (3.15%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.15%) PKI
6 3 (2.36%) IBM Storwize
6 3 (2.36%) Robotics
7 2 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) AS400
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.79%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 59 (46.46%) Linux
2 55 (43.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (31.50%) Windows
4 15 (11.81%) Windows Server
5 8 (6.30%) CentOS
5 8 (6.30%) Ubuntu
6 7 (5.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (3.15%) Android
7 4 (3.15%) Apple iOS
7 4 (3.15%) Kali Linux
7 4 (3.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.36%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (47.24%) Migration
2 50 (39.37%) Agile
2 50 (39.37%) Project Management
3 47 (37.01%) Open Source
4 46 (36.22%) Actionable Insight
4 46 (36.22%) ArchiMate
4 46 (36.22%) Cloud Operations
4 46 (36.22%) Collaborative Working
4 46 (36.22%) Data Migration
4 46 (36.22%) Kanban
4 46 (36.22%) Load Balancing
4 46 (36.22%) Re-Platforming
4 46 (36.22%) Scrum
4 46 (36.22%) SDLC
4 46 (36.22%) Systems Engineering
4 46 (36.22%) TOGAF
5 20 (15.75%) MVC
5 20 (15.75%) Web Development
6 19 (14.96%) API Development
7 13 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.26%) SQL
2 20 (15.75%) C#
3 19 (14.96%) XAML
4 15 (11.81%) PowerShell
5 14 (11.02%) Python
6 11 (8.66%) Java
7 8 (6.30%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.15%) Bash
8 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.79%) AWK
9 1 (0.79%) C
9 1 (0.79%) C++
9 1 (0.79%) PHP
9 1 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (37.01%) Azure Certification
1 47 (37.01%) SC Cleared
1 47 (37.01%) Security Cleared
2 46 (36.22%) AWS Certification
2 46 (36.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (7.87%) Degree
4 7 (5.51%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.94%) CREST Certified
6 4 (3.15%) CCIE
6 4 (3.15%) JNCIE
6 4 (3.15%) OSCE
6 4 (3.15%) OSCP
7 3 (2.36%) CCNA
8 2 (1.57%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) CISSP
9 1 (0.79%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.15%) SLA
2 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.79%) NIST
2 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (12.60%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.45%) Docker
3 6 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (10.24%) Ansible
2 10 (7.87%) Pingdom
3 7 (5.51%) Terraform
4 5 (3.94%) SCCM
4 5 (3.94%) vCenter Server
5 4 (3.15%) Nessus
5 4 (3.15%) Nmap
6 3 (2.36%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.79%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (0.79%) Puppet
7 1 (0.79%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 47 (37.01%) Oracle
2 46 (36.22%) Sparx
3 10 (7.87%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.87%) SolarWinds
4 9 (7.09%) VMware
5 5 (3.94%) CheckPoint
5 5 (3.94%) Citrix
5 5 (3.94%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.94%) Globalscape
6 4 (3.15%) Google
6 4 (3.15%) Qualys
7 3 (2.36%) Cisco
7 3 (2.36%) HP
7 3 (2.36%) IBM
7 3 (2.36%) Juniper
7 3 (2.36%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.57%) Aerohive Networks
8 2 (1.57%) Meraki
8 2 (1.57%) Ubiquiti